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By Bulldog Drummond Before the details, there was a notice before on Christmas Eve on the Norwich website proclaiming that tickets were available in the away end – the most expensive costing over £90, which is considerably more than Arsenal charge visiting fans. That seems an outrageous price to me, unless they really are nice …
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by Bulldog Drummond So as we have seen Arsenal are in a much stronger position now than when we played Norwich for the first time this season, after the three home defeats in the league. The cause of those early defeats of course was the import of a completely new defence and the fact that …
Read More “Norwich v Arsenal: a huge upturn in injuries and the gap between the leagues.”
By Bulldog Drummond So here we go again with an away match to Norwich on Boxing Day at 3pm and little public transport to get there. It is a game which is not being shown on TV at all, which by and large is not very helpful to everyone not a member of the away …
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A word of warning: stop massacring soccer! And so it goes on: Le Matin in Switzerland has launched a wholehearted attack on Fifa. Not the sort of thing you read in England, but it is big in Europe. But because you may have missed it, here is what Le Matin and the media in much …
Read More “Football is in the grip of the biggest ever takeover, while Arsenal’s debts are growing”
By Tony Attwood (and a calculator) Is it possible to judge, after 18 games (which is to say 47% of the season) whether it is likely that Arsenal will end up back in the top four? I’ve played with this little exercise before, and quite enjoyed it. So here we go again… The league table …
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By Tony Attwood In the Bundesliga: 94 per cent of players have been fully vaccinated against Covid. In Serie A the figure is higher: 98 per cent. For La Liga it is 93 per cent. For Ligue 1 in France it is 95 per cent. In the Premier League it is 77 per cent. The …
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By Tony Attwood Europe and South America are planning a “new world championship”. It is, of course, not an issue being widely discussed in the Fifa supporting English newspapers, although the Daily Mail did break ranks and cover it recently, but the story is out in Europe and all over their media… Here is what …
Read More “Uefa plans to torpedo Fifa expansionst programme: and how!”
by Tony Attwood My best “I was there” moment is undoubtedly, “I was there for the final game of the unbeaten season”. Last night doesn’t replace that moment, but it’s another one for the little collection: “I was there when Charlie Patino scored on his debut.” And although I am sure this won’t go …
Read More “So it’s another where I can say “I was there”; but some memories are not so good”
By Bulldog Drummond Picking a team for tonight’s game does involve making a few choices but much of the line up is replicated among the various media that offer predictions. The one outlier however is the Mirror that tells us “Arsenal youngster Charlie Patino, who has previously been compared with Manchester City star Phil Foden, could make his debut appearance for …
by Bulldog Drummond The last six league matches chart is obviously less relevant than normal when we are playing a tier-three team, but it does give an indication of the feeling around the club… The last six games of each club Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 6 6 …
Read More “The last six games, how we fit the games in, and what happens if we can’t”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Sunderland: a contrast in statues Arsenal v Sunderland: difficult years for the opposition on and off the pitch Three of the four quarter finals in the League Cup this season are being played in London. Brentford are playing at home to Chelsea, and Tottenham are playing West Ham while the …
Read More “Sunderland are given over twice as many yellow cards as Arsenal per game”
By Bulldog Drummond The picture to the left, in case you are wondering, is of Sunderland manager Bob Stokoe, who won the cup for Sunderland in 1973 and famously galloped onto the Wembley pitch at the end to celebrate what was a famous win for the underdogs. I find that statue interesting, because as Tony …
By Bulldog Drummond Next up we have third tier Sunderland in the League Cup quarter-final at 7.45 on Tuesday. The match, although not part of the season ticket package, is sold out – which aside from the enthusiasm of Sunderland supporters to see their team, reflects well on the ongoing Arsenal policy of very low …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland: difficult years for the opposition on and off the pitch”
By Tony Attwood It goes on day by day, week by week. Sometimes it is ignorant, sometimes deliberately attempting to be disruptive, sometimes misleading, and just occasionally with a hint of a possible development. But it is always there. Take this one: Emile Smith Rowe warned he ‘doesn’t deserve’ to be in Arsenal team despite Leeds …
Read More “How to speak nonsense: a guide to being an anti-Arsenal journalist”
By Tony Attwood This is a completely new analysis – not just for Untold but I think for anyone. It compares the statistics of two matches: Everton away, which we lost and Leeds away which we won. The question is, do the stats tell us how this change came about? Before the Leeds match the …
Read More “How Arsenal changed their tactics against Leeds and thus secured the win.”
By Tony Attwood Oh how the pundits love Arsenal defeats because it means they can justify the notion that Arsenal are now going to bring in a whole new group of players which gives them more and more stories. As the Mirror put it a little while ago after the defeat to Everton, “Arsenal have …
Read More “When will the media men apologise for getting Arsenal so wrong?”
By Bulldog Drummond Leeds United v Arsenal, the form guide, home and away Leeds v Arsenal: the tackles, fouls, yellow cards. Time for Leeds to wake up. Leeds v Arsenal: what recent results tell us about tomorrow’s game… Leeds v Arsenal – the media’s change of heart plus the injuries. Leeds v Arsenal: the head …
Read More “Leeds v Arsenal. The Arsenal team, bloggers’ warnings,”
By Bulldog Drummond Leeds United v Arsenal, the form guide, home and away Leeds v Arsenal: the tackles, fouls, yellow cards. Time for Leeds to wake up. Leeds v Arsenal: what recent results tell us about tomorrow’s game… Leeds v Arsenal – the media’s change of heart plus the injuries. Curiously, given that Leeds has …
Read More “Leeds v Arsenal: the head to head of both the teams and the managers”
Arsenal v Leeds: a history in seven videos. It is indeed a funny old world what with suddenly bits of the media waking up to the fact that Mikel Arteta has managed to work with Martinelli and got him to produce the results that we could see when playing lower calibre opposition in the Europa …
Read More “Leeds v Arsenal – the media’s change of heart plus the injuries.”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously… Leeds v Arsenal: the tackles, fouls, yellow cards. Time for Leeds to wake up. Leeds United v Arsenal, the form guide, home and away So as we consider the game tomorrow against Leeds we can have a look at recent results. Here’s the league table for the last six games… Team …
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By Bulldog Drummond Thankfully the updated data on fouls which was somewhat delayed (perhaps the computer had covid) has finally come through so we can now look at the forthcoming match against Leeds in the usual way: Club Tackles Fouls Yellow cards Arsenal 252 153 24 Leeds 330* 204 47* Percentage Leeds above Arsenal 31% …
Read More “Leeds v Arsenal: the tackles, fouls, yellow cards. Time for Leeds to wake up.”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Leeds – a history in seven videos Normally around this time, Untold would publish its comparison table of tackles, fouls and yellow cards, but today we can’t do that because the data on fouls per club has not been updated by any of the sources we use, since the last …
Read More “Leeds United v Arsenal, the form guide, home and away”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you will know that for some time we have been following the legal case running in Switzerland concerning Infantino, head of Fifa, and the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber, and the allegations of a conspiracy between them. Two things to note in this case: …
Read More “The case against Infantino and Fifa comes back to life and could get tastey.”
By Tony Attwood Most days, you’ll find someone in the media or on a blog complaining about Xhaka and saying Arsenal have to get rid of him. Personally, when I watch him at a match, I don’t see what the problem is. He is a tackling midfielder – and these are the guys who pick …
Read More “Do we need Xhaka. Why does he get so many cards? Or actually, does he?”
By Tony Attwood So we won the match, we won the possession, we won the corners and no one was caught offside. It was exciting and encouraging, and certainly, for me entering the ground there were no confrontations with over-aggressive stewards, which made it a perfect night. True there were lots of empty seats in …
Read More “Arsenal v West Ham: the real Arsenal step forward with a brilliant display”
