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 There are so many stories queuing up for publication at the moment (including one about what the FA does with its charity money, a subject which Untold has been campaigning on for years) that it is hard for me to book a space to do the regular previews. But here we go …
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By Nitram Regarding the debate about the relative spends between Arsenal and Liverpool here they are running from Arsenal’s last Premier League win back in season 2003/04 up until last summer, season 2018/19. I have divided the review into two periods. Basically Arsenal’s 10 years of austerity from season 2003/04 through to season 2012/13. Then …
Read More “The relative spending of Arsenal and Liverpool: across the decades”
By Tony Attwood We have had a number of correspondents object to my view that Liverpool has spent more than Arsenal. Two arguments generally have been raised. One says our spending has been similar, and the other says that even if my claim that Liverpool spent a lot more than Arsenal that would be no …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Apparently it is all known and all sorted. Because Tony Cascarino has claimed Unai Emery will dispense with Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan because they don’t suit the new-look Arsenal. It’s possible although Cascarino has always puzzled me. Being Irish I thought his name should be O’cascarin, but somehow the O got transmuted. …
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by Tony Attwood It is quite hard to draw a breath at the moment what with Arsenal doing quite well and the media besides themselves trying to bury their Arsenal visions of the summer and forget everything they previously said. And indeed as the top teams apparently consider a breakaway, and the British government tries …
Read More “How the superleague is being presented, and Koscielny to Barcleona”
by Andrew Crawshaw There are, as usual five Women’s Super League Matches this weekend, all this afternoon. Arsenal begin proceedings at Borehamwood in the early 12:30 match, followed at 14:00 by Liverpool v Man City and Reading v Bristol and at 15:00 there are Yeovil v Everton and West Ham v Chelsea. Brighton sit out …
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By Tony Attwood Paul Merson has, in recent weeks, become ever more frantic on Sky Sports, telling anyone who would listen that Arsenal are a complete shambles and that Liverpool would beat Arsenal by scoring at least four goals. This statement on last weekend’s Sky TV presentation was made amidst an outpouring that was one …
Read More “If Merson had any level of integrity he would now immediately resign”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting this match with : Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Kolasinac, Torreira, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Özil, Aubameyang, Lacazette. On the beach: Cech, Lichtsteiner, Maitland-Niles, Ramsey, Smith Rowe, Iwobi, Welbeck A low cross from Özil but Lacazette can’t connect with the ball and the keeper can stop the dangerous cross. At the other end …
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by Bulldog Drummond In the run up to the match today it is nice to see some commentators finally getting to grips with Aubameyang. You will recall that during the time of the signing itself we were treated to article after article about how badly behaved he was and by implication that this was going …
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By Bulldog Drummond Before we start, sad news about Nicklas Bendtner. A player of great potential (in my opinion) but with a very troubled personality, has apparently been convicted of assaulting a taxi driver and sentenced to 50 days in jail. He has appealed and is thus out of release pending the hearing. Nicklas plays …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool; injuries and past matches, plus Nic Bendtner”
By Tony Attwood According to Der Spiegel Arsenal has been invited to be a founding members of a new European Super League which will launch in 2021. Of the other PL clubs that gained a place in European competitions this season, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City are also invited, but Tottenham Hotspur and …
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by Bulldog Drummond Liverpool’s away form this season is (given that like Manchester City they have powered away at the top of the league) iobviously very good. They have won four and drawn one. Eight goals scored and three conceded. Arsenal’s home form thus far is won four lost one. Ten goals scored, four conceded. …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool. How to spend lots of money and not win trophies.”
From premierleague.com here are this weekend’s matches:- Saturday 3 November 12:30 AFC Bournemouth v Man Utd Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, Darren Cann Fourth official: Kevin Friend 15:00 Cardiff City v Leicester City Referee: Lee Probert Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt Fourth official: Andy Madley Everton v Brighton Referee: David Coote Assistants: Peter Kirkup, Mick McDonough Fourth official: Martin Atkinson Newcastle United v Watford Referee: …
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By Tony Attwood We have been pondering whether there are any regulations at all in the Premier League about the quality of the pitches the PL matches should be played on. Judging by Tottenham’s game against Manchester City the answer is an extremely big “no”. You can play on gravel if you like. Or sand. …
Read More “Uefa takes more care than the Prem Lge, plus more rule changes proposed”
by Tony Attwood 1: The AAA are moving from player to player The Anti-Arsenal Arsenal – those fans who pretend to be Arsenal fans but actually just spend their time criticising the club, the players and the manager are moving on from player to player. At the moment they are having a go at Ramsey. …
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By Tony Attwood It has taken Arsenal.com quite a long time to realise that it is a website used by Arsenal supporters in a media environment in which everything Arsenal does is considered to be appallingly awful, mismanaged, stupid and quite often pathetic. The media achieve this of course by focussing on Arsenal slips and …
Read More “Arsenal v Blackpool, being there and pondering the next round.”
By Walter Broeckx Note before the match: If anything in this match report is not accurate or seen with rose tinted glasses or dark tinted glasses this is due to me having knee surgery this afternoon and I just got home from the hospital and might be slightly under the spell of all the sedation …
By Bulldog Drummond It is surprisingly hard to pick up definitive team news at the moment. The latest story is the Elneny has a thigh injury that will keep him out for a couple of weeks, and we know that Cech is going to play in goal. Other than that we can expect a mix …
By Bulldog Drummond I have left the issue of the crisis at Blackpool FC until now in the vague hope that I might be able to discover a definitive report or two but I’m struggling to know exactly what’s what. So if there are errors in this, please do put me right, ideally with some …
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By Bulldog Drummond We are now back up to third in the injury league table with five men reported down and out. Top of the league are the tax payer funded West Ham with nine, Watford with six, and then a whole bunch of clubs including us with five. I have a thought about West …
By Bulldog Drummond Well, my famed analysis of home and away form to give a prediction of the result didn’t work out against Palace, where everything pointed to another Arsenal win. But I like to take a broader approach to things, and just because that prediction went wrong it doesn’t mean I am going to …
Read More “Arsenal v Blackpool: team selection thoughts and our opponents”
by Andrew Crawshaw The five matches in the WSL this weekend were:- Friday evening – Manchester City v Reading (1 – 1) The weekend started off with a game between Manchester City (second in the league last season) against Reading (beaten by Arsenal 6 – 0 the previous week). From the start there were chances …
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By Tony Attwood Whenever I start chattering away about matters other than at Arsenal we always get a few people writing in telling me to shut up and focus on my own club. I write back and say that for getting on for 11 years the banner at the top of the blog has …
Read More “Funny ol game, funny ol pitch, and why don’t we have a say in how Wembley is used?”
By Tony Attwood To many people the art of commenting on football is the art of picking one or two incidents out of the tens of thousands that take place across 90 minutes and then draw conclusions from those. Indeed one can always find a few events that will support a conclusion, not matter how …
Read More “Context is nothing; how football reports are biased towards individual events”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal still without a regular left back so Xhaka continues in that position. Smith Rowe made it to the bench for this match. Arsenal : Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Xhaka, Torreira, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette. On the beach: Cech, Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Ramsey, Smith Rowe, Mkhitaryan, Welbeck. Arsenal having most of the …
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