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 There are two types of football supporter Type A and Type B. And two types of manager, Type A and Type B. Oddly there is only one type of football journalist. Type Zzzzz. Type A people know by looking. You just have to look at Arsenal to know that you they …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Following the widely reported promotions to the Arsenal First Team Squad here is a breakdown of the players we are likely to see more of as the season progresses. I have listed them in order of their birthdates. Cohen Bramall – 2 April 1996 (not 1995 as the official Arsenal web site …
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By Tony Attwood During the summer we debated the decision of Tottenham to play their home games at Wembley this season – an obvious topic for us as Arsenal tried out a similar venture with their Champions League games across two seasons. For Arsenal the experiment was pretty much a failure – I’ve never spoken …
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Passengers of the beautiful game…. ARSENAL 13 “Uwot? 18/08/2017 at 2:06 pm Listen to pundits? Never have,never will son.just beleive what my eyes tell me & if you don’t’ think ” ozil” is a passenger most of the time(.that is certainly when the going gets tough.)i suggest you save yourself a lot of anguish …
by Tony Attwood Some things change, some don’t. That of course is how it goes. Mr Wenger’s criticism of Granit Xhaka was unusual for him – and in not staying positive the manager has distanced himself from the standard line of Arsenal managers through the ages. I can well remember the joke we had about George …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting line up: Cech, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Bellerin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Özil, Welbeck, Lacazette On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Coquelin, Elneny, Iwobi, Walcott, Giroud A first chance for Stoke when they break but Cech rushes off his line to smother the effort. Meanwhile it is clear that Bellerin plays on the …
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by Bulldog Drummond. Now this is something I did not know: “Stoke City’s recruitment of Jesé Rodríguez on a season-long loan from Paris Saint-Germain means Mark Hughes now has five Champions League winners in his squad, more than any other Premier League club.” Goodness me, that puts the Champions League in a new light. Anyway, I had …
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By Bulldog Drummond According to today’s media Sea Kolasinac is the strongest player Arsene Wenger has in his squad, and perhaps the strongest player he has ever worked with. Which must make him good at playing wugger or whatever that game is called that they play in the Potteries. So they immediately dig up the …
By Bulldog Drummond First off, Ladbrokes are sponsoring Arsenal Fan TV. If you have any thoughts that perhaps Arsenal Fan TV is not something that you like, and you fancy a bet, you might care to avoid Ladbrokes. Totally up to you of course, but just a thought. Moving on Untold Arsenal confirmed this …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal: team news, just how awful is our defence and some historic videos”
by Andrew Crawshaw Well last week’s game was a fairly pleasant surprise – a game with Mike Dean in charge and at the end of the match we weren’t all fuming about him having totally screwed us over. Of course some of the pundits were incensed about what they saw as a handball by Özil, …
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By Tony Attwood Let me admit from the off that in answer to that question, I don’t know. But I think I ought to be able to find out. And I ought to be able to find out when the families who suffered as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire got their money. Not …
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Facts by Andrew Crawshaw Wild speculation by Tony Attwood First, Andrew’s section: As I write this (lunchtime on Thursday) we currently have 34 players over the age of 21 who are vying for inclusion in our 25 man senior squad which has to be named on 1st September. All but four are currently listed as …
Read More “The Arsenal 25 man Senior Squad – where are we now?”
By Tony Attwood “Why are so many Premier League teams so bad in defence?” You’ll know, if you have read my meanderings across the years, that I rather like evidence. Not “The evidence of my own eyes” but actual numbers. So when someone rages in a bloggetta that “Xhaka is clearly not up to …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve been trying to keep tabs on all the transfers that have gone through this summer involving the top ten clubs from last season buying players in. The latest table is below. In terms of the number of new players coming in the table reads Everton: 13 Manchester City 6: Chelsea: 5 …
By Tony Attwood There is no doubt things have stalled. The number of new players and new rumours in the last week has been virtually nothing – all we have had is the rehashing of the same old same old. It is by and large a pretty poor show. We’re only on 89 and …
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By Don McMahon Once I had digested the entirety of the Arsenal Leicester game, I decided to write a review based on wearing two hats; a referee’s viewpoint and a certified coaches’ viewpoint, so here goes. I will describe or break down the key elements of the game as follows: Team lineup, Fitness levels, Tactical …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It is really important to stay in touch with the bloggettas these days so that we know exactly where we are. Football London for example today tells us that The end of August is edging ever closer – You can just imagine the panic in and around the training grounds …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal under 23s went two down to Derby County, and then came back to win 3-2. That’s rather gratifying but the basic fact hides a few other interesting details. For a start, Nelson scored two – carrying on where he left off last season when he scored in the home draw …
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By Tony Attwood FC Barcelona’s former defender, Rafael Márquez – the man known as “Emperor of Michoacán” is a national hero in Mexico. And a pretty big hero to Barcelona. But now the US authorities are investigating him. And they are doing this for one simple reason: Márquez is said to have been involved …
By Tony Attwood Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe’s largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of 840,000. And on March 18 this year they wrote: It is often said that taking performance enhancing drugs makes no sense for soccer players. Then why …
By Tony Attwood Oliver Holt in the Mail got rather exercised this week claiming, “The seven minutes and 16 seconds encounter with Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman shows athletics has lost its drugs battle” His sub editor then gave us some headlines… A journalist asked Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman why …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Just as I think I can have a few days off on a Kroneke hunt across the wild plains of Lower Rutland and along comes the Daily Express telling us that all hell is going to break loose on the transfer front. Consider this for example: “Chelsea are keen on signing …
By Tony Attwood The theme is that Arsenal do everything wrong. We buy our players far too late in the transfer window because Wenger can’t make up his mind and so dithers. Except maybe Chelsea are dithering a bit more and Tottenham have dithered so much they haven’t bought anyone. And here’s another: …
Read More “Why are Arsenal so wasteful in front of goal, and really, does it matter?”
By Tony Attwood We won the opening game – which is all you can ask – although we also did it with a very exciting match which is a nice bonus. But watching the Chelsea defeat to Burnley I began to wonder as the game went on, whether the result would have been possible a …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone I have been wondering if we ought not to have a “Laugh of the Week” slot, although as others then point out, what makes people laugh in my country mansion in Rutland might not be the same as in the Toppled Bollard, the Corby pub which the rest of the Untold …
