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 On 6 June 2019 we did quite a bit of boasting. Indeed the headline of the day said it all. “We predicted six champions before the season started” we crowed. “We got all six right,” we concluded. And in fact that was the second year running we got six out of six. …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It is being reported that Jürgen Klopp has told Uefa and Fifa that Liverpool will not allow its players to go and play (or indeed sit on the bench) for their countries if they are having to travel to a location which will mean that upon their return to England there …
Read More “Let’s hope Arsenal go down the same road as Liverpool over international release”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Traditionally, Untold has taken more note of the 25 player rule and the notion that only 17 players can be foreign grown, than the inventors of transfer rumours. Our view has been that people who run newspaper columns and blogs propagating the rumours of transfers (97% of which are always wrong) …
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By Tony Attwood There is an article on the Football.London site which runs with the headline “Stan Kroenke could force Mikel Arteta into transfer rethink at Arsenal as £182m mistake revealed” It is, I think, one of the most misleading articles I have seen in the last couple of hours, and I thought it was …
Read More “Are Arsenal really utterly hopeless at all transfers or is it the media that’s wrong?”
By Tony Attwood Every year around this time, websites start to tell us that they have had access to the results produced by a super computer to tell us who is going to win the league. They don’t actually tell us what a super computer is, nor indeed why for something as simple as predicting …
Read More “What is a super computer and does it tell us anything we don’t know?”
Written by Darryl Rigby, Immigration Advice Service The United Kingdom formally exited the European Union on January 1st 2021, ending a near-50-year alliance that had previously made trading goods with the rest of the continent much more straight-forward Throughout the ‘Leave’ vs ‘Remain’ debate, much of the arguments centred around the economy, and in particular …
Read More “4 Transfers That Would Never Have Happened Under Post-Brexit Rules”
By Tony Attwood Sky Sports have presented a list of “days lost” to clubs by players being injured or ill. It is an interesting list and is combined with a note from Sky that notes that this is fractionally under 10% higher than for the first 26 games last season. Then they suggest that “the …
Read More “How much are Arsenal’s injuries responsible for our place in the league.”
By Tony Attwood This is a very curious and odd league table at the moment. The almighty glorious wonderful Liverpool of yesteryear have slipped down to sixth and are hobnobbing it with their neighbours (three points below and two games in hand). Arsenal and Tottenham (the latter being regularly tipped for great things, largely on …
Read More “6 goals, 6 points, 6 places: the journey to the Europa League next season”
By Tony Attwood There is a little piece about the weekend’s Arsenal match in the Guardian which reads… “Brendan Rodgers looked glum at full time. He looked even glummer as the man from Radio Leicester informed him the airwaves were already alive with callers asking if Leicester City were about to repeat the collapsing act …
Read More “How Arsenal beat Leicester: tackles, fouls, yellows, and the referee”
By Tony Attwood That game today was so much better, it was one of those matches that made me wonder why we couldn’t run the game in this way all the way through every match. We are still a long way down in the league on where we should be, of course, but it was …
Read More “How Arsenal might just be able to make it up to sixth.”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal still have the third-best defence in the league – just one goal more than Chelsea conceded this season. We have conceded one fewer goal than Leicester. However, in terms of attack, we are 11th in the League, having scored 13 fewer goals than Leicester. Leicester have scored 19 and conceded 16 …
By Bulldog Drummond Yes a shock announcement and the horror only comes because it is unbelievable. It really is because seemingly Arsenal have only one injury: Rob Holding. Arsenal have issued a statement which says, “”Holding had a concussion but now we need to follow the protocols and he won’t be able to travel.” Several …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: Arsenal in shock horror injury amazement crisis”
by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal are slowly getting to grips with the way referees treat them this season. As a result they are getting slightly more tackles in per foul given against them (1.25 against 1.15 in December), they can commit slightly more fouls before getting a yellow (6.47 against 6.31 in December). Leicester however are …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: we must tackle with caution; when fouled we must go down”
By Tony Attwood Football London has a headline today saying “AS Monaco are eyeing a summer move for striker Alexandre Lacazette. “That is according to the Mirror as Arsenal may be prepared to cash in on the Frenchman this summer if he shows no signs of signing a new deal, meaning they will not wish to …
Read More “It is time to hold failed managers to account (especially when they are pundits)”
By Tony Attwood Could it be that our constant campaign to embarrass the PGMO (and the mass media that supports it), by pointing out referee errors, their refusal to give any public statements or to bring themselves in line with the rest of Europe, is having an effect? And could the media’s abject failure to …
Read More “How referees are being bribed to accept VAR decisions”
By Tony Attwood When there is mention the unbeaten season and my thoughts immediately turn to the last match of the season, going one down, the rescue and victory, staying for an hour in the ground, and then driving through London and finding that everywhere there seemed to be people out and about waving scarves …
Read More “Narrow escapes are always part of being successful, but they’re not everything”
Previously: Arsenal v Benfica; where it’s at, what’s the co-efficient, what happened, who’s injured? Arsenal players forced to isolate after home game! AFC news ahead of Benfica game The Standard confirms that Thomas Partey traveled to foreign parts where we play the club of one country in the country of another. They add that “If …
Read More “Arsenal team news for the “home” game in Greece against Benfica”
Darryl Rigby – Immigration Advice Service Last month was undoubtedly the slowest January transfer window on record. With clubs still reeling from the ongoing economic impact of COVID-19, many simply cannot afford to recruit new players in these dark and uncertain times. The Gunners were actually one of the Premier League’s busiest clubs in January, …
By Bulldog Drumond Previously: Arsenal v Benfica; where it’s at, what’s the co-efficient, what happened, who’s injured? It appears that English clubs that travel overseas, and players who leave England to play for their country anywhere in the world (presumably including Scotland) during the next international break will have to self-isolate for 10 days on …
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by Bulldog Drummond The main question is where on earth is this game being played? Well, of course, as you probably knew the answer is Στάδιο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης, which for those who studied ancient Greek at school rather than the up to date version is the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, a port city in Greater …
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By Tony Attwood For some time I’ve laid off the topic of slave labour being used in Qatar to build the world cup stadia, and the argument that anyone who is involved in the World cup there is supporting slavery. But the issue does not go away as the BBC has revealed that over 6,500 …
By Tony Attwood Way, way back before the dawn of time, well before the pandemic anyway, I wrote a few articles about the state of the finances of certain clubs, noting in particular how Wolverhampton Wanderers had borrowed a sum equal to their next TV payout, in order (it seemed) to make stage payments for …
Read More “Clubs are starting to mortgage themselves. We’re approaching a tipping point.”
by Anthony Hamaker Untold Arsenal has recently questioned reasons for the apparent cause of Arsenal’s current demise and asks the question “What does the club do now?” This follows on from a Guardian newspaper article which suggests that the Arsenal transfer policy must be considered to be one of the main reasons contributing to this …
Read More “Can one truly understand what is causing the supposed demise of Arsenal”
by Tony Attwood It was of course only a few years ago that we were in the Champions League every season, and creeping our way up to runners’ up in the league. But it was never enough for some, despite three FA Cup wins in the space of four years. But surely no one …
Read More “The ten routes out of Arsenal’s decline into mid-table obscurity”
by Tony Attwood “Arsenal are paying for their poor transfer business,” is the opening headline of the Guardian’s review of Arsenal’s defeat to Manchester City, but their solutions to the current problem show a stunning lack of imagination. For like virtually all the media it simply suggests the club do more of what they’ve done …
Read More “What is the cause of Arsenal’s demise, and what does the club do now?”
