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 In the last six games as you will know we have suffered three defeats, and gained a draw and taken two wins, and we are fifth. I just wondered how this compared to the last couple of seasons at this moment. Here is where we are at the moment. Full Home …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Last summer we ran the Arsenal Transfer Index and recorded over 110 players who were coming to Arsenal in the transfer window. Of those only three actually made it – and they were only tipped at the last minute when the transfer was already under way. What this actually means …
Read More “The player being being tipped more than everyone else to come to Arsenal this summer.”
By Tony Attwood Imagine you had a son or daughter who was showing really great promise as a footballer. And imagine you were a lifelong supporter of Liverpool. Or Newcastle. Or Tottenham. You wouldn’t worry too much that it was 26 years, or 90 years or 56 years (as it has been for those three …
By Tony Attwood I have heard stadium protests against a referee before, but never on this scale. And it was utterly deserved for Martin Atkinson delivered the worst display of refereeing I have ever seen in a lifetime of going to football matches at grounds from Wood Green Town to Highbury, from Poole Town to …
Read More “Atkinson delivers the worst refereeing ever seen in the PL while State Aid fans fight”
By Bulldog Drummond Over recent years Arsenal have not done too badly against the team that used to be called West Ham, but which ultimately took advantage of the government’s misuse of tax payers money to take a stadium for its own, which they had not paid for. (And just to avoid any misunderstanding on …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal team news: Wenger facing goalkeeper crisis, star playmaker trains ahead of West Ham clash So screams one headline. Yes it’s an Arsenal match and so it is shock horror crisis time. It’s not a game its a CLASH. But Mr Wenger is not so easily swayed. “Football today is a lot …
Read More “Arsenal vs State Aid United. If it is Arsenal it must be a crisis”
by Gord A while back we had a note from a reader who suggested that it was not unreasonable to expect each year that Arsenal should win the title or at least be challenging for the title up to the last few weeks of the season. In reply Untold showed that such a situation had never …
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by Andrew Crawshaw For this game we have :- Referee – Martin Atkinson 45 years old from West Yorkshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stephen Child from Kent and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Adam Nunn from Wiltshire Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell 33 Years old from Warwickshire This will be the …
By Professeur Jacques Liaison, Inventeur Bonjour mes chers Gooners. Allow me to introduce myself and an invention of mine that will change history once and for all. Let me first tell you what the invention is about. For those who have been married or in a long term relationship they will have found out that …
Read More “Radical French invention offers supporters chance to get their Arsenal back.”
by The Referee Review Team According to PGMO 98% of all decisions made by referees are correct. Unfortunately they don’t give us access to their data to enable us to verify the point. So we have to do our own research – which is what we did by analysing the first 160 games of the …
Read More “Only 18% of Premier League referees manage to get more major decisions right than wrong!”
by Tony Attwood The 75 or 80 people who marched around the Ems Stadium with their banners before the game yesterday blocking the way of some supporters who actually wanted to get into the stadium, looked thoroughly angry, and I must admit, I wondered why. An estimated 100,000 people marched in London last month during …
Read More “Should Arsenal’s next manager be British? Probably best not.”
By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes compared to our last match. Özil returned after missing with injury against WBA. Also no Ramsey and Oxlade-Chamberlain who are out with a calf and a hamstring injury. Coquelin returned to midfield and partnered Xhaka. Up front we had Welbeck and Alexis and Theo on the flanks. In …
By Bulldog Drummond According to the Guardian Pep Guardiola was asked if he thought that securing Champions League qualification for next season would be as great an achievement as winning a trophy, Guardiola replied, “Here, yes. Definitely.” It is interesting that there has been little backlash from the fans of Man City. And remember he …
By Bulldog Drummond It is all looking a bit gloomy in the injury league table, which probably explains why various websites have been desperately trying to cook up long term injury tables (without any proper analysis of the statistics) to show that Arsenal have the worst injury record of all time, or at least the …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City. Mr Wenger speaks on referee corruption”
by Bulldog Drummond So here we are having the worst run ever under Arsene Wenger in the league and we are sixth in the table as things stand. The current run of league games (table amended from Statto.com) consists of Game Date Opposition Venue Result Pos 18 26.12.2016 West Bromwich Albion home W1-0 4 19 …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City, and bad Arsenal runs under previous managers.”
By Dr Billy McGraw In a wholly unexpected development it seems that Joe Lewis has been in touch with Stan Kronke to discuss what a source has called “areas of mutual interest in England”. Joe Lewis, who is 80 and said to be worth £4.5bn is a British citizen who lives in the Bahamas and …
Read More “Stan Kronke in secret talks with Joe Lewis over ending Tottenham stadium funding impasse”
By Tony Attwood This year much of the the membership of the Arsenal Supporters Trust appears to be anti-Wengerian in its dominant outlook. For some years this view was, I think, mollified a little by people like me who were members of the Fanshare scheme, and as a result were sent voting forms for AST votes …
Read More “Amazingly 22% of members of Arsenal Supporters Trust say Mr Wenger should stay”
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly a welcome back to full refereeing duties for Lee Probert – now recovered from back problems and assessed fit he takes charge of his first Pl game of the season Watford v Sunderland. We have Referee – Andre Marriner Age 45 from the West Midlands and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 1 …
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By Tony Attwood There is a certain type of person who not only says about rules and regulations “they does apply to us” but who also seriously means it. The sort of person who knows about the rules but also says “no one bothers with that”. Football it seems is rife with such people, …
By Tony Attwood You might recall, if you have a very good memory, that back in January we reported that The Independent claimed that “Arsenal suffer most injuries”. Untold did quite a lot of work on that data and our headline added the phrase to their headline “after using obviously faked data” There were …
Read More “Arsenal are the club most prone to injuries (again, and again) Well up to a point…”
By Tony Attwood We’ve discussed several times the fact that just at the time when the media put in bids to show English football matches that were way above anything previously seen, so TV audiences for football have come down. Several reasons have been mentioned. For example there is the undeniable fact that tastes endlessly …
by Don McMahon Don is a retired referee who worked at NASL and international level That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. I recently read an article about the France-Spain friendly played last week and its successful use of video refereeing technology. There were numerous comments from pundits and retired …
Read More “Ambiguity vs certainty and Talksport’s campaign to undermine video refereeing”
by Tony Attwood Writing about other team’s new stadium is always tricky, and can often bring abuse. My little piece about Everton’s stadium for which Liverpool Council are giving financial guarantees in order to get the cost of lending down, brought a lot of comments (not all of which were published here) to the effect …
By Tony Attwood Robbie Savage predicts that games will go on long into the night. The Daily Telegraph says that “Doubts remain”. But video technology is finally, after years and years of attempts at delay, going to happen. It won’t mark the end of incompetent refereeing, nor of match fixing, but it will be a …
Read More “Finally confirmed: video technology to be used in some games from next season”
by Tony Attwood There is a story doing the rounds that all season ticket holders who want a ticket for the Wembley semi-final against Man City have got one. And of course this has been taken up as a chance to knock Arsenal and Arsenal support – exactly as happened two years ago, and the …
Read More “Even the issue of tickets for the semi-final is a way of knocking Arsenal now.”
