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 Johnny Foreigner Every now and again at UA an idea crops up, either suggesting that somebody somewhere is an ‘original fan’ or that someone else is a ‘foreigner’. Unfortunately both ideas have implications which are impossible to verify once we start to scrabble around a bit under the surface. The idea of being …
by Tony Attwood The trouble with home and away ties against teams that we don’t know too much about is that one tends to use up all the information available in the first leg. When it comes to the second leg there then isn’t too much to say. But rather than offer you a blank …
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By Tony Attwood It must be fun to be Paul Merson’s scriptwriter, coming up with ever more crazy things to. say each day. But also a worry given that everything said then has to be outdone, and always in comparison to that masterstroke about Olympiakos: “I could win the league with Olympiakos. I am not …
by Andrew Crawshaw It has been a while since I did an update on our junior teams and I thought I would start with the U18s. They have been active on two fronts so far this season – the U18 League and the Premier League U18 Cup. They start in the third round of the …
Read More “Arsenal U18s – early December update, 100% home record, no wins away!”
By Tony Attwood Context, logic, breadth of analysis, overview and detail, evidence… the sort of things I learned when studying science and the scientific method, and then later psychology. I wasn’t a particularly brilliant student, and certainly not a brilliant scientist, but I think I got the thread. You know things by gathering evidence, making …
Read More “Wright and Shearer lose the thread, Wright apologises, but neither really gets it”
By Tony Attwood A major part of the argument that suggests that referees are not following the laws of the game but are following a different set of rules has come from Mark Clattenburg in relation to the notorious Chelsea v Tottenham game near the end of the 2015/16 season. In an interview he has …
Read More “Clattenburg confirms what we feared: referees are making up their own rules”
By Tony Attwood I recently wrote a little piece trying to show how journalists create a piece of fantasy transfer news ahead of a transfer window, and did this by looking at our goalkeeping situation, the insane tales from last summer relating to keepers, and then adding in what I thought would actually happen. A …
Read More “The antidote to transfer rumours: real insights into who we are signing in January”
By Tony Attwood I knew before I started the three hour journey from my home to the ground that I shouldn’t have gone. Not because I feared for the result – I had hoped we could win, or at the very least take a draw – but because I had been coming down with a …
By Walter Broeckx If there is anything you cannot afford to do against Manchester United it is to give them a two goal advantage in the first 10 minutes. And that is exactly what we did. First Koscielny with a bad diagonal ball to Kolasinac that was intercepted by Valencia who could go on and …
Read More “Arsenal – Man Utd 1-3 or 1-1 or 2-1 or even 6-3 if it hadn’t been for….”
By Bulldog Drummond And so after the usual visits around the houses we come to the teams, and just as we have discovered this wonderful effective front three, one of them looks like dropping out, although as one report said, actually Lacazette is going to play. I think not, but you never know. If he …
Read More “Arsenal’s front three have revitalised the team. Now can they do it with a change?”
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting to note that Manchester U have lost two and won three of their last five matches. Date Game Res Score Competition 05 Nov Chelsea v Manchester United L 1-0 Premier League 18 Nov Manchester United v Newcastle United W 4-1 Premier League 22 Nov FC Basel v Manchester United …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U. Prognostications, Ozil vanishes and injuries”
By Tony Attwood As a lot of people have noted Arsenal have won every game when Alexandre Lacazette, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez have started together, so there’s a worry with the news that Lacazette will miss out against Man U. On the other hand most of the destruction of Huddersfield was done without Lacazette …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U. Who plays instead of Lacazette? The options. And stuff.”
By Tony Attwood It is in a lot of the English papers; the Premier League is about to see the first billion-pound game on Saturday with Arsenal against Man U. This claim is a rather spurious one in that it not actually based on anything to do with the game itself, but on the fact …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U. 3 days of the entire NHS rolled into one match”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Officials for Saturday are :- Referee – Andre Marriner – Age 46, from the West Midlands (his home Football Association is Birmingham County) Assistant Referee 1 – Simon Beck – From Bedfordshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Scott Ledger – from South Yorkshire Fourth Official – Anthony Taylor – …
Arsenal is of less interest than moaning tweets while football journalists need to take lessons from horoscope writers. By Tony Attwood Normally of course I normally see the games Arsenal play; at the Ems because I have a season ticket, away, by watching the match on TV, or occasionally going to games. I even managed …
Read More “It’s official; Arsenal is of less interest than moaning tweets from WHU fans”
By Tony Attwood By a tragic twist of fate the Arsenal v Huddersfield match happens when I am rather more up in the air than normal; I’m flying from Cyprus to Manchester, and then driving south. So I regret Untold’s normal coverage of events is going to be rather more curtailed than normal, but here’s …
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By Tony Attwood Raul Sanllehi is to join Arsenal as head of football relations: part of the player recruitment team. This follows the appointment of Sven Mislintat as chief scout last week. Details of this and other changes in the senior staff at Arsenal are given in All change at Arsenal as the background revolution continues and …
Read More “All change at Arsenal: another new face joins the club as the revolution continues”
By Tony Attwood I am going to try an experiment, and see if it is possible to write a series of articles about the next window’s transfers (ie Jan 2018), with commentaries that are not based on rampant negativity (“Arsenal must plug this gap now!!!”) and outright fantasy. An antidote to the make-believe gossip. Of …
Read More “The real Arsenal transfer news: who we are actually signing in January.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Officials for Wednesday night are :- Referee – Graham Scott age 49 from Oxfordshire Assistant Referee 1 – Peter Kirkup from Northamptonshire Assistant Referee 2 – Constantine Hatzidikis from Kent Fourth Official – Kevin Friend age 46 from Leicestershire None of them from too far away (which I guess makes sense …
Read More “Arsenal v Huddersfield Wednesday 29 November – The Match Officials”
by Tony Attwood Arsenal’s league performance at home thus far this season is everything those of us lucky enough to have season tickets could ask for… In terms of home matches only the results look like this… Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Manchester United 7 7 0 0 20 …
Read More “Huddersfield at home: what the facts and figures tell us”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, Herbert Chapman, very famously railed against what he call the “boo boys”: the men who attended Highbury matches and hurled abuse at the players if they failed to live up to the standards that these “fans” had created in their own minds. But the great man’s denunciations of such behaviour did …
By Bulldog Drummond In approaching this match we must concede that by and large on home against away form through the season, Burnley are the superior side. In the current league form overall we see six wins, two defeats and a draw in the last nine for Arsenal although we have to note all the …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal. A fairly easy line up to predict.”
By Bulldog Drummond That table of course is the injury table, which according to bloggettas and pundits, of which Arsenal are always at the top. Pos Club Men down Last man to fall What he got 1 Everton 9 J Kenny Illness 2 Liverpool 7 D Lovren Back Injury 3 Watford 6 K Femenia Knock …
Read More “Burnley v Arsenal: the injury table, Wenger on Burnley, home and away form.”
by Andrew Crawshaw I do a heart exercise class every Friday morning (I had a heart attack just over 4 years ago) and one of the other people in the class is a Spurs supporter. Last Friday I said I was worried about the effect Mr Dean was likely to have on the match as …
The view from America, by Don McMahon Recently, while surfing a few AFC websites and blogs, I noticed that some bloggers were writing the most insane and non-sensical irrationalities I had ever seen on a website. During my regular sorties onto the net, I have had the opportunity to engage with alt-right gun-toting Christians and …
Read More “The Trump illness and football: Arsenal seen from the USA.”
