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 As has been the case for a few seasons now, each of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League clubs that has made it to the round of 32 is allowed to register a maximum of three new eligible players. Since 2018/19, however, it no longer matters if those players have …
Read More “Arsenal Europa Squad, the strange technicalities, and why we can’t play at home”
By Tony Attwood For a club to succeed over time it needs to build a positive reputation. In fact it has to build several positive reputations. The club needs its fans, its players and all its support staff to believe in the club and feel that it is travelling in the right direction. And it …
Read More “How the daily media assault on Arsenal is seriously damaging the club”
by Tony Attwood There are crises, and there are crises. Most crises in football are simply ignored by the media refusing to talk about them, and instead making up transfer stories that never happen. The long running crisis in English Premier League refereeing is kept hidden in this way. The crisis that is the FA …
Read More “A change of tune from the inventors of transfers.”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal now are top of the red card league, with five red cards this season. No other club has five. Four clubs have had three, six clubs have had none. Arsenal were also top of the red card league last season, where they had five all season. But although the media …
Read More “Why do Arsenal get so many red cards and why can’t Liverpool sign new players?”
by Bulldog Drummond With Alexandre Lacazette having scored in each of his last three Premier League away appearances and Arsenal having an extra buoyancy we enter this match with a certain level of enthusiasm as you may have seen in our earlier little pieces… Wolverhampton v Arsenal; playing style, penalties and bed linen The window …
Read More “Wolves v Arsenal, the team, plus media bitterness as they try to cover their errors”
By Bulldog Drummond Isn’t it odd, how one little blog, focused on numbers, can point something out, and then it changes! It was way, way, way back in the distant and very dim past that Wolverhampton once did the double over Arsenal. It wasn’t a very impressive double but it was a double. …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal; playing style, penalties and bed linen”
By Sir Hardly Anyone In the end the one thing that was missing was the apology. From anyone. In particular from the hundreds of blogs, websites, broadcasters and newspapers that told us of all the players Arsenal were going to sign, and in almost every case they were wrong. Just in case you want a …
Read More “The window ends, one thing missing, the game against Wolverhampton”
By Bulldog Drummond In the last article it was shown that of late Wolverhampton have got themselves into a real spot of trouble. Tracking their league results from the start of December onward we see Date Game Res Score 06 Dec 2020 Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers L 4-0 12 Dec 2020 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aston …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal: what recent results and home/away tell us and transfer news”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It has been a desperately awful transfer window for the inventors of tittle and tattle not just because they have as ever got it mostly hopelessly wrong, but because much of the time they haven’t even got it at all, with the number of rumours being way down on the norm. …
Read More “Deadline day transfers: 14 Arsenal last minute deals”
By Tony Attwood As surely everyone knows, football is in financial meltdown, and is surviving only because incredibly wealthy individuals, and in some cases countries, are ploughing money into clubs to keep them alive. Matters were pretty bad before the pandemic, but now, with income dramatically reduced debts have got out of control. Interestingly no …
Read More “Just how huge are the debts of the big football clubs?”
By Tony Attwood When I say “so few” in the headline above, I have to admit I am not sure if there are any non-white referees or assistants working in the Premier League. Maybe that speaks to my lack of observational powers, or maybe I have just come to accept the fact that footballers come …
Read More “Why do PGMO employ so few (if any) non-white referees in the Premier League?”
By Tony Attwood If you have been with us for a while you’ll know that Untold Arsenal readers and members of Arsenal Independent Supporters Association combined to create the banner… For the match today against Manchester United (30 January) Sky decided to put a shot of the banner on the screen and hold it for …
Read More “Sky gives major coverage to the “Football should be an art” banner at Man U game”
By Bulldog Drummond . Interesting to look at the Daily Mirror’s quotes on anything, since they rubbished Arsenal’s form over recent years. Indeed I wonder if they actually saw our piece picking their argument to bits. Or indeed if they saw our making a mistake of our own! For now they are trying to go …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester United: the team. AMN on his way out.”
by Bulldog Drummond To find the last time Manchester United’s first team lost away from home we have to go back almost two months to 8 December 2020 when they lost 3-2 away to Red Bull Leipzig and got themselves knocked out of the Champions League – which was rather careless. Since then it has …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester United: beware Man U away form; beware the referee!”
By Bulldog Drummond So as you may have noticed, yesterday we launched a tirade against the statistical error in a Daily Mirror report, a tirade which was clearly written in order to put down Arsenal and beef up Manchester United (the paper’s favourite club). To try and make their case more strongly they exaggerated Arsenal’s …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U, statistical errors, and a dramatic rise in Arsenal injuries”
By Tony Attwood Since 2013 Manchester United have won the FA Cup once, the Europa League once and the League Cup once. A total of three trophies. Since 2013 Arsenal have won the FA Cup three times – so again three trophies. Since 2013 Manchester United have finished in the top four of the Premier …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U: how the anti-Arsenal rhetoric builds up before the game”
By Tony Attwood It’s been obvious for some time that the key to Arsenal’s improvement is going to be the increase in scoring that is needed , for as the table below shows, we are below all the clubs above us when it comes to goal scoring. Team P W D L F A GD …
By Tony Attwood In a brief post-match discussion after the Southampton victory we were pondering how this season compares with recent seasons after the first 20 games have been played? It is not a comparison that most football journalists and bloggers ever like to do because it rather scuppers their “best ever” and “worst ever” …
Read More “After 20 games how does this season compare with the past and could we make 4th?”
by Tony Attwood Imagine that there were a set of statistics that indicated that for years and years referees had been unduly under the influence of alcohol when refereeing Premier League matches. After years of hiding the figures the situation would now be incredibly difficult – because if those figures did come out then questions …
Read More “The scandalous figures the football authorities are desperate to hide”
By Tony Attwood As you can read from the comments made by readers following yesterday’s final article, that most readers who commented were not impressed by the referee. And of course nor was I. But I would still like to stick to my theme that Mr Arteta and co must learn that this is how …
Read More “Awful refereeing and a fine win. It was almost like the old days”
By bulldog Drummond Of course we can always make something positive out of a big of a negative feel that is in the air, and so in the spirit of uplift it can be said that Arsenal have won four of their last five Premier League games, conceding just one goal in the process. Indeed …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal in the league: the team news”
By Bulldog Drummond The issue of referee bias is one that has concerned Untold Arsenal from the moment we started, and we have been lucky to have a large number of friends of the site who have contributed to the debate. Everyone of course can have their own view on this, but after the publication …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: Arsenal’s major problem approaching the league game”
By Bulldog Drummond The points that were made in this column before the FA Cup match concerning refereeing still stand for the league match… The commentary written was “Southampton are a curious team: one might even think they have an “understanding” with the referees. They tackle more than any other club in the league, and …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: learning the lessons not learned last weekend”
By Tony Attwood The Guardian has now said that “Arsenal have won the race to sign the Real Madrid midfielder Martin Ødegaard on loan, beating off competition from Real Sociedad and Ajax to secure the services of the 22-year-old attacking midfielder.” It is said that Arsenal will pay the salary of the player but not …
Read More “Martin Ødegaard signed, Pepe, Willian, Sokratis, Torreira going?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Some reports on the internet over the weekend have the Martin Ødegaard transfer from Real Madrid as signed and sealed. Others don’t even mention him. Sadly that is the way it is going this winter window, and you can be sure that if he doesn’t come the matter will either be …
Read More “Martin Ødegaard to Arsenal? Some are acting as if it is already done”
