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By Jacko Jones Germany, Switzerland and France. Three European teams with lofty ambitions ahead of the World Cup in Russia this summer. While Switzerland have considerable opposition with the likes of Brazil and Serbia in Group E, France and Germany will be looking further ahead in the tournament. Both countries have groups they are expected …
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By Tony Attwood Let’s start with headline of the day: Arsenal vs. AC Milan: Be Weary of These Rossoneri AC Milan Offside Now you do need to know the difference between “weary” and “wary” to get this one, but once you do, it is rather amusing. However let’s move on… Fake News is odd. I mean …
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by Tony Attwood Had Per Mertesacker been English I doubt very much whether he would have done the interview that he recently gave concerning the pressure he felt during career. Indeed he said he was glad that his playing days were coming to an end. Exactly the sort of thing that people who have never …
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By Andrew Crawshaw The second cup final this year between these two clubs, this time featuring the Women. The Continental Tyres cup is the Women’s equivalent of the Men’s Carabao Cup and is a competition open to the 18 teams in the two divisions of the WSL. Arsenal has traditionally done well in this competition …
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By Tony Attwood Following events from overseas as I shall be for one more week, it is interesting to look out for signs of perspective in the media. The Guardian did it with “The Manchester City manager’s support for jailed Catalan leaders does not extend to political prisoners in Abu Dhabi, home of City’s owners.” And …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Of course on the day when we have the headline that “Greek football match stopped after team owner invades pitch with a gun” things seem to get a bit fuzzy. OK I don’t go to matches in Greece, but even so. This is getting a bit unnerving. First West Ham after …
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By Tony Attwood I wanted to pick up on the story that Mauricio Pochettino claiming that Juventus are “specialists in football’s dark arts” and that they manipulated the refereeing in their Champions League game with Tottenham, when it happened, but being on the other side of the world, having an 11 hour time difference and wanting to …
By Bulldog Drummond Our piece about West Ham fans and the way they were seen by the media as being split, while Arsenal fans are treated as a unity of anti-Wengerianism, seems to have been apposite as the news broke of violence and protest at the so-called London Stadium. So the story rattles around the …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford, trouble at the London, and the home and away comparisons”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Officials are :- Referee – Martin Atkinson Age 46 from West Yorkshire Assistant Referee 1 – Lee Betts from Norfolk and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Constantine Hatzidakis from Kent and FIFA accredited Fourth Official – Chris Kavanagh Age 42 from Manchester A long standing bette noir of Arsenal for …
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by Tony Attwood It is interesting to note from afar that West Ham have been having a little local difficulty with different fan groups attacking and fighting each other. True they have had a fairly grotty run of late… Date Game Res Score Competition 27 Jan Wigan Athletic v West Ham United L 2-0 FA …
Read More “How curious that the media reflect a split in the fan base at WHU but not at Arsenal”
by Sir Hardly Anyone The attacks on Arsene Wenger continue of course. The guy says that he has had a hard time personally over the recent defeats, and the response of The Transfer Tavern web site is to publish a handful of tweets abusing him. That’s probably par for the course these days. As Tony …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Our man who counts the numbers… Here is the update on players coming and going… and we know it is all true because every single one of these stories has been verified by a football journalist. Those who are leaving No Player Going To Source What’s the story Update Bellering Barcelona …
By Tony Attwood, still in Australia. Of course they would have to wait until I was in Australia to get back to form, but I’d settle for a fine win against a Milan team that has improved greatly of late, even if I was on the outer moon of Pluto – which incidentally I am …
Read More “It’s all too easy to be a fan after a win. It’s being a fan ALWAYS that really counts”
by Bulldog Drummond Milan has multiple attractions: the San Siro stadium, La Scala, and Cimitero Monumentale di Milano – the cemetery. If I had to nominate which one stays in my memory it would be the latter. If you have ever been there you will know why. If you haven’t, you just can’t imagine what it …
Read More “An away day in Milan: time to pop into the cemetery.”
By LE GALL Opinion is a flitting thing, But Truth, outlasts the Sun – If then we cannot own them both – Possess the oldest one – On the one hand, you have the never-ending gossip of the dirtymoney-grabbing “pundits”, including some renegades whose statue would well deserve the Lenin treatment. Dear old Woody said …
Read More “Before the (Milan) flood: in defence of Arsène Wenger”
World Cup 2018 – a focus on the three favourites After suffering through the regularly frustrating four year wait, another World Cup is almost upon us, and it’s time to consider who looks like the most likely candidate to be crowned tournament winners. The World Cup is such a gigantic competition, where even those who …
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By Tony Attwood Recently I read the story that a junior referee was “badly let down” by FA officials after he reported being verbally abused by adult coaches. In this report (one of many of the type) a campaigner for better refereeing reported that Max Ormesher, a 15 year old brave enough to take on refereeing, …
Read More “Why is refereeing in England so different from rest of Europe?”
By Bulldog Drummond Milan have had a resurgence of late and after an unbeaten run lie seventh, just outside next season’s Europa positions… # Team Pl W D L F A GD Pts 1 Napoli 27 22 3 2 62 19 43 69 2 Juventus 26 22 2 2 63 15 48 68 3 Roma …
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By Tony Attwood It has taken one hell of a time to reach a decision, but it looks like a decision is almost there. And it is a decision of importance, because it will tell us whether The City Group – the conglomeration of clubs across the world that includes Manchester City, New York City, …
Read More “Who exactly controls law and order in world football? We might be about to find out.”
By Andrew Crawshaw I thought it was time I had a look at refereeing in the other major leagues in Europe to try and determine categorically what the differences are between the way the PGMO operate compared with elsewhere. Germany – Bundesliga Number of teams 18 Number of referees – 23. 22 men and one …
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By Tony Attwood Just how low do you need to go, how many tall tales do you need to tell, how many downright lies do you need to publish, in order to knock Arsenal? These are not the questions most people interested in the club are asking, but even so they are indeed questions that …
Read More “How to invent history: blog uses disgraceful tactics to undermine Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’m certainly not going to turn Untold into a political forum, but if you can spare me one minute I’d like to show you what to me is an interesting parallel. So if you don’t have a minute to spare, and can’t bare to read anything other than football for the …
By Jerry Jones The Gunners have spent £105m this season on two centre-forwards of real world-class quality. Alexandre Lacazette finally secured his move abroad after leaving Lyon in the summer, before being joined by Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January. The only issue now is how to get the best from both players at the same …
Read More “Can Wenger fit two world-class strikers into one effective first eleven?”
By Tony Attwood My headline above is not meant to suggest that I think there is a conspiracy of some kind – I certainly don’t think that people are plotting in dark corners how to attack Arsenal, how to undermine the club, how to do damage to its manager or anything like that. …
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No Ramsey in the team and Bellerin not at right back, that were the most noticable changes before kickoff. Wilshere came in the team for Ramsey and Chambers playing at right back. Arsenal XI: Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Wilshere, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi, Aubameyang Bench: Ospina, Bellerin, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Welbeck, Nketiah Iwobi with …
