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 But first, before I get down to basics, since in order to write this column I am forced to look at the stuff the newspapers are producing, I wish to give you a spot of context, just so you know how difficult my job is. Here is a headline from the …
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By Tony Attwood You may recall – since I have mentioned it about 2000 times – last year the Guardian printed the comment that Arsenal had only two strikers who finished 2015/16 in double figures – in terms of goals. I took exception to the “only” in that comment since it implied that most other …
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By Tony Attwood As always Arsenal had a number of players out on loan through the year, and it has become quite common across the years for one or two of the loan players to come back to the club and make something of an impact. This time round the player who is being tipped …
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By Tony Attwood It has taken a while, but finally the move was made away from endless sniping at the manager and instead turning on a target, the removal of which could indeed open up a new era in the history of Arsenal. If there were banners and protests and aeroplanes flying over the trailing …
By Bulldog Drummond As we approach the time for the train to London here’s a quick look at the home and away form. Arsenal’s home form looks like this… Won 13, drawn 3, lost 2. Scored 36, conceded 15. Not as perfect as it might be, but still, not too bad. Everton’s away form …
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By Bulldog Drummond Continuing the tale of the approaching events of Sunday, as we all know, Arsenal have to do better than Manchester City or Liverpool. A win while Liverpool draw or lose would do it, and a win by three goals while Man City lose by two goals would do it. Otherwise we end …
By Bulldog Drummond As I mentioned at the end of the last article, I asked psychologist Dr Billy “The Dog” McGraw about what drives people not only to protest, but what drives them to protest in particular ways. Why, I wondered do some indulge in violence, some march, some hold up banners, and some just pull …
By Bulldog Drummond In what the media would have called a “long-winded rant” if it came from anyone else, Ian Wright finally came out and backed the notion of a boycott of Arsenal matches by those who don’t like the current regime, rather than protests in the ground. “Something has to change, whether it is …
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by Andrew Crawshaw This is the last league game of the season and before I look in detail at the ‘men in black’ for this game, I would like to do a brief reflection. Here is a table showing the Referees, how many games they have refereed in the league and how many for Arsenal. …
By Tony Attwood And so it goes on and on and boringly on. Press conference time and the silly nutters who sit their supposedly on our behalf asking probing questions to reveal hidden truths instead ask the manager if he is going to stay, and/or when will his future be decided. I think we’ve been …
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By Tony Attwood The FA, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, have decided, very late in the day, to introduce the possibility of retrospective suspensions for players who dive or feign injury. The maximum punishment would be a two-match ban, with the arrangement starting next season. It is the copy of a punishment already in force …
by Tony Attwood We live in a world where there is a great drive to simplify anything and everything. It happens everywhere from the President of the United States, who said today, “No politician in history has been treated more unfairly,” through to Untold Arsenal where, if we make a point about referee errors, …
By Tony Attwood In recent months, Fifa has considerably accelerated the testing of the video-assistance to referees (known as VAR) procedures, which, as the chairman of Fifa (who is an awfully nice and upright fellow) has annouced, will be used during the World Cup 2018. Now Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the Fifa Referees Committee, and …
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The curious case of the wrath of penalty Gods on Arsenal! By Sam If you watch the Premier League, or any league for that matter, you might have at times been baffled by the refereeing decisions. Of course, Referees are human beings and deserve sympathy for not getting decisions right all the time. There is …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone There are only 74 days left before the transfer window falls back into place with everything all over and done, and the glass shattered on the floor, and so far we only have 39 players listed who are going to join Arsenal this summer. …
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By Tony Attwood With Fifa having effectively having wound up its entire ethics committee, and all procedures for ensuring that the organisation is reformed and corruption removed, the remaining “ethics” cartel is left running the show. They are being paid salaries of between $300,000 and $450,000 for attending four meetings a year – and meanwhile …
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By Tony Attwood Oh I really did enjoy last night at the Emirates. Going towards the ground the crowds were clearly smaller than normal, which mean one could just sail by the pat-your-clothes-sir inspectors at the entrances to the concourse. There were also none of those wretched banner holding marchers who deliberately stretch out across …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, Gabriel, Coquelin, Elneny, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck Sunderland trying to press high but the first shot was from Alexis but well over the goal. Alexis has a shot from distance that is diverted by the arm …
By Bulldog Drummond Quite how Sunderland mutates into Wonderloaf and what Wonderloaf was and what it had to do with north London was revealed in our last Sunderland piece in October last year. Anyway, there is not too much news around about this evening’s game, but there were two stories away from our match I …
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting to note just how balanced Sunderland’s home and away form has been this season – three wins at home and three away. They have however performed slightly better at home picking up five draws there, against just one away. They have also scored four more goals at home …
by Bulldog Drummond It seems to be injuries all round at the moment. Here’s the physioroom latest with Sunderland top # TEAM Total men down Whose down last What’s up 1 Sunderland 8 V Anichebe Hamstring Injury 2 West Ham United 8 M Noble Hernia 3 Hull City 7 H Maguire Ankle Injury 4 Manchester …
by Going Going Gooner 5th Can’t say that it thrills me much. Certainly watching football on Thursdays doesn’t do anything for me, either. And, I am not looking forward to hearing all the rubbish from Spurs fans or the Wenger Out Brigade… although there is not much we can do about it… Well, actually, …
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-0 this season I didn’t see a quite how Chelsea were going to turn matters around. But as Mr Wenger said this past weekend, “in the last two seasons the team that won the league hasn’t played in Europe,” and I started to wonder if that could possibly …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are, of course, only as good as their last match. That’s not what I think but it certainly is a view that is very strongly held by many people who like to put their viewpoint across. But even then, the need with Arsenal is always to dampen down matters just in …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Mustafi, Koscielny, Holding, Bellerin, Coquelin, Xhaka, Monreal, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, Gabriel, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck A long ball from Mustafi finds Alexis but he was offside and wasted the chance anyway. Arsenal monopolizing the ball in the opening stages and Stoke defending in numbers. …
