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 First off Djourou – we had a discussion as to whether he was an Arsenal player or not. He still appears on the Arsenal web site – but without a number. But Wiki has him transferred already, as a result of his loan last season. I can’t take this any further – …
Read More “Arsenal v Monaco: the line ups, the options, and funny ol’ stuff”
By Tony Attwood Well that was fun. BT Sport behaved in the way that one would expect a mainstream station to behave and the AAA were not to be heard. I can only hope Arsenal have saved a few goals for me to see on Sunday. So what happened? It would be pretentious to suggest …
Read More “BT Sport reformed, good pre-season game and Arsenal’s 17?”
By Tony Attwood So off we go again. We’ve had the preliminary warm-ups, now for the warm up. And of course we had to have the boorish gibberish from the broadcasters – it is part of the tradition. Today’s highlight as shown in the headline was said by a show host at around 12.30pm …
Read More ““A day when there is no football to report” TalkSport. 12.30pm 2 August”
THE LOT OF TOP REFEREES…….Don McMahon Walter recently wrote an excellent piece about the PGMOL and the imbalances seen in that organizations’ handling of their members. As you may know, I am a retired professional referee who spent his career trying to be the best referee he could be and also hoping to make the …
Read More “Why some refs rise to the top, and what they lick on the way”
Saturday 2 August is just about the last chance for BT Sport to redeem itself as Arsenal’s media partner. This time last year they gave a performance at the Emirates that was so awful in terms of criticising the very competition they were supposedly covering that it beggared belief that they had actually pitched for …
Read More “2 August is BT Sport’s last chance to redeem themselves as Arsenal’s media partner.”
By Tony Attwood As you may well know, (and telling the world about it is by far the best thing the Guardian has done in recent years), if you live in Britain then you are under surveillance. You might be monitored in real time, you might be watched if you are allowing your pic …
Read More “Beware where you watch football. It is not as safe as you think.”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Head of Translation Services, University of the North Circular Road. I’m starting to think that the blogs and newspapers that specialise in transfer gibberish (“gossip” seems too upmarket a word) are actually vying with each other to see who can produce the greatest level of nonsense. The only …
