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 In May 2014 a new competition for B teams of some Premier League and Championship clubs was put forward by the Football Association. The reason for it was (via some mechanism that was never explained) to boost the number of young English players in the league. The idea was that the new league …
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By Tony Attwood We have shown in the past season that only about a quarter of all expensive new players deliver in the first season with the new club. Around a quarter never deliver anything like the standard expected. We have also shown that although having the top scoring players in the league in the …
Read More “How much did the Arsenal squad actually cost and did we get value for money?”
By Don McMahon It is pointless to compare our youth and reserve players to known superstars like Messi and Ronaldo. These two men are the exception to the rule, the one-offs who will likely never be repeated again. for example; Alfredo DiStefano or Puskas were such exceptional players for their time, BUT they played in …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It’s a funny old business, this transfer lark. You remember Carlos Tevez and how with WHU in 2007 he conspired illegally to keep State Aid Utd in the Premier League at the expense of Sheffield Utd. Sheffield got £18m in compensation for the behaviour of State Aid (then known as West …
Read More “L’Equipe suggests new signing imminent, Morata to Arsenal, Tottenham for England”
By Tony Attwood Back in the early days of the century, Arsenal were portrayed as the dirtiest team in the Premier League. Every time Arsenal got a card there was manufactured outrage by the media. Interestingly no one ever compared Arsenal’s card level with any other team, and so those who were anti-Arsenal and …
By Walter Broeckx With the transfer window being open again we get the usual : “Arsenal must buy ….. (fill in)” to win the PL. Let me spell it out once again: I am not against buying a player at all and I will welcome any player that we buy and support him. But in …
Read More “How Arsenal could buy the next Messi or the next Ronaldo”
By Sir Hardly Anyone With the Guardian and Telegraph now both running articles questioning Mourinho’s relationship with reality and most trying to pretend that Barcelona is not a club closely linked with law breaking at every level (child trafficking, tax evasion, false accounting…) we turn once again with relief to that island of insanity, the …
By Tony Attwood I like to think I know a bit about Arsenal and the club’s players (although I know many will disagree with this view) but I am certain I don’t know too much about the ins and outs of other teams. But it has always struck me that it isn’t just players …
Read More “A complete guide to how the League will pan out next season”
By Tony Attwood In a recent article I asked if there was no end to the criminal behaviour of people associated with FC Barcelona and some other clubs. The answer of course is no, there is no end. Today we hear that Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after the Catalonia Court …
Read More “What a mess(i). Yet more dodgy dealings involving FC Barcelona and its players.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone After yesterday’s look at which youth players are now training with the first team, looking to be the next Bellerin or Iwobi, it is interesting that Mourinho has started to “defend” his own record with youngsters. Speaking about the fact that he simply could not find ways to bring young …
By Tony Attwood It is well known that Chelsea have had the largest number of loanees out and about in Europe, and a big youth squad. Arsenal have been languishing with their under 21s in division 2, gaining promotion at the end of last season. Man City have built a new stadium just for the …
Read More “Arsenal addition to the first team will be chosen from this shortlist revealed today.”
By Tony Attwood Seven Spanish clubs including (of course) Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have been ordered to repay tens of millions of euros in illegal state subsidies. While the amount having to be paid in fines will hardly be noticed by either club, and while the world’s media will continue its eternal love …
By Tony Attwood 7 reasons why Arsenal NEED to sell Giroud during transfer window The Metro 17 May 2015: Olivier Giroud running out of time to prove his worth to Arsenal Evening Standard in April Wenger Is Not The Only Problem – Why Arsenal Should Sell This Attacking Duo In The Summer April 25, 2016 Soccer Souls …
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday this came out on arsenal.com: Arsenal have agreed a deal in principle to sign young Japanese forward Takuma Asano from Sanfrecce Hiroshim The transfer of the 21-year-old Japan international is subject to the completion of a medical and regulatory processes. A number of clubs were after Takuma’s signature and Arsène Wenger …
Yesterday we looked at the players who will be free to gather together as pre-season training starts. Today is seems confirmed that we can add one more to the list – Takuma Asano. We’ll discuss Arsenal’s latest acquisition in the next article, but first, former Arsenal player and now Arsenal scout Danny Karbassiyoon, (author of The Arsenal …
Read More “The Importance of Pre-Season: the player’s view from inside Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Times move on and we are approaching the moment when the first group of players return to Arsenal to pick up pre-season training. Tomorrow, ex-Arsenal player, author of the book Arsenal Yankee, and Arsenal scout, Danny Karbassiyoon writes from first hand knowledge about the importance of pre-season training on Untold, but before …
By Sir Hardly Anyone The rumour factories (I hate to call them rumour mills that is so 19th century) have suddenly sprung into life. Now as you may know I don’t normally do Sundays vis a vis the writing lark, but there being no other stories around except Germany won on penalties (and that is …
By Tony Attwood When I published several articles on Untold which related to politics and football, I got a few comments back complaining that this was a football blog, not a political blog. That point is true, but for me football is a topic that is integrated with economics, politics, psychology and sociology. It is …
By Tony Attwood Yesterday, Untold published an article about forgiveness for a person when he/she does something wrong, and about living in peace and harmony. Yesterday also, Barney Ronay wrote an article in the Guardian with the headline, “Sterling and England’s players reflect us all, so why so much hate?” Yesterday we also had a …
AY UBUNTU BE WITH YOU , ALWAYS . From The Brickfields Gunners Blog. Make sure you do not start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who do not value it. Know your worth even if they do not . – Thema Davies. In certain regions of South Africa, when someone does something wrong , …
By Walter Broeckx Yes we and certainly I hate international football. Not just for FIFA or Uefa but for the fact that over the last 12 years or so it has cost Arsenal a few trophies. Time and time again we see our players being taken away to play for their country and more than …
Read More “Sanchez, why we hate international football (complete with horrific pictures)”
By Tony Attwood It seems like it has taken forever for it to happen but ultimately we are there. The window is open. Not that it seems to matter to the clubs, not come to that the inventors who create mythical transfers on an industrial scale. And the numbers continue to rise for we now …
By Tony Attwood One of the many reasons why I was not part of the campaign to oust Arsene Wenger last season, was that what Arsenal went through last year was something that had happened before – to Herbert Chapman. Arsenal had won the FA Cup in 1930, and the League in 1931, and were …
By Walter Broeckx As you will know Untold never has been a big fan of the tournaments organised by the crooks of Uefa and Fifa. As I completely dislike these organisations I don’t want to be involved in anything they organise. I will also not attend a party organised by the Napolitan Mafia, so why …
Read More “The Euro’s: final stage for some Gunners? And how the Iceland team was selected.”
By Tony Attwood The Anti-Arsenal Arsenal grouping is in many regards a rather silly collection of people, some of whom are easily led astray, and some of whom hold some extremely repulsive views and only a tiny minority of whom see to be able to put forward coherent arguments with evidence for regime change at …
