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By Tony Attwood
As surely everyone knows, football is in financial meltdown, and is surviving only because incredibly wealthy individuals, and in some cases countries, are ploughing money into clubs to keep them alive. Matters were pretty bad before the pandemic, but now, with income dramatically reduced debts have got out of control.
Interestingly no […]
by Tony Attwood
A couple of weeks ago Gianni Infantino head of Fifa, a man on trial for corruption in Switzerland, met (not for the first time) with US President Donald Trump.
this was when Infantino attended the signing of the agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the White House on […]
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road.
The notion that Arsenal need to be warned that there could be huge losses ahead is one of the more bizarre stories that has emerged from the British national press of late, but that is what […]
By Tony Attwood
There is an article in the Guardian which says
“Whether football returns in June or September, or later even than that, it will be a long time before it is played in stadiums packed with crowds of tens of thousands, without players having to undertake complex social distancing measures. Normal isn’t coming […]
By Tony Attwood
The football industry, which consists of the clubs, the players, the non-playing staff, and the businesses and industry that get an economic boost from it, want football back, because it’s their living, their way of life, and in many cases, it makes a profit. By and large the fans want it […]
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
“The most important week in the history of the Football League – act now, or risk carnage”. So said Mark Palios, the former FA Chief Executive.
It doesn’t really matter when he said it, because it is always the most important week. But this week is a special […]
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
So this is where we’ve got to.
1: By and large the players in the Premier League, following the lead of their union, are refusing to take pay cuts. Some very public players in Europe are taking pay cuts.
2: Clubs are laying off lesser paid staff, and telling them they will […]
By Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost
So we have had weeks and weeks of pretending nothing is happening, or if it is happening it is only those silly foreign people getting into a tiz, while we English know that it is all alright, and indeed it would all be fine in Europe if only those […]
By Tony Attwood
Daniel Levy, (Mr Tottenham), has suggested that Premier League players and managers should accept lower pay. The club has also placed 20% of its staff on furlough.
This is the sort of thing that Untold has been predicting through this crisis, while the blogs and newspapers have been outshouting each other […]
by Tony Attwood
Premier League executives have been told it will cost them £762 million in lost broadcast revenue if the 2019-20 season fails to finish due to the coronavirus, according to The Athletic.
This sum is calculated to be the amount paid by the TV companies that contract to show games, with the […]
By Christophe Jost
The virus’s effect on our daily lives is now visible and for the moment all we can do it simply hope people will find ways of avoiding catching it – by taking precautions and helping each other.
Regarding the human dramas that have emerged and those yet to play out, football may […]
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By Tony Attwood
In the modern blogging world, exploring the issue of cause and effect is sometimes known as moaning – and “moaning” of course is a pejorative word. No one likes a moaner.
So what […]
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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By Tony Attwood
I have been arguing for some time that just as changing managers is not a guaranteed recipe for taking a club up the league, nor is buying lots of players. In fact figures presented here recently show that the six clubs that spent […]
By Tony Attwood
At the heart of the story that has been revealed by the hacking of emails concerning Financial Fair Play, Manchester City, PSG and Uefa, is the involvement of Gianni Infantino who is now the head of Fifa.
It is a story that many, I suspect, will choose not to believe. But before […]
By Tony Attwood
There is so much pouring out from the leaked documents concerning Uefa and Manchester City it is getting hard to follow it all. But if we thought the complexity was why a lot of the English media has stopped running the story, we were wrong. The media have been directly complicit […]
by Tony Attwood
The latest round of suggestions of wrong doing by Manchester City takes us into an area that not only concerns Uefa and Financial Fair Play but also that rather tenacious leg biting dog: Revenue and Customs – the British tax collector – and a complaint from Spain to the EU. It’s all […]
By Tony Attwood
This article continues from my earlier piece: Did Uefa collude with Man City in an FFP cover up across the last four years?
Both articles continue from the investigation we did four years ago which resulted in a series of articles, the last of which was Man City decides to take […]
by Tony Attwood
Now here is a turn up. The Untold Arsenal Editorial Board (also known as that bunch in the corner of the Toppled Bollard public house, on the Rutland / Northants border, along with our friends in Switzerland and other exotic places) was very much of the opinion that “Financial Fair Play” […]
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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, […]