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 Bulldog Drummond. Last year on 13 March, Paris Saint Germain won the French Ligue 1 title for the fourth successive time. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored four on that day as they beat bottom club Troyes 9-0 and became the first team to win the championship after 30 matches. By this time PSG were 25 points ahead …
By Tony Attwood There’s an increased focus on referees this season – which is rather interesting after the years and years of work that Walter and his team has put into looking at refereeing from every possible angle which has been utterly disregarded by all and sundry. We saw the first hint of this new …
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been paying attention 115 players were linked with Arsenal as transfers into the club between April and the end of the transfer market. 22 players were said to be leaving. 99% of the stories were untrue. These stories were made up all over the …
By Tony Attwood The club formally known as West Ham United have got for free (or as near as damn it when compared with the cost of the Emirates) a stadium. It has a 60,000 capacity, compared with the 35,000 capacity of Upton Park. They had a bit of teething trouble – some of the …
By Tony Attwood To get into the Emirates for each home match I have to go through two security checks. Fair enough, these are troubling times. But if I, a season ticket holder of advancing years have to go through two security checks, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING AT THE AWAY END????? Yet again …
By Bulldog Drummond So the boring stuff is over; I must admit I didn’t even get to see the scores let alone watch anything. But now we are back to football. And Mr Wenger has given us a bit to think about. For instead of just saying that Jack W would play again for …
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw According to a comment in the New Scientist, “Nine of out ten people hold a delusional belief.” Now holding delusional beliefs is what Untold Arsenal has been accusing journalists and their fellow travellers of doing through most of this summer. Assuming that just writing down the name of …
by Andrew Crawshaw For our last game at Watford we had Kevin Friend as our Referee assisted by I Hussin and M McDonough. Broadly Mr Friend performed as predicted, 78% overall weighted preformance, bias against the two teams of 25/75 and 2 wrong Important Decisions a not given second yellow card for Amrabat in Min …
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By Tony Attwood The deep rooted corruption and disregard for the rules by the three largest Spanish clubs and the Spanish Football Association has been confirmed yet again after Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid had their appeals against transfer bans rejected by Fifa, much to the embarrassment of the mainstream UK media who seek to talk …
By Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood Following our detailed review of Arsenal’s youth teams and youth policy (a link to these articles is at the foot of this piece) we then took a look, by way of contrast, at Chelsea’s approach to youth in the article Chelsea lead the Premier League in the number of players that …
Read More “The strange case of Chelsea’s missing players, and their unusual approach to youngsters”
Sir Hardly Anyone considers what the bloggettas do now the window has slammed and the glass is lying on the floor. Indeed, what do the bloggettas do when the window has cracked and all the transfer rumours have been put to bed for another few weeks, before the fever of the January opening breaks forth? …
By Tony Attwood Although Untold is known by some as being the pro-Wenger blog, it has also always been a campaigning website, arguing as strongly as it can for change in certain areas, as well as pointing out where evidence is being ignored or misused by journalists in their own commentaries on football. As an …
Read More “Oh look, a newspaper has discovered the reason why England teams are rubbish. Again.”
By Tony Attwood One thing is absolutely certain; Arsenal will get injuries this season. And when they come along the people who really do nick a living in football – the journalists – will be there with their Arsenal Injury Crisis. Indeed I am surprised they haven’t been at it today, given that Arsenal are …
Read More “Arsenal near the top of the injury list, so which back up players do we have?”
By Tony Attwood For years and years Tottenham have gloried in making a profit overall on transfers. They haven’t always spent that money well, but they have made a profit. But not this year. For years Arsenal were known for selling players at a profit, even if they didn’t want to, but not this …
. By Fishpie Last season Untold was good enough to publish a series of my posts which tried to measure and assess our progress during the campaign. The basic idea was that Win, Draw, Loss and Points data from the previous 10 years had given us a pretty consistent picture of what it had taken …
by Tony Attwood The first thing to note about Perez is that he is on the up, and was having his best form at Deportivo, playing in a team that was struggling to score goals. He got 17. So at the most basic level the idea is probably that with Ozil pushing through perfect balls, …
by Andrew Crawshaw Chelsea lead the Premier League in the number of players that they have out on loan to other clubs. According to Sky Sports, following the closing of the transfer window the 20 clubs in the PL have a total of 169 players out on loan across the world. Chelsea are far and …
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By Tim Charlesworth As we head deep into the interlull with the transfer window closed, it finally feels like the football season is ready to start. The first three games had a curious ‘pre-season’ feel to them, with summer weather, lots of teams missing players following the Euros and everyone looking a little …
Prelude: Just before we get into the regular report on referee performances on the pitch, if you have been following the Mark Halsey incidents reported in our last article you might like to note the latest from the Daily Telegraph. Mark Halsey reveals incident he claims he was told to lie about by referee bosses as …
Former Premier League referee Mark Halsey claims he was told to say he’d not seen incidents by refereeing body That is the headline from the Daily Mirror and it is popping up in quite a few newspaper web sites now, originally mostly finishing with a pompous statement about how the newspaper has contacted (ie sent …
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By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention you will know that recently Andrew has written a series of detailed articles on Arsenal’s players, including the “25” list of registered players, the loanees, and what is going on with the under 23 and under 18 teams. Top of the league and bottom of the …
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by Andrew Crawshaw This is the third part of our series on the Arsenal youth system. Earlier articles in the series were… Top of the league and bottom of the league. Is Arsenal’s youth system working properly? The Arsenal Youth System – Part 2 Comparisons with other clubs At the U23 game against Liverpool I …
Read More “The Arsenal Youth System – Part 3 Questions and (some) Answers”
By Sir Hardly Anyone 115 incoming transfer rumours – almost all of them wrong 22 players who were about to leave Arsenal – most are still with us. Total failure to spot the actual transfers ahead of activity – except in one case. So here it is, although sometimes it seemed it would never get …
by Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 – an Introduction I showed that 10 players out of our 32 man first team squad are products of at least one of the three phases of our Youth Team System. This has occurred despite our U21 team (as it was up to and including last season) had been …
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. The Arsenal Youth System – Part 1 Introduction by Andrew Crawshaw As you may know I get to see as many of the Youth games as possible. Our U18 team play the vast majority of their home games at the Colney training ground but these are effectively behind closed doors. We have an U19 team …
Read More “Top of the league and bottom of the league. Is Arsenal’s youth system working properly?”
