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 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”
by Bulldog Drummond. So here we are approaching the game while by now Tony should be somewhere in the Atlantic. Or to be more precise on an island somewhere in the Atlantic. The media appear to be certain Arsenal have blown it simply because of the less than exciting game against Wolverhampton who looked like …
By Bulldog Drummond The good news is that for Koscielny everything is going to plan. The manager recently confirmed this saying, “First, the idea is to play with the Under 23s, but also I am looking at him and with his good performances and good feelings, he is close. Maybe Monday he can play with …
By Bulldog Drummond Because for most of their life Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic (now renamed AFC Bournemouth even though they still play in Boscombe) has played in the Third Division (south) and the Division III, the number of games between Arsenal and Bournemouth is small. They joined the Football from the Southern League in 1923, …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: FFP, scorpions and recent results”
by Bulldog Drummond It seems forever since we had a real match to look forward to, but now we do, and we can return to the issue of home and away form. This is not an absolute way of predicting results but it certainly can work – and seems to work as well as, if …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal, predictions based on the home and away form.”
by Andrew Crawshaw From premierleague.com here are the officials for this coming weekend Saturday 24 November 15:00 Brighton v Leicester Referee: Chris Kavanagh Assistants: Daniel Cook, Sian Massey-Ellis Fourth official: Roger East Everton v Cardiff Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Mark Scholes Fourth official: Kevin Friend Fulham v Southampton Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt, Steve Bennett Fourth official: Craig Pawson Man Utd …
Read More “Matchweek 13 – All of the games and Officials plus home and away fouls”
By Bulldog Drummond. So what’s new? Arsenal do not have the worst starts of any team in Premier League games this season, contrary to some suggestions. In fact if we take the first 30 minutes as the “start” there are three teams who do worse than us: Man U, Wolverhampton and Leicester. In the middle …
Read More “Are Arsenal the worst openers this season, the foreigners and the injuries”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is my current list of our injured players Pauline Peyraud-Magnin – Minor hand injury caused her to withdraw from the France squad during the last International break and meant that she could only be on the bench last Sunday – Likely to be on the bench again this week Jessica Samuelsson …
Read More “Arsenal Women – Who might step up to replace our injured players?”
by Tony Attwood The problem with accepting sponsorship from a state sponsored entity, when the state is a dictatorship and human rights denier are obvious, and we have touched on them many times before. Untold tended to call the stadium the Ems (which was the name of a sandwich bar on East Midlands Trains) and …
Read More “Arsenal’s sponsorship deal with the Emirates was bound to explode one day”
By Tony Attwood Jordi Osei-Tutu, our 20 year old defender, who first grabbed attention in the pre-season games this past summer but who then got an injury, is back playing, and has been training with the first team. Other youngsters who have been signed up include Charlie Gilmour who has been playing with the under …
Read More “Arsenal youngsters join three old timers in training but one absentee is noticeable”
By Tony Attwood Well actually I don’t know what the headline proves, other than the fact that even with my devotion to statistics, I too can find stats that don’t actually tell me much. The same set of figures (from the Guardian) tell us that it is the centre backs who do the least running …
Read More “Arsenal have run further than any other PL team this season. And this proves that…”
by Tony Attwood It is certainly not the most well-followed trophy among those that Arsenal are engaged in, but it is there, the fifth competition on the agenda, and having seen one of our games thus far I can confirm for those who do go, it is good fun. For below the Permier League, FA …
Read More “Zelalem returns as Arsenal progress and the Man U game that never was (but was paid for)”
by Andrew Crawshaw This match was broadcast live on the BBC Red Button and kicked off at 12:30 on Sunday 18 November. The match was played at the Select Security Stadium the home of Southport Football Club. Everton had sacked their manager, Andy Spence leaving after 12 years with the club as assistant to Mo …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal Women the Match Report. 8 games, 38 goals!”
By Tony Attwood There is a strange stat that truly is worth of Ron Manager doing the rounds to the effect that Arsenal hasn’t been ahead at half time this season in the League. In a Sky Sport piece that is titled “Your PL season in a stat” that is the headline story. And yet …
Read More “Crazy stats, junk headlines, upcoming youngsters and the return of Ron Manager.”
by Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. As regular readers will know I am usually called in when we have a spate of mind readers writing to the site telling anyone who cares to read just what someone else is thinking. Checking with the …
Read More “Tottenham advertising stopped, new delays, Arsenal bribery allegations”
by Tony Attwood A while back I saw a survey on why some people in the UK voted to leave the EU. As we all know, fewer than half the electorate voted to leave the EU, although just over half of all those voting did vote Leave and that is taken as the definitive statement. …
Read More “Football after the UK leaves the EU. The FA remains in total denial of the research.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone These days, even when the news report seems to have some semblance of reality within it, and comes from a decent enough source, the headline invariably has to be written to give a different impression. Take for example this headline from This is Futbol: “BBC expert: Arsenal have tabled loan-to-buy offer …
Read More “Football headlines and the strange stories that follow them. (The two are not connected)”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One story says that Arsenal are losing money (largely because of two seasons out of the Champions League), and the owner has no intention of putting any extra money in to fund further purchases. A second story says we are buying everyone imaginable. In the midst of all that we have …
Read More “The 7 top players Arsenal are signing this January (you can count them).”
By Tony Attwood There is a simple point at the heart of the scandals and allegations so far and that is that Man City and PSG, according to the released documents, have broken Uefa rules and threatened to elminiate Uefa from the landscape unless Uefa is complicit in covering up the affair. And while we …
Read More “And now another major set of football allegations. Who’d have thought it?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Two interesting tales emerging this day: one that Fulham asked Mr Wenger if he fancied being the manager and the other, positive sounds from Reiss Nelson. Plus a load of tattle and some tittle, which I will come to in a mo. To take your Reiss first, I was fearing that …
Read More “Reiss Nelson looks to Arsenal return, Arsene Wenger turned down Fulham”
By Tony Attwood There is a lot being said and written about Unai Emery and the changes he is making to Arsenal in relation to the style of play and his methods of training. And of course the result of this so far – as with the way the team doesn’t score in the …
Read More “What are our chances of getting top four this season?”
by Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you may well have picked up on the fact that one of our bêtes noires is the Football Association, largely because of its willingness to spend public money without accounting to the taxpayers who give it, while ignoring the fact that the House of …
Read More “How much money raised by the FA in the names of charities goes to charities?”
