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 Josif Broz Those who still watch the car-theft-like international tournaments may still have fresh memories of World Cup 2018 hosted by the human right’s role model, Russia. One of the biggest upsets at the competition was Germany going out after the group stage. They lost 2-0 to South Korea but only few people could …
Read More “Is Europe sliding back to 1930s? In football the answer looks worrying.”
By Tony Attwood The long and the short of it is that with the manager quite reasonably speaking in generalities, and the media quite typically suggesting that Mr Wenger’s team selection for the Europa was chaotic, we are not really sure who is going to play this Thursday. By and large there is a general …
by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup is the Women’s equivalent of the Carabao Cup. It is a competition open to the 22 teams in the top two echelons of Women’s football, the WSL and the Championship. Unlike the men’s competition this one sees there being a group stage prior to a knockout between the …
Read More “Continental Tyres Cup – Matchday 3 of 5 all the results, tables and gossip”
By Tony Attwood We are, as Arsenal fans, being treated with absolute contempt. We are treated as idiots with brains the size of peas, simple beings who can be manipulated with a few set phrases written by computers, allowing the journalists to move on to the proper stuff. Just take a look at this: “Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal v Vorskla Poltava: the media is treating us with absolute contempt”
by Andrew Crawshaw A Continental Tyres Cup match between Championship team Lewes and Arsenal. On paper a mismatch but Lewes qualified into the knockout stage of this competition last year against all expectations, and they were also ahead of us in the group table courtesy of a better first match goal difference, so not a …
Read More “Untold’s exclusive interview with the Arsenal manager and a trip to the Dripping Pan”
by Tony Attwood There is a big part of me that doesn’t want Arsenal to get back into the Champions League – the part that recognises that we might well get through the group stages of that competition but then be slaughtered in the first or second knock out round. And that the knock back …
Read More “Why Arsenal into the Champions League next season may not be the best option”
By Tony Attwood In relation to understanding how football works, I generally find that theories about what is happening in football which draw parallels with similar things happening elsewhere in our society, tend to be the most helpful. Yes football is unique, but it exists within the context of a culture, a society, a country, a …
Read More “Why does Arsenal attract so many negative commentaries in the media?”
By Tony Attwood It was quite a scandal, although not surprisingly, the media didn’t want to know. Newspaper web sites publishing pictures of a more than half empty Arsenal stadium and then sneering at the official attendance figures. The media tended to back off after we revealed that the prime picture used to illustrate an …
Read More “Remember stories of a half empty Arsenal Stadium? Now the story moves on.”
by Andrew Crawshaw August 11 Arsenal v Aston Villa (4 – 2) Team Mitchell Daley Campbell, Spencer Adams, Ogungbo, Swanson M Smith, McEneff Dennis (39), Musah, Cottrell (80) Balogun Subs Oyegoke (39), Taylor-Hart (80), Virginia (gk), Matthews, Patino An excellent start from Arsenal with Balogun scoring in th e4th minute following an assist by Musah. …
Read More “Ahead of the U18s live on TV here’s the initial Progress Report”
By Walter Broeckx No changes in the starting line up so we have Arsenal at the start: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Sokratis, Monreal, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette. On the beach: Leno, Lichtsteiner, Holding, Elneny, Torreira, Mkhitaryan, Welbeck. The ref for this match sends shivers down my spine… Lee Probert…. if ever there was a …
Read More “Final score and Live Match report Newcastle – Arsenal : 1-2”
By Bulldog Drummond Through our regular run of previews we’ve been left with a range of suggestions as to what Mr Emery is going to do with the team in the coming weeks, although there is a fairly regular suggestion among those who claim to know such things that he is adjusting the team for …
Read More “Torreira in, new Arsenal rule, daft headlines, an alternative table”
By Bulldog Drummond We might feel we’ve got a fair idea of what will happen in terms of Arsenal team selection in the Premier League but it seems that what has been assumed (at Untold, I can’t read minds, unlike many of our correspondents so I don’t know what people have thought) about the continuation …
Read More “Newcastle v Arsenal. Arsenal’s awful defence, non-rotation, the triumphs of Benitez”
By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a positive story and a half: Kanu talking about his heart foundation under the headline, “We have saved 542 lives, that means more than football.” The full piece is in the Guardian. Brilliant for Kanu to dedicate himself to this, good on the Guardian for highlighting the story. In the injury league table …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the full list of match officials as listed in the official PL website:- Saturday 15 September 12:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt, Simon Bennett Fourth official: Kevin Friend 15:00 AFC Bournemouth v Leicester City Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Lee Betts, Ian Hussin Fourth official: Simon Hooper Chelsea v Cardiff City …
Read More “Matchweek 5 – The Match Officials including Newcastle v Arsenal”
By Bulldog Drummond There is a rare old collection of tempting headlines around the papers this morning, which I thought I’d throw in, swirl around and drag out the pot, as we warm up to tomorrow’s game. How about this one “Manchester City left bemused after police admit to no arrests five months after Anfield …
Read More “Newcastle v Arsenal: handbrake off, Everton points deduction, David gold on sucking”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the publication of the Pl Squads I thought you might be interested in a quick Summary. The smallest squads Wolves have the smallest senior squad with just 19 players (7 homegrown, 12 not). Bournemouth (16 homegrown and 5 not) and Manchester City (4 homegrown and 17 not) have 21 senior players. …
by Andrew Crawshaw Starting with the U23 team who played four games in August in defence of the League title they won last season. August 11 – Man City v Arsenal (6 – 5) Team Iliev Osei-Tutu, Bielik, Pleguezuelo, Bola Gilmour, Willock, Smith Rowe Amaechi, Nketiah, Mavididi Subs Okonkwo (gk), Olayinka, Medley, Olowu, Saka We …
Read More “The Arsenal Junior teams an August Progress Report: the U23s vs the Clone.”
By Tony Attwood Going to a stadium for the first time is always fun, but last night this became double fun before the game when, having had a bite to eat and a drink in the Hilton Hotel, which is part of the Ricoh Arena complex (it also houses Wasps rugby club) we were strolling …
Read More “Shaking hands with Per Mertesacker and Tony Adams and a 3-0 victory over Coventry”
by Bulldog Drummond Fortunately for the two of us going to the game, Coventry is only about one hour by car away, although I am told it can be a nightmare getting out of the area. So I shall make sure I am fully laden with audio books to keep me going. However we only …
Read More “Coventry v Arsenal tonight. Preparing for the road trip.”
By Andrew Crawshaw and Bulldog Drummond Continuing our preview of tonight’s game in the Checkatrade, with a look at the competition and the teams, we find that some League One and League Two club supporters have boycotted matches in the past because of the inclusion of Premier League academy sides – the logic of which …
Read More “Coventry v Arsenal Wednesday 12 September – Who is eligible and the possible line up.”
by Tony Attwood The problem is, we are told there is going to be a third European competition next year but we don’t really know too much about how it will work, but it looks a bit like this could be the way forward… Part 1: Leave the Champions League as it is. Part 2: …
Read More “And just in case there isn’t enough football around, here’s a new competition”
by Bulldog Drummond On Wednesday this week Coventry City play Arsenal in the Checkatrade Trophy. I’m not too sure how big the crowd will be but there will be two Untolders there trying to sort out what is going on and of course report back after the match. And “sort out” seems to be the …
Read More “Coventry City v Arsenal – preparing for the cup match on Wednesday”
By Ino Lotz, our correspondent on Certain Things. Serena Williams was fined $17,000 for by and large calling the referee a cheat. That comes out of the $1.8m she got for being runner up. So less than 1% of her income. She is not banned for five matches or anything else. In the media there …
Read More “If Serena Williams had played for Arsenal she’d be banned for a year.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women return to League action today in an early kick-off at Meadow Park Borehamwood against Liverpool. Kick-off was at 12:30 and the game is live on UK television so no excuses not to watch it. It is on the BBC Sport Online or on television via the Red Button or alternatively …
Read More “The First Match of the WSL this Season – Arsenal v Liverpool a quick preview”
By Tony Attwood You may have thought that the days of EU rulings affecting UK football are coming to an end. Indeed we’ve recently been discussing exactly this: how the FA and the UK government might collude after the EU closes the door on the UK to restrict the right of non-UK citizens to play …
Read More “Brussels court lobs a bomb into football as big as Bosman. And it affects everyone.”
