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 Bulldog Drummond Yes, extraordinary though it is and impossible though it must seem Arsenal have gone through the whole of December, January and February (which by my reckoning makes three months) without being defeated away from home. And they can add to that one away game in March as well. Date Game Res Score …
Read More “11 away games undefeated. What has got into Arsenal and can we have some more?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. A little while back, for reasons that will not become clear at this point, the Sun, an alleged “newspaper” of a fanatical right-wing persuasion, ran the rather bonkers headline “Gun-fusing”. Beyond that they had another headline reading Why are Arsenal nicknamed the Gunners? And they answered that with by saying, “The name …
Read More “When one simple football question about Arsenal fooled the Sun completely”
by Tony Attwood Yesterday we revealed how different the refereeing structure is within the Premier League from other major European Leagues. Specifically, with the way that certain highly influential referees are given many many more games than their colleagues, in the Premier League. This does not happen elsewhere, where all referees are kept on roughly …
Read More “The mysterious body that secretly runs Football in England”
By Tony Attwood This article continues from the findings in the previous piece: Why do Liverpool keep getting the same referees? Here is a simple chart showing refereeing statistics from the five major football leagues in Europe Country Teams in league Referees used Max game per ref England 20 21 25 Germany 18 25 …
Read More “Is Premier League refereeing very different from other major European leagues? YES!!!”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look A second article following on from this is now published – see link at end of this piece. by Andrew Crawshaw. You will be aware that Untold has held strong views about the PGMO, how they keep appointing the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Physioroom has the injury list as below. Soares is now fit it seems, but needs to return to full training this coming week before being ready to play. Player Reason Detail Potential Return Calum Chambers Knee Injury Ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee. August Sead Kolasinac Shoulder Injury Significant …
Read More “Arsenal v West Ham. The injuries and the team as predicted by the experts!”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I love it when the English media ignore a big story in Europe. Of course sometimes it is because the journalist assigned to the case spent too long drinking in the Toppled Bollard public house the night before. Sometimes it is because they think “English readers won’t be interested in this …
Read More “When the English media ignore a big story like this, you know something is up”
By Bulldog Drummond Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look The league table shows just how urgently more points are required. With Manchester City banned for Europe (pending an appeal), the 5th placed club is likely to qualify for the Champions League, meaning the teams …
Read More “Arsenal v WHAM and a look back to the last time we won fewer games in a season”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood Here’s a couple of Arsenal facts. Arsenal made a loss in its last set of reported accounts, and contrary to stories that will not stop doing the rounds, there is no hard evidence that it was …
Read More “Booing players is not the solution, nor is spending more and more”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you may recall that for the past several years I’ve been banging away about the fact that there was not something fundamentally wrong with the Arsenal team in terms of its overall performance, but rather there was something very wrong with the way we were playing …
Read More “Arsenal’s new strategy emerges but the club faces huge difficulties from without.”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Tony Attwood A petition signed by over three-quarters of a million people which calls for curbs on the British media has been handed into the government. And while the motivation behind the petition has nothing to do …
Read More “The media should be “held accountable for the way they harass and vilify people”.”
by Tony Attwood About three and a half years ago Mikel Arteta, when assistant to Pep Guardiola was asked by a journalist if he felt anything needed to be changed in English football. Now the standard answer to this question is “no”, with the foreign interviewee replying that the Premier League is the strongest league …
Read More “Football gone wrong, and how the clubs could act if they wanted to”
By Tony Attwood “Arsenal are now one win from Wembley and two wins from, errrm, Wembley. They can start to smell success in a competition that has lit up their otherwise barren last decade and a half …” That bit of stupidity comes from the Guardian in relation to last night but it wasn’t the …
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Bulldog Drummond In the 1920s and 1930s Portsmouth had a strong 1st Division team, and they did get a few victories over Arsenal, meaning that the head to head results look rather better for Portsmouth than one …
by Andrew Crawshaw The quote in the title was from a Chelsea supporter to me in the Gents after the game and he wasn’t wrong. The trophy went to Chelsea following a 2 – 1 win in a game which saw Arsenal batter Chelsea for 80 minutes. The match as you would expect was …
Read More ““The best team lost” – the story of the 2020 Continental Tyres Cup”
By Bulldog Drummond Portsmouth are a League One (ie third tier) team, chasing promotion. In this League, the top two are automatically promoted; next four compete enter into the playoffs (two semi-finals and a final), with the winner gaining the third promotion spot. Here’s the League One table at present. Team P W D L …
Read More “Portsmouth v Arsenal: how Portsmouth have been doing of late.”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have won the First Division / Premier League 13 times, and won the FA Cup 13 times – the latter being the all time record, with Mr Wenger winning the Cup more than any …
Read More “The all time most successful FA Cup team against Portsmouth; prognostications”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood In the modern blogging world, exploring the issue of cause and effect is sometimes known as moaning – and “moaning” of course is a pejorative word. No one likes a moaner. So what is a …
Read More “The problems at Arsenal: Trying to resolve the cause and effect”
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal moved to the new Arsenal Stadium and increased their capacity from around 38,000 to over 60,000 they also doubled their match day revenue overnight. And it has continued to rise thereafter. But of course the stadium had to be paid for, and that drain on the club’s finances was managed …
Read More “What exactly do we need in order to win the League again?”
By Bulldog Drummond Now here is something very new. It is not directly relevant to the team for tonight’s game, so if you want that just scroll down a bit, but it is relevant to the topic of what blogs and websites are up to (which is something Untold likes to keep an eye on). …
Read More “Arsenal’s team and scoreline prediction for tonight’s game, and some naughty people”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Bulldog Drummond It really begins to look as the dreadful run of results in home matches is well and truly over and tonight’s game gives the club a chance to take another step towards recovering our credibility …
Read More “Arsenal at home, and Arsenal at home to Olympiakos”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Bulldog Drummond Since playing their first leg of the current Europa League round both Arsenal and Olympiacos have won – in the case of Olympiakos it was a 0-1 away win that means that the club is …
Read More “Arsenal v the eternal champions who are once again, well… you know.”
Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood Preliminaries: this article uses the same figures as used in articles from a couple of weeks back concerning tackles, fouls and yellows. This means the numbers here are a few weeks out of date – however I …
Read More “What is the relationship between fouls, tackles and yellow cards in the PL?”
by Tony Attwood The essence of the always-famous novel “1984” by George Orwell, published in 1948 which predicted the dystopian world to come, is that history can be changed, re-written, re-told, manipulated, re-imagined by the powerful in order to keep the thoughts of the proles in order. George Orwell was not a great football fan, …
Read More “How the history and effect of VAR is being re-written to mislead us all”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Psychiatric support for those who wrote the original pieces is available from Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. All the latest transfer tales, with translation into English. 1: Aubameyang leaving Arsenal could be forced to sell Gabon forward …
Read More “From the blindingly obvious to “being courted” Translating media gossip into reality”
