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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 the …
Read More “Match fixing in the Premier League: the proof, the evidence, the prediction”
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 I will start with a question that could be asked at an Arsenal quiz evening and I think that I can bet a …
Read More “The terrible truth behind how refs are bought in Arsenal games”
Untold Arsenal highlighted once again on Arsenal.com’s “Media Watch” Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal And read about Arsenal’s great re-birth in “Making the Arsenal” —————- Latest: Untold Arsenal on Arsenal.com commenting on the Norwich game (with special reference to the car park). By Tony Attwood As you’ll know by now the man who got …
We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood . The Sun newspaper is in a bit of a pickle at the moment. You see, Harry Redknapp is their columnist and (presumably) paid lots of money to write stuff, which means that when the big news in football is that Harry Redknapp is going to appear in …
Read More “What the Mirror and Sun might have said about Harry if he’d worked for Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Of course the question in the title is loaded,and I know there are some people who don’t actually believe that match fixing goes on in the Premier League. They see, and presumably accept, the evidence of match fixing from across Europe, but believe that somehow (in ways that I have never seen …
Read More “Should Arsenal join other major teams in fixing matches to ensure survival?”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx A couple of days back the president of the Romanian Referee Commission Vasile Avram has been arrested. This Mr. Avram is what you could call the Mike Riley of Romania. He is the one that decides which ref goes to do which game. A very important job. …
Read More “Corruption, corruption… another arrest, and it makes you wonder…”
By Tony Attwood Last year, as we all know, Barca effectively went bust and in June were unable to pay their players. This year, equally famously, they have said they are saving money by stopping colour photocopying. So how can they spend £30m or more on Cesc? The answer is that Barca will more than …
Read More “Revealed: the trick Barca are pulling to pay the fee for Cesc”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Arsenal have been using Ryo Miyaichi in their friendlies this season – and yet he does not appear to qualify to play in the UK. So what’s going on? The first possibility is that somehow during his time in the Netherlands he picked up a local passport, …
Read More “Ryo Miyaichi: who checks the passport. Oh no oh no oh no!!!”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx As I am not from England I have a bit of a handicap in some things. Even though we can see some channels over here in Belgium we don’t get all the UK channels. So I couldn’t see the Dispatches programme about “buying a football club”. And …
Read More “We have a definite link between buying a club and match fixing”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood If you live outside the UK or you are within the UK and resolutely don’t ever read a newspaper, watch TV or listen to the radio you might not know that this country is in the middle of one of its biggest political crises and scandals of …
Read More “Phone hacking and football: refs and club owners.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood In the novel “1984” by George Orwell (the book that gave us such phrases as “Big Brother” and “Room 101” and the notion that newspapers exist to make up news that fits a particular political viewpoint), one of the features of the regime that runs the UK …
Read More “Untold Media Watch: how one paper has read Untold and changed its mind about Cesc”
By Tony Attwood Gian Piero Gasperini has become manager of the Milanese club Inter. And just as he has, so Stefano Palazzi, who works for the Italian football federation (FIGC) has published a new 72-page report on the match-fixing of 2006. After looking at transcripts of phone-tap recordings, Palazzi has reached the view that Inter, …
Read More “Italian match fixing raises its head again: this time its Inter”
By Tony Attwood The Turkish Organized Crime Department have moved in on individuals seemingly involved in a match-fixing scandal. Around 40 people have been arrested including three club presidents – one of them the president of Fenerbahce. Two Fenerbahce players, Emmanuel Emenike and Sezer Öztürk, have also been held in custody. Other footballers arrested include …
By our undercover reporters M. Adeup and T. Ruth Following revelations that Tottenham Hotspur FC have applied to the government for a non-refundable grant for the redevelopment of their White Hart Lane “ground” we decided to seek an interview with the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, the Right Hon Jeremy Richard …
By Tony Attwood For Arsenal to win the league this coming season we need four things to happen. Quite obviously the team needs to play well. I know it is patently obvious, but sometimes I like the obvious. Equally obvious is that the under 10s say there’s no chance of that, and they are doing …
Read More “Roman Abramovich and Michel Platini. Who is kidding whom?”
By Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has always been one of those blogs that is very open to the thought that games can be bought in some way, either by buying some player(s) or is it by buying a ref. Why a player or a ref is bought for is something we don’t know yet. I …
Read More “Refs and scandals: Argentina, Greece, Germany, Hungary, internationals…”
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By Tony Attwood Here’s a thought and a half. Plymouth Argyle is bust, bankrupt, kaput. So far gone they have brought in Mr Ridsdale who is currently facing a few charges by the authorities in relation to the small matter of his running of affairs at Cardiff City. Now think of this: In backing England’s …
Read More “How the football insanity of Fifa helped wreck a small English club”
By Billy the Dog McGraw – our legal correspondent. By and large I don’t like censorship. But I find myself writing on a site that is now censoring comments and have to admit that I see the need sometimes. (At the moment we have the issue of people who come onto the site, look at …
Read More “Why I dont like Giggs and other musings about super injunctions”
By Laundry Ender The problem with untold and moving things on Credibility, that is the problem. At least it is as far as the assertion that there is a systemic bias in referees towards some teams, or players in the Premier League. And that the bias has an impact on the outcome of games, and …
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By Tony Attwood In the past the EU has had quite an impact on football – sometimes positively sometimes not (in my opinion of course). Its rules gave us the Bosman ruling, which I rather like, and gave us the free movement of players, as with all workers in the EU, which I totally applaud. …
By Tony Attwood . Before England put in their bid for the World Cup they knew that organisation they were dealing with, and the people within it, were corrupt. They must have known because on this site, and of course on many others, there are loads of articles about corruption in Fifa. We even have …
Read More “FA clearly guilty of bringing the game into disrepute. So what’s their punishment”
By Tony Attwood The main thrust of Untold in terms of corruption relates to the issue of the way in which it seems that the Italian style low-level buying of referees in general as crept into the Premier League. But while this is our main level of focus in terms of the way football has …
Read More “From Ridsdale to QPR, there are corruption questions being asked”
Untold Exclusive: Arsenal Crowned Champions of EPL! By Sammy The Snake You read it here first, live and exclusive to Untold Arsenal. Gunner’s win over ManU has sealed Arsenal’s strong hold on the EPL, and they have been declared the winners of 2010/2011 season after a gruelling campaign. Think Sammy’s gone crazy? Think again. It’s …
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By Walter Broeckx As being a fan you can be biased about some things. So when people say to me that I cannot be neutral in doing my ref reviews this is something that I cannot deny completely. How hard I try to be neutral when doing it, it can still influence me. The same …
