Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
Today’s story from the Arsenal anniversary files is of Mark Randall, and man who in his early days appeared to be destined for great things (and Mr Wenger appeared to agree with that) but who could never settle at Arsenal, and indeed appears to have had difficulty settling anywhere else. And yet in his role …
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 a …
A Short History of Arsenal Football Club Just about any football fan would prefer to spend their days listening, watching, or reading about their favourite club. However, real-life sometimes gets in the way and that isn’t always possible. Matches, and sometimes entire leagues, are cancelled or you might not be able to find the time …
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 …
Read More “Premier League: No one seems to have planned for anything to go wrong.”
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 he’s clever. Or …
Read More “Arsenal in lockdown, football not in lockdown – horse racing says “tally ho!””
Arsenal is a team with a rich history of winning trophies in some of the best most prestigious competitions in the UK. Over the course of their 100 years in the top division of English football, the Gunners have won thirteen EFL and Premier League titles, two League Cups, fifteen FA Community Shields, and …
By Tony Attwood If you create a magazine which boasts that it is the “New Home of Football Writing” then all it needs to be is a little bit better than the football journalism that exists elsewhere. Which you might well think is not that difficult, given the lunatic inaccuracies that we see and hear …
Read More “Is a new Arsenal club being born? Actually, probably not.”
By Tony Attwood And so the noisy fans with their little banners and rather small protest marches have had their way. Two managers out and millions upon millions upon millions spent on players – just as they demanded. And for what? Well, in order to get us seven points above relegation Team P W D …
Read More “This is the worst Arsenal season in 25 years. But can we do what we did back then?”
by Tony Attwood Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… 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 …
Read More “Do we want Arsenal to wait 30 years to recover. Or is there a shortcut?”
By Tony Attwood The book “What you think you know about football is wrong” is itself so wrong and so flawed it ought to be withdrawn and an apology issued to everyone who has bought at copy. If you have read any of the work we have published across the last ten years …
Read More “New book “exposing” Arsenal’s cheating is itself pure fantasy and lies”
