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 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.”
By Tony Attwood This summer and into next season there will quite a bit of talk about stadia and stadia extensions, particularly in relation to State Aid Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham. State Aid have their stadium and the British tax payer has paid for it. They have also qualified for the Europa League via …
Read More “What will happen to the three Premier League clubs with their new grounds.”
By Tony Attwood The article Can possible reasons for unsupported opinions be understood, explained and contribute anything to Untold Arsenal? gained considerable praise on Untold, and quite rightly so in my view, because it opened up an issue that has long puzzled quite a few people who are kind enough to spend time on Untold. And that …
By Sir Hardly Anyone We were hoping to publish part three of the series of articles on the way journalists and fans see football, and how they are fixed in “concrete thinking”, (See Can possible reasons for unsupported opinions be understood, and following that Does Arsenal still need Klopp or Pochettino to make the final breakthrough? if …
By Walter Broeckx The five last second memory of football fans is something I have mentioned before in my articles. It is about judging a manager or a player on their last match result, their last pass, their last missed chance or their last goal. If the striker scores he is god. If he missed, …
Read More “Does Arsenal still need Klopp or Pochettino to make the final breakthrough?”
An observation by AKH Untold Arsenal is a website which uses the important notion of evidence based research and argument to outline a position, viewpoint or idea. For this current season I have been observing that a number of opinions have been given on the website, some even overtly aggressive, without reference to …
ARSENAL vs. WEST BROMWICH ALBION COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 34 DATE: 21st April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss 1st LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 4th OFFICIAL: Lee Mason First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:40 …
By Tony Attwood You might remember that there was a lot of fuss last September when the transfer window closed and the idea was written down and then copied over and over that Arsenal was the only major club in Europe not to sign an outfielder in the summer. Following that Untold started to run …
By Tony Attwood It is central to the agenda of the media that Fifa should be seen to be reformed, so that they can support England in the next round of World Cup matches. For there to be continuing outright corruption, means that the FA is implicated ever more fully in supporting a totally corrupt …
Read More “Media in hiding as Fifa undoes all its reforms and returns to total corruption”
By Walter Broeckx Whenever I come over to the Emirates to see Arsenal play I find it almost always a pleasant adventure. Last times our supporters club travelled we ran in to all kinds of troubles with the boat, the train, the traffic… leading to us even being late and missing kick off. We stood …
Read More “The catering report (specially for Nicky) and the kindness of people in England.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone And so, and thus, and forsooth, after a couple of months of pre-phony transfer news, we have at last made it into the phony transfer news era, which leads to the window banging open and then two months later, slamming shut again, with huge amounts of glass tinkling on the ground …
Read More “Arsenal have chosen, and the £50m player (or £51m players) is/are almost at the airport”
Its Happened Again! by Tim Charlesworth What a day. The joy, the sunshine, the happiness, a fond farewell to loyal players, it was almost perfect. Nobody will put this season down as a great success, but at least it has given us one very happy memory. This season will always have a little place in …
Read More “It’s Happened Again! (And now, let’s remember we are all Arsenal fans).”
By our special correspondent i/c colour co-ordination. Arsenal’s 2005/6 Season was Quite a Purple Patch Looking back on the heady days of 05/06, Arsenal look like the team that almost won it all but kept falling just short. Runners-up in the Champions League. Fourth in the Premiership. Out of the League Cup in the semis …
Read More “Why changing Arsenal’s shirt in 2005/6 was not such a terrible idea. Maybe.”
By Tony Attwood I was very pleased to receive Fishpie’s article “Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish,” and to have the chance to publish it on Untold. Not because I agree with what is said (I don’t in full, as I will explain below) but because it was a well argued piece …
Read More “A step back or a great leap forwards? What exactly happened in 2015/16.”
By Walter Broeckx There was no live match report for the final game of the season against Villa as this time as I was sitting next to my wife in the Clock End for this match. And what an event it turned out to be in the end. I am usually a very optimistic person. …
Read More “Celebrating St. Totteringhamsday in the Clock End”
Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish. By Fishpie And so another season comes to rest. Sleep gently 2015/16. We had high hopes for you. And indeed you will go down in history as a season of great miracles, when the apparently impossible happened and improbable dreams were answered. A saint of a …
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By Tony Attwood In one way Untold seeks to turn the world upside down. The media’s view is that the thing one should do is attack Wenger and the club, and throughout the season they have been going into this BIG TIME. Our view is that we should not be attacking the manager, …
By Tony Attwood The Telegraph, now in its hour of desperation at seeing the Tinies demise, quickly got Arry the Red on the blower, and out of his vague ramblings concocted this headline today… Arsenal are lucky to finish second – they need to spend this summer to get anywhere near Spurs Arsenal were lucky, …
HINDSIGHT OR BLINDSIGHT …………..Don McMahon Recent posts by certain moaners and negative fanboys have displayed a perfect 20/20 hindsight that covers the last 12 years or so. However I would not call what these fanboys display, hindsight, but rather BLINDSIGHT. Here is the definition of this optical disease: It is a cognitive disorder in …
by Tony Attwood The “606” radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live is not a particular favourite of mine, but I do listen occasionally while driving back to the Midlands from the Arsenal. However I don’t think I have heard Mr Savage ever insult a supporter who has taken the trouble to phone in, quite …
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A return to voodoo By Bulldog Drummond. Yes, it is indeed the ninth season that Untold Arsenal has been around to cover the end of the season. Our first ever final match of the season was a 0-1 away win at Sunderland, and the main comment was that the team put out for that …
Read More “Arsenal v Villa. Only half the teams in the Prem next season were there 10 years ago.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Last game for the first team this year and the last referee preview. Usama and Walter haven’t published any more referee reviews for Arsenal games so I have an unaltered Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 30 …
Read More “Arsenal v Aston Villa 2015-16 Season Finale – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood Who holds the power in football? In one sense one could argue that much of this season has been about just that topic. The club owners, the players, PGMO, the fans, the mainstream media, the FA, Fifa, Uefa, and even unfunded blogs like Untold, who when ranged against the previous groups …
Read More “The bid for power in football is becoming confused, complicated and uncertain.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone and a friend. Indeed once more it is the Great Transfer Index – the listing of all the players linked with Arsenal since somewhere around the middle of March. The previous edition of the Index appeared here but that was pretty poor fare compared with what we have now, for we …
Read More “Arsenal to change whole squad: 44 in, 8 out, 4 promoted from youth”
