Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team

By Tony Attwood

As you will have heard the match against Liverpool tomorrow has been postponed. The decision was made at lunchtime today, 5 January.

Quite honestly, I imagine that if the board of the EFL thought about the people who wanted to be at the game being messed around, their response would probably have […]

By Bulldog Drummond

Given that the game against Liverpool may or may not be on (at the time of writing) I thought I’d do one of the sets of data that we normally cover ahead of the game, just in case the game goes ahead. And not least because the data is quite interesting of […]

By Tony Attwood

It is perhaps typical of football in England that despite the raging pandemic there seem to be no plans at all as to what to do if clubs can’t complete the season.

Fifa has already given full permission to its friends in Africa to carry on running their international tournament in the […]

To read about the free Arsenal video collection and about the new Arsenal Day by Day series, please see the note at the foot of this article.

By Sir Hardly Anyone

Bukayo Saka tipped to leave Arsenal as Mikel Arteta’s hardest task is spelled out

So shouts the Daily Mirror, telling us that […]

By Tony Attwood

“Mike Dean is one of the worst referees in the history of world football, to me, and one of the worst men to have ever lived.”

That is how the daily article emailed from The Athletic begins. The article then goes on the list a few of Dean’s errors, before saying, “Dean, […]

By Tony Attwood

You may have noticed that over time I have often made the suggestion that in the Premier League no club should get the same referee more than twice in a season.

And if you take the time to read the comments made on Untold you might have noticed that this has been […]

By Sir Hardly Anyone

Players have started to pack their bags, as tomorrow, 3 January is the day by which they are obliged to turn up at their national training camp for the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.

The government’s official website on travelling abroad refers readers thinking about being in Cameroon […]

by Bulldog Drummond

According to the BBC website Arsenal don’t have a chance as they suggest, “As much as Arsenal have improved, and as good as their home record is – only Manchester City’s is better this season – there is still a huge gulf between these two sides.

“The […]

by Bulldog Drummond

The injury list of players that we have been running, ahead of each Arsenal game for years and years has never previously been like this, including both on-pitch injuries and cases of the pandemic. Nor can I recall when we last recorded a player being missing from a squad because he was […]

By Tony Attwood

If you are a regular reader you will know that whereas when crowds were present, the home teams in the Premier League were likely to win games more often than the away team. Since games have been played without crowds present the reverse has been true.

The explanation for this (as I’ve […]

by Tony Attwood

A little while back we looked at Arsenal’s chances of securing a top four position. But on 20 December the Telegraph ran the piece Premier League top-four odds: Arsenal overtake local rivals so I thought it time to look again.

In fact that article in the Telegraph doesn’t actually say Arsenal are […]

By Tony Attwood

Just because people make a lot of noise about an issue, that doesn’t mean that the issue is important.

Take for example the issue of Aubameyang and goal scoring. We know Mr Arteta seems to want to emphasise authority, and seemingly he is doing it again here. Very different from the public […]

According to Sky, Arsenal were the top spending team last year…

Arsenal: £156.8m Man Utd: £133.7m Man City: £100.0m Chelsea: £97.5m Aston Villa: £93.0m West Ham: £63.3m Tottenham: £57.1m Leicester: £55.0m Leeds: £43.0m Liverpool: £36.0m

Each squad contains no more than 17 players who do not fulfil the “HGP Player” category The rest of the […]