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
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL IN CANADA……………. by Don McMahon This is not meant as an exhaustive or serious overview of what is happening in my country’s Association Football (known as soccer over here) but rather an overview of how we treat, support, officiate and play the game in the Great White North. It is called the …
ARSENAL 13. Internet has got us all hooked. Having no access to the internet is unthinkable now. Forget phones, we have internet on our watch now, whoever wears those.!!. Our routines have changed and is now all wired up. I start my day with a peep into the phone. And then when I …
By Tim Charlesworth My last article talked about the two big gambles that Wenger took in constructing the squad in the summer of 2015. The first gamble was in midfield and the second was in the striker/no 9 position. So now we take a look at last season’s strikers. We went into the season with …
Read More “Strikers: the second Arsenal gamble of Summer 2015 (and will we buy this summer?)”
By Tony Attwood This is the third article in the series about the way in which PGMO is organised. The first two articles published earlier today are… Referee Match Distribution: Is the Premier League the same as other top European leagues? Premier League Refereeing is based on a corrupt Italian model. Continuing from the …
Read More “Using a refereeing system based on Calciopoli – implications and press reaction.”
by Tony Attwood As the statistical analysis in our piece, Referee Match Distribution: Is the Premier League the same as other top European leagues? shows, Premier League refereeing far from being based on the methods used in other major leagues. Instead it is based on the model of the corrupt Italian league – the Calciopoli era …
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Preliminaries Untold has argued for a number of years that the way refereeing is organised within the Premier League is different from that of other major leagues in Europe, but has similarities to the way in which Italian football was organised in the Calciopoli era in Italy in 2005/6. Our argument is that this …
By Tony Attwood As you have probably heard Tottenham have reached an agreement with the FA to play their Champions League home games at Wembley next season, exactly as Arsenal did in 1998 and 1999. Having won the double in 1998, Arsenal were hopeful of doing well in the Champions League, but there was a …
Read More “Tottenham to get added advantage in FA Cup in 2017/18”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as we all know, are rubbish at attacking. We know it because it is in the press, and have heard it in the ground. And as for social media, well… Here are our goal scorers for the season just gone. Name Premier League FA Cup Champions League Total Apps Goals Apps Goals …
Read More ““Arsenal don’t shoot enough and urgently need a new centre forward of merit.””
By Tony Attwood The World Anti-Doping Agency is normally considered (at least in my house) to be one of the good parts of sport, particularly in taking on the old-chums act that is the IAAF, the world athletics body. Wada are the guys who have taken on Putin and Russia for its wholesale misuse of …
by Andrew Crawshaw This is the second part of my impressions of the 2015-16 season as regards the U21, U19 and U18 competitions. Part 1 Overview and Summary can be found here With so many players having featured for the Youth Teams this season, it is almost impossible to list everyone, but I will try …
Read More “The Junior Teams Season End Review – Part 2 Goalkeepers and Defenders”
By Florian Seattle has long been a football friendly city in America, to the point where both men and women have a team in the top leagues. That and maybe the fact that Seattle Reign has a bit of a special connection with Arsenal must have contributed to the Ladies coming to play …
Read More “Seattle Reign vs. Arsenal Ladies – Untold goes international and gets a media pass”
FITNESS TO PRACTICE ABSOLUTE AND TRUE AKBISM The word AKBISM , is derived from two distinct sources – the abbreviation AKB or Arsene Knows Best, is meant to represent that hardcore grouping of football fans that pledge their allegiance to that greatest manager of Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, while the ISM is a noun that is …
By Tony Attwood Once upon a time Italian football was the focus of world attention. Live matches were shown on mainstream British TV and attracted huge amounts of attention. The match preview show from Italy on Channel 4 itself became an issue of major interest in Britain. And then it all went wrong. Italian football …
Read More “The evidence that games in the Premier League might have been fixed in 2015/16”
By Walter Broeckx With the signing of Xhaka we have a new face in our team. Certainly he is a bit of a special person the more I look at it. And he also is rather funny at times. He seems like a young confident lad who knows what he is doing. And who can …
Read More “Xhaka speaks; he’s a leader, he’s humble, and he came here because of Wenger.”
SUNDERLAND vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 35 DATE: 24th April 2016 VENUE: Stadium of Light (Sunderland, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Dean 1st LINESMAN: Simon Long 2nd LINESMAN: Michael Salisbury 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Jones First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 01:18 Nacho …
. By Sir Hardly Anyone. . First I bring you serious and grave news. . For those wretched fake links are back on the bloggettas, the one that persuades you to click a link onto an advert (thus earning the site money) when you think you’ve clicked to get the site’s stories, are back. …
By Tony Attwood The web site Footstats has recently produced some very interesting league tables of its own, and through their kind permission, I am able to bring you one or two of these, starting with the Premier League Table of fouls. You may remember (if you were paying attention) that in the early days …
By Walter Broeckx I think the people who do the arsenal.com website and certainly those who run the facebook page have a good sense of humour. I couldn’t help but grin when I read the words on the Arsenal facebook page that accompanied the news that Swiss international Granit Xhaka has signed for Arsenal. As …
Read More “Okay, okay, you’ve waited long enough… we can confirm Granit Xhaka is an Arsenal player!”
By Tony Attwood “The Gunners should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly.” To confirm from the off, that is not a quote from Untold, but from a national UK newspaper – the Sun. OK not my favourite paper, but actually one that I would have said a …
By Walter Broeckx I know in some circles it is a bit the flavour of the day to talk about our ref reviews in a patronizing way. In a tone like: “those deluded fools at Untold with their ref conspiracy theories, oh what they will not do to not blame Wenger.” You can read it …
Read More “Whoever does the analysing of referee decisions the result is: Arsenal is screwed”
by Andrew Crawshaw The Arsenal Junior Teams cover ages 8 to U21. For the purpose of this review I am ignoring all age group matches below U18 level. I am therefore looking at four separate competitions :- U18 League FA Youth Cup (open to players U18 at 01 Jan 2015) UEFA Youth League (open to …
Read More “The Junior Teams Season End review – Part 1 Overview and Summary”
. By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw Senior mental process analyst at the University of the North Circular Road. . On 3 March 2016 Jamie Sanderson the “sport editor” of the Metro “newspaper” published the article Another year, another failed Arsenal title bid in which the writer spoke of “serious question marks over Arsene Wenger and his future. …
By Menace The League in England & Wales was always a Saturday 3.00 pm match. There was the occasional deviation to a weekday for cup matches but most schedules allowed for the young to accompany their parents to a game without disruption to their education. The TV impact on Football has been the worst for …
Read More “How the Premier League is spoiling family life and the education of young supporters)”
. By Tim Charlesworth A season of gambles All managers have to take risks with the way that they put their squad together. It is not possible to have two or three world class players for every position. As well as being prohibitively expensive, world class players will not tolerate long periods on the bench. …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Well, it has been another amazingly over-the-top week for what we are now learning to call the Early Stage Concrete Hacks, the gentlemen of the press whose arrested intellectual development allows them to develop a whole range of extraordinary tales about who is coming to Arsenal this summer and who is …
Read More “Seven new players coming in, one more leaving as Arsenal’s transfers hot up.”
