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 It is a shame that most electors in the UK don’t read party manifestos, for if they did it would stop them getting some nasty shocks in the months and years following an election. But they never learn and this year the Conservative Party pledge to introduce huge regulations on the way …
By Tony Attwood The Saudi Arabia national football team refused to observe a minute’s silence held before today’s match against Australia in Adelaide. The excuse given apparently was that a minute’s silence is not recognised in their culture as a way to recognise those who have been killed. As a result the Australian team …
By Tony Attwood Of course it is not just Arsenal that get a lot of negative publicity, although I maintain my view that the club tends to get far more than it is due and more than most other clubs. The five year “Arsenal get the most injuries” campaign is one such saga (such …
By Sir Hardly Anyone As we saw yesterday in Transfer Index No 9, 46 players are said to be joining and 14 leaving the club this summer. So far it is one truth revealed in each group – we’ve brought in one on a free, and let a youngster go to Southampton. But now it …
by Sir Hardly Anyone We’ve made our first signing and the Guardian says “Given Arsenal’s tendency to wilt at the first glimpse of pressure, that grittiness will be a useful addition. Again, that suggests that Wenger, at last, has acknowledged that not all the world’s problems can be solved by neat, slight midfielders with …
By Tony Attwood You may have noticed that following my commentary about recent events in Qatar a number of Manchester City supporters came to the site and offered their opinions, some of which we published. It is interesting that just as when Untold did its expose of what was about to happen over FFP, …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone, our transfer correspondent Way, way back before the dawn of time, when woolly mammoths roamed the earth refereeing Premier League matches and “strong and stable” didn’t mean allowing terrorists into the country even though they were on European wide watch lists because those lists were created by foreigners and were therefore …
Read More “Sead Kolašinac deal confirmed; Media on the look out for potential parallels.”
by Andrew Crawshaw The 2017 WSL Spring Series was a one-off tournament designed to bridge the time gap between the end of the 2016 WSL Summer League and the start of the 2017-18 WSL Winter League. Why the FA decided to change from operating the WSL as a summer league and move it back to …
By Tony Attwood . As we know Etihad Airways, one of the three Middle East carriers which set out to revolutionise global aviation business by buying their way into airports around the world, started laying off staff, last December. Manchester City FC whom Etihad bankroll didn’t blink. It raised a couple of question marks at …
By Tony Attwood I was in Cambridge last night – a small city on the border of East Anglia and the East Midlands, packed with amazing buildings from the 13th century onwards. Multiple students, ten thousand bikes, endless restaurants – one of which I was in with a business colleague. We had a nice meal …
By Tony Attwood I was pleased to publish Fishpie’s piece Arsenal season ticket holder issues his own press statement – as I have said many times, if I am offered a coherent article which argues against my own views, of course I’ll publish it. The reason that there are few such pieces is because I am …
Read More “What demands can we reasonably make on the club for the coming season?”
By Walter Broeckx I was sitting in front of my computer when someone from our Arsenal Belgium supporters club posted a link to an article on the internet about Per Mertesacker. In this article it said that Per Mertesacker would stop his football career and would join the staff in another function for his last …
ARSENAL SEASON-TICKET HOLDER ISSUES HIS OWN PRESS STATEMENT By Fishpie Following the news that Arsene Wenger has signed for two more seasons and in response to the statements issued by Mr. Keonke, Mr Gazidis and by Mr Wenger, an Arsenal fan has issued his own statement to the press: “I view the Club statements …
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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, senior psychologist, University Hospital of the North Circular Road. When I have occasionally read a Gabriele Marcotti article or heard him broadcast I’ve generally thought he brings a new perspective to whatever is being discussed perhaps because of his international heritage. He can be funny and is knowledgeable in …
By Tony Attwood Following my little piece about how the Conservative Party manifesto speaks of taking the internet in the UK under government control, and how that part of the manifesto is not mentioned by the mainstream media (except for the Independent, which is no longer published in a print edition but just appears on …
By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold just recently you will know we have a technical problem. I am trying to fix it but in the meanwhile if you would like to help please read this short article and post a comment. Here’s a quick summary of what’s going on at the moment. …
Read More “A review of the Arsenal transfer news this morning.”
By Tony Attwood UPDATE AT 1223 BST I have made a number of changes to the way comments are handled on the site and I am hoping with all fingers crossed (which explains the twerping errors) that I might have fixed the problem we have had in the last few days of comments not appearing. …
Read More “Your help is needed with Untold Arsenal – urgently.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Bart. One year ago we started this as a bit of a joke – listing every single player that some semi-sober journo in a pub suggested was about to join or leave Arsenal. We ended up with well over 100 joiners – with only 3 of which were correct. The …
By Tony Attwood In my piece earlier today I pointed out that the Conservative Party’s proposal to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online in the UK, and so allow Britain to become “the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet”, is not being …
By Tony Attwood How we react to events is the key to everything. How we reacted at Wembley in supporting Arsenal in the semi-final and final, certainly made a difference. . Likewise how we react to the threat to bring the internet in the UK under central government control will make a difference – at …
Read More “Why Untold might be reaching the end of its time, and how we can influence the future.”
By Tony Attwood In the days when the Guardian can simultaneously run an article that says, very positively “Arsenal fans must consign factions to past” and a second which announces “Wenger’s contract unlikely to break negative cycle” there is the slight hope that the paranoia that is at the heart of the newspaper industry might …
Read More “Arsenal fans appear to be ready to cull a huge part of the current squad.”
by Tony Attwood Last year there was a lot of celebrating as it was announced that overall Premier League clubs made a profit of £113m in the 2014/15 season. Now in the complete analysis of club finances made by the Guardian and published today for 2015/16, 12 clubs are shown as making a profit totalling …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. And so we enter the next, and probably final, Wenger era. And to commence the new coverage I saw this on the jolly old interweb thing Trophies won since Arsène Wenger came to English football: Arsenal – 16 Tottenham – 2 Spurs fans – “We want you to stay…” …
Read More “Arsenal signing complete as players queue to join Arsenal now the contract is announced.”
