. Research and interrogation, plus the buying of a multiplicity of alcoholic beverages for various journalists, undertaken selflessly and without any thought of the damage to his mind or body by Sir Hardly Anyone OBE, but with an expenses bill being handed in any minute… Actually before we start I have a new ploy by …
Read More “One of these transfers will be the DONE DEAL shortly, and Chelsea go bonkers on loans”
By Walter Broeckx In order to check the pulse of the Arsenal supporters I have been on twitter and facebook the last days. Now I must say that it sure seems that some people feel unhappy. But that is part of their general condition I think. As I have known them as sad whenever I …
Read More “Crisis already: all central defenders out, nobody to play anmore… or do we?”
By Tony Attwood One of the many fascinating things about publishing Untold is that even after 6,400 articles (honest, that’s how many we have published) I can still be surprised at which ones get lots of comments and which don’t. Do other clubs get the same level of constant sniping and negative reporting or is …
Read More “Why are people so negative about Arsenal? The first answers.”
. . By Ima Counter, Professor of Mathematical Forecasting, University of Certain Things, Walsall. Hi and welcome to the totally reformed Arsenal Transfer Index. Two big changes you will see now I’ve taken over: First I’ve made a special effort this week to try and make the numbers in part one get nicely and neatly …
Read More “The Absolute Arsenal Transfer Index: 86 players we are signing, 21 players we are losing.”
By Tony Attwood When you ain’t got nothing to say, but everyone is saying lots of stuff, then just say what your predecessor or your boss said last time and hope no one notices. Thus goes the thinking of Sports Minister Tracey Crouch. In May 2016 the FA was warned that if it didn’t reform itself …
Read More “Government threatens to remove FA funding. Again. Will they at last keep their word?”
By Tony Attwood I have often wondered whether other clubs in the Premier League have the same level of dedicated “failure” stories aimed at them as Arsenal does. The problem is that seeking out newspaper stories and trying to follow them through, is time consuming, and although there are six people who regularly contribute stories …
Read More “Do other clubs get the same level of constant sniping and negative reporting or is it just Arsenal?”
By Walter Broeckx When looking up on the internet we decided to go first to Lille and then to Lens as Lens looked a city with not much to offer. A nice friendly little town but with no real history apart from having a football stadium that can hold more people than they have habitants …
Read More “The food and match report from within the invisible away end. Lens v Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Enough! I hear you cry. It was all a hoax it was all a sham, and these bloggettists and their journo colleagues go on remorselessly. Higuain has been removed from the lists of all but the most hardy and despatches have been sent out. “We need a new Arsenal hoax!” For …
Read More “The ten Arsenal transfer deals that you will be told are DONE this coming week”
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday I was in the away end at Lens for the match Lens – Arsenal. I even have a picture to proof it thanks to Usama who was alert to make a screen shot. Walter going down to get some (much needed) refreshments I have been to a few away grounds in …
Read More “Lens – Arsenal, The most strange away end in the whole football world (or the search of the Holy Grail)”
By Tony Attwood The headlines over Ivan Gazidis’ interview were exactly those we have seen so many times before. “Arsenal fans will be worried…” and “Wenger urges Arsenal fans not to panic after Gazidis transfer comments” and particularly simplistically “Ivan Gazidis spits the usual transparent fan placation rhetoric”. It is sometimes difficult to work out …
Read More “Ivan Gazidis’ 10 point analysis of football was far more interesting than the criticism it generated”
By Tony Attwood . Martinez, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Chambers, Monreal, Elneny, Coquelin, Walcott, Iwobi, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom On the beach: Macey, Gibbs, Bielik, Zelalem, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Willock, Gnabry This was of course a pre-season game – the first of the run – and a chance for some of the youngsters to stand out. However it was …
Read More “Lens v Arsenal; the post-match review – looking for this season’s wonderkid.”
By Bulldog Drummond I made an attempt a week or two back at predicting who we might have in the team at this stage, and got suitably hammered for my efforts, partly in terms of team layout (suggesting Granit X was more than just a defensive midfielder) and partly for personnel (I left out Santi …
Read More “Lens v Arsenal: the match preview; the team; comments as the season starts”
. From the Brickfields Gunners . Following the great response I received for my article FITNESS TO PRACTICE ABSOLUTE AND TRUE AKBISM at http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/53159, and being totally bored out of my skull during this interlull, I felt it was a good time to call the faithful to the fore. As the opening day of the season …
Read More “The Brickfields Gunners: A REAFFIRMATION OF FAITH”
By Tony Attwood This is where it ought to get difficult for the media. It has become clear that the whole Higuain story has been a fantasy, a close repeat to the fantasies that were served up exactly three years ago and yet it has been pushed at us day after day by the media. …
Read More “No apology, no remorse, no honesty. Another day from the Arsenal covering football media.”
By Tony Attwood Sam Allardyce has won the plodding meander to succeed Roy Hodgson – but only it seems after Arsene Wenger said “non” and reminded the FA that there are some people in the world who, unlike them, believe that contracts are there to be honoured. He said (once again) that he has never …
Read More “Once again the FA, Uefa and Fifa treats football with utter and total contempt. Only this time they all do it at once.”
SOCK IT TO ‘EM JBB! An interview with John-Bull-Brexit by Patrick Chigwell-Smith. So John, you support Arsenal? Yeah, through and through. What do you mean through and through? Well I’ve got Arsenal in me blood, the old man put me in the supporters club at nine months-unlike you Johnny-come-lately-types. I …
Read More “An interview with Arsenal supporting John-Bull-Brexit by Patrick Chigwell-Smith”
By Tony Attwood Almost run out but not quite. For we have one new player who is joining us and one more leaving to give the grand total of 81 players due to arrive at Arsenal this summer 21 players due to leave Arsenal this summer 3 coaching changes this summer 4 players who look …
Read More “It had to happen: after 21 days we’ve almost run out of players to buy and sell”
By Tony Attwood We’ve recently placed a film including slow-mo replays of the 1932 FA Cup final on the Arsenal History site, as part of our complete review of Arsenal in the 30s. So, since the History Society website has its own unusual film, why not Untold. This is Wilshere, Koscielny and Iwobi kicking balls …
Read More “The 1932 Arsenal cup final with action replays, and 3 Arsenal stars kicking football into a washing machine.”
By Tony Attwood When it comes to what referees will do this coming season there will be some changes next season. But whether they are the right changes, I wonder. You’ll know if you are a regular here, that Walter and his colleagues have been running a regular analysis of refereeing of Arsenal games, and …
Read More “Referee behaviour will change this coming season – but there’s nothing to suggest things will improve.”
by Tony Attwood Lines for Arsenal Two things started me on this piece. One was a correspondent trying to suggest Arsenal don’t sign enough players (I’ll come back to that) and a piece in the Telegraph under the heading “10 young players Arsenal fans can get excited about this season”. I was fascinated by this, …
Read More “By this August at least half the Arsenal first XI will have joined in the past year.”
By Walter Broeckx Almost every day we get someone in the comment section who can point at all Wengers faults, errors and mistakes and then offer simple solutions. That solution is mostly down to two words: buy X. Buy X and the world will be fine. Some will go further and say buy X and …
Read More “Grab your chance and prove your genius”
By Tony Attwood The other day we had a note from a reader saying that we shouldn’t trust the web site Who Scored. Unfortunately in common with so many correspondents no supporting evidence was provided as to why this was the case. Which is a shame because I would have liked to know. I haven’t …
Read More “There are figures you can trust and figures you can’t. Some figures are numbers, some are people.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone (with another robot cock up in item 15). Latest Arsenal Odds With the transfer fenêtre now 19 days old we are clearly moving into a new phase of transferationalisms, for with 80 players now tipped to be arriving at Arsenal and 19 leaving, we are by and large running out of …
Read More “Third signing to be announced, and why you shouldn’t get too excited by the “deal close” headlines”
By Tony Attwood Football clubs as a basic starting point should surely set out to behave in the same way as any good and well run business. By which I mean that they should at one level treat those who attend the games as “customers” – worthy of the same level of service and …
Read More “When football clubs create problems of their own making… and then won’t ever back down.”
By Walter Broeckx It looked as if it never would come to an end but the long wait without football is slowly coming to an end. This Friday Arsenal will step up the preparation for the new season and will play a real match. And if the post companies are willing to do their job …
Read More “Football is starting to kick off again: the pre-preview of the opening friendly in France.”
