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 Of course I’ve never met the guy but think I can still make a fairly decent guess as to what powers the brain of Alexis. He’s got a big ego. That isn’t a very insightful comment however because I suspect most top level footballers have got very big egos. Very very big …
By Walter Broeckx As could be expected a few changes compared to our cup match at Preston last weekend. Cech back in goal for Ospina was expected. Koscielny and Mustafa in the centre was also an expected pairing. At right back Gabriel started and that is something that I also had thought would be a …
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By Bulldog Drummond When asked if Santi would play again this season, Mr Wenger, the Arsenal manager, said: “I hope so. Santi is far from starting to run again; he had a little procedure and we have a meeting with the medical people. Certainly he will not be available in the next six weeks.” That is actually …
Read More “Santi update, team v Swansea, more from Özil and Torino story is fake news.”
By Bulldog Drummond The early team news Coquelin and Bellerin are still about a week away from returning, Theo is maybe two weeks from returning. Gibbs and Mert are also out as well, obviously, as are Santi Cazorla and Mohamed Elneny. But coming back (and I would have thought absolutely certain to play) are …
Read More “Swansea v Arsenal: the prelims and early team news”
By Tony Attwood I have often wondered just how much people know about their football clubs. Or indeed how much some people know about football. And whether the number of people going to games is going up or down. It is not often that such ramblings within my brain can all be answered at once, …
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start on the match Officials for our game on Saturday I want to bring to your attention the latest piece of game management by the PGMO. This coming week is matchweek 21 and Michael Oliver has been appointed to the Manchester United v Liverpool game on Sunday afternoon. This will …
By Tony Attwood An elite group of nine European ‘super clubs’, including five from the Premier League, are now so wealthy that nobody else has any realistic chance of catching them financially. That is what a new official report from Uefa says, although it is not clear what it intends to do about it. …
Read More “Recent transfers, total cost of squad, and salaries against position in the league”
By Tony Attwood As you might have noticed (if you ever read the home page of Untold Arsenal with its daily list of Arsenal anniversaries through the club’s history) today is both the ninth anniversary of the launch of Untold, and the anniversary of the meeting that AISA Arsenal History Society had with Rt Hon …
Read More “The funniest (and also the most embarrassing) transfer story this January”
By Tony Attwood I can remember, from my days as a child, Arsenal playing Racing Club de Paris, and wondering who they were, and why the match happened. Such childhood memories are of course notoriously unreliable, but I do recall it seeming a bit odd. One of those things that old people knew about, not …
By Tony Attwood Here’s a thought and a half: Olivier Giroud has scored 12 goals from his last 17 shots on target in the League, FA Cup and Champs League. Here’s another: he takes less time on the pitch to score that Lionel Messi, Diego Costa or Sergio Agüero. His figures at Arsenal now look …
Read More “Arsenal don’t have a plan B. Well, actually we do. It’s Giroud.”
By Tony Attwood As I was preparing myself for another day’s publishing on Untold this morning two curious things happened. One, not curious in itself, was that Andrew sent me his regular match preview for the weekend concerning the referee for the forthcoming Arsenal match. The other was that the Daily Telegraph newspaper attacked PGMO …
ARSENAL vs. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 19 DATE: 1st January 2017 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Scott Ledger 4th OFFICIAL: Stuart Attwell First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 06:59 Granit …
Read More “Ref Review: Arsenal – Crystal Palace: more of the same please”
By Sir Brightly Plusfours; UK Government Czar of all the balls I am delighted to have this opportunity to address the ensemble of readers who are known as the most positive, fervent and enthusiastic of Arsenal supporters this side (and indeed that side of) the Great Wall that divides us all. My mission is to …
by Andrew Crawshaw After 19 games Arsenal had 40 points and sat in third place in the table behind Chelsea and Liverpool and with City and the Tinies close behind, Team Points Goals W L D For Against +/- 1 Chelsea 16 1 2 49 42 13 +29 2 Liverpool 13 4 2 43 46 …
Read More “2016-17 Season: The half time review of referees and players, and the top 6 table.”
By Tony Attwood If you read my ramblings on a fairly regular basis the is a chance that you may have picked up the fact that a) when I did play football in my younger days I was utterly useless at the game b) when I played the indoor five a side game in later …
Read More “The nine health benefits of playing football, and what to do when you get too old.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Our young Mr Cohen cost anything from £40,000 to £80,000, opinion varies, but in terms of his age there is an agreement he is 20, which makes him rather old for a youth signing for Arsenal. His position is best described as Bellerinesque. Well, ok not best described as Bellerinesque, …
By Tony Attwood Do Arsenal players really care about the club they play for? Do they care about how the results go? Are they properly prepared for each game? Or are some of them a bunch of highly paid guys who really couldn’t care less, and who simply turn up and go through the motions? …
By Tony Attwood Untold has a number of correspondents from around the country, and indeed from outside the UK, who regularly feed in thoughts and ideas relating to the issues that we cover on the site, and this week brought in an email on the topic of the way refereeing is undertaken in the Premier …
Read More “Could football learn a thing of two from the way games are refereed in rugby?”
by Tony Attwood Actually it was me that was in total meltdown as in the original version I wrote something, changed it, wrote something else and totally screwed up what I was saying about Messsi, Barcelona and Real Madrid (the last bit of which I then cut). Excuses are there many, but the key point …
Read More “BT Sprout in meltdown; Giroud sails on; must be time to knock Lucas.”
By Walter Broeckx A lots of changes in the team and some were already predicted in the last days. Ospina in goal and Martinez was on the bench. At right back we had Maitland-Niles and Jenkinson was on the bench, so Bellerin got some well deserved and needed rest. Gabriel and Mustafi in the centre …
Read More “FA cup : Preston North End – Arsenal 1-2 : Giroud, who else?”
By Bulldog Drummond. The fighting Just on a month ago Preston North End were forced to fine two of their “players” (Jermaine Beckford and Eoin Doyle) for fighting each other on the pitch during a match against Sheffield Wednesday. Both players were sent off, obviously, and the fines levied on the players were promised …
By Bulldog Drummond Once upon a time the FA Cup third round kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. Now if you get a match on a Saturday afternoon you are lucky. Our match this evening makes travelling back by train difficult – the last train back leaves at 2017, making it a tight …
By Tony Attwood This weekend’s match sees what has become an increasingly rare meeting between the two Invincibles – the only two sides in top division history to have gone through a season unbeaten: Preston North End and Arsenal. Indeed it is the first meeting of the pair since Arsenal joined the ranks of …
by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek13 Manchester City vs. Chelsea [1-3] Referee – Anthony Taylor 1st Assistant Referee – Stuart Burt 2nd Assistant Referee – Adam Nunn Fourth Official – Mike Dean Crystal Palace vs. Southampton [3-0] Referee – Neil Swarbrick 1st Assistant Referee – Scott Ledger 2nd Assistant Referee …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #14 complete with video evidence”
By Tony Attwood During the last couple of days a friend of mine has received messages on her Facebook page telling her that Mrs Trump has filed divorce papers against President Elect Mr Trump Facebook is starting to charge everyone who has fewer than 10 friends, from midnight Stephen Fry has died The queen hasn’t …
Read More “How football laid down the rules for the post-truth world”
