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 The Telegraph has published an article, “Every Premier League referee ranked and rated by Keith Hackett”, so what I have done is taken the refs rankings by the Untold team and compared with the Telegraph rankings. We’ve ranked refs in two ways – their major wrong decisions and their correct major decisions. …
By Tony Attwood Take your average premier league centre forward and you will find that at various times he goes through the season without scoring. It is called a barren spell and is considered normal. Indeed if it is Jamie Vardy, then even a sending off during a whole season that is poor by his …
Read More “What’s up with Ozil? Actually nothing much. In fact he’s still at the top of his game.”
by James Burnett Although Arsene Wenger has admitted that he thinks Arsenal are still in a weaker financial position than rivals Manchester City, he maintains that his club has come a long way from the days when their best players were departing for the Etihad Stadium. Between 2009 and 2014, Wenger lost five of his …
Read More “Arsene Wenger Still Believes Arsenal Has What It Takes Despite Being Financially Weaker”
THE MAKING OF A REFEREE…………….Don McMahon A recent article on the Footballroar website caught my attention and after reading it, inspired me to write this article. Here is the link to that article The premise of this article is that former professional footballers are well placed and suited to become premier league officials because of …
By Sir Hardly Anyone, and a friend. One can read the situation in any way you wish – both Meust and Alexis are going to leave because Mr Wenger is an absolute failure and they want to get out of the club as fast as possible, or both players want to stay because both realise …
Read More “If Alexis and Ozil depart, Arsenal have plans to replace both of them with one player!”
By Blacksheep Tony asked me if I could think of writing a sort of review of the year article about Arsenal, perhaps in the spirit of prize giving (best goal, worst referee, most exciting match etc). After this week of disappointment (spoiler alert if you recorded the Everton and Manchester Airport games) I must say …
By Tony Attwood Football has a habit of lurching from crisis to crisis, from headline to headline, from coverup to coverup. But just because until now it has somehow it always got through each disaster and struggled on to the next doesn’t mean this can go on forever. The crises are coming faster and faster …
Read More “Football in England is at the crossroads and its future hangs in the balance”
by Don McMahon As you may know, I am a retired educational psychologist, so I know a bit about psychological evaluation, assessment, interpretation and behaviour management, to name a few items. The term ¨psychology¨is bandied about far too often by people who have little or no idea about what psychology really is. They confuse it …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger’s comments about referees after yesterday’s match were largely ignored or treated as more bleating by a man who won’t face up to his own team’s failings. And this was inevitable given the fact that the media has refused to engage in the debate as to why the PGMO (which organises …
Arsenal XI: Cech, Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Xhaka, Walcott, Ozil, Iwobi, Alexis Subs on the beach Ospina, Holding, Gibbs, Elneny, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lucas, Giroud By Tony Attwood Walter is having another of his Arsenal Belgium sessions so I’ve been roped in for this one. Only one team change from Bulldog’s predictions – Iwobi starts …
By Bulldog Drummond Despite the feeling around that Manchester City are a bit of a difficult team for Arsenal, recent results show this is far from universally so…. Date Game Result Score Competition 8 Apr 2012 Arsenal v Manchester City W 1-0 Premier League 23 Sep 2012 Manchester City v Arsenal D 1-1 Premier League …
Read More “Man City v Arsenal the teams, the recent history, the sequences, and some stuff.”
By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a thought: Manchester Airport’s problems come because their ceaselessly praised manager has bought the players he likes rather than the players they need, and he keeps making changes to the team. Here’s another thought: Arsenal’s problems come because a much derided manager has not bought enough players and refuses to make …
Read More “Guardiola doesn’t do tackles, doesn’t know who to buy, and dithers. Or is that Wenger?”
by Andrew Crawshaw This weekend we have Referee – Martin Atkinson. Age 45 from West Yorkshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant 1 – Gary Beswick. From Durham and FIFA Accredited Assistant 2 – Adam Nunn. From Wiltshire Fourth Official – Robert Madley. Age 30 from West Yorkshire and FIFA Accredited Second time this year for both …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger finally told the assembled football media what we have been saying for years – they are tedious, repetitive and unimaginative. OK he didn’t use those words exactly but he did say they lacked creativity, and how utterly, utterly right he was about that. They agree a theme between them, and …
Read More “Man City’s problem is that they are no longer able to steal players from Arsenal”
by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek 13 Burnley vs. Manchester City [1-2] Referee – Andre Marriner 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Beck 2nd Assistant Referee – Andy Garratt Fourth Official – Jon Moss Swansea City vs. Crystal Palace [5-4] Referee – Kevin Friend 1st Assistant Referee – Jake Collin 2nd …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #13 complete with video evidence”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal enter the third round of this competition tonight with a match against BlackburnRovers at Meadow Park Borehamwood with a 19:00 kickoff. The Borehamwood web site say that there will be no charge, the Arsenal website says there will be a ticket price of £5 at the turnstiles. Either way it is …
Read More “FA Youth Cup 2016/17 – Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers 16/12/2016: Match Preview”
By Tony Attwood As predicted after the Everton game, the aaa are back. uMaxit – a website I’d not come across before although I am sure it has been there for a long time, has a huge audience and the fault in not seeing it is entirely mine – having told us after the Stoke …
Read More “Man City v Arsenal: a change of tactics is predicted, and the psychological game”
By Tony Attwood Now here is a twist and a half. It is being reported in some of the stranger quarters in the footballing world that our Mesut is saying that for him to sign a new contract Arsenal will have to sign Julian Draxler of Wolfsburg. Of course it might be the case that …
Read More “Özil asks Arsenal to sign Draxler as part of contract deal and other tales”
WEST HAM UNITED vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 14 DATE: 3rd December 2016 VENUE: London Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Craig Pawson 1st LINESMAN: Harry Lennard 2nd LINESMAN: Ian Hussin 4th OFFICIAL: Lee Mason First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 03:38 …
Read More “Ref Review: West Ham – Arsenal: an even bias score, miracles do happen”
By Tony Attwood Imagine that you go out of your front door tomorrow morning and find armed police and the military patrolling the streets where previously there was no such activity. Carefully you drive to work, noting the army digging bunkers and erecting barricades, patrols at every junction. You slow down to look for …
Read More “Football journalism has become a walled wonderland inherently incompatible with reality”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is often said that Einstein commented that the definition of madness is doing something, finding it fails, and then doing it again. Einstein never said any such thing, but that doesn’t stop people claiming that he did over and over without checking the validity of their claim. It is in …
Read More “All the Arsenal transfers you might have missed and some that may yet happen”
By Walter Broeckx The future is the video ref. As we have been saying for many many years now. And in the FIFA Club World Cup they are busy testing the system. And from images I have seen I think it is a great way of getting rid of the bad behaviour we see on …
Read More “The video ref in action: a practical example of video refereeing in the Club World Cup”
By Tony Attwood All it took at the start of the season was a defeat by one goal at home to Liverpool and a goalless draw away to the champions (at that point yet to fall from their perch) for the aaa to orchestrate their “Wenger out” chants at Leicester. Which means despite all …
Read More “It’s not the defeat that counts, it’s what happens next”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal with an almost unchanged team from the one that beat Stoke last Saturday. The only new player from the start was Hector Bellerin who started at right back. Gabriel who started at right back last weekend moved to the middle to replace Mustafi just as he did when Mustafi went off …
by Tony Attwood Mr Wenger has been in upbeat mood of late, saying, for example, “When you look at the teams around us, you can see that the margin of difference between the teams has shrunk a lot. So the way you respond in every single game is absolutely vital. “What is for sure is at …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: the teams, the psychology, and Wenger copying Chapman”
