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 Each year for the past eight or so years I have written a booklet on one period of Arsenal’s history, which is published by the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association in the early part of the new season. This summer the booklet was on the early years of the reign of Bertie Mee, …
Read More “Players wanting to leave and youngsters wanting a chance: same old Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood As you will of course know we are playing in Group H against … BATE Borisov Crvena zvezda Köln The squad has now been announced. Here are the rules… Clubs can name a maximum of 25 players on their primary list, known as List A. Eight places are reserved for home-grown …
Read More “Arsenal’s Europa League squad named: 42 players named in all.”
By Andrew Crawshaw First off, the injured players. Santi we all know about. Dayan Iliev has been out for two years following knee surgery, I would be very surprised if he makes any first team appearances any time soon. He will almost certainly be in goal for some of the U23 games to build …
Read More “Arsenal’s four teams to cope with seven games in three weeks.”
By Tony Attwood As you will of course be fully aware, we’ve only got three points out of the first three games. And I was pondering, as one does, whether this had happened before in recent years, and if so, what it meant. So I just doodled away a spare half hour making up a …
Read More “What do the first three league games of the season tell us?”
By Tony Attwood Two simple answers to that question come from two teams last season going from four to three central defenders: Chelsea and Arsenal. Chelsea had had three defeats in four, including the 3-0 at Arsenal, and then changed. Arsenal had lost eight in 12 when they changed. The only complaint that can be …
Read More “Changing formats and player positions: when has it ever worked?”
by Tony Attwood The Premier League have now announced the eight players who are in the short list for the August 2017 Premier League 2 Player of the Month. The eight players shortlisted for this month’s award have been drawn up following PL2 Managers nominating the best individual performance from each of their opposing teams …
Read More “Premier League 2 Player of the Month, plus it wasn’t all England in the transfer window.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone That headline is based on one that is currently running in the Telegraph: “Of course Arsenal players are keen on Alexis Sanchez going – they don’t want anyone challenging culture of mediocrity”. It is of course a silly construct – as if the players want the club to be mediocre. …
By Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood We recently published our complete database of players associated with Arsenal – which is of course awash with numbers and data. So to round the whole thing off, we prepared a simplified list as a reference point for the future. And then we found a problem. The headline …
You might also like the Latest in “Watching Supporters” : West Ham United fans and their link with Napoleon. . By Sir Hardly Anyone And so the transfer window failed to live up to last year’s level when around 114 players were tipped as coming to Arsenal. This year 92 were tipped and two actually turned …
Read More “If it is in the media and about Arsenal there is a 98% chance it is untrue.”
By Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood This appears to us to be the list of players that Arsenal now have on their books and below that the list of players who left us this transfer window. In the status column Y – first team player, T= Transfer, Sch = scholar. In the status column players …
Read More “Arsenal: the complete squad, the 25, the loans, the leavers, the homegrowns”
By Walter Broeckx Sometimes when looking at football I don’t know if I have to laugh or smile. The end of the transfer window… in fact the whole transfer window it looks like a contest of who can piss the furthest. Or as the expression in my mother language goes: who has the biggest d*ck? …
Read More “Finally the transfer window is over: how does it make you feel?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone At times the transfer window almost read like one of my columns containing as it did the notion that there might be something there in that makes sense, but for the moment it is hard to see what it is. No one new was signed, and the Arsenal directors and owner …
Read More “In the end we got a few laughs as transfer window remains open but action is needed”
By Sir Hardly Anyone This really is a perfect message for people who argue that Wenger is an idiot, Arsenal are slow, and any and every other manager this side of Sirius B could complete the deals that Arsenal need. Here we go. Arsenal have agreed a deal with Monaco for Lemar for £92m But …
By Tony Attwood Apparently the Ox has signed for Liverpool, and that takes me back to a comment that several writers sent in yesterday following our regular update on the transfer rumours Who cares about how many players the press thinks are leaving or joining arsenal. More importantly, have you actually got anything to say …
Read More “The tale of the sale of the ox, and how Arsenal played the market”
By Tony Attwood When these little themes emerge they tend to flourish like wildfire. Here’s one from “Suburban Gooners”, a blogetta. Sorry about the odd punctuation, I’ve copied it exactly. I support Arsenal: I have been lied to Hello. How are you doing? Hopefully you are holding up ok? Given the circumstances? After all, three …
Read More “Today’s theme of the day: Arsenal feeds fans lies! We have proof!! Shock Horror!!!”
by Andrew Crawshaw Additional commentary by Tony Attwood This list is, I hope, correct as at 15:27 on Wednesday before the transfer window shuts tomorrow Player Position Homegrown 1 Mathieu Debuchy RB N 2 Per Mertesacker CB N 3 Laurent Koscielny CB N 4 Alexis Sanchez Forward N 5 Andre Lacazette Striker N 6 Lucas …
Read More “So with one day to go, who is still in our 25 man senior Squad?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes the list now covers 40 players who are apparently leaving the club. And I’d better reassure you straight away, that not all of them actually did leave. What is interesting however is that several players have left without ever once being mentioned by the wild ravings of journalists either in …
Read More “The list of every one of the 40 players tipped to be leaving Arsenal this summer.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. The pundits and tipsters, and the drunks at the bar, have made a pretty fair hash of predicting who Arsenal are signing and selling this summer, but with just a short while to go one might hope their information might at least be right by now. And yet, I suspect maybe …
Read More “Six (yes really, six) new players about to sign for Arsenal”
by Tony Attwood I was invited yesterday by one reader, to express my view on what I would do about Arsenal following the start to the season of one win and two defeats. In one sense I wanted to say, “read Untold Arsenal and you’ll see what I think,” but then I thought I would …
Read More “What is wrong with Arsenal, what is wrong with football and how to put it all right”
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Dear Billy, How you doing? Given the number of people who wrote in after my piece this morning and said they won’t be reading Untold again, I suspect we’re now down to just us few regulars. Just us four then. Hope you’re doing ok. It’s a beautiful if windy day here in the East …
Read More “Do you have to be passionate to be a football supporter? A note to the psychologist.”
Article updated 1005 BST, 28 Aug. By Tony Attwood There was a moment about half an hour before the end of the Liverpool Arsenal match in which the Radio 5 commentators broke off the commentary to do their normal advertising for the phone in which follows games. However a debate broke out between commentators as …
Read More “Exactly how can things get any worse? Turns out it is not too hard.”
By Walter Broeckx A few unexpected changes to the starting line up. Holding takes the place of Mustafi who drops to the bench. Bellerin on the left again and The Ox on the right are the wing backs. The biggest news however comes up front. Alexis making his first start of the season at the …
By Bulldog Drummond It is hard to say who has the tougher game this afternoon – Tottenham having to play again at Wembley against Burnley, or Arsenal away to a much hyped Liverpool! With regards Tottenham, Untold’s research into what happens to clubs when they move grounds seems on the basis of the first match …
Read More “Liverpool! vs Arsenal: the teams, and the predicted outcome.”
By Bulldog Drummond It is rather amusing that in the days of the forced selling of RVP and others, everyone moaned that we sold. Now there are some who cannot grasp the fact that Arsenal don’t want to sell and can hold on to the players. Having Alexis for another season on his …
Read More “Liverpool’s! recent runs of form and their difficulties with maintaining a good season”
