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 This game at Wembley is one that is going to require nerves to be held. A look at Arsenal’s away record in the league shows why for Arsenal’s away form is at the heart of this season’s slip back into sixth place. Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts …
Read More “Tottenham H v Arsenal. Tottenham have looked stronger, but is there an edge for Arsenal?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Our Rutland resident with a rundown on reality Since our last flip around the players coming to Arsenal this summer (according to the media who know a thing or two, or well, a thing anyway) the list of new arrivals has slowed down this week, although we still have four new …
Read More “Six Arsenal departures this summer, 19 arrivals plus a new manager spotted.”
Text and graphic from Oulala Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has found the back of the net four times in four appearances against Tottenham, averaging a goal every 88 minutes. An impressive record in itself, however when measured against a number of Arsenal’s best scorers in the Premier League era, stats from daily fantasy football game Oulala.com show Aubameyang is …
by Tony Attwood Before Arsene Wenger arrived in England, but when he had been announced as Arsenal’s new manager, Tony Adams made the comment that many were thinking and others had said before him. Speaking of Wenger he said, “He’s French. What does he know about English football?” Well Adams learned quite quickly. And it …
Read More “Arsène Wenger on the English tendency towards nationalist bias”
By Tony Attwood Does it matter where your club owner lives? You may recall (if you are an avid reader of my meanderings) that I have dealt with the residency of Arsenal’s minority owner Alisher Usmanov and his move to Switzerland as part of his work with the International Fencing Federation. Mr Usmanov’s company USM Holdings …
Read More “The strange case of the residency of Roman Abramovich”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes I know, the market doesn’t open for months and months but the journalistas and their bloggetta chums down the pub are busy making up stories as if anyone still believed them. Plus we have tales of the next Arsenal manager, the departures (including one forced because of money …
Read More “The 13 players Arsenal are about to sign; the new manager; 3 players leaving”
By Tony Attwood There is a headline in the Telegraph which reads, “Exclusive: Premier League under pressure for independent inquiry into referee Jon Moss’s handling of penalty award.” Leaving aside the inaccurate use of the Saxon genitive to turn “Moss’ handling” into the completely ungrammatical “Moss’s handling” the issue which relates to the match between …
by Tony Attwood Arsenal could have done so much better this season, but thankfully there is still some of the season left so they might well have time to sort this out and make things right. Here are just five of the failures of Arsenal thus far… They have 1: Continued to hold press conferences …
Read More “Five things that have gone wrong for Arsenal this season”
By Tony Attwood Paul Heckingbottom signed a new rolling contract with Barnsley last Friday. Leeds United sacked their manager Thomas Christiansen last Sunday. Paul Heckingbottom’s new contract had a release clause in it. Leeds offered him a job, he accepted it and so on Tuesday Heckingbottom has gone to Leeds, four days after signing a new …
Read More “The managerial musical chairs. Where does it get anyone?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone For the last two years we’ve done a review through the summer of the wild and wacky transfer gibberish that passes for news in many of our national newspapers and on the bloggettas. Each of the last two summers have had just over 100 players rumoured to join Arsenal, and of …
Read More “Transfer window moved, 10 big rumours, Nketiah & Willock go beserk and bonkers awards”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Apparently there was an anti-Wenger protest at the Arsenal on Saturday evening… but very people turned up because of the rain. At least that is what one of the bloggettas says, with pictures of a few guys hanging around Arsenal tube station. Which is a bit odd because I used the …
by Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood (all mistakes are Tony’s fault – two earlier problems have now been fixed). We now have a list of all the players aged over 21 (by the League’s definition of qualifying dates). As you’ll know of course, only 25 such players can be listed – but all registered players …
Read More “The new squad: who has left, who is in the 25, and what happened to the youngsters.”
By Tony Attwood Here’s a little stat that amused me yesterday evening. As the media had told us a thousand times over this, was the 500th Premier League match as a manager of a famous large man with a dubious character. He’d been involved in 2006 in allegations of corruption against him and his son. …
Read More “Arsenal/Everton: bonkers officials and a prediction we got right”
By Bulldog Drummond It is difficult to get a firm fix on how bad the illness affecting Aubameyang and Wilshere is, or was, which makes the thoughts of predicting the team for the match this evening even more difficult. Everyone being fit I would go with Cech Bellerin Koscielny Mustafi Monreal Ramsey Wilshere Ozil Aubameyang …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Three possible line ups, the illnesses, and the future”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our officials are :- Referee – Neil Swarbrick age 52 from Lancashire Assistant Referee 1 – Constantine Hatzidakis from Kent and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Daniel Cook from Hampshire Fourth Official – Craig Pawson age 38 from South Yorkshire and FIFA accredited The first thing to say is that with …
By Bulldog Drummond According to Physioroom, Aubameyang is ill, and will have a late fitness test. Jack Wilshere is also ill and likewise will have a late fitness test, and Danny Welbeck is out with a muscular injury. Everton are reported to have four injuries: McCarthy – broken leg Baines – muscle strain Stekelenburg – …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: one of the most astonishing runs of all time”
by Bulldog Drummond Of course it was too good to last, all this anti-everyone else and laying off the Arsenal, and within a few hours of our piece about a change in the way the newspapers see Arsenal we were back to the snarling norm with “Mesut Özil, Yaya Sanogo and Arsène Wenger’s ticking doomsday …
Read More “Arsenal & the new guys v Everton and Theo. What’s gonna happen?”
By Josif Ahead of our first chance to see Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Emiliano Francois Aubameyang for the first time at a home game, we take a look at our two new players, and bid them welcome. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is only 29 but it is safe to say he is the greatest Armenian player of all times. …
Read More “Welcome Henrikh, Welcome Pierre-Emerick. The complete review of our new players.”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw Something odd is going on. The mainstream upmarket media appear, for the moment at least, to have gone soft on Arsenal and are picking on everyone else. The bloggettas however, oft written by robots as they are, are staying with their long term objective of knocking. Such is their …
Read More “Why has the upmarket mainstream media changed its tune over Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood In the early days of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play there was a bit of a battle on this site between those of us in favour of FFP’s aims and some Manchester City supporters who argued that FFP was illegal and would be thrown out by the courts. It wasn’t and nothing happened, …
Read More “FFP set for a return, Big Sam stumped, Miki/Aub friends, under 23s squad, Zelalem back.”
By Tony Attwood It’s not often that I find Amy Lawrence in the Guardian writing an article that I can agree with wholeheartedly, but it has happened today. Annoyingly hers is not only written in a much better way than I could ever do, but she got there first. The issue is one about movement, …
by Tony Attwood So by and large, and give and take a few that I have probably missed and the odd one or two I have got wrong, this is by and large what happened… First, the buying and selling for the current top six clubs in the league… Club Player in Cost Player out …
Read More “Which of the top 6 club spent the most, and what did Europe get up to this month?”
This article by Jambreck initially appeared in the comments column of Untold Arsenal following a discussion of why Arsenal seem to get more negative publicity than Tottenham. I was reminded of it by the discussion on Radio 5 on Monday night which included clips of multiple Liverpool supporters calling for their manager to be …
Read More “Why Arsenal seem to get more negative publicity than other teams”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has joined Arsenal for £56m. You might recall that this is transfer deadline day, but I thought I would mention it again, just in case you nodded off. There is still the expectation that Olivier Giroud will go to Chelsea and Michy Batshuayi from thence to Borussia Dortmund. The transfer …
Read More “Aubameyang joins Arsenal, Ozil signs new contract”
By Tony Attwood It is often said, both in football and in other areas of life, that the time senior management really earn their money is when things go wrong. Planning for the future when things are going right is less difficult because at such moments top management has time to consider, discuss, and evolve …
Read More “When the group performance declines, what is to be done next?”
