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 Here’s a novel twist: Perhaps Wenger left Arsenal in better shape than some may have wanted to see. It is a widespread mistake to assume Emery’s early success with this team reflects poorly on his predecessor, just as the agonies of David Moyes should reflect well on Ferguson. OK notice the opening …
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By Bulldog Drummond Imagine the problem: you work for the media and are given the clear direction that knocking Arsenal is the order of the day. But you find that in reality they are doing rather well. Unbeaten in League, League Cup and Europa since the second league match of the season. What on earth …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal: difficult days for the gentlemen of the press”
By Tony Attwood We don’t actually have an under 21 team as such, but the under 21s play in the Football League Trophy. So we invent one just for the occasion. You may recall the excited reportage from Untold of the first game in the series: Coventry v Arsenal in which Ian and I met …
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By Bulldog Drummond Of late we have been looking at forthcoming matches by comparing the home form of the home team (and equally logically) the away form of the away team. It is by no means a perfect predictor of the result, and actually it isn’t really that scientific), and indeed the review for Sunday’s …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal: the scientific (ish) prediction of the result”
by Andrew Crawshaw No time to rest on our Laurels this week – Matchweek 14 finished on Sunday, Matchweek15 starts on Tuesday. Courtesy of premierleague.com here are the fixtures:- Kick-offs are 19:45 GMT unless stated otherwise. Tuesday 4 December AFC Bournemouth v Huddersfield Town Referee: Roger East Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Mark Scholes Fourth official: Lee Probert Brighton v Crystal …
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by Tony Attwood You will probably have seen that several newspapers have opened up on the behaviour of Pulis and his team in matches in which he played against Mr Wenger’s Arsenal teams. The articles express how hurting and indeed maiming Arsenal players was at the centre of the Stoke campaign, and how a few …
by Don McMahon Let me state at the outset that I am convinced Arsenal would have won the game handily one way or the other, as the Totts were outmanouvered, outplayed and out-thought for most of the game. I also want to mention that Mike Dean seemed on the verge of losing control a few …
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by Tony Attwood After all the years of creating that extraordinary run in the Champions League (19 consecutive seasons, second only to Real Madrid on 21), and doing rather well against Tottenham (I think it was over 20 games without defeat between 19 March 2000 and 9 January 2008 – although I may have miscounted), …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting the derby unchanged compared to last weekends match. Lacazette returned on the beach and Özil was injured and was dropped. Arsenal starting with: Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Holding, Kolasinac, Torreira, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, Aubameyang On the beach: Cech, Guendouzi, Lacazette, Ramsey, Maitland Niles, Elneny, Lichtsteiner, Maitland Niles Arsenal starting the …
Read More “The not live match report : Arsenal – Tottenham wanderers 4-2”
By Bulldog Drummond One other snippet of news coming through of late… clubs are starting to react a little to the new loan regulations which are due to start in 2020/21. The thought at the moment is that Premier League clubs will be able to get round these by loaning more and more players to …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: new loan regulations, the effect of Europe, recent runs”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, head of industrial relations and other family members. We have occasionally dealt with one or two minor issues at Tottenham Hotspur’s New WHL ground, which have put the date of its opening back from the summer of 2018 to, well, I am not sure but I suspect that is …
Read More “Another problem at Tottenham’s new ground? No, that can’t be right.”
By Bulldog Drummond OK let’s start with the easy question. Like What time does it start? Quite why the Independent chose to put that as a question rather than just writing “Kick off:” followed by the time as people used to do is beyond me. But that’s what you have to do these days, under …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham; it isn’t when they think it is. Confusing times all round.”
By Tony Attwood Why Arsenal should be happy Mike Dean is refereeing the north London derby That is the headline above an article in the Daily Telegraph. It is not a piece that I wholly agree with and I think some of the ways in which the statistics are handled are misleading, but the fact …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: a truly revolutionary approach from the press”
by Andrew Crawshaw Courtesy of premierleague.com here are the match officials for this coming weekend’s fixtures:- Kick-offs are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise. Friday 30 November 20:00 Cardiff City v Wolves Referee: Andre Marriner Assistants: Scott Ledger, Simon Long Fourth official: Martin Atkinson Saturday 1 December Crystal Palace v Burnley Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Andy Garratt, Adrian Holmes Fourth official: Mike Dean Huddersfield Town …
By Walter Broeckx Lots of youngsters starting and on the beach today. Starting line up: Cech, Lichtsteiner, Jenkinson, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Elneny, Willock, Ramsey, Smith Rowe, Nketiah. On the beach: Martinez, Osei-Tutu, Medley, Gilmour, Saka, Mkhitaryan, John-Jules A free kick for a non existing foul against Maitland Niles in the opening minutes gifts Vorksla a …
Read More “Live match report and final score : FC Vorskla – Arsenal : 0-3”
By Bulldog Drummond There seems to be little more to be said on the game tonight. It goes ahead, the alternative stadium appears to be ready, all the Uefa bits and pieces are adorning the ground and so that’s that. And yes, we found the Uefa rules that insist that all clubs nominate an alternative …
Read More “Tonight’s game, Arsenal nutters, injury update, and where is our backup stadium?”
By Bulldog Drummond We have a certain lack of certainty today over such issues as a) will the game be played at all b) who will play in the Arsenal team. Yesterday we had a brief look at the regulations that Uefa were using to impose a move of the match from the normal venue …
Read More “Arsenal: If there is a game in the Ukraine who will play? And if not, why not?”
by Bulldog Drummond So the latest is that Uefa have told Vorskla to use their backup stadium, but Vorskla say they might not be able to get things ready as this short notice. So what happens? Untold, always handy with a rule book brings you the bits others don’t have. There was less than 18 …
Read More “Vorskla say the game v Arsenal might not happen. So what then?”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw Having a spot of spare time while sitting in a traffic jam I thought I would take a look at the biggest stories around and give you a quick translation into English from the journaleese nonsense language that they are normally written in. It is, as they say, all …
Read More “Arsenal to refuse to go to Ukraine? Translating today’s Arsenal stories into English”
by Bulldog Drummond PLEASE NOTE that since this article was written the match has been moved. There is a note in the comments and we’ll have more on this in the next article. According to the almighty Uefa there is nothing to worry about. Martial law, temperatures of below minus 10 – these are of …
Read More “Vorskla Poltava v Arsenal: ice, martial law, moved venue and team news”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal started with all of our fit senior outfield players Sari van Veenendaal Lisa Evans, Leah Williamson, Louise Quinn, Emma Mitchell c Leah Walti Dominique Bloodworth, Danielle van de Donk Katie McCabe, Vivianne Miedema, Beth Mead Subs – Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, and three U18s – Ava Kuyken, Ruby Grant and Paige Bailey-Gayle Brighton …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton Women – Match Report, still top of the league”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as we know, have just gone 17 games unbeaten – not just the longest in the Premier League at the moment but the longest in Europe’s main leagues. If things work out ok in the Ukraine – assuming we can fly in and out ok, that could well be increased before …
Read More “Unbeaten runs, goal scorers and how Tottenham are three quarters of an hour behind”
By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed from passing comments I am now in Canary Islands, on a dance holiday, and reminding myself what it is like for many Arsenal supporters being outside England. In this case I am dependent on TV from the truly awful BeinSports which has the disagraced Richard Keys (now …
Read More “Arsenal’s away form, Keys and Gray, child abuse in football, and the case of Man City.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is commonplace for the blogs to “rate” this, that, something else, and then something other. So with Tony off sunning himself on an island off the coast of somewhere watching the game in a bar with a bunchette of Bournemouth supporters I thought we’d have a look at what the …
Read More “Rating the headlines after Arsenal’s win over Bournemouth. Reality loses.”
By Walter Broeckx A bit an unexpected starting line up as Lacazette was not fully fit with a little groin injury and then Özil not in the starting line up. It looks 3 man central defenders at the start with Bellerin and Kolasinac as wing backs. Arsenal starting line up : Leno, Bellerin, Sokratis, Mustafi, …
Read More “Final score live match report Bournemouth – Arsenal : 1-2”
