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 Sir Hardly Anyone Sorry about the formatting on the original publication of this post. It looked all right at first and then went very odd. I have removed the offending text now. OK the story is that he is at the training centre and having a medical. So what do we know of …
Read More “Alexandre Lacazette: all you need to know and some things you probably don’t”
by Tony Attwood There was an editorial in the German magazine Der Spiegel a few months back about the leaders of Turkey and the United States, which says, roughly, “Erdogan and Trump are positioning themselves as the only ones capable of truly understanding the people and speaking for them. It’s their view that freedom of …
Read More “Why the way football is reported is both insulting and incredibly dangerous”
By Tony Attwood I have to admit it: I am a sucker for quizzes. Science quizzes, general knowledge quizzes, political quizzes, history quizzes, and of course Arsenal quizzes. Which is why finding out that there was a second volume of Graham Lister’s “Never mind the Gunners: The Ultimate Arsenal Quiz Book” caused me to smile, …
Read More “The Arsenal quiz books that will fry your brain, blow your mind and give a lot of fun.”
With today’s guest publication: The Carrick Fergus Times By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the wonderful things we discovered last year in running this series on summer transfers was that an English paper (say the Daily Express) would quote the source of a story as being a Spanish newspaper. Then if one went looking for …
by Tony Attwood . There is a headline doing the rounds at the moment which says that Lacazette’s statistics are “134 minutes per goal, excluding pens, in a weak league” and his statistics are examined and compared to Giroud. Then we are told, first take out the penalties and don’t count them. Then measure …
Read More “Lacazette: does this statistic show that Arsenal are getting the wrong man?”
By Josif We have undoubtedly witnessed a lot of big players leaving Arsenal. If we solely focus on the Wenger-era, we have seen Nicolas Anelka sulking his move away from Arsenal to Real Madrid in 1999 where he was a huge failure, Both Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars leaving Arsenal for Camp Nou in 2000 …
Read More “Alexis Sanchez was the second worst player in the league for losing the ball last season”
By Tony Attwood There is an argument (and it has been made by correspondents on this site) that says that Arsenal are always very slow about doing their transfer business, largely because of incompetence in the back room staff or a refusal of Mr Wenger to spend anything. Unfortunately when that point has been made …
Read More “Are Arsenal lagging behind all other clubs once again this summer?”
By Tony Attwood. There is a story that says goldfish have a memory span of about 2 seconds. It isn’t true as anyone who has studied experimental psychology will tell you – there’s a classic experiment through which one can prove that goldfish can be trained that their food always comes down the yellow tube …
Read More “The number of players Arsenal is buying reaches 70 as Window opens. The Index vol 13”
While Untold was available in the normal way we continued publishing on Facebook. This is a slightly extended version of one of the articles we published there, and which I thought I would re-run in case you missed it. And if you don’t follow us on Facebook – please do consider it. We’re not planning …
Read More “Everything is perfect at Bayern, and that is the big, big, problem.”
by Rowley Birkin A new Arsenal fans group has been formed and is being called the Direct Action Football Trust. Known by its initials for short, the Trust has set out its manifesto, and Untold Arsenal has procured itself a copy. The Trust demands that: 1: As an absolute minimum Arsenal should win every game. …
Read More “Arsenal supporters set up new fans group to set out real ambitions”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal have too many goalkeepers. Every year we have new ones who can no longer play for the U18s and have to move up to the U23s, also one (or more) have to be included in our senior 25 man squad once they are over 21 if they are to be retained …
Read More “The Arsenal Goalkeeping Conundrum: we simply have too many of them.”
By Blacksheep Untold Arsenal Report on the End of Season supporters event 2017 Every year members of the variousf supporters groups get invited to an event at the Emirates in June. I have been along with Tony in the past but he was otherwise engaged this time, so Untold was represented by Andrew and myself. …
By Sifarzone The title of the article is setup for the reader to make their own interpretation of the facts presented below. Recently, I have been miffed about the anti-Arsenal bias presented on ESPN, a worldwide, well-known and well respected network. However, such respectability seems not to have extended past their baseball, football (American) …
Read More “Intentional misrepresentation, misunderstanding of statistics, or…?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Since we had our little technical break the news of Arsenal’s transfers has become even more extraordinary than it was before. Here, without any ado, agitation, fuss, difficulty, concern or delay, are the veritable details of the players recently touted as being most certainly and without fear of contradiction on their …
Read More “Arsenal’s most extraordinary transfer news is quite honestly hard to believe.”
By Tony Attwood My sincere apologies to everyone for the long time that Untold has been out of action. As you may know, we have had a history of cyber attacks on us, and have put in place a whole range of defences to stop it happening again. It is too early to say whether …
By Tony Attwood I too love the phrase, “The Commentariat”. Jeremy Corbyn uses it to speak of the scoundrels who write anti-Labour propaganda in the Express, Sun, Mail, Times and the like. But I think it could be used also for the people who write the continuous anti-Wengerian propaganda in the media. For both come …
Read More “How transfer rumours really work: the inside story from The Commentariat”
By Rowley Birkin I am sorry to say that Sir Hardly Anyone is incoherent this morning, due to an excess of research for Untold last night, so I’ve been asked to hold the fort, as ’twere. So let me start with explaining that headline: the alleged “previous failings”. This week, there are three types – …
by Tony Attwood The bad news is the Fifa Confederations Cup is still playing and two of our men are involved. With the final not until 2 July, the players will quite possibly not be back refreshed and ready to play for the Community Shield on 6 August. We have Mustafi (Germany) and Alexis (Chile) …
by Andrew Crawshaw Please note that where I haven’t mentioned a player’s nationality he will be English. There are also a number of other players who I haven’t included where they are already part of the first team squad or where I believe that their futures are likely to be away from the club either …
Read More “The Arsenal Youngsters 2017/18: complete review and the 8 marked out for the big time”
By Tony Attwood On 22 June it was reported that the FA had decided to end all sponsorship deals with betting companies despite having previously signed a “long-term” deal with Ladbrokes in June 2016 to become its “official betting partner.” Prior to that William Hill was the official partner of the discredited Association whose close …
Read More “The FA takes the first of 10 steps needed to sort itself out once and for all.”
THE ABSOLUTELY, 100% CERTAIN, UNCONDITIONAL TRANSFER TRUTH, I THINK…….Don McMahon Following my totally and completely bollocks article about who was a shoe-in for transfer to the Arsenal, I verified with those in the know and ,with great chagrin and humility, offer UA readers a slightly, ever so tiny revision to my earlier prognostications! Here they …
Read More “The absolutely, 100% certain, unconditional transfer truth, I think.”
by Tony Attwood Last summer we were silly enough to put forward a whole range of possible line ups in June – the time when, of course, the transfer portal is still a future dream and only the out of contract players are on the move. In fact our very first try in June last …
Read More “Arsenal’s possible line up for August: and who is going to win the League”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Hello. Of course this is Friday afternoon, and one is not quite at one’s best after a jolly half hour or four at the Toppled Bollard, favoured watering hole of the journalistic elite at Wapping Swamp. But I think I can stay with reality long enough to give you the run …
Read More “Arsenal’s new mega transfer deal: how it works and what’s involved. Details revealed”
By Tony Attwood Es geht immer noch absurder is the headline in sueddeutsche.de which translates more or less as “It’s getting more and more absurd.” And if you didn’t fancy the notion of Premier League under 23 squads competing against League One and League Two clubs in a league and cup competition as suggested a year or …
Read More “Where exactly is football going? You’ll think I’ve made this up, but I promise I didn’t…”
By Tony Attwood With a day of birthday celebrations with my daughters and their families now over, and my head still over expanded following yesterday morning’s homily, the old man makes a desperate attempt to get things back together. And yes I’m late this morning, but at my age… But there is a new story …
Read More “Arsenal in player salary crisis as new PL regulations catch the club out.”
