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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
You might not know if from reading the English blogs and newspapers but yes, decisions are being made, and proposals are being put on the table.
OK these things have not worked out well in Scotland, where, as we noted last time around, a certain local difficulty has been encountered. But elsewhere […]
By Christophe Jost
As I explained in my previous article on The Last Pandemic, the end of the pandemic was just the beginning of a new set of problems. Those who survived had a whole new set of issues to face.
As different countries approach a stage in which the curve representing the number of […]
By Tony Attwood
I have several times raised the point that the media hates the question “why?” And so it seems today as none of the main news outlets in the UK are asking why the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said that he wanted footballers to take pay cuts and thus […]
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 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
There really does seem to be a feeling among many journalists that
a) this season will resume some time soon,
b) titles, promotion and relegation will be resolved in the normal way
c) next season will happen and all this will seem like a weird interlude of a few weeks.
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By Tony Attwood
A sense of wait and see has been replaced by a sense of “let’s do something” in football, as the realization sinks in that doing nothing will inevitably lead a number of clubs into financial administration or indeed total collapse. Partly it is the technical point that if a company goes into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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
Untold Updates videos
We’re back with our videos – do take a look
Over the weekend I used some of the findings we had on the relationship between fouls and yellow cards; you may recall the data that shows some clubs have to commit many, many more fouls than others […]
The latest video: Untold Gooner News on injuries
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 […]
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Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2 Football corruption and scandals. How we tipped off […]
By Tony Attwood
There is something of a feeling of elation after the win against Manchester United, as indeed there should be. For after five games without a win and indeed just one win in 16, a win against a traditional “top six” club was very welcome indeed. After all it stopped what seemed an […]
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 […]
by Tony Attwood
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Untold Gooner News
We recently published research that showed that only 20% of clubs in the PL that have changed managers in the past 18 months are now better […]
Latest news:
We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here…
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By Tony Attwood
I suppose one of my biggest gripes about football journalists is that they treat their audience like little children who will gobble up anything […]
By Tony Attwood
And so now we know. Just as our ancestors allowed the Hill-Wood family and their allies to force out Henry Norris – the man with the vision of a club owned by its members, and with the best manager in the land – so our generation has allowed that combination of journalists […]
By Nitram and Tony Attwood
CHAMPIONS BLAST BACK VENDETTA
The Sun’s coverage of the Manchester City story concerning whether or not the club has been engaging in financial activities that breach Uefa rules is something to behold.
Of course given the way that the Sun presents stories, and given the literacy and intellectual level that […]
Could it at least make it to the Champion’s League?
No, would likely be the most appropriate answer. After all, we’re looking at a club that doesn’t have the roster and the continuity of management to compete with teams such as Liverpool or Manchester City. Even Chelsea, though lacking the depth to […]
By Bulldog Drummond
In the early days of Untold Arsenal we regularly ran a match preview looking at the betting deals on offer and where the best offer was. But sadly our correspondent moved on, for wholly understandable reasons (and remember, Untold doesn’t pay its writers, so eventually most of us decide they’ve done their […]
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 […]
A view of world cup commentators from an Arsenal perspective.
By Rob Lackey
I travel a lot, consequently I usually watch games with foreign commentary or often listen in the car to 5 live. 5 Live can truly suck when it comes to football commentary, but often excels in almost all other areas.
I was […]
By Walter Broeckx
In the first article I wrote about the ECA I made it clear that the FFP rules are not an invention of Arsenal’s that we are forcing upon the oiler teams. Arsenal have supported the new rules but the idea was carried by the majority of clubs in Europe. The majority of […]
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By Tony Attwood
I have several times raised the point that the media hates the question “why?” And so it seems today as none of the main news outlets in the UK are asking why the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said that he wanted footballers to take pay cuts and thus […]