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 Mr Wenger summarised the current position with a combination of metaphorical statements and rhetorical questions when he said to the assembled hacks, “We have been in a few finals – has it changed your mood? No. I have no illusions at all.” The Mirror, reporting the comments along with several other papers, then …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: Mr Wenger in rhetorical and metaphorical mood.”
By Bulldog Drummond The injury list today seems to be full of slightly doubtful injuries The man How’s he doing? When’s he back For Chelsea? N Monreal Hamstring Injury January 24, 2018 Late Fitness Test A Ramsey Illness January 24, 2018 Late Fitness Test D Welbeck Muscular Injury January 30, 2018 Slight Doubt O Giroud …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea, injuries, recent games and “Aubameyang confirmed””
By Tony Attwood The new figures from Deloitte are out concerning the evolution of footballing income, and when one looks at the figures it is the growth in the gap between the Premier League and the rest of the top leagues in terms of income that is so staggering. This table is in millions of …
Read More “The future of football: can the growth go on forever?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone, and some mates down the pub. Here’s a team that we could soon be putting out. It’s fairly familiar with just a single change up front. All very straight forward. Petr Cech Koscielny, Mustafi, Monreal Bellerin …
Read More “How on earth are we going to fit all these guys in the team at once?”
by Tony Attwood It’s been an Arsenal thing for almost a century: pick one of your own players and get at him. Herbert Chapman railed against the “boo-boys” in the late 1920s and early 1930s, we had it again in the 1970s, it happened with players under George Graham (I remember Martin Hayes getting booed …
Read More “Why do Arsenal fans criticise Arsenal players so much?”
by Tony AttwoodIn Germany it is being call “the big transfer domino” and of course it refers to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. The newspaper headlines are Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang would like to leave Borussia this winter. His transfer depends on several other players in the Premier League. If a deal does not materialize, a whole pack of transfers …
Read More “Giroud to leave as part of Aubameyang deal plus errors and spelling problems”
by Tony Attwood And so Alexis Sánchez who signed for Arsenal in July 2014 for £31.7m has seemingly been swapped for Henrikh Mkhitaryan who we are told is valued at around £35m although Transfer Market has him listed as £31.5m. Mkhitaryan was allegedly in London on Saturday night with his agent awaiting a medical with Arsenal. Speaking …
Read More “Alexis and the trouble with working out transfer values”
By Bulldog Drummond Crystal Palace are a yellow card team – they have had 45 this season, making them the third most carded team in the league. Arsenal are mid-table in this regard. However they are not too bad on shots with 301 this season to Arsenal’s 393. They have kept five clean sheets this …
Read More “Arsenal v Palace: several variations of possible and impossible line ups.”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal’s last ten fixtures are not exactly a rallying cry to further greatness, and the team certainly needs to start pulling itself together. Of course this could be the moment when really see what Wilshere and Ramsey can do together on the pitch, which would be a good way of starting a …
Read More “Arsenal v Palace. Recent games, and the very latest on the transfers”
By Bulldog Drummond It’s all happening. Oh no it isn’t Oh yes it… well, who knows. Here’s a collection of ramblings from people who think they know, but they can’t all be right. Alexis Sanchez arrives at Arsenal training ground as forward is made to wait for Manchester… Mirror.co.uk . Update from Germany on Aubameyang …
Read More “Arsenal v Crystal Palace; the injuries, the transfers, the form, and player records”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Officials for this match are :- Referee – Chris Kavanagh Age 42 born in Manchester Assistant Referee 1 – Peter Kirkup from Northamptonshire Assistant Referee 2 – Adam Nunn from Wiltshire and FIFA accredited Fourth Official – Andre Marriner Age 46 from the West Midlands This will be Mr Kavanagh’s ninth …
Read More “Arsenal v Crystal Palace Saturday 20 January 2018 – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood There is a standard approach to transfers which virtually all journalists and their hangers on in the bloggettas agree to follow runs thus: Arsenal could sign this amazing player Arsenal seriously interested in this amazing player Negotiations ongoing concerning this amazing player This amazing player is not that amazing after all Besides …
Read More “Revealed: how most of the Arsenal transfer stories will conclude at the end of January.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Oh yes oh yes oh dear. Alexis Sanchez has agreed a four-and-a-half-year contract worth £14million after tax to join Manchester United. And it must be true because it is in the Telegraph. All the clubs are doing now is waiting for Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s agent to get out of the bath and let …
Read More “The deal is done. Oh yes it is. Oh no it isn’t. You’re making it up. Oh no I’m not.”
By Tony Attwood Tucked away at the foot of a long article in the Guardian about Arsenal’s transfer of Aubameyang is this notion “It remains unclear if Dortmund are willing to sell this month given the lack of time to secure a replacement.” That is quite a killer in terms of a deal, because if …
Read More “Arsenal’s transfers only confused by the needy media seeking to be at the centre”
By Tony Attwood More from the Fiction Department at Minitrue. So the 10th anniversary has passed and we have posted 7,800 articles over those 10 years. This is 7,801 and time to move on, perhaps occasionally remembering one or two more things from the past as we go, but thinking more about what we can do …
Read More “Arsenal: The truth is out there, but is hiding under the blanket.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Is Pierre Emerick Aubameyang signing for Arsenal? What about Malcolm? What about Martial? The bloggettas and the newspapers tell us that all three are, or are not signing. And that is not just that one blog picks one, and a newspaper picks another. They are all changing their views by the …
Read More “Arsenal agree to sign Aubameyang and/or Malcolm and/or Martial”
By Tony Attwood We live in a world in which it is commonplace to see problems as simple, and thus open to one solution, rather than seeing problems as caused by multiple issues. In short there is a problem, and there is a single cause of that problem. And yet history suggests over and over …
Read More “Changing Arsenal’s fortunes could take a lot more than is imagined.”
By Bulldog Drummond So now we see the PGMO fighting back against VAR – undoubtedly the first assault of many. An article has appeared in the Guardian including these lines Refereeing decisions are not the real problem here. The real problem is the ludicrously disproportionate attention devoted to discussing refereeing decisions. The number of actual …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: the team, an honest bloggetta and a multiplicity of line ups.”
By Tony Attwood 14 January, 2018. You’ll know, if you have been paying attention, that we are celebrating Untold’s 10th anniversary. Well, to be more precise, I’m celebrating Untold’s anniversary, I am not sure what you are doing. Now if you also occasionally take a look at the Arsenal History Society web site you’ll know …
Read More “Untold Arsenal is 10 years old today. A thank you to some special friends.”
by Bulldog Drummond As we saw in the last piece, Arsenal are in what one might call “modest” form away from home and this really should start picking up now. Bournemouth have been having a poor run with just one win in the last 12 games, although the last four matches that one win (against …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal – Arsenal’s form of late: must do better.”
by Bulldog Drummond And so to the seaside, where Bournemouth have been given a £7.6m fine for breaching Football League Financial Fair Play rules after accruing losses in their season en route to Premier League promotion. The rules were instituted specifically to stop clubs running up such debts with the idea of paying them off …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: the illegal activities, the fines and the form.”
The ref preview for 14 January 2018 Bournemouth v Arsenal by Andrew Crawshaw I was asked for a table showing the effects VAR would have made on wrong decisions. I have now had time to go through Usama’s twitter thread where he has highlighted what he considers are potentially wrong Important Decisions I can see …
By Tony Attwood We probably all know about what Graham Rix got involved in post-Arsenal, and it’s not something I’ve particularly wanted to re-visit. Many of us watched Rix, enjoyed his work for Arsenal as a footballer, and then, well… everyone can have their own views. But at the same time I’ve tried to do …
Read More “Perhaps the most horrific report I have ever read in 10 years of running Untold”
By Tony Attwood One of the criticisms Untold has repeatedly made of the TTT (transfer tittle tattle) that is so beloved by the newspaper websites and their bloggetta coat-tail hangers on, is that none of the rumours take any account of a simple known fact – how much space each club has in its 25 …
Read More “The real transfer story: How much space does each team have in its squad?”
by our Anglo-French revolutionary team. It is part of the cleverness of PGMO that no one – mark this my friends, no one – oversees the body. It is independent, separate, complete in itself and above all laws. Now of late there has been some debate to whom the PGMO answers. Certainly in a sport …
