How can we tell when a manager is doing well?

By Tony Attwood Since we won the FA Cup that question has been more puzzling than ever. It used to be that winning a trophy was doing well.  But although the victory over Hull and the subsequent beating of Man C in the Charity Shield gave Mr Wenger some respite, it lasted little more than …

Abusing a fellow Arsenal supporter on a blog is like shouting at your front door because it won’t shut

By Tony Attwood When I was a young writer, trying to break into the business full time, I adopted the tactic of writing articles and books that by and large no one else was trying: different approaches, different styles, different ways of looking at issues. As a result I got a lot of rejections from …

Ref Review Arsenal – Newcastle

Ref on the day was Lee Mason Referee Mason surely got off with a bad start. Tiote deliberately putting his studs in the chest of Alexis and he completely ignored or missed it. If as some say he couldn’t see it, it was down to a technical error from the ref. Bad positioning it is …

The referee table of shame and the ref’s background for the Southampton game

Southampton v Arsenal 01 January 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated table of shame following Walter’s review of the Stoke game Untold ref Review: Stoke – Arsenal, the Anthony Taylor horror show. “Shockingly bad”. Twenty two wrong decisions in that game, eleven yellow card or worse and all against …

Unimportant Gooners. A rant. A whine. A cry….

Un-important Gooners. A rant. A whine. A cry…. distant gooners. by Arsenal 13 This is what happened during the West-Ham game. Comments section of the Untold. Most people know this. BUT compiling it again to show the person and for the people with similar views where they are wrong. For generalization, lets name him X, and …

After the game, it all depends on what you do with the comments

By Tony Attwood The FA has a section on its web site called “Media comments and Social Networking cases – Charging guidelines” It says in part, The following types of public media comment, including on social networking websites, may be considered to be in breach of FA Rule E3: Comments which are improper, which bring the …

Southampton – Arsenal, defensive errors paid in cash

By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the team who was level on points at the start of this match we had these players Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis. And on the beach we had Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom. Gibbs came in the place of …

Panic ensues as transfer window fails to open; Zelalem goes US

By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Mirror and several other newspapers the transfer window is now open. But no! Woe!  Woe! and Thrice woe! (which is really only meaningful to British readers who remember Frankie Howerd).  The window is jammed shut.  It will not open.  Pliers, crowbars and ratchets have been ordered. But it …