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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 Christophe Jost
I must be transparent. I do not live in the UK, I am of German and Swiss descent, work in France and Switzerland, and have lived in quite a few countries so far in my life.
Some of the countries are rich, some are poor. So my vision may be a galaxy […]
Premier League: The best bromances of the league
For centuries, football has always gathered millions of fans around the world regardless of race or religion. However, apart from this solidarity around football fans, it also happens that links are formed between players of the same team.
We tend to forget it but football is above […]
By Tony Attwood
There are two ways to imagine football as and when the current crisis is all over.
One is that everything picks up from where it left off, with the same competitions, the same number of games, the same financial situation, the same funding etc. The other is that this crisis will cause […]
By Christophe Jost and Tony Attwood
As you may have heard, the UK in general and England in particular has gone its own way in dealing with the coronavirus crisis.
And inevitably that has meant a certain amount of uncertainty and worry about what Britain is doing, and what effect it will have.
Now that […]
By Tony Attwood
In the last set of figures presented via annual accounts, the 20 clubs in the Premier League were shown to have a turnover of £4.827 bn. Which is quite a lot of money.
Their wages bill was just over half that. 58% to be (more or less) exact.
Now obviously the virus […]
By Tony Attwood
Next season is due to start on Saturday 8 August.
And according to the standard contracts operated by the Premier League and by the English Football League, players are entitled to “five weeks paid holiday to be taken at a time or times determined by the club – subject to the club’s […]
By Tony Attwood
Arsenal locked down, Arsenal fans locked out, government and horse racing says “carry on, carry on!”
See also…
What do the terms and conditions of my season ticket say about coronavirus?
Everywhere shuts down, except England. No one knows what to do except President Trump who knows everything because […]
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 […]
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By Tony Attwood
One of the many odd consequences of the way in […]
by Tony Attwood
It is interesting to see The Athletic in a current article taking an interest in AFTV, and recognising (perhaps a little late in the day) that not everyone who claims to be an Arsenal supporter actually likes AFTV. But I do find it a little frustrating that articles like this are presented […]
By Adam Up
Untold Gooner News video: A lesson in how to silence the critics
The Daily Mirror has done an update of the list of men said to be “in the running” for the job of Arsenal coach, and what do you know. Although the list is remarkably similar to the […]
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By Bulldog Drummond
Once upon a time we played league games on Saturdays at 3pm. Funny old idea that was. It meant you could have lunch with […]
By Tony Attwood
I wouldn’t normally focus enormously on one particular blog and its commentary, but the headline today of “This is why we want you gone: these Arsenal fans can’t quite believe Unai Emery’s latest comments ” really made me wonder if there is any end to the madness, or whether it just goes […]
By Bulldog Drumond
There have been 30 Premier League games so far this season. But only 10 of them have been home wins. That is, rather obviously, 33% of matches that have ended in home wins. Last season it was 48%.
And what makes this quite interesting is that this is a sudden change after […]
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 Sir Hardly Anyone
As you may have noticed, the Africa Cup of Nations has begun. A little later than planned, but it has begun.
What it means is that those players involved will not be available at the start of the season since they won’t have had a proper summer rest. In this case […]
By Tony Attwood
On 27 May 2015 Untold ran this headline
If Fifa execs had read Untold in January they would have known they were going to be arrested
That story related back to our piece on 22 January that year which itself had the headline
Switzerland take a greater interest in […]
By Tony Attwood
So far in this series:
Is football fixed? Part 1: The logical reason why we might well think so. Is football fixed? Part II: why we need to have change
I had already written the two previous “Football is Fixed” articles that appeared yesterday, when the news came in that the match […]
By Tony Attwood
This article concludes the discussion on why change is needed in the way football is run in the Premier League.
As the Guardian pointed out, when Southampton were beaten 6-1 by Manchester City, the expected goals result suggested a 2-2 draw. And we say, ah well, stuff happens. Or we might […]
By Tony Attwood
There are two answers to the notion that football is fixed, which journalists and bloggers like to trot out over and over again.
The first is that the people who suggest football is fixed are simply loopy – that they go around wearing tin hats, believe that the BBC […]
It goes without saying that unless you’re English, you’ll have no clue of the immense passion that is deep-rooted in the sport of football, which has become ingrained in the nation’s culture over generations. In this article, we have listed some of the essential tips that non-native English football attendees need to know before […]
By Tony Attwood
There is no doubt that a lot of readers who are critical both of Arsenal and of my approach to Arsenal, argue that it is dead simple to predict Arsenal’s results because the manager is a turnip who insists on playing players such as Mustafi, Lichsteiner, Jenkinson, Kolasinac, Elneny, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Xhaka […]
By Tony Attwood
I have written many times before about the child sex abuse scandals in English football, and my dismay at the way that the media has been handling them. If you want a quick re-run there is an article at https://untold-arsenal.com/archives/61818 – there have been a fair number since.
Football doesn’t want to […]
By Tony Attwood
I am about to toddle off to the other side of the world so I may not be able to clear all the comments that come in – more on that in the next post. But first here is a little thought that popped into my head.
Mr Emery is mostly very […]
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By Christophe Jost
I must be transparent. I do not live in the UK, I am of German and Swiss descent, work in France and Switzerland, and have lived in quite a few countries so far in my life.
Some of the countries are rich, some are poor. So my vision may be a galaxy […]