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 Following my little piece about how the Conservative Party manifesto speaks of taking the internet in the UK under government control, and how that part of the manifesto is not mentioned by the mainstream media (except for the Independent, which is no longer published in a print edition but just appears on …
By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold just recently you will know we have a technical problem. I am trying to fix it but in the meanwhile if you would like to help please read this short article and post a comment. Here’s a quick summary of what’s going on at the moment. …
Read More “A review of the Arsenal transfer news this morning.”
By Tony Attwood UPDATE AT 1223 BST I have made a number of changes to the way comments are handled on the site and I am hoping with all fingers crossed (which explains the twerping errors) that I might have fixed the problem we have had in the last few days of comments not appearing. …
Read More “Your help is needed with Untold Arsenal – urgently.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Bart. One year ago we started this as a bit of a joke – listing every single player that some semi-sober journo in a pub suggested was about to join or leave Arsenal. We ended up with well over 100 joiners – with only 3 of which were correct. The …
By Tony Attwood In my piece earlier today I pointed out that the Conservative Party’s proposal to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online in the UK, and so allow Britain to become “the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet”, is not being …
By Tony Attwood How we react to events is the key to everything. How we reacted at Wembley in supporting Arsenal in the semi-final and final, certainly made a difference. . Likewise how we react to the threat to bring the internet in the UK under central government control will make a difference – at …
Read More “Why Untold might be reaching the end of its time, and how we can influence the future.”
By Tony Attwood In the days when the Guardian can simultaneously run an article that says, very positively “Arsenal fans must consign factions to past” and a second which announces “Wenger’s contract unlikely to break negative cycle” there is the slight hope that the paranoia that is at the heart of the newspaper industry might …
Read More “Arsenal fans appear to be ready to cull a huge part of the current squad.”
by Tony Attwood Last year there was a lot of celebrating as it was announced that overall Premier League clubs made a profit of £113m in the 2014/15 season. Now in the complete analysis of club finances made by the Guardian and published today for 2015/16, 12 clubs are shown as making a profit totalling …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. And so we enter the next, and probably final, Wenger era. And to commence the new coverage I saw this on the jolly old interweb thing Trophies won since Arsène Wenger came to English football: Arsenal – 16 Tottenham – 2 Spurs fans – “We want you to stay…” …
Read More “Arsenal signing complete as players queue to join Arsenal now the contract is announced.”
By Walter Broeckx One of the people who commented for the first time (I think) said: “The question is why did it take Wenger 29 games to change tactics?” Conte changed the system after they had been beaten by us at the Emirates early in the season. Now I have seen these kind of words …
Read More “Why did it take Wenger 29 games to change? Another made up story….”
By Menace What difference does half an inch make? Some say size does not matter but when a ball bounces off the inside of a goal post & does not end up in the net it makes millions of pounds difference. The half an inch in size of goal post (cross bar to ground- not …
By Tony Attwood If the reports are true and Mr Wenger has his two years contract then the issue does arise – what will the anti-Wengerians do, knowing that Mr Wenger will retire after two years and that their protests are unlikely to make him leave sooner. (After all, one of their complaints is always that …
By Tai Emeka Obasi Arsenal fans all are still celebrating the FA Cup triumph over League Champions, Chelsea FC. For three times in four seasons, Arsene Wenger has delivered the world’s oldest trophy to his dear Gunners. Past two deliveries were achieved via beating Hall City and Aston Villa, both supposed underdogs. But the …
By Walter Broeckx A pilgrimage to Wembley or from history to historic… Usually when I write about my trips to London I get asked the questions about the trip from Belgium and the food. You ask, I deliver, Nicky. Getting out of bed at 4.30 (3.30 London time) followed by a quick shower and then …
Read More “The Arsenal pilgrimage; from Antwerp to Wembley and back via Plumstead High Street”
by Andrew Crawshaw I will start with the current 25 man senior squad Position Date of Birth Home Grown? Contract expiry Kieran Gibbs LB 26 Sep 1989 Y 30 Jun 2018 Aaron Ramsey Midfield 26 Dec 1990 Y 30 Jun 2018 Theo Walcott Forward 16 Mar 1989 Y 30 Jun 2019 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Midfield 15 …
Read More “Arsenal Squad 2017-18: first thoughts on who’s staying and who we need.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Right, I think we’ve done the old FA Cup malarky, except to note in passing that it is good to see that as always 160 seats are reserved at Wembley for the honourable gentlemen and their ladies of the Shire of Rutland FA. Indeed I was of course able to take …
Read More “The Arsenal Transfer Index: the players we are signing and those we’re letting go”
By Walter Broeckx Well I was there in Wembley as you could have guessed if you have read my article about living the Wembley dream. Yes the trip was smooth and we arrived at our hotel near Wembley well in time and just in time to take the last parking space at the hotel parking. …
Read More “Being in Wembley, part two. The once in a lifetime experience.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following a convoluted series of events I was able to invite Walter to come over from Belgium to join me at the Cup final. Regular readers will know that Walter in the house is always a good luck charm (particularly when accompanied by a larger group of Belgian Gooners). I sent the …
Read More “The Cup Final: what was it like to be there? Part One: pictures from the upper tier.”
By Tony Attwood If we do nothing, next season will be like this: the anti-Arsenal and their media allies shutting up during the good runs, and then coming out and attacking the manager viciously and remorselessly after any defeat or perceived poor performance. Yes, the media and the aaa’s combined propaganda efforts this season were …
By Tony Attwood, floating somewhere in the wide blue yonder… I got a bit of stick for my chart published in the early hours of this morning showing number of victors of the FA Cup and not including Arsenal. I’ll re do it at the end of this little piece with Arsenal included. One …
by Tony Attwood A shame because quite a few of those people who were at the stadium yesterday rather thought it a jolly experience, and worth going. Anyway, below is a list of wins of the FA Cup. Club Wins First final won Last final won Manchester United 12 1909 2016 Tottenham Hotspur 8 …
Read More “It is such a shame that the FA Cup is not a trophy, because…”
By Walter Broeckx When I was some 8-9 years old my parents bought our first TV. An old black and white TV that took ages to warm up before you first could hear a voice coming out of it and then the image would load where you first would see the face in all kinds …
By Tony Attwood It happens sometimes, but not that often, that the media and their bloggetta camp followers make out that the cup final is so obviously a one-sided affair that it is hardly worth even writing a preview of it. Of course what they forget each time is that occasionally the underdogs come out …
Read More “Chelsea vs the absolute total and complete all-time underdogs”
by Andrew Crawshaw I posted after our Semi-final win that I believed Anthony Taylor was the strong favourite to be given the FA Cup Final this year and so it turned out. I claim no special skill to make that prediction – referees are only ever given one FA Cup Final and of those who …
Does a player acquired as a big-money transfer perform well in the first season? Let’s look at recent history. By Zuruvi There is school of thought shared by some Arsenal fans here on this Forum that says that big-money transfers don’t work in the first or second seasons after the transfer has taken place. …
