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By Tony Attwood
“Why should players take a pay cut?”
That’s an interesting question, but because that question begins with “why?” you can be sure that it doesn’t get much coverage in the media. For the British media is notorious for ignoring the “why?” in any debate.
What they do is skate over issues, […]
By Tony Attwood
This article continues from the findings in the previous piece: Why do Liverpool keep getting the same referees?
Here is a simple chart showing refereeing statistics from the five major football leagues in Europe
Country Teams in league Referees used Max game per ref England 20 21 25 Germany 18 25 […]
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A second article following on from this is now published – see link at end of this piece.
by Andrew Crawshaw.
You will be aware that Untold has held strong views about the PGMO, how they keep […]
By Bulldog Drummond
One of the key factors of the weekend is the issue of yellow cards, in the Chelsea 2 Tottenham 1 game. The BBC website says, “Giovani lo Celso should have been sent off for a dreadful second-half challenge on Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta. The video assistant referee decided against punishment, although officials […]
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by Andrew Crawshaw
In my last article I looked at how some match officials have the opportunity to have an adverse effect on a team’s points score in the season to date. Some comments quite rightly […]
by Tony Attwood
Olympiakos v Arsenal is the tie drawn for us in the round of the last 32 in the Europa League in 2020. And of course, as ever, if we think of Olympiakos and indeed Greek football, we think of corruption, so I thought I would try and update the occasional articles we’ve […]
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by Tony Attwood
In an earlier piece about Manchester City and FFP, I asked: “How could they have got it so wrong?” Meaning, given the size of Manchester City and their obvious financial clout, how could […]
by Tony Attwood
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The first rule in business, for many people who run companies, is “treat complaints seriously”. The second rule is “deal with them fully and in a thorough manner”.
The reason for this is simple: […]
By Tony Attwood
I am shocked, amazed, stunned, bemused.
For 12 years we have been plodding away, writing up the notion that the reporting of football is warped by the media to suit their own needs and ends, and those of their powerful allies.
Among the many examples found are those suggesting that key stories […]
By Tony Attwood
If you have been reading this site over the years you will recall my little piece on 22 January 2015:
Switzerland take a greater interest in Fifa – at last
You’ll remember because ever since I have kept on going on and on about it. It reported a change in the […]
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One of the many odd consequences of the way in […]
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It is rare for journalists to be banned by football clubs.
It has happened in a few cases in the old days when local newspapers held sway in provincial towns, and could often have sports sections that […]
by Bulldog Drummond
If you want a game that highlights everything that is wrong with English refereeing in the Premier League, and indeed everything that is wrong with the PL and its referees, here you have it.
Burnley have committed 270 fouls this season, Arsenal 259. Not that much in it. Burnley the slightly dirtier […]
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The transfer fiasco: an Untold exclusive
Transfers for the big spenders are not working, so why does the media want more of them? Arsenal could win the league, if only the club would listen to its critics Why […]
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Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2
Moving on from the issues of corruption and scandal that we have […]
By Tony Attwood
The book “What you think you know about football is wrong” is itself so wrong and so flawed it ought to be withdrawn and an apology issued to everyone who has bought at copy.
If you have read any of the work we have published across the last ten years […]
By Tony Attwood
Are there cover ups in football? Cover ups of corruption, incompetence, match fixing, the old boys network looking after each other, abuse of money, abuse of power, that sort of thing….
Certainly in the case of the child sex abuse scandals that have swept across English football in recent years it looks […]
by Tony Attwood
According to Amnesty International, Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners are “brazenly trying to “sportswash” their country’s “deeply tarnished image” by pouring money into the Premier League club.”
And indeed given the level of support that Manchester City has, their success in the league, and the utter reluctance or perhaps inability of any […]
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by Tony Attwood
In March this year, the Sky Sports website opened an article on refereeing with the comment by Keith Hackett that players and pundits criticising referees in the Premier League is “a little bit […]
By Tony Attwood
According to the Guardian “Chelsea have been accused, after an initial Fifa investigation, of breaking the rules on the signing of 25 foreign players under the age of 18. The number of cases could rise, with the matter now in the hands of the governing body’s disciplinary committee, which has the […]
By Tony Attwood
Goodness knows how many police raids, tax fraud allegations, court cases, questions about contractual clauses and the like we’ve covered in the nearly 10 years we’ve been running, but it has been quite a few. Spanish football has been rife with scandals, but there has been some activity in the UK too. […]
by Tony Attwood
A couple of days back, police in Spain say arrested Ángel María Villar Llona, the president of Spain’s football association, Real Federación Española de Fútbol, on suspicion of embezzling funds.
It is an interesting move because Villar Llona is also a senior vice-president at Fifa and Uefa those two gloriously clean […]
By Tony Attwood
The web site Footstats has recently produced some very interesting league tables of its own, and through their kind permission, I am able to bring you one or two of these, starting with the Premier League Table of fouls.
You may remember (if you were paying attention) that in the early days […]
By Tony Attwood
“The Gunners should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly.”
To confirm from the off, that is not a quote from Untold, but from a national UK newspaper – the Sun. OK not my favourite paper, but actually one that I would have said a year […]
By Bulldog Drummond
The review of recent events, and the league table for 2015 to date appears in the first part of the Southampton Arsenal review. The referee preview also is here. . Now moving on… . The team is most likely to be Giroud Campbell Ozil Walcott Ramsey Flamini Monreal Koscielny Mertersacker […]
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By Tony Attwood
“Why should players take a pay cut?”
That’s an interesting question, but because that question begins with “why?” you can be sure that it doesn’t get much coverage in the media. For the British media is notorious for ignoring the “why?” in any debate.
What they do is skate over issues, […]