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By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold Arsenal you will know that one of the fundamentals of our approach is that football opinions are fine, but there is also space for evidence based football reporting to balance out the opinion based reporting. Indeed there is so much opinion based reporting …
Read More “Evidence based football reporting. It can’t be catching on. Can it?”
By Tony Attwood “Spectre is less likely to be corrupt than Fifa.” I love Marina Hyde’s phrase in the Guardian – not only because it is funny but also because it is true. . And that truth was to be found in the latest round of arrests that Walter covered on Untold yesterday. For one …
By Walter Broeckx This morning the Swiss police has arrested a few people. Once again a few top people from Fifa. This time it is supposed to be Juan Angle Napout, president of the South-American Football association (what we would call UEFA in Europe) and also Alfredo Hawit from Honduras who is the boss of …
Read More “And meanwhile at Fifa headquarters … business as usual”
Football has in fact just become a front for political and economic maneuvering. By Tony Attwood. Sometimes in football numbers just don’t add up. Sadly when this happens the politics always does add up, and the result can be rather alarming. And indeed there is something worth considering which is tucked away in the recent news …
Read More “Why the purchase of part of Man City by the Chinese state is a matter for concern”
An update on the Juniors by Andrew Crawshaw U21s After a disappointing game against Stoke, the U21s were back on track in their latest game away to Brighton when they emerged with all three points in a 2 – 1 victory thanks to a fantastic solo goal from 16 year old Donyell Malen. Donyell joined …
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 12 DATE: 8th November 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Martin Atkinson 1st LINESMAN: Michael Mullarkey 2nd LINESMAN: Stephen Child 4th OFFICIAL: Andre Marriner First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood It has only taken them six years, but I suppose better late than never. Untold Arsenal has been regularly publishing referee reviews for a long old time, showing over and over again there are clear cases of either gross incompetence of systematic bias by Premier League referees. We’ve even had a …
Read More “One newspaper breaks ranks to support Untold’s research into referee bias”
“The amount of muscle injuries sustained by young players in the Academy there has been cut in half over the last three years.” By Tony Attwood The story concerns Des Ryan, Arsenal’s head of sports medicine and athletic development and the headline above the story reads, “Galway native Des Ryan has managed to halve …
Read More “Arsenal have managed to halve muscle injuries sustained by Academy players”
By Walter Broeckx Yes November has been dissapointing, not for the first time in recent history in fact. If we look at the average results in the Wenger era as they have been published on arsenal.com it is the worst month resultwise most of the time. The fact that in that period we usually have …
Read More “Oh please let us panic and throw all and everything overboard”
By Tony Attwood Do take a look at the link to the Indy video at the end. Try not to laugh. At least not too much. You don’t want your boss to know you’re watching football rather than working. In June 2014 Cesc Fabregas signed for Chelsea. At £27 million, he was cheaper than Alexis Sánchez, …
Read More “The decline of Chelsea and the foresight of Wenger all explained in one player”
