How the passing of time has affected the way Arsenal is refereed.

By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Over the years we have been talking a lot about referees. Now one of our most favoured persons over those years was Mike Dean. And I have given many possible reasons for why referees might be biased against Arsenal. We suspect one of the reasons was and is still …

Phantom matches and why Arsenal have their own data company

By Tony Attwood Back in 2007 when Untold started I was exploring all sorts of avenues of interest that I thought this site could follow.   One involved statistics.  I’d watched a match at the Emirates and looked that evening at the stats that appeared on some web sites.  Although I’d not made any notes …

A referee’s dilemma: do you report the corruption of your colleagues?

By Don McMahon The core issue with being an official is one’s integrity. IF the referee or his/her assistants lack the moral courage and integrity, even in making a difficult but self-evident call on the field, even ONCE, then they are certainly very susceptible to being ” influenced” by those who make it their profession …