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By Tony Attwood
The British Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers are said to be investigating ways of introducing legislation to prevent English clubs entering the European Super League, according to senior cabinet sources. Meanwhile the backlash against the proposals have now reached such proportions that the credibility of those who instituted the plan is […]
by Tony Attwood
In its report on Leicester’s win at Tottenham, the Guardian mentions Leicester penalty five times. On the BBC Radio 4 report this morning the penalty was mentioned four times. But neither news source mentioned the real oddity of the Leicester penalty. That is that this was Leicester’s ninth penalty of the season.
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By Tony Attwood
The British media, alone in most of Europe, have studiously ignored the dramatic series of court cases that have been engulfing world football – probably because they are having difficulty reconciling what we have discovered with all that they have said before in supporting Fifa, and English bids to host the world […]
By Tony Attwood
The Swiss prosecution service has called for prison sentences against the president of beIN and the ex-number 2 of Fifa, Jérôme Valcke. You might recall that Untold, alone among UK publishers has been following these various stories, while the UK media utterly refuses to acknowledge that these cases are even happening.
The […]
By Tony Attwood
Last season Leicester City raced to near the top of the league and for a long time were looking dead certs for at the very least a top four finish, if not a runners’ up spot. And then they fell apart and slipped right back down the table. So, in our normal […]
by Tony Attwood
The huge Fifa trial currently running is important, I believe, because the FA is a member of Fifa, and pays funds into Fifa. The FA gets its money from the government, which gets its money from the tax payers, like me. Mugs like me who live in England and pay their taxes […]
By Tony Attwood
Now either you can think that this is another story that is being hidden from British football fans and others interested in corruption by the British media, or you may think that the British media take the view that British supporters are just not interested in fraud issues relating to Fifa.
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By Tony Attwood
You won’t read about it in the British press, but there is a court case going on involving a villa in Sardinia valued at 5 million euros which was offered by Nasser al-Khelaïfi, the president of PSG to Jérôme Valcke the former secretary of Fifa who was fired on 13 January 2016 […]
by Tony Attwood
I just got a post on my phone titled Big Topic Discussion: “What an ideal transfer windows for Arsenal will look like?” It’s not too hard to translate it into grammatical English however, so we can get the rough idea of what they wanted to talk about.
This statement came from AFC […]
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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By Tony Attwood
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 […]
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Swiss prosecutors demand prison for beIN & PSG president and ex-Fifa No 2.
By Tony Attwood
The Swiss prosecution service has called for prison sentences against the president of beIN and the ex-number 2 of Fifa, Jérôme Valcke. You might recall that Untold, alone among UK publishers has been following these various stories, while the UK media utterly refuses to acknowledge that these cases are even happening.
The […]