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 All the news that fits Over the years of running Untold I don’t think I have previously seen a case where some of the media has accurately reported an intriguing Arsenal development, only then to back off en masse, and leave what became over time a major newspiece. But that’s what happened …
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By Tony Attwood With Arsenal holding the inglorious record of most errors leading to goals for quite a few years running… That was a new one on me, and if you are a regular reader you’ll know Untold likes statistics. After all we’ve been banging on about them all summer. This came from lastwordonsports.com We’ve …
Read More “Making up statistics about Arsenal is ok… until someone bothers to check.”
By Tony Attwood Imagine you believed that the universe was controlled by the giant spaghetti monster in the sky. If you did you wouldn’t be alone, because you’d be accompanied by tens of thousands of followers of the same belief. They are known as the pastafarians and indeed you could, if you wished, become a …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone In the table that follows I’ve taken the teams that are our traditional rivals plus one or two other interesting clubs. Loans are not included and in order to get some sort of coherence I have taken all figures from one source: The Guardian’s transfer tracker. As you will almost certainly …
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By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been paying attention, the media are telling us Arsenal are in real big trouble, what with last season being so awful. But really that trouble is not that big, first because the owners offered to put quarter of a billion pounds into the club (although …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone So here is the story. Arsenal were crap last season, appalling in every department, missed Europe for the first time since the Bronze Age and were lucky to crawl into 8th. could have been relegated. So now, Mikel Arteta and Edu want to improve the spine of Arsenal’s fragile team as …
Read More “Media suddenly realises it wasn’t Arsenal who were awful last season it was…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a fabulous example of the insanity that journalists expect you to believe. Localetti who is a midfielder. The Express told us that the player would decide where to go after the Euros, and the asking price was £34m asked. Now according to Football 365 Arsenal have offered £69m. Of …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a fabulous example of the insanity that journalists expect you to believe. Localetti who is a midfielder. The Express told us that the player would decide where to go after the Euros, and the asking price was £34m asked. Now according to Football 365 Arsenal have offered £69m. Of …
Read More “114 players said to be about to join Arsenal, van Aanholt to Kurzawa”
By Tony Attwood Through the summer Untold has found a couple of big reasons to be cheerful. Neither have been reported in the media, and instead we have had an endless stream of negatives. This group of examples were published within an hour of each other this morning…. Arsenal player likes post linking him with …
Read More “Arsenal’s 2020/21 season upgraded from “worst” and “woeful” to “disappointing””
By Tony Attwood Put another way… “Does it matter what the media says about Arsenal?” One could argue that it clearly matters to some supporters because their comments make it clear that they believe some of what is written. But does it actually affect the club? For example, does it make it easier or harder …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone So it looks like we are finally buying the Brighton full back Ben White in the coming weeks. The price is widely quoted to be around £50m. So what impact might Ben White have on the two clubs? Of the two clubs Arsenal had a better defence through last season as …
Read More “Is Arsenal really paying £50m for White, or is it just that he is English?”
By Tony Attwood The portrayal of Arsenal this year has been one of the biggest disinformation campaigns of all time in football. And it is a disaster because the media, having launched the campaign (to save them bothering to research any other story) are now struggling to find any way out of it. But this …
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By Bulldog Drummond Sports Mole have tipped nine players to be coming to Arsenal in our on-going summer transfer chart but from those already with us they give a line up today of Hein; Bellerin, Rekik, Mari, Tavares; Partey, Henry-Francis; Pepe, Smith Rowe, Aubameyang; Balogun Karl Jacob Hein is a 19 year old Estonian who …
Read More “Rangers v Arsenal the team – and amazing new names for the transfer list.”
By Tony Attwood The Online Gooner came up with an interesting phrase just recently which rather intrigued me. “From the outside, our manager seems like a dictator without the wins or pedigree to match it.” It must be me getting even more stupid than I’ve always been, but I’ve never quite seen dictators as people …
By Bulldog Drummond Rangers v Arsenal: the history between the clubs So far this season Rangers have (according to the information I’ve got, and please don’t shout at me if I’ve missed something) had three new players arrive, all on a free. Fashion Sakala, a 24 year old centre forward from KV Oostended on a …
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by Bulldog Drummond There is a long history connecting Arsenal and Rangers – something established not least because during Woolwich Arsenal’s darkest days of financial troubles, Rangers bought a few shares in Arsenal as a symbol of solidarity between the clubs. They were finally sold by Craig Whyte during the period of Rangers financial difficulties. …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone and a pineapple Football journalists write transfer stories because for the most part they require no research, and when proven to be wrong, as about 97% will be, they simply blame the club for being slow or stingy. It is the same reason as to why they won’t comment on tactical …
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By Tony Attwood One of the predictions that we made as the extraordinary tactical revolution constructed by Mikel Arteta was revealed last season, was that not only would the media refuse to recognise it, they would go to any lengths to hide the truth of the revolution going on at Arsenal. And would continue to …
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By Tony Attwood Journalists and bloggers were delighted with the performance of Arsenal on Tuesday as it gave them the chance to trot out their usual lines of hosts of missed opportunities by the Arsenal attack, mistakes at the back and above all the urgent need for more players. Such commentaries are written because they …
By Sir Hardly Anyone and a pineapple* Arsenal have £250m transfer budget as club closes on 2 midfield signings So announces SPORTbible although they then immediately change the message and tell us that “Arsenal are reportedly prepared to spend £250m on at least five new signings this summer, as Mikel Arteta’s huge transfer rebuild begins.” Quite …
Read More “Why the idea that Arsenal need to spend £££ on defenders is completely daft”
Previously…. Hibs v Arsenal: Please avoid excessive shouting, singing or celebrating Hibs v Arsenal, the last time we played Hibs and why we played them. By Bulldog Drummond. Now the first thing to know about the Easter Road Stadium (also known as The Holy Ground) where we play late this afternoon is that it is …
Read More “Arsenal v Hibs: the ground and the Arsenal team (it’s a game of 2 halves)”
By Bulldog Drummond Please avoid excessive shouting, singing, or celebrating Message on Hibs website I’m not sure how many fans Arsenal will have at the ground, but I suspect a modest number, so I am not too sure that much of the excessive shouting will be coming from that sector. And to be fair that …
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By Bulldog Drummond Well it seems like only six weeks ago that we were talking about Arsenal’s glorious run-in at the end of the season. Two draws and two defeats with eight wins in the last 12 games in both competitions. Not forgetting five Premier League wins all in a row to round the season …
Read More “Hibs v Arsenal, the last time we played Hibs and why we played them.”
By Tony Attwood There is that old saying that doing something, seeing it fail, and then doing it over and over again, is a sure sign of madness. It has been accredited to Albert Einstein quite often, although there is no sign that he wrote or said it anywhere. But I am reminded of that …
Read More “What happens when football and reality become separated? Uefa variant wins.”
By Tony Attwood The attitude of the media concerning football – especially in relation to Arsenal – is that you can indeed fool all of the people all of the time. So having made up a story and kept it running for as long as possible, when their tale turns out to be untrue they …
Read More “In football the objective is to fool all of the people all of the time”
