By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Moaning almost never works. It rarely makes life better. But people still do it, basically because moaning, moaning and moaning again acts psychologically as a way of embedding the notion that “it is not my fault”. It …
Read More “Why Arsenal moaners are, and remain so depressed, while the rest of us are happy.”
By Andrew Crawshaw A dry afternoon at Borehamwood and fortunately temperatures significantly higher than the previous week when snow caused the match to be postponed. The Arsenal team was Anna Moorehouse Alex Scott, Leah Williamson, Louise Quinn, Katy McCabe Danielle Van de Donk, Kim Little, Jordan Nobbs Heather O’Reilly, Danielle Carter, Beth Mead Subs, Sari …
Read More “Arsenal v Charlton – SSE Women’s FA Cup Quarter-final Match Report”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Interlull news in the UK rarely captures much of the “fun of the fair” type of excitement of normal times, largely because few people in England expect the country to do very much in the WC and Scotland are not there. Nor Wales nor N Ireland. Nor the Isle of Man, …
Read More “Why international football managers are just like car thieves”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Head of psychiatry at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Of course not everyone is engaged in crisis talk. The Daily Canon has the headline “Arsene Wenger denies trying to bribe midfielder,” but well, it’s the Canon. However these days they are being rivalled by West Ham’s …
Read More “Amazing shock horror, it seems it is crisis time in football EVERYWHERE. That makes a change”
————- By Tony Attwood Bayern Munich thought they had their next coach lined up. But now it seems they don’t. Because although Jupp Heynckes will leave the club in the summer as has been clearly agreed, Thomas Tuchel (the man who was thought to be coming in to replace him) is definitely not going to …
Read More “Arsenal’s next manager puts his head over the parapet”
By Tony Attwood I am not at all sure how long the Said & Done column in the Sunday newspaper the Observer has been running – although our logs show I did a piece critical of the column back in 2009, so at least nine years. And in one sense it is quite jolly fun. …
Read More “How the fearless “Said & Done” in the Observer censors the news that just don’t fit”
By Tony Attwood The first two words of that headline, “Xhaka sublime”, came from a blog, The Hard Tackle, which is not a source that I normally associate with such praise. The piece was a review of a Swiss interlull game and read, “The creative powerhouse for Switzerland, Xhaka ran the show from midfield, opening …
Read More “Xhaka sublime. But by anyone’s standards, Arsenal have had a poor season.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Yes there is Arsenal football on Sunday – just not the men. Arsenal Women will play their postponed SSE FA Women’s Cup quarter final match against Charlton on Sunday afternoon at Meadow Park, Borehamwood with a 14:00 kickoff. The draw for the semi-finals was made last Monday and the winner of this …
Read More “Arsenal v Charlton, Sunday 25 March – Match preview”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, chief psychologist at the University hospital of the North Circular Road It is self-evident that Arsenal have got completely the wrong group of people running the club. As an example of out to tackle problems we should take a good hard look at our government in the UK …
Read More “Arsenal has got completely the wrong management team. This is who we should have at the club”
by Tony Attwood Many Arsenal fans, including myself, have always had a pride in the number of players who come up through the ranks to play for the club. By this I don’t mean that they necessarily join as a nine year old, but rather that they come along not in terms of a big …
Read More “The background revolution: young players are regaining control of their lives”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is not just that 97% of these rumours are likely to turn out to be untrue, but that there is other news of importance out there. The utterly wild and ludicrous claims by PGMO, provided without any of the evidence Walter and his team provided in the 160 game analysis, …
Read More “The fake news transfers: beware you are being conned two ways round”
By Walter Broeckx The ref never makes mistakes, fouls, errors or whatever you want to call them. How do I know? Well because the media tell me so. You can find a in my eyes rather funny article (posted yesterday) about this if you follow this link It is an article from a person called …
Read More “The ref is always correct: it is official – even when he runs less than his European counterparts”
By Robert Haynes Source: Liverpool FC via Facebook Every dog has his day and Arsene Wenger’s has been and gone. Three FA Cup final victories have boosted his stock as Arsenal manager but it is the right moment for the club to move on. Wenger failed to prepare his side for their Carabao Cup …
Read More “Would Brendan Rodgers Be a Good Replacement for Arsene Wenger?”
by Tony Attwood The trick for most fake news creators is a) To be able to write something that requires no research and so costs no money and takes very little time. b) To be able to benefit personally or corporately from the fake news. c) To ensure that the fake news is not …
Read More “The cause of empty seats for some Emirates games is the media not the fans.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Yes the transfer window is not even open. Indeed the season is a long way from being concluded. And yet already we have 44 players tipped to be coming our way this summer. It is amazing where these people get their information from – and amazing how wrong …
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By Tony Attwood I see that there is to be a match between Real Madrid Legends and Arsenal Legends. It is apparently the ninth edition of the Corazón Classic Match, which is described as a charitable game played with the proceeds aimed at helping children in need. This is organised by the Real Madrid Foundation and will …
Read More “Why there are some “charitable events” involving football that I have doubts about.”
By Walter Broeckx When does your club needs you most? Is it when they are winning the league or other things ? Or is it when they are struggling? That is a question that might have a different answer to any supporter. As is the notion of struggling. Because what is struggling? Is struggling being …
Read More “The worst season….”
By Sir Hardly Anyone First, the comment of the week, possibly the month, maybe the decade. I am grateful to the Daily Canon for this one. “People that understand football very well know that this project is a project that is very exciting because we are not a club that are going to buy trophies, …
Read More “Arsenal to transform the entire squad for next season. Plus a very funny quote from Mr Quote.”
By Tony Attwood, currently 35 miles from North Korea. (A first for Untold!) You may recall that over the years Untold has regularly reported on issues relating to the transfer of youngsters between clubs and the issues surrounding child exploitation. We also did a lot to cover the technicalities and legalities of the FFP regulations …
Read More “Fifa’s war with Manchester City is deepening but much depends on how CAS react.”
By Walter Broeckx As most of you regulars know I am since some 4 years the president of the official Arsenal supporters club Arsenal Belgium. People who know a bit of geography know that we probably will be the second closest foreign supporters club of Arsenal. Only beaten by the French one. So we are …
Read More “Stop this messing around with the fixtures”
Stories are only appearing occasionally at the moment as I am travelling. A more regular service should be established by mid-week By Tony Attwood Florian recently provided us with an example of how real debate and argument works. In case you missed it, I have reproduced the illustration at the end of this piece. …
Read More “The hierarchy of debating the Arsenal; why some arguments work and others don’t.”
By Tony Attwood “The omnipotent broadcasters who bestride English football often seem to reserve as much regard for match-going supporters as McDonald’s do for their cows.” I like that comment. The fact is that in Spain if clubs allow TV cameras to show empty seats the club is fined – so it is encouraged to …
Read More “Now that us spectators are the product, we actually do have some power.”
By Tony Attwood As a simple one liner I thought it was brilliant. I don’t know what the journalists did in response but the follow up line from Mr Wenger wasn’t really needed. He’d made his point. “Your job is to get everybody to suffer,” he said, adding, “Our job is to get as few …
Read More “Wenger to journalists: “Your job is to get everybody to suffer.””
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting line up : Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Xhaka, Ramsey, Wilshere, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Welbeck Beach: Cech, Iwobi, Chambers, Maitland-Niles, Kolasinac, Elneny, Nketiah Milan starting the best with a chance in the opening minute. A cross from the left finds an unmarked Milan player but he hits the side net. Arsenal trying …
Read More “Europa League: Arsenal – Milan 3-1”
By Bulldog Drummond. Who would have thought it? Instead of being seen as a dire warning as to where a club should not go, the anti-Arsenal attacks on the club and Mr Wenger are being seen as a model that can be transferred to other clubs. Likewise the mainstream media’s constant attacks on Arsenal are …
Read More “Milan at home. An empty stadium? But is the media finally changing its tune?”
