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 Of course you don’t actually need to know anything about Brentford ahead of the Arsenal v Brentford game but since no one is writing much about the match I thought I’d jump in a bit early and add a few comments before the “all you need to know” articles start being plastered …
By Tony Attwood Now here is a surprising statement. “Two-thirds of Arsenal fans are urging the club to take the unprecedented step of rescinding the season tickets of those who regularly fail to attend home matches.” Surprising because it seems a fairly draconian measure. And surprising to me because none of the people I asked …
Read More “The problem of empty spaces and wild claims made by a fans group”
By Tony Attwood The media in general has an approach to refereeing which runs like this. On occasion they will spot an offside decision that is not given, and make a fuss about it. That’s it in one line. They don’t ask why. They don’t ask if it happens against one team more than another. …
By Bulldog Drummond After our array of bits and pieces about the game, we’re now on the road to the game, and here are out last bits and pieces. One interesting snip is the number of tackles by each club before this weekend’s games. Pos Club Shots so far 1. Watford 105 2. Huddersfield Town …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: the shots so far and the team and the beach”
By Bulldog Drummond Today of course we have the return of Theo who has been talking about his move from us to them… “I’m not going to lie, I fell out of love with football for a little bit. Because I had some good performances, but then just didn’t get the chance to play on. Scoring …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Theo’s goals at the Ems, the injuries and the latest boty-bots”
by Bulldog Drummond We have played 210 games against Everton over the centuries, starting with them on 5 April 1905 which we lost. Two weeks later we got our revenge and beat them in Plumstead. Since then we’ve come out on top winning 105 to their 60, and of late we’ve been doing rather well …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton – the games between us, the form, and some remarkable scoring form”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal played their second WSL League match of the season on Wednesday Evening against Yeovil Town at Dorchester Town FC in front of a decent crowd of 1101. Our trip to Yeovil last season was frustrating with the Yeovil keeper in outstanding form to deny our strikers again and again… and again. …
Read More “A review of Yeovil v Arsenal Women and preview of Arsenal v West Ham on Sunday”
by Andrew Crawshaw The following information is from premierleague.com the official Premier League website. Paul Tierney and Chris Kavanagh are the first referees this season to whistle for a team twice. Not the obvious choices for this honour I think you will agree. Both have been in charge of just four games in six weeks. …
Read More “Matchweek 6 – All the games, All the officials. We have our first Repeat Referees.”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. If everything wasn’t going swimmingly for Everton this season, they were at least keeping their head above water… until the last game… Date Match Res Score Competition 11 Aug 2018 Wolverhampton W v Everton D 2-2 Premier League …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: what have the opposition been-a-doing of late?”
By Tony Attwood It is something of the newspapers’ own making: we get so many stories from the media that are just plain wrong, it is hard to know what to believe. But when we read in a specialist magazine about things going wrong in a club, I tend to take a bit more notice, …
Read More “The interesting story of the construction work at New White Hart Lane”
By Tony Attwood Yes it was fun; fun to see just how we know how to deal with a team with far fewer resources than we are privileged to have, but none the less beat a team that needs to be beaten. Fun because, although there are many some season ticket holders choose not to …
Read More “Vorskla, the road trip: mostly fun except for the road, plus it’s tough breaking the law”
By Tony Attwood My little dig against the Evening Standard for its headline “Arsenal did not build the Emirates to play Vorskla on a Thursday night” may not have been the cause, but that headline has been changed between then and now, for now it reads… “Arsenal v Vorskla shows it takes more than bricks, …
by Bulldog Drummond There is something very odd happening in Europe. Manchester City 1 Lyon 2, for a start. Plus a headline in one of the usually Tot supporting papers that says that Tottenham need forward momentum to make the system work. And there I was thinking that they had God’s great gift to footballing …
Read More “Arsenal v Vorskla. All you want to know and some stuff you probably don’t.”
by Bulldog Drummond We have some more information on who might be playing on Thursday. Dominic Thompson now seems to be our prime choice either for left back or back up left back. And the reason for this is that in addition to the injuries to Sead Kolasinac and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, that we highlighted in the …
Read More “Arsenal team news, we’re back in 2006, and a translator is needed, but not for Vorskla”
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”
