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 “FIFA is one of the most discredited organisations in the world with serial allegations of corruption plaguing almost its every move off-the-field in terms of management and governance.” I think most of us can agree with that. So when I then read that, “Football players and fans who are concerned with how world …
Read More “New Fifa same old Fifa; beware the makeover, it is just a con”
. By Tony Attwood . From the P.A. News Agency… . Press Association Sport understands reports the Poland keeper [Szczesny] was banned and fined following a dressing room bust-up after the 2-0 Barclays Premier League defeat at Southampton on New Year’s Day are incorrect. .. So there we are. One day it was true, now …
Read More “Arsenal sign Vieira II but the news before was not news. But this is.”
By Tony Attwood The good news in Arsenal football’s world on a morning when I must admit news from elsewhere makes it hard to focus and write, (and this isn’t news at all, only that I have just woken up to the fact) is that we don’t seem to be losing anyone to go to …
Read More “Every bit of transfer news you could imagine, and then some…”
By Tony Attwood When a club moves from having a shirt too sacred ever to put the name of a sponsor on, to accepting the money of Qatar, you know something has changed. When a club suddenly fails to pay its top players for a month and the president speaks of having to turn off …
Read More “Even now, after all the revelations, the media still try to love Barcelona”
By Walter Broeckx Only last week I found a comment on Untold that went like this: “The refs are not only unfair to Arsenal. If u check the record of refs in games of Chelsea, man city,lvpool, man utd and others this season , you wil find out that they are treated unfairly too. Everything …
Read More “So we were deluded over the issue of referees? More evidence”
By Tony Attwood One of the first times that we really started suggesting that there was something amiss with refereeing in the Premier League was in December 2010 when we ran the story There is something seriously wrong with EPL refereeing. An opposite title I am sure you will agree. We may well have written earlier …
Read More “Refereeing is going down hill – the BBC knows but the press ignore the story”
Ref for this match was Michael Oliver A match of two halves for the ref. The first half he was excellent. Just falling for a dive from Coutinho and not giving a foul in favour of Alexis when it was a foul. But for the rest spot on with his decisions. So an excellent score …
Read More “Ref Review Liverpool – Arsenal. Someone put something in the ref’s tea at half time”
By Tony Attwood The Arsenal History Society is currently experimenting with Arsenal quizzes in various guises, and we’ve put a new one up today. To make life easier we’ve also added three possible answers to each question, rather than leaving you on your own. Now of course I know that Untold readers are incredibly knowledgable …
How do we know that a manager is succeeding? Richard Bedwell Rather than come up with a short comment that would get lost in what is a long and interesting response I thought I would respond to Tony’s piece in a little more depth. In this age of data driven assessment there are, I believe, …
Read More “The three ways in which we know if a manager is succeeding”
By Tony Attwood Untold has followed the Rangers saga from the moment we picked up on the tax case issues, and noted that the press were ignoring any suggestion of odd doings by dodgy dealers that circled the club. When there is a story, and the press absolutely refuse to follow it, you can be …
By Walter Broeckx In the comment section the other day someone said that the oil money was responsible for Arsenal not winning as they did before. And one of our other readers wrote in with this remark about winning and oil money: “On the oil money subject, much oil money did Porto get, or Ajax …
By Tony Attwood A little while back Arsenal Supporters Trust allied itself with the equivalent groups at Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool to write to the FA about the importance of maintaining the rule that says 15% of tickets for FA Cup matches be reserved for away supporters. In Arsenal’s case this means 9,000 tickets, and …
Read More “FA bring game into disrepute, BBC try to reinvent community”
By Walter Broeckx For the replay of the FA cup final of 2014 we saw the next team from Arsenal at the start Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Cazorla, Walcott, Campbell, Alexis. As substitutes we had Martinez, Debuchy, Koscielny, Zelalem, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Maitland-Niles, Akpom. So a lot of changes compared to the Southampton match. …
Welcome to the FA Cup third round clash between Arsenal and Hull City at the Emirates, brought to you by Arsenal’s Official Car And Van Rental Partner Europcar. It’s the most magical weekend in English football and fortune has brought these two sides together at the first opportunity since their memorable meeting in last year’s …
By Tony Attwood. So it seems we have made or are making or are about to make our first signing in terms of Teddy Bishop from Ipswich. It is not announced yet, so this could be another total error in reading the ancient runes and tea-leaves on my part. Man U want/wanted Bishop but the …
By Tony Attwood Since we won the FA Cup that question has been more puzzling than ever. It used to be that winning a trophy was doing well. But although the victory over Hull and the subsequent beating of Man C in the Charity Shield gave Mr Wenger some respite, it lasted little more than …
By Tony Attwood If you have not read the excellent article about supporting Arsenal from a distance, I would urge you to read it now, before moving on to this, my epilogue to that story. I was first told that Arsenal were going to target India as a market about five years ago, but at …
By Tony Attwood When I was a young writer, trying to break into the business full time, I adopted the tactic of writing articles and books that by and large no one else was trying: different approaches, different styles, different ways of looking at issues. As a result I got a lot of rejections from …
Ref on the day was Lee Mason Referee Mason surely got off with a bad start. Tiote deliberately putting his studs in the chest of Alexis and he completely ignored or missed it. If as some say he couldn’t see it, it was down to a technical error from the ref. Bad positioning it is …
Southampton v Arsenal 01 January 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated table of shame following Walter’s review of the Stoke game Untold ref Review: Stoke – Arsenal, the Anthony Taylor horror show. “Shockingly bad”. Twenty two wrong decisions in that game, eleven yellow card or worse and all against …
Read More “The referee table of shame and the ref’s background for the Southampton game”
Un-important Gooners. A rant. A whine. A cry…. distant gooners. by Arsenal 13 This is what happened during the West-Ham game. Comments section of the Untold. Most people know this. BUT compiling it again to show the person and for the people with similar views where they are wrong. For generalization, lets name him X, and …
By Tony Attwood The FA has a section on its web site called “Media comments and Social Networking cases – Charging guidelines” It says in part, The following types of public media comment, including on social networking websites, may be considered to be in breach of FA Rule E3: Comments which are improper, which bring the …
Read More “After the game, it all depends on what you do with the comments”
By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the team who was level on points at the start of this match we had these players Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis. And on the beach we had Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom. Gibbs came in the place of …
Read More “Southampton – Arsenal, defensive errors paid in cash”
By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Mirror and several other newspapers the transfer window is now open. But no! Woe! Woe! and Thrice woe! (which is really only meaningful to British readers who remember Frankie Howerd). The window is jammed shut. It will not open. Pliers, crowbars and ratchets have been ordered. But it …
Read More “Panic ensues as transfer window fails to open; Zelalem goes US”
By Tony Attwood Thanks for everyone for the goodwishes. I feel a bit of a fraud – it was just a bug, and I slept for about 24 hours. Anyway I’ve struggled up to the computer complete with pint mug of water, just to see what new year’s eve holds in store. The papers are …
