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 What makes a perfect transfer? First, you have to abandon plausibility. There has to be no link with reality, no link with what the team needs, who is available, who might come to the club, whether the player has said no, whether the player is in prison on suspicion of blackmail, whether …
Read More “The perfect transfer story: Arsenal’s approach for two new players”
An in-depth and historical study of solastalgia in North London . PART 1 . From – The Brickfields Gunners Blog . Before you of the other lot start to comment or click the dislike buttons, hear me out . While admitting to a somewhat perverse pleasure in baiting Spuds fans , I do …
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By Usama & Walter Note: we have taken out the list with all the goal kicks, corners and throw ins to make the reviews better readable. From now on about these decisions we will only mention the wrong ones. SWANSEA CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 11 DATE: 31st October 2015 VENUE: Liberty …
By Tony Attwood Naturally we focus on Arsenal, and sometimes the Wenger out mob – the aaa, their allies in the AST (who do those “surveys” each year in which people are asked questions in a funny way which gets answers such as 94% want the increased revenue from broadcasting and commercial deals to help …
By Ian Jose Mourinho – we were down to 10 men, you can’t have chickens just crossing roads, we need them on the pitch. The chicken will never play for us again. Harry Redknapp – he saw Rosie in the park, they are close friends. Chicken asked me once for some tax advice, I …
A TALE OF TWO ARTISTS……….Don McMahon If you are a regular reader of Untold you may recall my earlier writings, and from those find me something of a football fanatic, former professional referee and marginal footballer. But as with most Canadians, my first and principal love is ice hockey. Football became a passion to …
Read More “A tale of two artists – how analysis and learning can transform the way a game is played”
By Tony Attwood Let us never forget, let us never ever forget, let us never, ever, ever, ever forget that through this summer the manic hysteria of demented wildcats howling under the full moon told us constantly that Arsenal had to buy-buy-buy-buy etc etc. We were the only THE ONLY team this side of Lesser …
Read More “Now even the media is starting to recognise just how amazing this Arsenal team really is”
. By Stephen Wales . Football 2030/31 season . Welcome to the start of the 2030/31 season in the new Super Euro Premier League, last season’s Super Euro League division A was disbanded after corruption allegations were made against a number of Russian clubs. This season we are proud at BT Fox sports to give …
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By Tony Attwood There have always been some people who like to leave the ground early, but this strange and eccentric habit seems to have got worse and worse and worse in recent years. I suppose it was harder to get out when we had a ground that had large standing sections, and for those …
By Walter Broeckx I have recently seen a very interesting stat on the internet about the presence/absence of Ramsey for Arsenal and what it means statistically if he is playing – or not. And the numbers are really amazing to be honest. I have been a big fan of Ramsey since he arrived and defended …
By Walter Broeckx When I was doing my match report of the match against the tiny totts something strange happened. Now I must explain a bit how I do my match reports. I start before the match with the teams and then just type things that I see or that I think are important to …
By Sir Hardly Anyone; Our Head of Blogetta and Spoof-man of the century is down the pub. GOOD NEWS: Wenger Reveals Return Date For 6 of the Injured First Team Players So shouts “GunnersCity” who helpfully print the list 21st November – Bellerin, Oxlade Chamberlain, Ramsey. 29th November – Walcott. 13th December – Wilshere. But then we …
Read More “Wenger confirm(s) super signing will be made; Mourinho sacked; Blogetta roundup”
By Tony Attwood So it wasn’t just me who picked up on Damien Comolli’s suggestion that the injury crisis in football is not all down to Arsenal, but is down to nationality. The Telegraph today tells us that more than a quarter of the Premier League’s 142 English players unavailable for international selection because of …
Read More “Why Arsenal players are getting injured. Finally we are getting some insights.”
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. EVERTON COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 10 DATE: 24th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Lee Mason 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Garratt 4th OFFICIAL: Anthony Taylor First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “Referee Review: Arsenal – Everton : the dead sparrow review”
. By Proudkev It seems a day doesn’t go by when someone, somewhere tries to discredit Arsene Wenger’s record. How many times has it been repeated that George Graham handed Arsene success with that back 4? This is a regular weapon in the armoury of the Wenger Out Brigade and is often repeated in the …
Read More “Did Wenger owe his success to George Graham, as we are often told?”
By Tony Attwood I really do want to start with my thoughts about the Armistice commemoration at the Ems yesterday. I have stood for so many moments of silence to show sympathy, understanding and thanks, that in the end the silence can (for me) start to lose its meaning. Not always, of course: when I …
By Walter Broekx The question that Tony asked this weekend was answerd by Wenger. Koscielny did start in the team for this Norh London Derby. For the rest no changes for this last math before the interlul. On the bench we saw Ospina back for the first time since his injury he got in the …
Read More “Arsenal – Tiny totts : 1-1 and now for some rest to some players”
By Bulldog Drummond Mesut Özil does ‘the hardest part of football’… has the Arsenal star finally silenced his doubters? That was a headline in the Daily Mail this week followed by the usual bullets… Mesut Özil has more assists, and chances created, than any other player in the Premier League this season Chris Waddle says …
Arsenal v Spurs Sunday 8 November – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No updates to the Table of Shame for this week. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 7 Penalties 0 8 Goals 0 3 Total 0 29 Possible Cost in Points 0 6 …
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by Tony Attwood I know many fans have a whole plethora of pictures of Arsenal in their homes. I’ve got a lot of books, which of course I use as reference material for the Arsenal History Society articles I write, but there is only one Arsenal picture. It is the cover of a Highbury programme, …
By Tony Attwood As we all know Laurent Koscielny could have played against Bayern but was left on the bench. It is a fairly obvious conclusion given that if he was on the bench he could have played. That’s that, nice and simple, although it didn’t stop the inevitable “Koscielny could have played against …
Read More “The Koscielny dilemma: play him or keep him out of the international week?”
By Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud’s record for Arsenal this season is simple to understand. He has played 16 games and scored 8 goals. 50%. If we just take league games it is six in 11. Similar to last season in the league where he scored 15 in 28. . But throughout the summer …
By Tony Attwood It is amusing to see the way the media twists and turns in its opinions, as if somehow we won’t remember what they said yesterday, let alone last week. And dare I suggest that a small number of the scribblers are at least getting someone else to read Untold for them, if …
Read More “Why we will win the league no matter what happens against Tottenham”
By Tony Attwood TV pundits have it easy. For unless we keep a collection of their ramblings on hard drives, or make notes as the programmes run, their wild comments about who is going to win the league and who will struggle are lost for all time. TV stations don’t do re-runs of their pundits …
Read More “Just how well have the journalists been doing with their pre-season predictions?”
. By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former professional footballer with Arsenal who was forced to retire at 22 due to recurring knee injuries. Soon after hanging up his boots, he was hired as a scout for Arsenal and spent 7 years scouting the Americas full time before recently moving back to London. Despite his …
