What’s so different at Arsenal that has led to this improvement? Actually, its…

It’s the Defence, Stupid… By Pete This is the first of 3 slightly related articles examining (i) a reason for our recent improvement (ii) how the analysis of football matches in the media is fundamentally flawed and (iii) the importance of retaining focus on longer term goals. To start, I have been thinking about the …

The Untold Arsenal Tactical Analysis: Stoke at home

By Arvind This is part of our new series looking back at Arsenal match by match, to see how the tactics are developing. This time we will take a look at how Arsenal played in the Stoke City home game which we won 3-1. Arsenal offence: Wilshere driving at the heart of the Stoke defence …

Ref Review 2012/13: Michael Oliver. This doesn’t look too clever.

By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article.  __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Michael Oliver. Ref Oliver is still only 28 years old so we might be seeing him …

How Manchester United influenced referees, year after year after year

By Walter Broeckx Ever since the day I started the referee reviewing system on Untold a few seasons ago the one thing that came out of most numbers was that we could see a bias in favour of Manchester United. For years we have been suggesting this was the case, and got it confirmed by …