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
Misplaced Misery by Don McMahon Just how profound and deeply ingrained is the pessimism, negativism and miserable affiliation to the dark side of the Arsenal( and total disregard for the facts) some gunners seem to thrive on? After recent excellent displays and cohesive team efforts, the net was brimming over with praise for RVP and …
Read More “The players are rubbish, the web site is down. Misplaced Misery.”
The Daily Mirror’s Arsenal Hypocrisy: A preliminary analysis By: Anne and Bobby Pliers I’d like to begin this article by taking a look at the overall performances of EPL clubs in the Champions League thus far, taking into account the overall difficulty of the groups into which EPL clubs have been drawn. We’ll start with …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal…….Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered By Tony Attwood “Another week, another high-level probe for football’s internal affairs investigators,” so began a Guardian article the day after Untold published one of its regular exposes of what the paper is up to in terms of its Arsenal …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered …… Arsenal History Society By Tony Attwood On Tuesday 6th September Mike Dye was at Wembley to watch an international game. Following an incident which is now the subject of a police investigation he died. Terrible events like this cause …
Read More “As fans, as people, as citizens, we deserve better than this”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered …… Arsenal History Society By Walter Broeckx, With many thanks to Anne for writing and sending an important update in the fight. I know I am not part of the Media Watch team that is doing a great job on …
Read More “Arsene Exposes Media Campaign to Oust Him – Media don’t report it”
“Growing Crisis” Continues to Engulf English Media: But Are Arsenal Finally Fighting Back? By: Anne The constant media chatter concerning Arsenal being in a state of “crisis” should be well familiar to any Arsenal fan by this point. For example, it has become virtually impossible to open any paper at all these days without seeing …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal…….Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered By: Anne *Much thanks to Shard and bjtgooner for their research contributions to this article. Daily Mail columnist (and reigning “Sports Journalist of the Year”) Martin Samuel’s Arsenal coverage beginning on 1 July, 2011 (and particularly in August, 2011) can …
Read More “Martin Samuel’s daily mail attack on Arsenal – Part 2”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal…….Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered By: Anne *Much thanks to Shard and bjtgooner for their research contributions to this article. Last month, Arsene Wenger publicly called on Arsenal’s fans to ignore media pressure and support the team. Arsene said: “The media with us is very …
Read More “Martin Samuel’s daily mail attack on Arsenal – Part 1”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered …… Arsenal History Society By Walter Broeckx I was not going to write another article about Cesc Fabregas I promised myself after he went away to Barcelona. But such promises are only made to be broken I guess. Because after …
Read More “You f*cking, lying cheats and stupid parrots. (What Cesc really said)”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal…….Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered Arsène’s Mood Takes Down Western Economy by bob When Arsenal travels, the Guardian assigns David Hytner to protect its interests in milking the cash cow known as “Arsene Out.” Last summer, Hytner accompanied Arsenal on the Asia tour, and now …
————- Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered ————- By Michael Shelly and Tony Attwood Unwarranted criticism emanates from ex-Arsenal players and managers (Bob Wilson, and Charlie Nicholas generally excepted) all day every day. From Paul Merson to Ian Wright, those who have nothing better to do now their playing days are over, …
Read More “Why Stewart Robson should be given the sack immediately”
By Nick Tolhurst Is the “Media” out to get us? – No, it’s even worse than that. Explaining how the media got so negative and what it means for Arsenal. For many Arsenal fans perhaps the most disappointing development of the last few years has been the increasingly negative media on arsenal related issues. Every …
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UM BACK ON THE CASE: AS THE PLOT SICKENS by bob What now seems a hundred years ago, just after our (recent) Udinese victory, our own Wojciech Szezsny told the Guardian: “The only people who questioned the team and the manager were the media. Inside the team, we don’t do that at all.” After Arsene’s …
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UNTOLD ARSENAL MEDIA WATCH: THE TELEGRAPH Telegraph Coverage of Newcastle and Liverpool Matches Note: Much thanks to bjtgooner for doing research for this article. In our inaugural Untold Arsenal Media Watch report, I thought that I would begin with the paper whose coverage was the worst (I’m sorry Telegraph). I don’t think that the Telegraph, …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal by Anne I’m in the process right now of doing final edits on our first combined Untold Arsenal Media Watch report. However, because the Sun’s match reports on Newcastle-Arsenal and Arsenal-Liverpool are so interesting in and of themselves, I decided that it would be preferable to do a separate post …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal KNOW THINE ENEMY: FROM A LONG WEEKEND IN THE UNTOLD MEDIA TRENCHES by bob Though it’s been hard to shake the “In X-Cesc” soundtrack in my head, news of Gervinho’s 3-match ban proved just enough to fast-track me back into exposing how some journos spun our first match. For full …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Curiously that headline is quite possibly true, although it is written in the misleading manner that many journalists use. Football coverage in the press could end soon because talk between the football organisations over what rights newspapers, reporters, photographers and agencies have, have indeed broken down. And …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Antony Kastrinakis Goes Missing! (and Untold Media Watch Update) By: Anne As a follow-up to my last article, Antony Kastrinakis: defacing the Arsenal, in which I detailed the exploits of a certain Arsenal-hating journalist employed by the Sun, who publishes under the name of “Antony Kastrinakis,” I thought I would …
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By Tony Attwood If you are old enough to remember, or if you have an interest in 20th century history, you may know that televised football back in the 1950s was a very different creature from that which we have today. It wasn’t just that there was hardly any televised matches (just the FA Cup …
Ian’s piece brought a number of the employees of the Ministry of Disinformation onto our site. and I though I would look for a moment at how they are working, what their current message is, and most challenging who is employing them. In doing this I am returning to a couple of pieces posted by …
Read More “Wenger doesn’t need new players; he needs to spend money on some new fans”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx As I am not from England I have a bit of a handicap in some things. Even though we can see some channels over here in Belgium we don’t get all the UK channels. So I couldn’t see the Dispatches programme about “buying a football club”. And …
Read More “We have a definite link between buying a club and match fixing”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By: Anne As a follow- up to my previous article, “Untold Arsenal Media Watch: The Other Side of the Sun,” in which I detailed the Sun’s apparent use of a “talking points campaign” to target Arsenal, I decided to take a closer look at the activities of one particular Sun …
Read More “Antony Kastrinakis: defacing the Arsenal. The story of one journalist’s obsession.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Untold is launching a new regular Media section, which for the moment and with amazing originality is being called UNTOLD MEDIA WATCH. It will run on a regular basis, alongside our other features including… Dogface’s preview of the ref and his history in refereeing Arsenal matches, Walter’s …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood In the novel “1984” by George Orwell (the book that gave us such phrases as “Big Brother” and “Room 101” and the notion that newspapers exist to make up news that fits a particular political viewpoint), one of the features of the regime that runs the UK …
Read More “Untold Media Watch: how one paper has read Untold and changed its mind about Cesc”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood There is a continual theme that emerges from those people who like to call themselves Arsenal supporters but who criticise virtually everything the club does, and it goes something like this: The club is being run as a money machine, not as …
Read More “How the transfer market has been utterly screwed this year”
