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 Blacksheep Untold Arsenal Report on the End of Season supporters event 2017 Every year members of the variousf supporters groups get invited to an event at the Emirates in June. I have been along with Tony in the past but he was otherwise engaged this time, so Untold was represented by Andrew and myself. …
By Sifarzone The title of the article is setup for the reader to make their own interpretation of the facts presented below. Recently, I have been miffed about the anti-Arsenal bias presented on ESPN, a worldwide, well-known and well respected network. However, such respectability seems not to have extended past their baseball, football (American) …
Read More “Intentional misrepresentation, misunderstanding of statistics, or…?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Since we had our little technical break the news of Arsenal’s transfers has become even more extraordinary than it was before. Here, without any ado, agitation, fuss, difficulty, concern or delay, are the veritable details of the players recently touted as being most certainly and without fear of contradiction on their …
Read More “Arsenal’s most extraordinary transfer news is quite honestly hard to believe.”
By Tony Attwood My sincere apologies to everyone for the long time that Untold has been out of action. As you may know, we have had a history of cyber attacks on us, and have put in place a whole range of defences to stop it happening again. It is too early to say whether …
By Tony Attwood I too love the phrase, “The Commentariat”. Jeremy Corbyn uses it to speak of the scoundrels who write anti-Labour propaganda in the Express, Sun, Mail, Times and the like. But I think it could be used also for the people who write the continuous anti-Wengerian propaganda in the media. For both come …
Read More “How transfer rumours really work: the inside story from The Commentariat”
By Rowley Birkin I am sorry to say that Sir Hardly Anyone is incoherent this morning, due to an excess of research for Untold last night, so I’ve been asked to hold the fort, as ’twere. So let me start with explaining that headline: the alleged “previous failings”. This week, there are three types – …
by Tony Attwood The bad news is the Fifa Confederations Cup is still playing and two of our men are involved. With the final not until 2 July, the players will quite possibly not be back refreshed and ready to play for the Community Shield on 6 August. We have Mustafi (Germany) and Alexis (Chile) …
by Andrew Crawshaw Please note that where I haven’t mentioned a player’s nationality he will be English. There are also a number of other players who I haven’t included where they are already part of the first team squad or where I believe that their futures are likely to be away from the club either …
Read More “The Arsenal Youngsters 2017/18: complete review and the 8 marked out for the big time”
By Tony Attwood On 22 June it was reported that the FA had decided to end all sponsorship deals with betting companies despite having previously signed a “long-term” deal with Ladbrokes in June 2016 to become its “official betting partner.” Prior to that William Hill was the official partner of the discredited Association whose close …
Read More “The FA takes the first of 10 steps needed to sort itself out once and for all.”
THE ABSOLUTELY, 100% CERTAIN, UNCONDITIONAL TRANSFER TRUTH, I THINK…….Don McMahon Following my totally and completely bollocks article about who was a shoe-in for transfer to the Arsenal, I verified with those in the know and ,with great chagrin and humility, offer UA readers a slightly, ever so tiny revision to my earlier prognostications! Here they …
Read More “The absolutely, 100% certain, unconditional transfer truth, I think.”
by Tony Attwood Last summer we were silly enough to put forward a whole range of possible line ups in June – the time when, of course, the transfer portal is still a future dream and only the out of contract players are on the move. In fact our very first try in June last …
Read More “Arsenal’s possible line up for August: and who is going to win the League”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Hello. Of course this is Friday afternoon, and one is not quite at one’s best after a jolly half hour or four at the Toppled Bollard, favoured watering hole of the journalistic elite at Wapping Swamp. But I think I can stay with reality long enough to give you the run …
Read More “Arsenal’s new mega transfer deal: how it works and what’s involved. Details revealed”
By Tony Attwood Es geht immer noch absurder is the headline in sueddeutsche.de which translates more or less as “It’s getting more and more absurd.” And if you didn’t fancy the notion of Premier League under 23 squads competing against League One and League Two clubs in a league and cup competition as suggested a year or …
Read More “Where exactly is football going? You’ll think I’ve made this up, but I promise I didn’t…”
By Tony Attwood With a day of birthday celebrations with my daughters and their families now over, and my head still over expanded following yesterday morning’s homily, the old man makes a desperate attempt to get things back together. And yes I’m late this morning, but at my age… But there is a new story …
Read More “Arsenal in player salary crisis as new PL regulations catch the club out.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone While last season we kept publishing all the transfer index charts on one page (including those coming and those leaving) the Index is getting so big already (with still 8 days before the window creaks open) that we’re having to split them. Mind you at this rate we should beat last …
Read More “The Index of 64 players that Arsenal have so far been tipped to sign this summer.”
The ABSOLUTELY DEFINITIVE TRANSFER FORECAST……..Don McMahon Over the last few weeks there has been a plethora, a veritable flood, nay a cataclysmic deluge of transfer speculations, myths, rumours, inventions, fantasies, prevarications and almost depraved dreams overflowing the fetid media sewers about Arsenal’s incoming and outgoing players. I decided that I’d verify, using my well-honed and …
By Walter and Blacksheep First, Blacksheep The 22 June 1947 was a Sunday. It was hot. In fact June 1947 was one of the hottest on record, and the summer proved to be a scorcher. It followed a desperately cold winter however and the wettest March we have had in Britain. Harry Truman was president …
by Tony Attwood A couple of days back we ran the story that Arsenal were to appoint an Aussie Rules guru as new director of high performance. Now with the computer keys barely cooled after typing all the details of that story it seem there is another change at the club as we are appointing a …
Read More “Second major change to Arsenal’s key staff announced”
Introduction If you have been a regular reader of Untold you will know the strong link that exists between Untold Arsenal and Arsenal Belgium. Walter Broeckx from the region around Antwerp joined the Untold team of writers in our early days, and has gone on to establish the referee review programme that we …
Read More “Celebrating our links with Arsenal Belgium: the annual report.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone According to the Great Transfer Index that Untold is once again running this season with the latest additions we have now got 19 players leaving the club. This is of course not as bad as last summer when the total got to 22 by the end of the transfer window. …
Read More “Latest news on six players leaving Arsenal this season, making it 19 departures in all!”
by Billy “the dog” McGraw There is something rather odd, and indeed rather quaint, in the notion that Arsenal would sell one of their best players for £25m – a fraction of his value – and that the player would transfer to a club that apparently seems to be offering him a lower salary than …
Read More “What do you do when your sponsor runs out of food? Revealed: the Barça Fantasy Factory”
By Tony Attwood They have been banned from signing players because of child trafficking. Their star player is under investigation for tax fraud, and so has said he’s never going to play in Spain again (as in “I didn’t know I had to abide by their laws, just because I played in their wretched …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. It looks like we have had a bit of an effect what with our reporting that only 3 in every 100 transfer rumours actually happen for I see it is being quoted elsewhere! Perhaps as a result of our reporting (or perhaps it is just a coincidence) there is a change …
By Tony Attwood I know I should be thinking of some brilliant and insightful commentary about Arsenal to end the day, but I got distracted by Guernsey cows, and thinking of the times in my youth I spent on the island (see the commentary to the article Arsenal to appoint Aussie Rules guru as new director …
By Tony Attwood One of the unsung benefits of Mr Wenger signing a two year deal, is that it gives the club plenty of time to set up some changes to the staffing ready for the manager who will take over after Mr Wenger departs. This can be particularly beneficial for, as Manchester United, Manchester …
Read More “Arsenal to appoint Aussie Rules guru as new director of high performance”
