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 Slowly, very slowly, there are a few people in the media who are starting to consider the wider issue of the Kroenkes influence on Arsenal in recent years. The issue that is slowly, very slowly, being raised is, is the downturn in Arsenal’s fortunes of late due to poor management by Wenger, …
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By Tony Attwood And so we have now had the first suggestion that we should get rid of Mr Arteta and bring in… Brendon Rodgers. That’s the media’s idea of course, I’ve no idea what other Arsenal fans think of it. Not something I’d like to see. But it goes on and on. We got …
Read More “As Arsenal sink lower changing the manager again is not the answer”
By Tony Attwood The journalists don’t exactly say that we are a lower form of life, but there is constantly something within the way in which they describe fans that suggests that we are, as a group, of low intelligence, limited attention span, and lacking in any ability to understand, discuss, debate, consider… We are …
Read More “Another Arsenal put down: why do journalists hate us so much?”
by Tony Attwood There has been of late a growing number of attacks upon Arsenal over its transfer policy. And one regular line of this assault concerns the allowing of young players to leave. Players who then go on and have a great future with another club – Serge Gnabry is often quoted in this …
Read More “Are Arsenal really awful at holding onto talented youngsters?”
By Tony Attwood Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look There seems to be no end of ways in which websites, newspapers and broadcasters can mislead – but seizing hold of comments by two or three supporters which are simply untrue, and then republishing them as if they …
Read More “Deluded Arsenal fans shamelessly exploited by misleading publisher”
By Tony Attwood And so now we know. Just as our ancestors allowed the Hill-Wood family and their allies to force out Henry Norris – the man with the vision of a club owned by its members, and with the best manager in the land – so our generation has allowed that combination of journalists …
Read More “And so now we know what their victory looks like”
By Tony Attwood Huge gatherings of sports fans for international events. Great fun. Big TV event. Why not? Well, if the current round of huge gatherings is anything to go by, the answer is because they can be rather troublesome. We have the Euros in France organised by Uefa, a body that is renowned for …
. By Bulldog Drummond Burnley were relegated from the Premier League and are now looking to come back up, so an FA Cup run is not the primary thing on their mind – promotion is much more important, as is not getting anyone injured at this stage of the season. The income from today’s game will …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: you don’t win things with kids, you don’t win without kids”
By Phil Gregory Nope not Arsene Wenger, but Matt Law who is apparently the Chief Football Writer at the Mirror and recently penned a bit of a hatchet job on Wenger. Thanks to the wonders of the web, I had the dubious pleasure of reading his critique (you wouldn’t catch me dead reading the Mirror) …
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– By Walter Broeckx Robin Van Persie couldn’t score. Robin Van Persie is not a striker. Robin Van Persie is too soft. Robin Van Persie is made …
Read More “The non-striker heading for the all time goal scoring record. Wenger does it again.”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ——————————- “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s rebirth —————————————- Tony Attwood reflects on the way the broadcast media reacted to our win at Carrow Road. Played 12, won 10, drawn 1, lost 1 is not a bad headline but you would have struggled to find it over …
Read More “Norwich / Arsenal – all the things they might have said, but the agenda won’t let them”
—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– Arsene’s Speech at the AGM After hearing Arsene’s speech at the AGM in full, I decided that it should be transcribed and submitted (slightly edited) as a full article. Overall, Arsene touched on many relevant issues that are discussed regularly on this …
—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– By Walter Broeckx We know that one of the things that some part of the fans throw at Wenger is the fact that he can’t organise a defence. And that he is stubborn. And then they come up with the fact that he needs …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal are the only leading club in the Premier League to make money from buying and selling players during the years of foreign ownership (which we take to mean since Roman Abramovich at Chelsea). Since 2003/04, Arsenal have received £21 million more than they have spent, and this is a figure that …
Read More “Mr Wenger is worth between £100m and £400m to Arsenal”
Untold Arsenal and Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Arsenal Index History of Arsenal with a new series on the Rioch year, and onto the Wenger years. Making the Arsenal – the book of Arsenal death and rebirth By Tony Attwood It has become commonplace to cite the names of …
By Walter Broeckx One of the big issues in recent seasons was our form in the top games. Pundits and a lot of fans blamed Arsenal and Wenger for not winning the top games. And this was in their eyes the reason for Arsenal not winning things. So after all the top 4 games being …
By Walter Broeckx After the Stoke game someone asked us to be critical for Wenger. Saying things like: It won’t be the end of the world if you also highlight the mistakes he has made over the last decade. So after my evening training of some 6 km (because I have to be in good …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Groundhog Season By Sammy The Snake Writing something positive about Arsenal is a real challenge these days. As some of you may have noticed, and most of you haven’t, I’ve been quiet for some time. As the saying goes, if you can’t say something nice, don’t …
By Walter Broeckx Here we go again. What is the matter with some part of our fans? Do they have no brains? Or are they just like me from other parts of the world where English is not their mother language and so they misunderstand things? But even I as a non-English speaker can grab …
Read More “The difference between what is said and what is meant”
Arsène Wenger has three Hands!!! By Paul Blythe The Phrygian sage Epictetus said: ‘Everything has two handles, one by which it can be carried and a second by which it cannot’. There may even be a third handle, often not in clear view and the major problem being you need a third hand to …
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What constitutes failure? By Tony Attwood One of the most interesting issues raised in correspondence about the “philosophy of Wenger” articles was the question, “what constitutes failure”. I was asked whether seven years without a trophy would be a failure? Or ten years? And that led me into thinking that really that was far too …
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Wenger, Chapman, Graham – a comparison By Tony Attwood I was intending to stop this series on Wenger after covering the three basics: Philosophy, Practice and the Total Revolution. But a reader wrote in asking me what would constitute failure in terms of the Wenger revolution, and I thought it such a good question I …
By Tony Attwood (You can go back and read the article from the start, by clicking here). So the revised Wengerian philosophy emerged out of practical considerations. It had these basic points… a) The new youth system is working and some of the players coming through (Wilshere is the most obvious but there are many …
Read More “The philosophy of Arsène Wenger: the total revolution”
By Tony Attwood I pointed out in part 1 of this article that Wenger brought to Arsenal a new approach to football, not just in the style of playing, but also in the style of coaching, of economics, and of running the club. However the world changes, and football was not blind to what Wenger …
Read More “Wenger’s theory and practice of football – part 2”
By Tony Attwood The issue has been raised a number of times: this blog has gone totally over the top in praising Arsène Wenger, instead of recognising his faults. Maybe there’s something in that, and if so, it is entirely my fault. So I thought I would go back, look at Wenger, and all he …
Read More “It is not Wenger, it is the Wengerian philosophy that matters”
