Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the stadium last night ruminating over the first half, my friends and I in the upper east stand were of one opinion: Arsenal were playing brilliantly. We were matching Liverpool man for man with Martinelli in particular having moved up yet one more level. We were running out of superlatives. …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Liverpool: all the form of late points to a draw Arsenal v Liverpool: This is Arsenal’s best position since 2014. Chelsea score yet another own goal, and the tackles / fouls / yellow ratio with Liverpool Arsenal v Liverpool. Recent results, and interesting stats for the ref According to various …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Liverpool: all the form of late points to a draw Arsenal v Liverpool: This is Arsenal’s best position since 2014. Chelsea score yet another own goal, and the tackles / fouls / yellow ratio with Liverpool And so with the three teams below us who have pretensions of European football …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Liverpool: all the form of late points to a draw Arsenal v Liverpool: This is Arsenal’s best position since 2014. An interesting snippet of news in between our coverage of the Liverpool! game. Chelsea applied for their FA Cup game at Middlesbrough to be played behind closed doors, because they …
By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool is one of a small number of clubs which have beaten Arsenal more than the reverse. The numbers are 81 Arsenal wins, 62 draws, 93 Liverpool wins. Arsenal entered a real downturn in playing Liverpool in 2015, for in the 18 games starting on 24 August 2015, in the League, League …
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By Bulldog Drummond My goodness it seems like only the day before yesterday that we were celebrating a victory over Leicester and now we are looking forward to a home match against Liverpool! Well! This must a moment for saying that the “games come thick and fast.” Of course during these recent days a few …
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By Tony Attwood It is not an approach that suits everyone but some of the journalists whose approach is based more on thought than emotion are showing their sense of morality. Take for example Oliver Brown, chief sports writer of the Telegraph, a newspaper whose political views I find considerably divergent from my own. He …
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By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. ———– Of course all projections and predictions include all sorts of assumptions and those I am using to consider what might happen between now and the end of the season are based on one giant assumption: …
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By Bulldog Drummond Previously… Arsenal v Leicester injury news Arsenal v Leicester. Why PGMO have a lot to answer for. Why do Leicester get such strange stats for fouls, cards and penalties? Arsenal v Leicester; heading for 4th, and the last 10 games table updated In the last article, I mentioned some unexpected positivity from …
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By Bulldog Drummond According to the BBC website the reason that Arsenal have achieved fourth place is because “other teams going for fourth place have all dropped points in recent weeks, but Arsenal keep on winning.” Which seems a trifle churlish when what they could have done is looked at (for example) the league table …
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By Tony Attwood The referee for the game against Leicester is Anthony Taylor and his Arsenal and Leicester games this season are shown below. In the “Yellow” column we show the total number of cards given and then which ones were proferred against Arsenal or Leicester players. Date Home team Score Away team Yellows 18 …
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Arsenal v Leicester: 8 historic videos In the last piece, I referred to a previous article: Stats show something very odd going on in the PL that the media won’t discuss. In essence, what Untold found was that Leicester were able to undertake many more tackles than other clubs in the league but got far …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Leicester: 8 historic videos It was on 4 February 2020 that the cat was let out of the bag with our article Stats show something very odd going on in the PL that the media won’t discuss. The scandal was revealed in one sentence: “Arsenal has to commit 4.32 fouls …
By Tony Attwood In the last article, we looked at how Arsenal doing across the last 22 games, and the force of the Innumerati. The Innumerati you may recall, if you glanced at that piece, are the numerically illiterate who find it all too complex and confusing to look at a table that shows Arsenal …
Read More “When it comes to goal scoring, Arsenal really are up there with Liverpool.”
By Tony Attwood After the first three games of the season, the media were, as you may recall, full of the doom and gloom stories of Arsenal, and I doubt there was a football supporter interested in the Premier League who didn’t know that this was Arsenal’s worst start to a season since the …
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Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in March – all the anniversaries day by day ———– By Tony Attwood Arsenal could finish fourth in the League this …
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By Tony Attwood There is a remarkable piece in the Telegraph today headed Why Chelsea should be relegated from the Premier League by Jim White who is a regular writer for the paper and what is called “an ardent Manchester United supporter.” OK so he is biased. As am I. As is everyone. But he …
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by Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal started over 14 years ago. We’ve published over 11,000 articles and over 249,000 comments. And I don’t think we have ever had a moment like this before. For, as you may have heard Roman Abramovich is now banned from all transactions with individuals and businesses based in the UK, due …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone (with added links!) The next transfer window opens 1 July, which by my reckoning is around about 100 days away, and is planned to close on 2259 BST on 31 August although there seems a certain amount of uncertainty over the closing time – as indeed there is at the Toppled …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve recently looked at the corruption that has been cited as a major force in football. Not the corruption in terms of bribing the referee or one club bribing another to lose, but the corruption that centres on the key organisations within football. If you are interested in that aspect of football …
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By Tony Attwood I am sure you will be as impressed as I have been, by Arsenal’s recovery from the start of the season and the club’s ability to handle the mindless assault on all aspects of the club, to which the media subjected Arsenal. So you’ll probably know the current top of the league …
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By Tony Attwood Why are so many sports administrators corrupt or incompetent or both? Wholesale mega corruption in football (part 2) In recent articles (linked above), I have been trying to show what has happened to world sport, by briefly suggesting that there are difficulties within the committees and organisations running the Olympics, the World …
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By Tony Attwood Recently we asked: Why are so many sport administrators corrupt or incompetent or both? That question can’t be answered in full, although we will be trying to give some answers in the coming days, but before that, we have other matters to consider such as the awarding of the 2022 World Cup, …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Aubameyang made his final appearance for Arsenal on 6 December 2021 for the away game at Everton, which Arsenal lost, 2-1. Arsenal at this point were seventh in the league – with none of the games in hand that were subsequently to become our hallmark. We were four points behind West …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women v Birmingham Match Highlights On Sunday Lunchtime Arsenal Women played the reverse fixture against the only team to have beaten them this season. No not Chelsea or Man City who were busy elsewhere but bottom of the table Birmingham. The early 12:00 kickoff was in order to show the match …
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