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 Sometimes you have to wonder about the level of knowledge football journalists actually have about the people who pay to go into football matches (as opposed to journalists who get paid to be there, for some reason that I have never quite fathomed). Jack de Menezes in the Independent recently wrote the …
By Our Man In Black If you’ve been looking closely you may have noticed that in the past weeks we have published a few rumours that are doing the rounds amongst referees. If these rumours are true then this paints the PGMO and their big boys as a not really nice and reliable organisation. Of …
Read More “Referee Rumour: Who will pull the lid off the activities of PGMO?”
Negative & Positive Stereotypes – Don McMahon Some Arsenal supporters have always considered themselves a cut above other fans, especially the Totts and other London clubs. However, after starting to follow AFC in 2002, there seemed to be a repeated pattern evolving from many comments posted on the net from Gooners, which, to say the …
Read More “How Arsène Wenger and some players have become the victim of stereotyping”
By Walter Broeckx In his articles that you could read on here in the last days Tony painted an accurate picture on the dealing that goes on behind the scenes. The secret things, the spreading of rumours and more importantly, and far more extensively, the spreading of false rumours. And as he said lots of …
By Tony Attwood I am increasingly reluctant to use the phrase “transfer window”. A window, at least in my office, as in my house, is a fairly stable thing which has a purpose and, among other things allows the light in, and enables me to look at trees. In fact I am lucky because I …
By Tony Attwood Distraction, Deception and Destructive Expectation. Three ways in which the transfer market is run – I mentioned them a year ago during the crazy transfer window expectations, and hoped that maybe the situation was getting so out of control that maybe in the end the whole system would fall apart. It didn’t …
Read More “How agents create transfer myths and use the press to advertise their players”
By Walter Broeckx So what was already know a few weeks ago is now made official. Yaya Sanogo will be an Arsenal player. Of course the ones who are waiting for big names will be disappointed but surely even they must realise that we are only on the first day of the transfer market and …
Read More “Yaya Sanogo, the postman always scores twice (plus lyrics to his official song.)”
By Tony Attwood It is amusing to look down the stories running on the news accumulator services which report on each day’s action on a) who is Arsenal going to buy b) who has Arsenal just missed out on c) who are Arsenal going to lose because someone is making a bid Just look at …
ENGLAND’S EASY MOVING TARGETS Don McMahon This post is about impending corruption, probable slavery and definite destruction of a professional’s career and personal life. I felt compelled to write this after watching a series of Interpol educational modules available online This website outlines the ease and perfidy with which criminal elements, profiteers, ruthless mafia con-men …
Read More “How corruption within football works, and how the players and refs get hooked”
By Walter Broeckx Apparently there has been some kind of Fifa tournament going on or has just finished in Brazil. At first I thought I had slept for more than a year and that is was already 2014. But no it was 2013. Now I wonder when will it ever be enough for FIFA? When …
By Our Man In Black We don’t use names of referees when we publish our rumours. As has been said before we trust our sources but we will not expose them to the wrath of the highly secretive and shady PGMO. And so we haven’t been able to name the refs of the PGMO officials …
To the AAA winning trophies is everything. But not to managers – otherwise PSG would have a queue of men wanting to be manager. For some managers a little bit of continuity and sanity also counts. So arrogant has the ownership of PSG become since Qatar Investment Authority purchased the remaining the last 30% of …
Read More “Each season it gets a little more difficult for clubs to buy in their manager of choice”
By Tony Attwood Andy Burnham, the former Culture, Media and Sport secretary, spoke at the annual Supporters Summit organised by Football Supporters Federation and Supporters Direct. He told the people present what they wanted to hear, and they applauded. Well, what else would they do? He said, “No Premier League football is worth £60. …
Read More “Let’s give lots of power in football to that jolly bunch of ne’er-do-well feudalists”
Contented By Ian Jenkinson “Life is all about how you handle things. The ups and downs, the decisions you make during those ups and downs. How you keep your focus is what’s important to you and your family’s future. And how, if you know your goal is true, you should be unwavering in your task …
By Our Man In Black BULLYING in the changing room We have been told that at least 3 top officials have been bullied, received threats and have been intimidated by senior officials from the PGMO. We do have a few names but once again we cannot publish them, or will not publish them as we …
Read More “Referee Rumours: Bullying of referees by… referees”
By Tony Attwood One of the more interesting things that happens during the warm up to the transfer season is that old rumours get recycled on slow news days, without the writers knowing that we have been there before. So it is with Benjamin Mendy who Arsenal are now supposed to be “tracking”. What’s interesting …
Read More “Next season: Arsenal’s first team line up and the back up.”
By Tony Attwood Messi, the Barcelona player, has been accused by the financial authorities in Spain of not paying proper tax on earnings related to his image rights. He has not been found guilty, and thus is innocent at the moment, but it appears that there is a case to answer. So, imagining for the …
Read More “How a change in Argentine tax law may have influence Mr Messi (maybe)”
By Walter Broeckx Some 10 days ago the Spanish justice department accused Lionel Messi and his father Jorge Horacia of tax fraud. On September 17, their case will be heard, as was said by a spokesman for justice, Senor Company: “The court has decided today to act on the complaint of the financial arm of …
Read More “Messi worlds best football player…. but also a tax fraud?”
By Our Man In Black FITNESS To do games in the PL you need absolutely fit referees. And each referee that does games in the PL most pass a few tests. Fifa refs also take a very strict eye test. This might sound normal but we can assure you that the tests are very strict. …
Read More “REFEREE RUMOURS: In the Country of lies, can this be the only truthful organisation?”
By Tony Attwood Football clubs used as a basis for money laundering, tax fraud and the like? Now where have I heard that before? Oh yes, I know. On Untold Arsenal. We did a series on money laundering in football (in fact I’ve reprinted the links to some of the articles below). No one took …
Read More “41 clubs visited by police on suspicion of tax dodging and money laundering”
Why i am very excited that Gonzalo Higuain Could sign for Arsenal By Ian Jenkinson. I write this as the speculation reaches fever pitch as to whether Gonzalo Higuain is going to sign for Arsenal or Juventus. Why any player would like to join the corrupt, boring Italian League is beyond me but let us …
Read More “Why be excited that Gonzalo Higuain could sign for Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood It is bad enough that Sky keep moving fixtures around making it impossible to plan family occasions, weekends away and the like. I suggest a trip to the seaside, and then suddenly a match that was on one day is now on another, plans fall apart, and I am by and large …
Read More “Premier League tells England where to stick it – thank goodness”
By Tony Attwood In my weekend comments concerning transfers this summer, I made the point that for any transfer to get completed around 10 different issues have to be solved at once. Once of those issues was the rather obvious fact that the club with the player has to be willing to sell him. Of …
Read More “Gonzalo Higuaín: The transfer gets closer. And closer.”
By Walter Broeckx This site has never made it a secret that we are part of the AKB-brigade. For those just arriving from Mars: the Arsène Knows Best-brigade. In fact it is the reason why Tony started this blog all those years ago. To counter the stream of negativity that was not only around Arsenal but …
Read More “Mr Usmanov’s dramatic change of direction, and the implications for Arsenal”
Ever since I once cracked a joke about Mr Wenger signing Peter Crouch and then finding the story written up in the next day’s newspaper gossip columns I’ve been extra careful in what I say about transfers. But even so, throwing caution to the wind for once, here’s a list of the players that Arsenal …
Read More “The nine players Arsenal have looked at, and chances of the transfers happening.”
