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 Andrew Crawshaw Another week and another referee we have had before this season Referee – Bobby Madley Age 31 from West Yorkshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stephen Child from Kent and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Marc Perry from the West Midlands Fourth official – Graham Scott Age 49 from …
by Tony Attwood It was, I think, about five years ago that Blacksheep, Walter and I drew up a list of ten reforms that between us we felt could make Premier League football much more enjoyable all round, and one of these was the live TV broadcasting of all matches with a return to all …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal II – that second team of Mr Wenger’s has had a fair run of games in the Europa and the League Cup, and that has no doubt benefited a lot of the squad who by now are used to playing together. It also allows them to make a claim for a …
Read More “Arsenal II hit six as the sneering and sarcasm from the Guardian drones on and on”
By Walter Broeckx The starting line up for Arsenal was Ospina, Debuchy, Holding, Chambers, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin, Elneny, Wilshere, Walcott, Welbeck, Giroud. Lots of youngsters on the beach. A first dangerous attack with a cross from Debuchy to Walcott who heads it to Giroud who lays it off to Elneny and his left footed shot hits …
Read More “Arsenal II – Bate Borisov : 6-0 with Jack the boss”
By Tony Attwood A Prize to the Football Forecast website for noticing that if BATE actually beat Arsenal and Red Star and Cologne draw, then BATE could qualify for the knock outs. Here’s the table to prove it Group H Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 5 3 1 1 …
Read More “Arsenal and the Tractor Boys: the final instalment.”
By Tony Attwood It has been interesting to read the media’s response to the little tiff that occurred when Match of the Day presenters got rather miffed at being called out over alleged bias against Arsenal. The Guardian and the Telegraph handled the event in slightly different ways. The Telegraph responded with “To those lambasting …
by Sir Hardly Anyone The Metro on 26 August this year told us “Arsene Wenger is ready to green light a late exodus to raise funds for two massive January arrivals.” Explaining who they thought would be leaving the club the paper said that Arsenal risked “losing a number of players before the window slams …
Read More “The real January transfer news and the signing of a new centre back”
by Don McMahon In his most recent article, Tony quite accurately reviewed the seriously flawed logic of Mr.Clattenburg and his rather bizarre public revelation about how he manipulated a game to achieve a personal end. Some people posted criticisms of UA’s concerns but there are many other issues that Tony didn’t mention and I’d like …
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 …
Read More “Arsenal v the Tractor Boys – the final part of the Europa League part one”
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 …
Read More “Arsenal v Huddersfield: the teams from 30,000 feet”
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”
