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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 […]
By Walter Broeckx
A spokesman of the Austrian football federation said last Thursday against the press agency Reuter that Michel Platini can count on the full support of the whole Uefa. This was said after a meeting held in Nyon. An emergency meeting it was about the position of Uefa-president Michel Platini.
By Walter Broeckx
If it wasn’t so sad, it sure would be funny.
We all know about Fifa and about how rotten and corrupt some of their members are. This is not invented by Untold; we only see how other people who have examined Fifa and their top dogs came to this conclusion.
It is […]
By Tony Attwood
Does Chelsea shake when the USA uses the language of the AAA?
Or come to that does Liverpool worry that no statement from the club will ever be believed again after the admitted lying over Suarez’ contract? Do Rangers fans worry that their club has to pay 30% p.a. interest on a […]
By Tony Attwood
And so, after years of pointing out that there is something seriously wrong with refereeing in the Premier League, the English papers have started to admit that there might be a problem.
Not all of them, and most are hedging their bets talking of referee mistakes, and the views of “Arsenal supporters”, […]
By Walter Broeckx
Look who’s talking.
Joseph Blatter the big boss of the organisation that is out there in order to make as much money as possible out of football, uses all means including overloading players as much as possible with meaningless games on every occasion, (also known as Fifa) has spoken.
He has said […]
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Money Laundering and Football
“Rather than simply being used as a conduit for money laundering the proceeds of other crimes, there is some sort of activity […]
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By Tony Attwood
About four years ago a number of Arsenal supporters began to be concerned about what we saw as […]
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By Tony Attwood
I was planning to put up a story today (a couple of days late) saying that a third person has been arrested by […]
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By Anne.
Part one of this article is available here.
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Money laundering through the transfer market is slightly more complicated than the activities described in the first article. […]
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Money laundering is not complicated, you just need a cash generating business. Football is a cash generating business.
By: Anne
The Financial Action Task Force […]
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After Fulham, what Arsène did not say: an Untold apology
By: Anne
In my previous Untold Media article, “After Fulham. All the things the press reported but which Arsène did not say,” I […]
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By Tony Attwood
Next month Fifa starts up a telephone hotline for players and officials who come forward with evidence of match fixing. Everyone who does come forward will be guaranteed immunity.
Now […]
By Tony Attwood
According to reports Tom Adeyemi who plays for Oldham, on loan from Norwich City, was racially abused by one or more Liverpool fans at the Anfield ground last night. He gave a statement to Merseyside Police in which it is understood he claimed to have been racially abused twice by a supporter.
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By Walter Broeckx
What on earth is wrong with ref Probert? Last year I wrote an article after the Wigan game which was also a Christmas game only 2 days after a previous game. He then screwed us over with not giving a blatant penalty for handball in the last minute. And that after he […]
Money laundering, football and the press – part 2 (with added Lassana Diara)
By Anne
In our first article in this series exposing corruption in football we took a quick look at the situation at Tottenham and the minor matter of how a set of phone records got into the wrong hands – before contemplating […]
By: Anne
You know, it’s amazing how quiet the football media can be when they want to…
Leading into our upcoming series on the transfer market, transfer rumours, and (here’s the big one) possible money laundering in the EPL, I thought I would give our readers a few things to think about in […]
By Tony Attwood
Imagine you are taken to the roof of a tower block and invited to jump off. More than like you will say, “well actually no, if you don’t mind, I won’t.” Or words to that effect.
“Why not?” enquires the awfully nice chap with you who is inviting you to do […]
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Newspaper claims Arsenal “should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly.”
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 […]