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 Arsenal have played Brighton just 16 times across the centuries, so for once I can give the complete run down. Date Match Result Score Competition 12 Jan 1935 Brighton and Hove v Arsenal W 0-2 FA Cup 18 Aug 1979 Brighton and Hove v Arsenal W 0-4 Division One 30 Oct 1979 …
Read More “Brighton v Arsenal: the games gone by and the team today”
by Andrew Crawshaw Well, I’m afraid I didn’t get the award of a penalty call correct for the City game (I said we wouldn’t get one)- I’ve given the crystal ball an extra polish for this preview. Arsenal are on 14 different referees this season and we are in Matchweek 29 so only nine games …
Read More “Brighton and Hove Albion v Arsenal Sunday 4 March – The Match Officials”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The media always knows when it is on to a winner, and that is certainly the mood at the moment with the feeling that with enough pressure Arsenal can be laid to waste in such a bad state that it will take a decade for the club to recover. This is …
Read More “Who believes he could outsmart the media and become the next Arsenal manager?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone We’ve had one clear piece of proof of the imaginary nature of transfers for quite some time, after discovering that if all the transfer rumours of the summer are added together then it turns out that only three in every 100 rumours actually manifests itself in a transfer. A figure that …
Read More “Why in terms of Arsenal, the transfer rumour has become a thing of the past.”
By Tony Attwood When the media en mass ignores a particular point of view (such as the one that asks why our refereeing system is so secretive, and is organised in a way that is different from most of the rest of Europe) I am on safe ground. I know where I stand. For …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. These are indeed tough days for the media as they desperately try to find more and more problems that are inherent in Arsenal. Take for example 1: The huge problem that scuppers everything or doesn’t depending on forgetting what you said last time around. The Star tells us that Arsenal want THREE …
Read More “Arsenal in confusion. No money and the canon has come loose.”
by Andrew Crawshaw As I am writing this at lunchtime the London Weather forecast for the Emirates is for light snow to continue until about 18:00. After that it should be overcast but dry. Temperatures between -1C and Zero and easterly winds of about 17mph. So if you are going wrap up well. Also check …
Read More “Arsenal v Money City 1 March 2018 – The Match Officials”
Into by Tony Attwood I left England as the Beast from the East was a few scattered snow showers, the motorways were clear and there was no disruption to air traffic. I’ve read there might be a threat of disruption to this game – you’ll know better than I since I’m about as far from …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City: the comparison of results and the teams”
By Tony Attwood And now, something of a first. This little piece comes from Seoul, Korea, as I await a flight south. I know it’s a first because although I generally write as I travel I ain’t been to Korea before so it must be a first. (Just checked, yes it’s Wednesday, so it is …
Read More “A howling comes across the sky. Reworking the past and laughing at Arsenal fans.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Interesting note from Tony, who is at Heathrow airport awaiting his plane. Apparently the Virgin Media internet connection has barred Untold from public viewing throughout Heathrow Airport as not being suitable for those passing through the airport. Anyway, he’s smuggled a note to me, asking me to take over for a …
Read More “Why Thierry Henry won’t get the Arsenal manager’s job”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Three sections are now up and running in our list of summer transfers as highlighted by the ever accurate national media and their hangers on. First off we have the incoming manager section which is today dominated by a Daily Mail list of four, now reproduced on several other sites… Brendan …
Read More “The complete amazing Arsenal transfer news including the new manager & 32 players”
By Tony Attwood So now we know two things. First, most removals of managers by league clubs in all four divisions result in failure to improve and instead result in another manager and another. That we’ve known for a long old time and this season just proves it. Indeed even where vast amounts of money …
Read More “At least when Mr Wenger goes we won’t have a complete change of backroom staff.”
by Tony Attwood It’s fairly clear that the concept of asking the question of “why and how is it helpful to the club for fans to join with the media and the anti-Arsenal gangs in criticising the manager or the players?” is one that does not take the debate any further forward, most of the …
Read More “Turning the remorseless criticism of Arsenal to the club’s advantage”
By Bulldog Drummond So let’s have the big big news from the Daily Star to begin with… David Ospina reveals big Arsenal dressing room change following Olivier Giroud’s departure This piece tells us that Oooooospina is now “the designated dressing room disc jockey.” Also, we are told he is the “tune selector”. But perhaps not as …
By Bulldog Drummond I was just doing my usual meander around the history of the Arsenal v Manchester City fixture and was looking up the runs of matches on the usually very accurate 11v11 web site when I noticed something rather strange. They quite rightly have the first game between the two clubs listed as …
Read More “Arsenal play Man City again but this time we will have a goal keeper”
By Tony Attwood We published yesterday two little pieces that in essence asked why criticising the manager and players was a good thing to do. Many answers came back to the effect that the performance of players and manager against Osterstunds was awful. If you see that there is a non sequitur there, then you …
Read More “With Arsenal logic and communication become more and more remembrances of times past.”
By Tony Attwood There is an interesting article today in Süddeutsche Zeitung – the Munich newspaper, and one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany which has the headline “How praise helps people out of the crisis.”It is a piece that rather interestingly links to this morning’s article on Untold Another fine victory for the anti-Arsenal Arsenal. But …
Read More “To praise or condemn: why the Germans do so well at football compared to the English”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw. On the A52 road in Derbyshire there is a sign that says “Street lights not working”. Most people just drive past it, seemingly without giving the sign much thought. However those people who have the more inquisitive brains tend at this point to ask the question, “why?” In fact …
Read More “Another fine victory for the anti-Arsenal Arsenal. But sadly it seems, they never learn.”
By Tony Attwood There is an article on the Guardian website today that begins “It has been eight months since the inferno tore through Grenfell Tower, killing 71 people and forcing hundreds from their homes. Of that number, 152 households are still to be rehoused, despite a promise from the prime minister that the process …
by Bulldog Drummond There’s general agreement about the make up of the team tonight; we know Ospina is definitely in goal, and Welbeck plays in attack along with Mkhitaryan. Beyond that there is a fair amount of agreement from those taking guesses with a back four of Chambers, Mertesacker, Holding, Kolasinac regularly mentioned, and Iwobi, joining Mkhitaryan …
Read More “We know about the next four days but what happens after Sunday?”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw. Head of psychology at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road. As you will know, if you have followed our coverage of PGMO, the high secretive organisation that makes the Masons look at a come-all-ye at the local pub, the refereeing control body does not talk to outsiders. …
By Tony Attwood The trick these days is simple: find five people who use Twitter and who send out negative tweets and then claim they represent Arsenal fans and quote their tweets to set up whatever negative story you have in mind. So it is with Ramsey. The bloggers say he probably won’t be ready …
Read More “The team for Thursday – details from the pres conference.”
by Tony Attwood Rumours and fantasies about Arsenal and its players have undoubtedly reached a new low with the emergence of the story of Bellerin and the fake phone message. I say it is fake with some force because the story is emerging in blogs that endlessly tell us that a deal is being …
Read More “Rumour mongering hits rock bottom and could now affect Arsenal players.”
By Bulldog Drummond In a sense I rather relish the notion of all attention being turned away from Arsenal, with the focus being on the goings on at Wigan, Sergio Agüero considering pressing charges (although I am not quite sure against whom that might be) and West Ham being charged over breaches of anti-doping rules. It’s …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Up until now, the nonsense transfer news churned out by the national press and their camp followers has been a bit of a laugh. A case of us recording all the gibberish, putting it in a chart and then showing the results. Results such as that we found last season when …
Read More “Now fake transfer news takes a new thoroughly nasty twist”
