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
By Tony Attwood Summer parties have been a bit damp in much of England this year – but on Saturday 9th June I attended one in Rushden, Northants, which allowed a spot of sitting outside, sipping the drinks and taking in the chatter, and some extremely lovely food. I knew few of the guests, so …
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This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
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By Walter Broeckx “Spend some f$cking money.” I think we all have heard it before, seen it before, seen it written before. But is it really that simple? We all know (and if you don’t know this by now I welcome you, visitor from Mars) that Arsenal only will spend what they have earned themselves. …
Read More “This is the moment that Arsenal should spend a little cash. £150m should do it.”
By Tony Attwood The question is: how far would you support your club in return for trophies. Some supporters have in the past drawn the line and said, this far and no further. The group that set up FC United of Manchester, now in the Northern Premier League, were one example of a group so …
By Walter Broeckx If you are here for the first time, welcome. This is a blog about all aspects of football, written primarily by and for Arsenal supporters – but with a significant non-Arsenal readership, and occasional non-Arsenal writers too. The thought today is: “Do you ever feel unhappy about a ref after a game? …
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Newcastle Utd 0 – 2 Man City. Want an example of bias? Here it is.”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Tottenham Hotspur 2 – 0 Blackburn Rovers. An unusual bias.”
By Billy the Dog McGraw Many of the players in the Euros are not more or less out of bounds in terms of transfer talk. If the deal is nearly there then the agent can see it through – but even so, no club will sign a player in the Euros at this stage, for …
Read More “The three players most likley to sign in the coming four weeks”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Manchester United 4 – 4 Everton”
By Tony Attwood My last article in the Billionaire series (full links to all the articles in the series, at the end of this piece) was called “How football is being taken over, and the huge danger these changes bring”. I mentioned earlier in the series in passing that new owners often disregard the tribal …
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By Tony Attwood Following on from my piece on the billionaires running football (which focussed on Mr Whyte of Monaco, and the doings at Rangers) it might be a good idea to ask why a billionaire wants to invest in a club. Possible answers are… 1. Something to do. Having so much money might be …
Read More “How football is being taken over, and the huge danger these changes bring”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Fulham 1 – 1 Chelsea. An example to us all.”
By Tony Attwood Every month more football clubs are taken over by multi-millionaires, and billionaires. The reasons why they do it are varied – and later in this series of articles on the ownership of clubs I’ll examine that point. But first I want to examine the way national and international Football Associations are suddenly …
Read More “As the billionaires take over football clubs, Fifa urges “direct action””
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 – 2 Manchester City. Not his finest hour.”
By Tony Attwood It has been interesting to read comments on blogs which but a short while ago were calling for “glass ankles” Van Persie to be set aside, and yet without a blink (or an admission that they were wrong) are now blaming the Arsenal management for not having tied the same VP into …
Read More “Half of Arsenal’s mid-field and attack will be different next season”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Manchester United 2 – 0 Swansea City”
By Tony Attwood In the week that he might have thought could end with him taking England to the Euros, H. Redknapp Esq. might be forgiven if he is looking over his shoulder. With one year left on his contract he is said to want three more after that. Daniel Levy is reluctant, according to …
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By Tony Attwood There is, among the big share-holders at Arsenal FC, a lock down agreement. This means that those who have signed the agreement (including Mr Kronke) have agreed not to sell their shares before October 2012. But what happens after that? It is worth asking now, because if there is a move to …
Read More “Usmanov and Kronke: what the deal will make for each of them”
by Tony Attwood I had just got used to thinking that we had two billionaire clubs doing the rounds – Man City and Chelsea. The came the news that PSG was in the same group – and then Malaga. And there is QPR although I can’t quite work out what is going on there. So …
Read More “Just how many billionaire clubs are there now – and how successful have they been?”
By Tony Attwood A little while ago when we were doing our Untold Awards it was suggested we might create a few more awards. So I then collected all the award suggestions that we had (you’ll find them listed on the Awards site), and thought maybe we might see if we could get some suggestions …
by Tony Attwood Since the season ended every journalist who can lift a drink and find a keyboard (preferably simultaneously and without spilling the drink) has been telling us about this that and everyone else who is going to sign for Arsenal. Meanwhile the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal (AAA) collective with their multifarious web sites have picked …
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Stop the Presses! Could Arsenal be forced to delist its stock in the near future? By: Anne *I would like to thank Shard for bringing this critical issue to my attention. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it either. While we’ve all been settling into a lazy Summer with the only “exciting” topics of discussion …
Read More “Financial Alert: Could Arsenal be forced to delist its stock in the near future?”
