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 Last night was a moment when anyone listening to BBC Radio 5 would have heard them go apoplectically berserk about Arsenal. Before the game they were saying Arsenal were awful. Terrible. Shocking. After the game by way of variation Arsenal were shocking. Terrible Awful. Oh yes but Emery had made …
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By Walter Broeckx Some rotation as could be expected with this match sandwiched between the Europa League matches. No Sokratis as he is suspended but also a few players getting some rest. Maitland-Niles, Kolasinac, Özil and Lacazette among those who started on the beach. Xhaka returned after injury and the most notable starter is probably …
Read More “Final score and live match report Watford – Arsenal : 0-1”
by Bulldog Drummond I am interested to see that finally, after about 2 years of commentary on the subject from Untold Arsenal, some of the media are actually waking up to the fact that the easiest way to think about Arsenal’s next game is to consider whether it is home or away. Of course in …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: media reveal why they haven’t tackled the home/away issue before”
By Tony Attwood Before this season began Untold made a series of predictions as to who would win certain European Leagues. Those predictions were… England: Manchester City Spain: Barcelona Scotland: Celtic Italy: Juventus Germany: Bayern Munich France: PSG My point here was not to suggest that I was particularly clever in coming up with these …
Read More “How are our predictions doing for who will win the top European leagues”
by Sir Hardly Anyone We have done it for the last three years and it gained some interest. Plus it made a point: 97% of all transfer rumours are gook. Not gobbledegook but just plain gook. So can the media johnnies raise their inventive game and get it up to 98% of their tips utterly …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting eleven : Cech, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal, Kolasinac, Torreira, Ramsey, Kolasinac, Ozil, Lacazette, Aubameyang On the beach: Leno, Mustafi, Elneny, Guendouzi, Suarez, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan Arsenal attacking from the start and pushing the visitors back but only winning a few corners where the ref sees a foul as the Napoli defenders …
Read More “Final score and live match report Europa League Arsenal – Napoli : 2-0”
by Bulldog Drummond We know that Arsenal results can be more or less predicted by simply looking to see if Arsenal are playing at home or away. So it is worth looking to see if we can gain a similar perspective from Napoli. Here are their last six away games. Date Home team Score Away …
Read More “Arsenal v Napoli: what Napoli have been up to, and the team for tonight”
by Tony Attwood Of course as a regular football supporter who is not a criminologist I can’t give you a definitive answer to that question in the headline. But I can raise a point that I think is sometimes missed in the debate. At the moment racism in football in England is big news. “Resurgent …
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By Tony Attwood There is a sponsored article being advertised on one or two newspaper sites which tells the tale of the richest players who have played in the Premier League. These sponsored pieces are generally not very exciting – the whole point is to get you on the site in order to sell something …
Read More “From the beloved Ashley Cole to outraged footie journalists getting all worked up”
By Walter Broeckx The injured players didn’t return so no Koscielny and Xhaka in the team. Ramsey got a place on the bench after comming off against Newcastle. Elneny gets a rare start and Guendouzi also comes in the team. Up front Mkhitaryan also starting the match. Aubameyang starts on the bench so we have …
Read More “Final score and live match report Everton – Arsenal : 1-0”
By Bulldog Drummond After a poor run of form in January, Everton have picked up of late… Date Game Res Score Competition 02 Feb 2019 Everton v Wolverhampton W L 1-3 Premier League 06 Feb 2019 Everton v Manchester City L 0-2 Premier League 09 Feb 2019 Watford v Everton L 1-0 Premier League 26 …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: the predictions, the stats and the teams”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League – by quite a way. At least that is “most fouled” when the count is taken of fouls awarded by the referees. The table that shows this is provided by Footstats.co.uk. I’ll comment a little on the sources of the data in …
Read More “Three of the 15 most fouled players in the League are Arsenal men. Why?”
by Andrew Crawshaw A quick preview this week as I still don’t have the usual time available (Cancer is a bitch). Here courtesy of Premierleague.com are the Week 33 matches and officials Friday, 5 April 20:00 Southampton v Liverpool Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Stuart Burt, Darren Cann Fourth official: Graham Scott Saturday, 6 April (all matches 15:00 …
by Tony Attwood In the last article – Why Arsenal and Tottenham will end up with identical points this season – I started to outline the idea that one can use home and away tables in order to predict final outcomes for the season. Continuing the theme here are the home and away results of …
Read More “How the table will look come the final day of the season”
By Tony Attwood Take a look at Arsenal’s remaining league fixtures and what do you find? Away to Everton, away to Watford, home to Palace, away to Wolverhampton, away to Leicester, home to Brighton, away to Burnley. Nothing too frightening there surely. At least no other top six clubs to worry about. And there is …
Read More “Why Arsenal and Tottenham will end up with identical points this season”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start: Leno, Maitlan-Niles, Mustafi, Sokratis, Monreal, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Iwobi, Özil, Lacazette. On the beach: Cech, Elneny, Suarez, Nketiah, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang Arsenal having most of the ball in the opening minutes and Newcastle defending deep and in numbers so not much room to create much openings. Arsenal get …
Read More “Final score and live match report Arsenal – Newcastle : 2-0”
By Tony Attwood (part way through packing for the journey across the world tomorrow) It struck me, peering at the league table from the far side of the planet, just how the league has divided itself into groups in a way that it has not done before. I might be wrong in that memory and …
Read More “What missing out on the top four would mean to Arsenal and the rest”
By Tony Attwood The Guardian newspaper, in common with other British newspapers, is not known for criticising referees, obeying, as it does, the dictates of PGMO that commentary on referee errors should be kept to a minimum and always considered as individual referee mistakes. Analyses of how many “errors” referees make, and what types of …
Read More “When the media comments on a referee BEFORE a match maybe things are changing”
By Tony Attwood This is going to be another match I’ll miss what with being in Australia for a few more days before flying home. But of course it is still possible to see how our prediction system of analysing the home and away performance of each club comes up with a result. And it …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle Utd: the prediction based on this season’s analyses.”
By Tony Attwood It was on one of my earlier trips to Australia to visit my daughter that I heard the news that Harry Redknapp had been found not guilty in a high profile court case. Now, with myself being in Oz doing the visiting once again I find Arry is also in the news …
Read More “There is no football news – only a choice of stories. Arry the Red and other affairs.”
By Andrew Crawshaw There are two games this weekend in the WSL, both involving clubs with games in hand. We are away to Liverpool in a game that will be televised on BT Sport on Sunday at 12:30 UK time, so there is a fair chance of finding it on a stream for those of …
by Tony Attwood The directors of Dreambox, Dreambox TV Limited, and Digital Switchover Limited, have now been jailed in England for offering illegal access on TV of matches involving Premier League clubs. The League might be feeling a bit jolly about that, but is perhaps less happy knowing that BeoutQ is still broadcasting Premier League …
Read More “When you deal with countries with different values, you can expect different values.”
By Tony Attwood I have written many times before about the child sex abuse scandals in English football, and my dismay at the way that the media has been handling them. If you want a quick re-run there is an article at https://untold-arsenal.com/archives/61818 – there have been a fair number since. Football doesn’t want …
Read More “Why are the scandals involving football so often removed from most of the media?”
By Andrew Crawshaw I saw an article this morning referencing the latest CIES Observatory weekly report which according to the headline was listing the most fouled teams in Europe. On checking the source document it was, of course, not actually doing that at all but the difference between the numbers of fouls committed by a …
Read More “Arsenal Squad Values – Changes since the start of the season”
By Tony Attwood When I see the words “super computer” used in a football blog I tend to shy away from the report, simply because I have no idea what “super computer” means in terms of anything, let alone football. I mean, the little laptop I am using to write this while in Australia is about 1000 …
Read More “Computer predicts final league placings, but how good is the computer?”
