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 Not all of the media is heading our way of course but there are signs that, given the bit of hiatus there has been in Fifa news for the last few days, there is a bit of reflection going on as to where we might go next. Now of course no one …
Read More “Shock, horror, media edges towards Untold’s ideas. This must be the end…”
By Tony Attwood I raise the question above because of a review I saw this morning on the Football Observatory site in which various player attributes are combined to work out the worth of the players and whole squads. The tally starts by taking six issues related to a specific player age position contract international …
Read More “How much is Arsenal’s squad worth, and who are the most valuable players?”
By Fishpie I know you don’t want to. Not yet at least. After all, it’s only a fortnight or so ago since we finished last season with such a wonderful exhibition of glorious cup winning football; us, at our brilliant footballing best. So let’s bask, bask and bask some more, all summer long in …
By Tony Attwood We know that Arsène Wenger has done some amazing things, such as… Being the most successful FA Cup manager in the last 100 years Being the only manager in the last 100 years to win the FA Cup in successive years, twice Being the only manager to take a team all the …
Read More “Is Arsène Wenger the most successful manager Arsenal have ever had?”
By Tony Attwood Funny ol’ world ain’t it. All these odd stories popping up, including gawd elp us, a growing level of support for Untold’s little campaign to do something about the loan system. Who’d have thought it. Support for an Untold campaign or analysis does happen, although invariably without the newspapers ever acknowledging we …
Sniffing out the news once more You will probably have heard the story by now: disabled Arsenal supporters with tickets attempting to enter Old Trafford this season had their walking sticks removed because a) they could be used as weapons b) no one had told Man U that the disabled were coming. It is shocking, …
Read More “Why does Old Trafford make disabled people more violent?”
By Sam A few months ago, Jose Mourinho branded Arsene Wenger a “specialist at failure” due to his lack of trophies in the past decade or so. The media lapped up the phrase in their click-bait articles and the social media world went into a frenzy about Mr. Wenger’s perceived failures. Last week, Mourinho …
The dedication that Arsenal fans from all over the world have, in supporting the club, often amazes me. And over the years of running Untold it has been a pleasure to meet with many overseas supporters – particularly those who have got to know us through the work of Walter Broeckx on Untold. Here’s a …
Read More “Belgian fans at the last home game, hotel and catering report”
By Tony Attwood . It seems I haven’t done my homework, and not for the first time. I really had thought Damien Martinez was still very much on the up, but it appears he is out of contract this summer – not the sign of a man who is staying. Ah well, shows what …
Read More “All the players in next season’s Arsenal line up, and some who aren’t”
Friday night is the night when the editorial and marketing team from Untold Websites and Blogs meet to discuss the week’s news, and what lies ahead. And wild and crazy nights they can be too! Over the years our numbers have grown, and we now boast editorial and advertising teams from Untold Arsenal, Untold Dylan …
Read More “Editorial night at the Toppled Bollard; Untold’s public house of choice”
By Walter Broeckx The season is over; time to have a look back. I will go in to individual players later on in this most silly of silly seasons, but now I first want to take a look at some numbers. Numbers like winning, drawing and losing matches in the different competitions and then mix them …
Read More “Arsenal’s win percentages; why we need Theo next season”
By Tony Attwood So where have we got to? The first extraordinary thing about all this Fifa malarky was the fact that Fifa could have avoided the trouble either by keeping an eye on the change made to Swiss law last December, which allowed the Americans to get arrest warrants executed on Swiss soil. You’d …
Read More “FA still anxious to put its nose in the trough even further”
Now me hearties, here’s one that you will love. Or not as the case may be. Untold has told us all to scout out the strange and bizarre this summer, and here’s my contribution. An online video ad, has been created for the the Charlton Athletic YouTube channel (do you ever watch anything else?) It …
Read More “Dorking Danny scores late at night in Charlton with willing tart”
By Tony Attwood It is a while since we did anything much on transfers, what with the FA Cup final and end of civilisation as we know it, but no matter if one turns away for a day, a week, or a month, the news is the same. We need three players if we are …
Read More “Who we should buy this summer (which is not the same as who the press suggest).”
By Tony Attwood It is rather amusing, one might even say “rather droll,” that just as FFP is being dismantled by Uefa in the face of multiple legal claims, and a year after FFP in the Premier League was supposed to have been introduced (but never was), the media is celebrating the success of FFP …
By Walter Broeckx Allow me for once not to do the usual match report I write. As in order to publish the report I write it while the match is going on. I found myself missing goals at times doing that when I was typing things from a big chance and from the following corner …
Read More “Hey look, we won the Cup. Finally the match report”
Sadly there is still no one asking the question: If Blatter and his gang were evil, and were known to be evil, wasn’t it rather naive of the FA to spend £16m bidding for a world cup vote when there was every chance it would be fixed? In such a case, surely the criminals of …
Read More “British territories named by FBI as part of the Fifa corruption roadway”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal have two players in the England under 21 squad to play in the Czech Republic: Calum Chambers and Carl Jenkinson. It is interesting to be reminded of Jenkinson after his season with Fat Sam. He was injured at the start of the season, but got into the team and stayed there, …
Read More “Akpom on TV tonight. Jenkinson and Chambers to follow.”
Saturday, (cup bleedin’ final day) 30 May 2015 Bloody hell, it’s Tuesday and I’m just in from the boozer. I have to say that was annoying. I don’t think that Monsignor Venga bloke has any idea about the history of this great football club. We’ve now won the FA cup two seasons in a row …
Read More “After several days in the pub Dial Square Dave emerges; Blatter immediately resigns”
By Tony Attwood This article continues from the previous piece which contained points 1 to 12. 13. Stop running paid for press releases in newspapers. I’ve covered this so much I’m sure you are bored, so at least I have relegated it to 13th on the list. Newspapers are increasingly poor and biased in their …
Read More “20 changes that would hugely improve football next season – part 2”
By Tony Attwood These are, of course, just my thoughts. They won’t happen, but sometimes dreaming is nice… This article contains items 1 to 12. The remaining eight appear in the next piece. 1. Change Premier League scheduling so that December / January are not the busiest times. I know that the crowds are big …
Read More “20 Things that would hugely improve football next season: part 1”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, Professor of Clinical Stuies in Universal Psychology, Youth and Original Untold Remedial Services at the University of the North Circular Road, Enfield. The Department of Universal Psychology, Youth and Original Untold Remedial Services (UpYours) recently received a most generous grant from the various national bodies concerned about mental health …
Read More “Providing psychological support for the half-baked and seeing Arsenal as it is.”
By Walter Broeckx As getting tickets for Wembley was not possible for most of the local Untold Arsenal writers and for me from far away places it was completely out of the question. So with a bunch of 4 other Arsenal Belgium members we went for the screening in the Emirates. On each side of …
Read More “Being in the Emirates for the screening: the great, the good but also….”
By Walter Broeckx Finally back home after an amazing weekend in London. I will write a complete match report later on of course but first let me give you a few short thoughts that passed my mind before, during and after the match. I was in the Emirates with some friends from Arsenal Belgium so …
Read More “A historic day for Arsenal and their great manager”
