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 Sorry about the formatting on the original publication of this post. It looked all right at first and then went very odd. I have removed the offending text now. OK the story is that he is at the training centre and having a medical. So what do we know of …
Read More “Alexandre Lacazette: all you need to know and some things you probably don’t”
by Tony Attwood There was an editorial in the German magazine Der Spiegel a few months back about the leaders of Turkey and the United States, which says, roughly, “Erdogan and Trump are positioning themselves as the only ones capable of truly understanding the people and speaking for them. It’s their view that freedom of …
Read More “Why the way football is reported is both insulting and incredibly dangerous”
By Tony Attwood I have to admit it: I am a sucker for quizzes. Science quizzes, general knowledge quizzes, political quizzes, history quizzes, and of course Arsenal quizzes. Which is why finding out that there was a second volume of Graham Lister’s “Never mind the Gunners: The Ultimate Arsenal Quiz Book” caused me to smile, …
Read More “The Arsenal quiz books that will fry your brain, blow your mind and give a lot of fun.”
With today’s guest publication: The Carrick Fergus Times By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the wonderful things we discovered last year in running this series on summer transfers was that an English paper (say the Daily Express) would quote the source of a story as being a Spanish newspaper. Then if one went looking for …
by Tony Attwood . There is a headline doing the rounds at the moment which says that Lacazette’s statistics are “134 minutes per goal, excluding pens, in a weak league” and his statistics are examined and compared to Giroud. Then we are told, first take out the penalties and don’t count them. Then measure …
Read More “Lacazette: does this statistic show that Arsenal are getting the wrong man?”
By Josif We have undoubtedly witnessed a lot of big players leaving Arsenal. If we solely focus on the Wenger-era, we have seen Nicolas Anelka sulking his move away from Arsenal to Real Madrid in 1999 where he was a huge failure, Both Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars leaving Arsenal for Camp Nou in 2000 …
Read More “Alexis Sanchez was the second worst player in the league for losing the ball last season”
By Tony Attwood There is an argument (and it has been made by correspondents on this site) that says that Arsenal are always very slow about doing their transfer business, largely because of incompetence in the back room staff or a refusal of Mr Wenger to spend anything. Unfortunately when that point has been made …
Read More “Are Arsenal lagging behind all other clubs once again this summer?”
by Tony Attwood That quote come from Philippe Geluck a Belgian humorist – most well known in French speaking circles for the comic strip Le Chat. He has also appeared on the wonderfully named French TV series On a tout essayé (“We’ve Tried Everything”). It is, for me, a superb line, because it is true – you don’t …
By Tony Attwood. There is a story that says goldfish have a memory span of about 2 seconds. It isn’t true as anyone who has studied experimental psychology will tell you – there’s a classic experiment through which one can prove that goldfish can be trained that their food always comes down the yellow tube …
Read More “The number of players Arsenal is buying reaches 70 as Window opens. The Index vol 13”
While Untold was available in the normal way we continued publishing on Facebook. This is a slightly extended version of one of the articles we published there, and which I thought I would re-run in case you missed it. And if you don’t follow us on Facebook – please do consider it. We’re not planning …
Read More “Everything is perfect at Bayern, and that is the big, big, problem.”
by Rowley Birkin A new Arsenal fans group has been formed and is being called the Direct Action Football Trust. Known by its initials for short, the Trust has set out its manifesto, and Untold Arsenal has procured itself a copy. The Trust demands that: 1: As an absolute minimum Arsenal should win every game. …
Read More “Arsenal supporters set up new fans group to set out real ambitions”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal have too many goalkeepers. Every year we have new ones who can no longer play for the U18s and have to move up to the U23s, also one (or more) have to be included in our senior 25 man squad once they are over 21 if they are to be retained …
Read More “The Arsenal Goalkeeping Conundrum: we simply have too many of them.”
