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By Sir Hardly Anyone It had to happen in the end. Another website has picked up on the idea of recording a list of players who are said to be on their to Arsenal. So naturally I have taken a look with interest. And at first site it is interesting because this commentary incorporates the …
Read More “Confusion reigns as a new list of all Arsenal transfers for this summer appears”
by Tony Attwood This game was, (presumably for some sort of copyright region), only available in the UK. So not even visible in the Channels Isles it seems, and I’m really sorry that not everyone was able to see the game, as it was great fun. The skill that these older players retain really is …
Read More “Real Madrid 2 Arsenal 1 full time: great Sunday evening fun, but only in the UK”
by Tony Attwood I must admit that I have not seen a legends game before, and so am in the process of watching this one simply because it is free to view on Arsenal.com And 100% applause to Arsenal.com for doing this; it really is fun. Obviously it is not a total commitment, heavy tackling …
By Tony Attwood I wrote a little piece yesterday taking a snapshot of how Tottenham Hotspur are treated by the media in relation to Arsenal, and it raised a little amount of interest so I thought I would have another go today with Manchester United. This piece of course as with the Tottenham jottings is …
Read More “How do Man U get treated by the media compared to Arsenal?”
by Tony Attwood There’s an article on “Just Arsenal” which rails against the criticism that players like Bellerin, Xhaka and Ozil get from a small selection of Arsenal fans. To that one could add Mustafi and Cech who have also come in for continual abuse in the past year. Indeed just as I write this, …
Read More “How do the media treat Arsenal and Tottenham? A simple one day comparison.”
By Tony Attwood Some businesses I’ve come across are indeed in the aforementioned state of turmoil, while others just seem to stumble around a lot and some sail on serenely never troubled by the choppy waters on which they sail. So I wondered, in football is it just Arsenal that is in a state of …
Read More “Why does football always have to be in a state of constant turmoil?”
The eight biggest transfer stories of the moment By Sir Hardly Anyone Since the issue has been raised about Arsenal being slow off the mark, in a moment I shall take us through all the players thus far signed by a Premier League club and you will be shocked, I can promise you that. But …
by Tony Attwood Because I don’t have any real interest in international football except in watching out for dreadful injuries to Arsenal players and wishing such young men had more sense than to put their futures in the hands of car thieves (if you remember the old description) who wreck your vehicle, then hand it …
Read More “It’s all gone quite quiet over there. A few little local footballing difficulties”
By Tony Attwood And so the world moves on. ZZ is leaving Real Madrid at a moment when they are perhaps going to struggle to get exactly the right person to take the club forward. And Chelsea have (at least for a while) abandoned the project of rebuilding Stamford Bridge. It was only a few …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now the distraction of getting a new manager is over the fantasists (or “football correspondents as they like to be called) are back in operation throughout the public houses of central London and docklands. Below is a list of players were are apparently signing so far, including some interesting recent additions …
Read More “The 75 players (yes really, 75) we are buying with at least 3 NOW (or so I’m told)”
by Andrew Crawshaw For next season the top flight of Women’s football will comprise of 11 fully professional teams. It will be called the Women’s Super League. The teams and their grounds will be:- Arsenal – Borehamwood FC Meadow Park ground Birmingham City Ladies – Solihull Moors FC Solihull Brighton and Hove Albion – …
By Tony Attwood In the first of Andrew’s two articles today the point was made that the title winning teams in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, between them had 39 of the 100 top ranked players in the world. As you might recall nowhere was this more extreme than in Germany where Bayern Munich …
Read More “Does having the best players in your team always bring success?”
By Andrew Crawshaw In the last article we looked at the link between winning the league and having the top defenders in the side. The overall figures gave us the number of top players for the top teams in the league. England France Germany Italy Spain Man City – 8 PSG – 7 Bayern – …
Read More “Attacking players: have the top clubs already mopped up the talent?”
by Andrew Crawshaw The league winners in the top 5 European Leagues this last season were Premier League – Manchester City France – Paris St Germain Germany – Bayern Munich Italy – Juventus Spain – Barcelona The question we look at here is this: is there a correlation with the number of players they each …
Read More “The (not always) obvious link between winning the league and having top players”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes the race is on for one player to be the first man to be signed by the new Arsenal management team. Gone are the days in which the media bemoaned how Arsenal were not going to sign anyone, and how Arsenal was too slow and Wenger too mean to pay …
Read More “Arsenal about to make the first Emery signing, and it is certain to be one of these…”
I am aware that some correspondents are finding their comments put into moderation, even though they have been commenting unhindered on Untold for a long time. I think it might be something to do with the new arrangements put in place as a result of the advent of GDPR in Europe, and I am trying …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. So now we know. Or at least we think we know. Or at least some people are saying, the first transfer of the New Era will be Sokratis Papastathopoulos and he will cost £16m from Borussia Dortmund. He’s 29. Quite why Sven Mislintat, the head of recruitment, likes old men we’re …
Read More “Why are Arsenal suddenly getting interested in the older generation of players?”
By Rich Ade-Alao If I may answer the question in the headline, they are not acceptable. A malicious tackle is crude, classless, and an untrue reflection of the game the fans or neutral fans would wish to watch. If real football with true talents and full passion is going to be salvaged from the imminent …
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by Andrew Crawshaw I have come across a couple of interesting pieces of analysis recently from the Swiss CIES Observatory. This is an organisation which publishes weekly articles covering one or another aspect of the European (predominantly) football scene. Their report 227 has their take on the top 100 players in the top 5 European …
By Tony Attwood I was fascinated by a newspaper comment today that read “Klopp who has over-achieved. But he has also now lost six successive finals,” as it took me back to an issue we recently debated. Wenger in his 22 years at Arsenal lost three League Cup, one FA Cup and Champions League final. …
Read More “That question of negative runs: Klopp, Tottenham and who has won what”
GUEST ARTICLE Accident Claims for Untold Arsenal Can Arsenal Regain Their Momentum Under Emery? Arsenal have just had one of their worst seasons for many years ending up in sixth place. Although they made it to the final of the League Cup they missed out on all the domestic trophies apart from the Community Shield …
Figures by Andrew Crawshaw. Interpretation and vague meanderings by Tony Attwood Below is the list of the 28 players currently logged as being in Arsenal’s first team who will count as over 21 for next season. Because it always brings a bit of debate each summer, the detail of the “over 21” malarkey is that …
Read More “Arsenal’s squad for next season, including home grown and under 21 status.”
GUEST ARTICLE Legal Expert for Untold Arsenal Can Unai Emery Reinvigorate Arsenal? There is no denying that Arsenal have had a pretty dismal season with the Community Shield the only silverware they have managed to claim. It’s been a long time since the glory days under Arsene Wenger. Although European triumph has eluded him, under …
By Sir Hardly Anyone My little job on Untold, as you may have noticed over the past few years, is to write about what the media say about Arsenal. Some people then write to the site saying we have far too much coverage of the media here, and others suggest I am an idiot, but …
Read More “How far do repeated negative appraisals of a team by the media affect players and fans?”
A review of the women’s league season, by Andrew Crawshaw This is part four of our major review of Arsenal Women’s season; the final part of the series. Previously we have published Part one: the review of the league season Part two: Two cup finals in one season Part three: Arsenal women in the FA Cup …
Read More “Arsenal women: the players and what can we expect next season?”
