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 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.”
By Bulldog Drummond If there is one thing we have known for a long time about Alex Iwobi it is that he was not good enough. Consider some of these headlines: Arsenal Fans Blast Iwobi – You Are Not Good Enough OwnGoalNigeria, 16 Feb 2017 Arsenal fans have descended heavily on Alex Iwobi over his poor performance in …
Read More “Mass positivity breaks out as fans and writers go for Arsenal love in”
by Bulldog Drummond While the international interruptions (the I I) are a pain in the a. and disrupt my own personal weekend routine of presenting the match previews, they do also give on a moment for reflection and a spot of looking ahead – and it was the latter which made me realise just how …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone, celebrating the good guys and the bad in this week of no proper footie. 1: Nacho Monreal “Nacho Monreal fiercely defends under fire Arsenal teammate” according to Gooner Talk and many other blogs. It was an outspoken defence of Ozil and a rare attack by a player on the media. “Ozil and Emery …
Read More “This week’s heroes and a round up of the bonkers”
by Tony Attwood “West Ham United use their stadium largely at taxpayers’ expense”. Yawn yawn, you’ve heard it before. Typical Tony Attwood boring rant. Except this time that sentence came from the Daily Telegraph, a newspaper generally associated with free enterprise, and read by rear admirals. But not any more it seems for they …
By Tony Attwood Could the PGMO squad of referees actually be getting something wrong? It is hard to imagine there is much they could get wrong since according to their own figures they are getting 98.5% of all decisions right and VAR would add another 2% to that. (Yes it’s funny, I know, but that’ …
Read More “Playing with the rule book, the stupidity of reading body language, the Europa squad”
By Tony Attwood “More talent, less minutes: English players suffering in Premier League”. That is the headline with no less than 11 Arsenal players are currently gallivanting around Europe and beyond ready to receive wounds which will very much be of their own choosing – after all they don’t have to go. These players are …
Read More “The bleating of the England camp and non-savvy journalists is a danger to club football”
by Tony Attwood Untold first raised the issue of the impact of the UK leaving the EU in an article published on 26 June 2016. I’ve run a few more articles since, and the response of some to suggestions that there have been problems with getting work permits and assurances have not met with acceptance. However …
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To buy or not to buy That is the question every time the club launches a new range of replica shirts, for many Arsenal fans, although fans of the Gunners still remain the most loyal when it comes to decking themselves out in their second skin. Of course, the designs can sometimes influence the decision …
by Andrew Crawshaw One of the big cries last season was for Arsenal to “get rid of the deadwood”. The club certainly seem to have addressed the number of players within the club and one way or another have moved on no fewer than 25 players. Some were well known and high ranking, others barely …
Read More “The 25 players who have left Arsenal this summer”
By Tony Attwood We’re at the international break with the newly fangled “Extragames Country Cup” which from my limited experience not too many people quite get, and since I’m persistently anti-international matches I’m not going to explain. But before the season began we made a prediction about who would win six different leagues in Europe …
Read More “The top of the league predictions across Europe: how are we doing”
By Tony Attwood After each transfer window I like to try and wrap things up with the publication of Arsenal’s list of 25 players registered with the Premier League and then separate them into home grown and foreign grown. But this year there is something fishy. For example Jeorge Bird, who is normally 100% reliable …
Read More “There’s something fishy in Arsenal’s official list of 25 players”
