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 Tony Attwood Sometimes I see a story and think, “no, another bit of made up blarney”, but this one has me intrigued. TMW claim that Ajax Director of Football Mark Overmars has reached an agreement with Arsenal to leave his club with the Eredivisie side at the end of the season and join Arsenal as …
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by Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw. Shkodran Mustafi is going to be out of football for “some time” after he was quite unnecessarily played by Germany in a ludicrous 5-1 World Cup victory against the mighty Azerbaijan yesterday. And this straight after I ran a piece about the insanity of world cup football and the …
Read More “And now it is our turn: Mustafi out for “some time” as we are stuck in Flatland.”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGuire, Untold’s occasional expert medic. In a recent interview, former Manchester United captain Roy Keane suggested that if a player is “worried about the physical side of any sport, then play chess”. Backing him up the England U-17 coach Steve Cooper said his lads are not softies and can bring …
Read More “We’re surviving so far but will Arsenal yet succumb to the international injury crisis?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As you may know Arsenal Holdings PLC is the Parent Company of Arsenal football Club. The Company is owned by a number of shareholders, Stan Kronke and Alisher Usamov having the largest shareholdings (between them they own about 97% of all of the club shares). Angry of Islington yesterday carried an article …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger is among four managers nominated for September’s Premier League Manager of the Month award. After a problematic August Arsenal’s September results were Date Game Result Score Competition 09 Sep Arsenal v Bournemouth W 3-0 Premier League 14 Sep Arsenal v 1.FC Köln W 3-1 Europa League 17 Sep Chelsea v Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood That question above is an important one in my view, and it is one that has been hanging around for a long time. The general feeling in the media these days is, “nothing much”. The feeling among some fans is “protest about Wenger”. My view is a little different, and it starts …
Read More “What can Arsenal fans do to change the club and challenge for more trophies?”
By Tony Attwood It is not normally my style to emphasise the fact that things are getting worse, but then also it is not my style to ignore statistics that take all issues into account. And if we compare Arsenal after seven league games this season with the same moment last season the comparison does …
Read More “Last season, this season, later this season… is Arsenal on the way up?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Football, it seems, has fractured. Or if you preferred, it has splintered. Splintered into a million little splintery things that are…. Well splintery. But here are some of the many diverse stories slurping around on the floor of the football hothouse, each screaming for attention until trodden underfoot by the pressure …
Read More “Barcelona in PL, Large Sam sues FA, Usmanov speaks, Fabregas throws pizza”
By Tony Attwood The Independent has carried the story that Lacazette has said he has been taken aback by the nature of refereeing in the Premier League, the player quoted as saying “The refereeing decisions still surprise me. Sometimes I think it is a bit dangerous. “But then I see that nobody is shocked, so I …
Read More “Player speaks about weird refereeing, mass boycott planned, Arsenal to move into debt?”
By Tony Attwood I know I know. I have bored you stupid with talk about evidence. The huge amount of evidence we have gathered year after year to show that the level of errors made by PL referees is so ludicrously high that at times the PGMO might as well employ a computer to give …
Read More “How the media use fake evidence to attack clubs over crowd figures”
by Tony Attwood October 2015. Expected to do their usual demolition job on a lower league team Arsenal lost to Sheffield Wednesday in the league cup 3-0. True the Ox and Theo were injured early on, but even so it was a shock. As were Mr Wenger’s statements afterwards, in which he said none of …
Read More “From humiliation at Sheff Wed to the Magnificent 7 youngsters in the space of 2 years.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following my look at the Squad values of all of the clubs in the Europa League, the question arises: do the results of the first two games show any deviations from where one might expect them to be based on squad values (expressed in millions of pounds). To clarify, where the league …
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By Stevie Bee A game of one half if ever there was one. Izqueiŕdo how it actually wasn’t settled until midway through the second half, the Knockaert blow ultimately being landed Bruno-style by AFC’s Iwobi. In the first half, it was all Arsenal apart from one moment when B&HA stole a March on the sleepy …
Read More “A radically different approach to reviewing the Arsenal v Brighton game”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Bellerin, Kolisanac, Ramsey, Xhaka, Iwobi, Alexis and Lacazette. On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Wilshere, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Giroud, Walcott. So no Özil as was said but Iwobi was fit again. At the back Koscielny didn’t pass his late fitness test and Holding took his …
By Bulldog Drummond A sunday noon kick off means there won’t be time for me to do the usual chit chat in the morning, what with having to get up and get to the meeting point for us all to drive from Northants to London (allowing time for the chaos that now seems to be …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton, the teams who’s injured and who deserves a rest”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our last two games, WBA in the League and BATE in the Europa League show that we are still on the wrong end of more decisions than we get in our favour. Last weekend Mr Madley had four penalty decisions to make and only managed to get one of them right and …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton and HA. 1 October – The Match Officials: could be a lot worse”
by Bulldog Drummond There have been 15 games between Arsenal and Brighton dating back to January 1935 when Arsenal won in the FA Cup. At the start of that month Arsenal were third. During the course of the month Arsenal played five games (two in the Cup, three in the League) and ended the month …
Read More “Arsenal v Brighton & HA, and the champions of the long ball game.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone A quick round up of what’s being said and considered and contemplated and basically just made up in the world of footie. Here we go. “Do I see myself staying? Of course I do,” said Jack Wilshere after his performance against BATE. “I have always been at Arsenal, I love this club. …
By Tony Attwood It is not impossible, but it is quite rare for a club to go through a whole season without a bad run. Most of the time, for most clubs, the aim is not so much never to have a blip, but rather to come out of it as fast as possible. Arsenal’s …
Read More “Keeping the momentum while developing the production: the Arsenal Way”
By Tony Attwood It’s been a long ol’ time since I watched Beetee Sprout doing a football show, and it took Martin Keown to point out what a reserve team Arsenal put out, and then made the point about what an amazing player Reiss Nelson is. He’s 17. Who needs Mbappe? But we …
Read More “Good win, excellent kiddies, weird sprouts. Arsenal’s reserves and youngsters beat BATE”
by Bulldog Drummond Since the plane has taken off, and indeed landed in foreign parts, we can now be fairly sure that Alexis Sánchez, Mesut Özil, Alexis Sanchez, Alexandre Lacazette, Laurent Koscielny, Granit Xhaka, Aaron Ramsey and Petr Cech were apparently not seen at the airport! But not that sure, as will perhaps become apparent …
By Tony Attwood There is a bit of research doing the rounds from an organisation called “Voucherbox” (which seems to have something to do with the Vouchers you get from people like Virgin) which even on the face of it looks so bizarre as to be unbelievable. Yet they want us to believe it straight …
Read More “Leaving games early – are these figures right, and a look at BATE and injuries.”
by Andrew Crawshaw I thought I would look at the squad values of the clubs in the Europa League just to see how big the differences are between Arsenal (most valuable) and the others Arsenal are in group H along with FC Köln, bate Borisov and Red Star Belgrade. Using the figures from Transfermarket.com to …
Read More “Squad Values in the Europa League. Arsenal are big players in a modest pool”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw To start with the name, the obvious point of course is that BATE is of course ФК БАТЭ Барысаў – I’m glad we’ve got that sorted. Although also it must be admitted that BATE is an acronym of Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics. I gather there has been a …
By Tony Attwood You know the joke about the Greek league and how Olympiacos have won it seven times in a row and ten times in the last 11 seasons (Panathinaikos getting in the way just once). Well that’s nothing. At least nothing when compared with Belarus. Here’s their list of champions in recent years Season Winners …
Read More “Everything you didn’t know about BATE and probably want to keep it that way”
