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By Tony Attwood Chelsea have released some plans of what the new Stamford Bridge home will look like if it gets planning permission. If matters go at all like New White Hart Lane, New Stamford Bridge will change quite a few times and be subject to years of delay before it gets built. But maybe Chelsea’s …
Read More “New Stamford Bridge, the Olympic stadium and a new ground for Everton. It isn’t so easy.”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold Arsenal you will know that one of the fundamentals of our approach is that football opinions are fine, but there is also space for evidence based football reporting to balance out the opinion based reporting. Indeed there is so much opinion based reporting …
Read More “Evidence based football reporting. It can’t be catching on. Can it?”
By Tony Attwood “Spectre is less likely to be corrupt than Fifa.” I love Marina Hyde’s phrase in the Guardian – not only because it is funny but also because it is true. . And that truth was to be found in the latest round of arrests that Walter covered on Untold yesterday. For one …
By Walter Broeckx This morning the Swiss police has arrested a few people. Once again a few top people from Fifa. This time it is supposed to be Juan Angle Napout, president of the South-American Football association (what we would call UEFA in Europe) and also Alfredo Hawit from Honduras who is the boss of …
Read More “And meanwhile at Fifa headquarters … business as usual”
Football has in fact just become a front for political and economic maneuvering. By Tony Attwood. Sometimes in football numbers just don’t add up. Sadly when this happens the politics always does add up, and the result can be rather alarming. And indeed there is something worth considering which is tucked away in the recent news …
Read More “Why the purchase of part of Man City by the Chinese state is a matter for concern”
An update on the Juniors by Andrew Crawshaw U21s After a disappointing game against Stoke, the U21s were back on track in their latest game away to Brighton when they emerged with all three points in a 2 – 1 victory thanks to a fantastic solo goal from 16 year old Donyell Malen. Donyell joined …
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 12 DATE: 8th November 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Martin Atkinson 1st LINESMAN: Michael Mullarkey 2nd LINESMAN: Stephen Child 4th OFFICIAL: Andre Marriner First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood It has only taken them six years, but I suppose better late than never. Untold Arsenal has been regularly publishing referee reviews for a long old time, showing over and over again there are clear cases of either gross incompetence of systematic bias by Premier League referees. We’ve even had a …
Read More “One newspaper breaks ranks to support Untold’s research into referee bias”
“The amount of muscle injuries sustained by young players in the Academy there has been cut in half over the last three years.” By Tony Attwood The story concerns Des Ryan, Arsenal’s head of sports medicine and athletic development and the headline above the story reads, “Galway native Des Ryan has managed to halve …
Read More “Arsenal have managed to halve muscle injuries sustained by Academy players”
By Walter Broeckx Yes November has been dissapointing, not for the first time in recent history in fact. If we look at the average results in the Wenger era as they have been published on arsenal.com it is the worst month resultwise most of the time. The fact that in that period we usually have …
Read More “Oh please let us panic and throw all and everything overboard”
By Tony Attwood Do take a look at the link to the Indy video at the end. Try not to laugh. At least not too much. You don’t want your boss to know you’re watching football rather than working. In June 2014 Cesc Fabregas signed for Chelsea. At £27 million, he was cheaper than Alexis Sánchez, …
Read More “The decline of Chelsea and the foresight of Wenger all explained in one player”
By Walter Broeckx I have been writing in the past about injuries. I even wrote a whole series in which we looked at the different types of injuries that Arsenal players had suffered. One of the debating points was of course when an injury is caused by contact or not. I remember some not agreeing …
By Walter Broeckx In their haste to blame the Alexis injury all on Wenger and Wenger alone some people come up with everything they can find. Alexis shouldn’t have played against Norwich. And yes talking as usual with hindsight it would have been better if he hadn’t played. Now of course Wenger is the one …
Read More “This wouldn’t have happened with a better manager, like… Guardiola”
By Walter Broeckx Sorry for the late match report this time but had to attend a meeting before the match so no computer nearby to write it down immediately. But still took some notes of course. A rather quiet opening to the match in the first minutes. A first attempt from Alexis from outside the …
By Bulldog Drummond Continuing the most in-depth and at times slightly silly preview of the match, which has already included Norwich v Arsenal: Arsenal to field only nine players because of injury crisis Bumping into the Arsenal squad at London Luton Airport, and toffs, when coming out of Norwich Norwich v Arsenal 29 November 2015 …
Read More “Norwich Arsenal, the facts and figures and some made up stuff too.”
By Bulldog Drummond . Yes it certainly is tough days for Arsenal with everyone including have the managerial staff, most of the ball boys and girls and quite a few of those people who stand in the gangways so you can’t get to and from your seat easily, all injured. . I know this to …
Read More “Norwich v Arsenal: Arsenal to field only nine players because of injury crisis”
By Tony Attwood Last night, me and the Arsenal team went to Luton Airport. Unfortunately we didn’t bump into each other but of course we might have done, and in these days of football journalism even a 1% chance is worthy of a headline claiming it happened. I was there to meet Mandy who was …
Norwich v Arsenal 29 November 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw One new referee reviews to add in to the Table of Shame which now looks like this :- Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 14 Red Cards 0 7 Penalties 1 11 Goals 0 4 Total 1 …
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By Tony Attwood On Thursday 26 November the sports editor of the Guardian ordered his staff out of the pub and told them to write articles under the heading Premier League: the race for the title (and Europe) A thrillingly open Premier League season has left more than half the teams chasing big prizes. We …
Read More “When opinion is formed without evidence it can get screamingly side-splittingly funny”
……….Don McMahon “The big sticks they carry are in reality tiny twigs and the dead horse they try and beat is, in actual fact, a magnificent stallion that is beginning to kick their collective arses and will rise above them all come May.” Arsenal are now in a crisis of sorts, having lost to …
. MY EXTREME FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM . . From The Brickfields Gunners Blog . . Do you remember that great old football ad from Nike where the devil ‘s team took on the stars of world football? No? Here quickly watch it and get up to speed. ‘After Chelsea’s poor start to the …
By Usama & Walter BAYERN MUNICH vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 4 DATE: 4th November 2015 VENUE: Allianz-Arena (Munich, Germany) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) 1st LINESMAN: Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy) 2nd LINESMAN: Mauro Tonolini (Italy) 4th OFFICIAL: Andrea Padovan (Italy) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by …
by Tony Attwood Why is it that football clubs make such easy pickings for criminals? We’ve often noted clubs from Portsmouth to Rangers and the way they have been destroyed from within and you might wonder if the Football League and Scottish League shouldn’t by now be alert to the tricks that crooks play within …
By Tony Attwood Following my occasional jaunts around statistics in terms of how well expensive players do when they are brought into a team, and how many players are injured, I thought it might be interesting to look at the team committing the most fouls in the Premier League. I’m interested in this because my …
Read More “Which is the dirtiest team in the Premier League, who are the dirtiest players?”
By Usama & Walter WEST BROMWICH ALBION vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 13 DATE: 21st November 2015 VENUE: The Hawthorns (West Bromwich, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Jake Collin 4th OFFICIAL: Stuart Attwell First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
