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"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 Can Arsenal really ‘do a Leicester’ and win the Premier League? That really is the headline over a piece in the Telegraph today. The piece was written by Jim White – and that may explain something. A recent piece of his in the Telegraph was headlined, “From anal beads to iPhone apps” …
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By Tony Attwood The other day we asked, Why are the rest of the league fouling Arsenal so much? One possible answer comes from the table of top players provided by WhoScored. This table is adapted from their data, and the final rating column includes various other factors such as shots per game not listed …
Read More “Five of the top 20 players in the Premier League play for Arsenal”
The team that commits the most tackles get the easiest ride by Tony Attwood “Referee tactics” is what it is called in refereeing circles across Europe. Except in England, wherein one gets the impression that nothing to do with refereeing is ever called anything because no one will ever talk about anything for fear of …
Read More “If only English refs could be as open and honest as those in Germany”
by Nitram In a recent article on Untold it was said, “But where we are getting it absolutely right and distinguishing ourselves against most of the rest is in terms of shots on target per game. 6.4 per game in fact. Only Manchester City is knocking in more.” And that is what has made all …
Important prelim: if you are having difficulties posting comments to Untold Arsenal, or indeed difficulties accessing the site, we’d be very grateful if you could write about the situation to help us resolve it. Please write directly to Tony@schools.co.uk and mark the subject line UA problems. thanks By Tony Attwood How the media got their …
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Liverpool in flux Arsenal in recalibration. How the match might play out… by Bulldog Drummond We recently reported that one of the goals in the Arsenal women’s match against Ajax was found by Arsenal to be of the wrong size, and that issue was resolved. Now we have a similar story in …
Arsenal v Liverpool: the unexpected statistics by Bulldog Drummond There is a story doing the rounds that after seven years at a club Jurgen Klopp feels he has had enough, or that even if he doesn’t feel like moving on, his results drop off and so he quits and finds himself another club. It hasn’t …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: the stats suggest a narrow Arsenal win.”
The headline says it all. Arsenal are the only team who can stop Manchester City’s title procession The strength of the headline in the Telegraph is somewhat undermined by the sentence that opens the article, which asks the question, “Are Arsenal already the only team who can stop Manchester City from winning a fifth Premier …
Read More “A symbolic moment as Arsenal are elevated to a new height”
8 October: Arsenal’s first trophy winning captain makes final appearance By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool find themselves in flux, according to the Guardian, and that is what their results of late show. Of the last ten games this season (three in the Champions’ League, seven in the Premier League) Liverpool have won just four, drawn four …
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How the media got their predictions so wrong, but no one apologised. Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Bulldog Drummond Before each game we generally have a look at the merits of each team in terms of the relevant home …
by Tony Attwood Is the team that passes the most, the team that gets the best results? 7 October: Arsenal purchase a musical hall star! We were lucky. National Rail were lucky. There ought to be a thorough investigation. There won’t be. And even if there were no one will be found to have acted …
Read More “A stroll in the park; National Rail lunacy at the station. Arsenal v Bodø/Glimt”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal squad for Europa League game Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year To begin with the headline and the toothbrush, we have mentioned this before, but if you want a good bit of background then you can find it all here. The long …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year By Bulldog Drummond For the last Europa League game the team Arsenal put out was… Turner Tomiyasu Holding Gabriel Tierney Vieira Lokonga Xhaka Marquinhos Nketiah Martinelli On the bench we had Ramsdale, Hein, White, Saka, Odegaard, Jesus, Saliba, Zinchenko, Cirjan, Smith, …
By Tony Attwood There is no point me covering in any detail the recent reports on the sexual abuse of female footballers. Others with more knowledge of the issue and access to those who suffered can do this far better than I can – and they are doing exactly that. If you want to read …
Read More “The abuse of female footballers is appalling, but there is a wider context”
Is the team that passes the most, the team that gets the best results? By Bulldog Drummond Before we get too carried away with thinking that this is going to be a walkover match against Bodo/Glimt, (“Glimt” means “Flash”) on the grounds that they are Norwegian and have a funny name, we might remember that …
Read More “Why Arsenal v Glimt might be tougher than the game against Tottenham”
By Tony Attwood The CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post this week analyses InStat data on passes for 1,226 teams worldwide. And in this analysis, Manchester City leads the table with 754 passes attempted per domestic league game and 90.8% of them are successful. So one immediately leaps to the conclusion that passing is indeed good …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. by Andrew Crawshaw The draw for the group stage let 16 on the Women’s Champions League was held on Monday. The 16 teams had been split into 4 groups. The holders and the league …
Read More “Arsenal Women – Champions League last 16 draw – We get the toughest opponents”
How the media got their predictions so wrong, but no one apologised. By Tony Attwood It seems that football loves simple solutions. Take the notion of the long ball game. The theory that clubs that played the long ball did well, was developed by an amateur statistician Charles Reep who took the simple …
Read More “Why sacking the manager is a problem: it hardly ever works.”
Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. By Tony Attwood Antonio Conte made an interesting point commenting of the Tottenham red card, as reported by the BBC. “In England it is very difficult…. Sometimes you see a situation that could be …
Death by 300,000 passes: how the Arsenal transformation started 2 seasons ago. By Tony Attwood Arsenal v Tottenham was a truly wonderful experience inside the stadium. The club has done more than ever before to bring supporters together and get a belief in the side going. The singing of “North London Forever” immediately before …
Read More “Arsenal played against the media, the ref and Tottenham, and still won”
by Bulldog Drummond So we have injury doubts about Thomas Partey, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Takehiro Tomiyasu while Kieran Tierney may be available, Martin Odegaard is expected back and Reiss Nelson either is or is not recovered from his long-term injury – the media finds it difficult to agree. Emile Smith Rowe is now, like Mohamed …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham update, team news and appalling, flagrant media bias”
Are you qualified to give an opinion on football? By Bulldog Drummond What with Arsenal being top of the league, the media men and women have been forced to look for novel ways of knocking the club ahead of the game against Tottenham, and to do this they’ve hit on another old favourite: …
Read More “Arsenal have benefitted by the world cup break: allegedly.”
Does Arsenal really have a mega injury crisis ahead of Tottenham game? By Bulldog Drummond In the last article we looked at the historic differences between the clubs. But now let’s see what the clubs have been doing this season. We know that Tottenham have one point less than Arsenal but are one …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham: which has had the easier ride so far this season?”
By Bulldog Drummond Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Death by 300,000 passes: how the Arsenal transformation started 2 seasons ago. No matter how you measure it, when it comes to Arsenal and Tottenham, Arsenal are always on top. Of the league (including the early leagues both teams …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: not exactly a battle of equals.”
By Tony Attwood Back in July (which was only two months ago, honest) we ran the headline Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? The answer we gave was that the media don’t do statistics. If they did they would have seen that for the last 35 games of last season …
Read More “Death by 300,000 passes: how the Arsenal transformation started 2 seasons ago.”
