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 There is a twitter feed circulating which asks “How did Kane not get a yellow for this on Gabriel?” In case you have missed this I have reproduced it below. But before we get to the question of “How did Kane not get even a yellow card for his assault on Gabriel?” I …
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By Tony Attwood The “last six results” table below reflects where Arsenal is in terms of the last six games played by each club in the top half of the league. The final column on the right shows the actual position of the club in the current league table. The fact that the top five …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Making yourself bigger than the team by making the maintenance of your authority more important than anything else is what the leadership books say you absolutely should not do as a leader. Absolutely not. But Arteta takes a different view, his authority is supreme, he demands obedience and he will be …
Read More “Arteta’s authority gamble pays off, but let’s hope he feels he’s proved himself now”
By Bulldog Drummond This picture of Dial Square reminds us of course of the club’s origins, and the ordinary working men who simply wanted to play football on a Saturday afternoon. We’ve travelled such a long way since 1886 and what football is today would be quite meaningless to a traveller in time from those …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: selecting the Arsenal team without injuries”
By Bulldog Drummond Every day on the Arsenal History Society site we run a video of an Arsenal game from the past – there is an index of the most recent videos on that site. There was a time when Arsenal regularly bossed the north London derby games but it all started to go a …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham – watch the amazing video as a warm up.”
By Bulldog Drummond Tottenham are a club that like history. They’ve won the First Division twice (but not won the top league for 60 years), and they’ve won the second division twice as well. They have won the FA Cup eight times (once more than Arsene Wenger), the Cup winners Cup once, and the …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur. When did it first start to get nasty?”
By Bulldog Drummond Yes indeed, Arsenal have fallen off the table. Untold Arsenal has been recording the number of injuries Arsenal have, week by week, since 2010. And as far as I can tell we have never ever ever had a weekend before, during a season, in which Arsenal has no injuries at all. Not …
Read More “Arsenal drop off the table. Never before seen event.”
By Bulldog Drummond This is a season of runs of alternating success for both Tottenham and Arsenal, For Tottenham after a run of six defeats in eight games in which they conceded 16 goals, they are now on a run of five wins in a row, in which they have scored 16. And it has …
Read More “Tottenham: 73 more fouls than Arsenal, but two fewer yellow cards!”
By Tony Attwood The problem for most of us is that we support one team, watch them a lot, and don’t really know or notice what other teams are doing. What we do see are sanitized versions of their games occasionally on TV, but without that level of detailed attention that we give to Arsenal. …
Read More “Why this could be the moment when it all turns around.”
by Tony Attwood Of course the negativists were dubious about Arsenal’s chances against Olympiacos; doubly so when they saw the substitution of Elneny, complaining he was exactly not the player we needed at this moment, and pondering how Arteta could make such a crucial mistake as such a critical moment. The Guardian follows this point …
Read More “Exceptionally good news for Arsenal; except the media don’t see it.”
By Bulldog Drummond Quite possibly because many websites have been following the Daily Mirror lead which suggests that Arsenal are about to sell half of their first team squad, there is not too much info available about Olympiacos. Indeed the match fixing findings and banning from the league have been totally ignored by the media …
Read More “Olympiacos v Arsenal; the Arsenal line-up, and what could be done about referees”
By Tony Attwood Even Wikipedia is having a go at Arsenal now. For in its article Arsenal FC in European football it has this… European honours of Arsenal F.C. Honour Titles Years European Cup Winners’ Cup 1 1994 That’s it. Elsewhere in passing we do have a note about Arsenal winning the Inter Cities Fairs …
Read More “Olympiacos relegated from the top league, but we are still playing them!”
By Bulldog Drummond So it is Olympiacos tomorrow which means they are most likely top of the league, and most likely involved in a match fixing scandal. That at least is what we might expect from their past behaviour before we do any research at all. Since the start of February they have played ten …
Read More “Arsenal v Olympiacos. Non stop flights from £38 for the one way trip.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Interestingly, occasional slight justifications and explanations for Arsenal spending money in the summer on the transfer market are starting to emerge. The prime one being that because we are no longer spending money on players who are on the payroll but not in the “25” we now have lots of spare …
Read More “The six big money transfers for Arsenal this summer, and how we pay for it”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now I know my name causes some mirth among the lower classes, but if might turn out to be a dire warning. At least if the Daily Mirror has its way. For the Daily Mirror has on its site today what appears to be a serious article called “Arsenal keep or …
Read More “Sell them all! The Daily Mirror’s shocking plan for Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood You can’t take in the news these days without realising that there is a lot of anti-vaccination propaganda going on at the moment. It has different edges to it, as for example if you get vaccinated it won’t bring you any personal benefit, or it will have a negative effect, or it …
Read More “Anti-vaccination and anti-Arsenal. Nothing much is making sense.”
By Tony Attwood Swiss Ramble, the Twitter poster with an interest in football finances has recently posted a series of tweets on Arsenal’s finances, and I thought I would draw out a few points. If you are a regular reader you will know that my view is that the club has spent a considerable amount …
Read More “Arsenal’s finances are really getting into a mess and a half.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone We have long known that 97% of the transfer stories journalists report are nonsense. We know that their eternal kow-towing to referees, and also that their all-powerful organisation the PGMO, holds god-like status to journalists and won’t ever be criticised in any way whatsoever, despite its nonsense fake statistics and refusal …
Read More “Journalists? Revealed: the depths of behaviour we are dealing with, every day”
by Tony Attwood It is, I guess something that most of us have known for a long time but even so it is good to have the final proof. Publications like the Daily Mirror with its lapdog website Football London, churn out transfer rumours by the score, hour after hour, day after day after day. …
Read More “The proof that transfer rumours are generated by computers not people”
by Tony Attwood Most areas of business employ consultants. People who come in from the outside, are given access to all areas of the business, see it afresh, and then point out problems. All companies of any size that are sensible and are concerned about their long-term well-being rather than short term expediency use …
Read More “It’s so simple to stop referee errors like yesterday’s, so why do they continue?”
(selon certains y’a pas penalty mdr) pic.twitter.com/Kx83gyp7ws — Arsenal FR (@Arsenal_FRA) March 6, 2021 Is it really that easy to influence a referee? That is the headline over an article in the Athletic. I’ve reprinted the opening below, but in essence it leads with the referee showing how he stops himself being influenced by players, …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal. Is it really that easy to influence a referee? Seemingly yes.”
By Bulldog Drummond Let’s have a peek at who we have used the most this season listed by the minutes played, which is usually a fair indication as to which players the manager likes, when all are fit… Below is our top 20 appearances listed in minutes (substitute appearances listed under games in brackets). This …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal: the team and this season’s appearance numbers”
Text By Bulldog Drummond Photo by Trappedinburnley Well, yes my headline is wrong. Not “injuries” but “injury”. It is Emile Smith Rowe. He has an injury which is either groin, or hip or pelvic depending on who is talking. The official line on 3 March was that “Emile had a scan yesterday, it doesn’t look …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal: the injuries, and an encouraging run of results”
By Bulldog Drummond Prior to, and after the Leicester game the figures for Arsenal in relation to tackles, fouls and yellow cards looked very promising as it showed that Arsenal were following a key strategy. The management have now fully realised that Arsenal winning is not primarily about how Arsenal play, but about how Arsenal …
Read More “The key tactical issue that Arsenal must observe in the game v Burnley”
By Bulldog Drummond As we have noted a number of times, getting into the Europa League next season isn’t just about Arsenal winning games, it is about the clutch of teams above us doing less well than they have been. So I thought I’d have a little look at just how this is going, in …
Read More “We need to do well, they need to do worse. Could Arsenal really make the top six?”
