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 There is an interesting comment going around on certain bloggettas to the effect that it would be good if Arsenal were relegated this year, so that Mr Wenger would get the sack. These comments are written by people who, it seems, class themselves as Arsenal supporters. In the reality inhabited by these …
Read More “There are people who call themselves Arsenal fans, who want Arsenal relegated”
By Tony Attwood “Arsenal fans watching the limp 0-0 draw with Leicester City on Saturday, another game with yet another wrong result, were no doubt crying out for the passion and leadership of Patrick Vieira and his team of Invincibles as they demanded that Arsene Wenger opens his chequebook. “The Frenchman has offered his own …
LEICESTER CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 2 DATE: 20th August 2016 VENUE: King Power Stadium (Leicester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Jake Collin 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 4th OFFICIAL: Andre Marriner First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:45 …
By Tony Attwood There’s a lot of talk around about Arsenal have the highest ticket prices on the planet and yet won’t buy the players “need” to help Arsenal win the league. As with so much in football, such a statistic is misleading – both in terms of ticket prices and in terms of overall …
By Tony Attwood Of course in the end the main thing that counts is the result. But sometimes results alone don’t give a full indication of where things are going. They tell us the score, 0-0 yesterday, and no one can disagree with that, and one can look at the game and say “that was …
By Tony Attwood The Guardian headline, “Leicester City 0-0 Arsenal Wenger says he is ready to spend after fans vent fury” is, unsurprisingly a little misleading. Amy Lawrence didn’t write the headline (unless procedures have changed over the years) but the article she wrote which appears under it she does say ““Spend some money,” yelled …
Read More ““I am sorry he didn’t cost £55m so he cannot be good””
By Walter Broeckx First of all a big sorry for the fact I couldn’t get my article on line. Murphy’s law was at work. As I opened my laptop just when the match started (had to do my theoretical and physical exam as a ref this afternoon and got home just in time – Oh …
By Bulldog Drummond So the complaints against Arsenal and Arsene Wenger rattle on and are utterly lapped up by the media which publish them all without any investigation into the truthfulness or otherwise of the allegations. And of course pointing out that factual errors and disinformation (which has now soared to unprecedented heights) combined without …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal: two possible Arsenal line ups”
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR , PHOBIAS , DISEASES AND AILMENTS OBSERVED ON UNTOLD ARSENAL – PART ONE . The Brickfields Gunners Having been a regular reader , poster and now a regular contributor on Untold Arsenal , I have observed some very disturbing behaviour exhibited by ‘them’ on this site . As a medical doctor of more …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Before I look ahead to the game on Saturday, a brief recap from last week. Michael Oliver had a good overall score and certainly far better than I was expecting with an 82% overall weighted score and bias of 60/40 against the two teams. He did make two wrong Important Decisions, Liverpool’s …
Read More “Leicester v Arsenal Sat 20 August – The Match Officials and what we know of them.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The problem with the central defender isn’t money of course, it is the reality of game time. Arsenal’s regular centre backs will return in due course, and there are four of them – so whoever comes along is likely to be battling it out with them for game time after his …
By Tony Attwood Indeed because of the fact that I doubt that many, if any people have been converted by the arguments we have had of late, I wonder what the point is. That is not to say I wonder why I publish Untold, but rather I wonder why people who believe that everything that …
Read More “I doubt if anyone has ever had their mind changed by arguments on this site”
By Usama and Walter Broeckx Here we are again. Running ahead in the football world. Bringing you more and more and more and more…. Untold proudly presents it new series where we not just take a look at the referee decisions in Arsenal matches. Now as you may have seen we are going to go one …
by the Untold referee review team Welcome to our new review of all the referee performances in the Premier League this last weekend. Below you will find the most comprehensive analysis ever of how the PGMO referees are doing their jobs, with, in section 5, video clips to back up our analysis. Details of match …
By Walter Broeckx Continuing from my previous commentary Arsenal never spend anything much on transfers. Or do they?… Yes Arsenal has to be silent about their transfer dealings. If Arsenal were to go public on who they are talking with the other big money spenders might step in and outbid us. For those who have paid …
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By Tony Attwood I’ve introduced the topic of DraftKings before, and it is interesting to see how things are working out. Many DraftKings players had expected Alexis Sanchez to be one of the stars of the show – he was the highest owned Arsenal player in the day’s biggest contest for the opening fixture and …
Read More “So who exactly was the king of the show against Liverpool?”
By Walter Broeckx In a world where people expect everything to be done now and get everything immediately the transfer window is a long frustrating period. Or at least for many people it is. Not really for me as I don’t refresh arsenal.com every 5 minutes to see who Arsenal has bought. But for many …
Read More “Arsenal never spend anything much on transfers. Or do they?”
By Tony Attwood During the summer of 2016 Untold set out a number of findings from research into such matters as the success of transfers, the impact of having a top scorer in the team, the efficacy of changing managers, and so on. The aim was to examine some of the potent myths propagated by …
Read More “Why the evidence of your own eyes does not reveal what is happening with Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Tony started his article yesterday with this sentence : “For the predictors of doom, always circling on the first day of the season, it was a godsend.” Someone commented on this phrase saying that this wasn’t the case as even the critical fans want the club to be successful. As I was …
Read More “Fear and loathing at the Emirates; supporting the club or foul mouting it”
ARSENAL vs. LIVERPOOL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 1 DATE: 14th August 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Michael Oliver 1st LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 2nd LINESMAN: Edward Smart 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:07 Alberto Moreno …
By Sir Hardly Anyone One might have imagined that with over 100 players now having been strongly linked with Arsenal transfers this summer just about every name has been used up. But now we have no name players arriving via a source known as @AFCArsenalHorse which is said by bloggettas to be a reliable Arsenal source. Although …
Read More “Transfer announcement imminent as no less than nine new targets emerge”
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Shetland. Two winners from last week’s Chelsea competition. OMG Arsenal gave us Calamitously Hopeless Eccentric Lackees Slavishly Enduring Abramovich While Jerry supplied Couldn’t Help Eden Lost Seeing Eva Around This week the competition is Man Utd – just think of a six word phrase where the letters start with the six letters M A N …
By Tony Attwood For the predictors of doom, always circling on the first day of the season, it was a godsend. Not that I particularly mean the result, but the fact that increasingly people do judge everything by the last couple of hours. And of course by the fact that increasingly even when faced with …
Read More “It’s that déjà vu thing all over again; why Kos was not rushed back.”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting with: Cech, Bellerin, Chambers, Holding, Monreal, Coquelin, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Alexis. On the beach: Ospina, Gibbs, Cazorla, Wilshere, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Akpom. The first shot on goal came from Arsenal when Alexis laid the ball off to Ramsey but his left footed shot was straight at Mignolet. Both teams starting …
By Bulldog Drummond Thus, and therefore, it starts again, with nothing changed in the mind of the robots who write most of the football columns these days, although sadly, as we shall see Amy Lawrence, a highly respected and normally excellent writer has joined the majority in making assertions about Arsenal by utilising a wholly …
