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By Tony Attwood Qatar was awarded the World cup in 2010. Evidence that has emerged since then suggests very strongly indeed that the award was rigged. One suggestion among many is that al-Jazeera (since then renamed beIN Sports) had signed a TV contract that included a $100m fee to be paid to Fifa if […] June 14th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Media, Players, Stadia |
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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 […] April 30th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, England, F.A., Finances, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Media |
2 comments 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 […] April 11th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances, Football, Football blogging |
One comment By Tony Attwood Slowly it has been realised: the clubs across Europe owe around £4.5bn in transfer fees. Of course in one way it can be said that that is not a crisis since everyone owes everyone else, so if A pays B then B pays C etc and […] 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 […] 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 […] March 21st, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, History, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA |
Comments are closed 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 […] March 17th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Europe, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, The Premier League |
7 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] March 14th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Football & club strategies, History, Rules and referees, Statistics |
8 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] March 14th, 2020 | Category: All Tomorrow's Parties, Arsenal stories, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA |
9 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] March 13th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, History |
14 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] February 14th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, England, Finances, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Journalists and their comments, Rules and referees |
15 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Updates videos We’re back with our videos – do take a look
For advertising enquiries contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com For all other issues please contact Untold Arsenal at Tony@schools.co.uk =============== By Tony Attwood One of the many odd consequences of the way in […] February 5th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, England, F.A., Finances, Football, Journalists and their comments, Media |
7 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] January 19th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Football blogging, Journalists and their comments, Supporters |
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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 […] December 11th, 2019 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Football & club strategies, Football blogging, Managers |
6 comments - (Comments are closed) Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look at how far we’ve got visit Untold Gooner News
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 […] December 9th, 2019 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, Match reviews and previews, Players |
10 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] June 30th, 2019 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA, Internationals |
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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 […] June 20th, 2019 | Category: Football |
7 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] |
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The day Arsenal broke the Premier League: the view from overseas
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 […]