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 Andrew Crawshaw As you may have seen, our two matches against Chelsea have been chosen by the FA to trial their Video Assistant Referee system. The first match of the trial was last night’s third round FA Cup Tie between Brighton and Crystal Palace, a game that usually can be trusted to be a …
By Tony Attwood On 13 August 2013 the Daily Mail ran a piece on referees which says, “According to the Premier League, 99 per cent of offside decisions are correct, for the third season running. They also claim that 98.6 per cent of decisions made in the penalty area are accurate. “The assistant referee makes …
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By Tony Attwood When I started Untold ten years ago I didn’t have any particular thoughts about the comments the site might receive – my main concern was in putting out a point of view that I felt was either unrepresented or at least very under-represented at that time. But as the audience grew, and …
by Tony Attwood I have written a little on the Arsenal History Society website comparing today’s AAA and wondering how they would have got on in the time of Herbert Chapman. Chapman, as we know railed against the antics and jeering of the “boo-boys” as the anti-Chapman gangs were called, and they took the FA …
Read More “Just how bad is Arsenal II? Nottingham Olympiakos set for the future.”
By Walter Broeckx Lots of changes as expected in the team and on the bench. Arsenal team at the start : Ospina, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Holding, Willock, Elneny, Nelson, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck. On the beach: Macey, Chambers, Osei-Tutu, Dasilva, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Nketiah. In the stands: Wenger. First shot of the match from Nottingham but Ospina …
By Bulldog Drummond So as we now know, the end of last season was all a myth and Arsenal did not win the FA Cup (see FA insist that Chelsea are the current holders of the cup). So we move onto today’s little outing to try and overcome not just Forest, and the raging media, …
By Tony Attwood Before we finish our round up of the forthcoming match with Nottingham Forest I thought I would offer a little insight into the workings of the FA in relation to the FA Cup, and its relationship with Arsenal. The Emirates FA Cup web page is a page which promises us “A complete list …
ByBulldog Drummond The constant attempts at undermining Arsene Wenger have now geared up to another level as the bloggettas and their feeder newspapers are now tending to ignore the fact there is a game coming up and instead focus on attacking the manager. The Guardian has been doing this for months, and now others are …
Read More “Forest v Arsenal: bloggettas attack Mr Wenger and home and away form and recent games”
Sorry for the delay in publication of this article this morning; my car was involved in an altercation with a fox in the early hours of the morning over who had the right of way on a particular country lane. No one hurt except the fox (although amazingly it still managed to run away – …
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By Tony Attwood From before the time I started this blog 10 years ago, I was fascinated with the way the British media dealt with match fixing. In simple terms, according to our media it was done by foreigners, and largely associated with Far East “gambling syndicates”. Somehow it seemed that we were back in …
Read More “10 years of Untold Arsenal: pondering the question of 3 types of match fixing”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Hello again my dear pals and chums, and welcome to another round up from the wild, crazy and one might say semi-skimmed world of transfer stories. Yes, we have signed one player, two more about sure to come (I know that cos I read it on the bloggettas) and everything is …
Read More “Arsenal in danger of ending right back where they started as transfer chaos deepens”
. How the Flat Earthers took over football journalism at the Guardian. By Tony Attwood From my perspective one has to be either fairly silly or rather desperate to dismiss a proposition as “ludicrous” without giving any reasoning or evidence, especially in a newspaper that prides itself on the quality of its journalism and ability …
By Blacksheep In the last week Arsene Wenger has been the focus of much press attention on account of what he has had to say about the standard of refereeing in the Premier League. In the last decade Untold Arsenal has ploughed a sometimes lonely but determined furrow in highlighting the ineptitude of some of …
by Andrew Crawshaw The WSL recommences next weekend and Arsenal travel to Kingston to play Chelsea, on the 7th. Then on the 14th they travel to Wycombe to play Reading in the semi-final of the Continental Tyres Cup (the Ladies equivalent of the League Cup). Neither ground is especially near the Club’s main ground – …
By Tony Attwood It seems curiously appropriate that I should be writing this little series of pieces commemorating the launch of Untold ten years ago, just as refereeing springs to the fore as an issue yet again. And not just that there is an issue, but that it is being dealt with in the same …
Read More “10 Years of Untold Arsenal: the issue of referees, corruption and non-reporting”
By Walter Broeckx Özil back was the main news before the match. As a result Iwobi dropped back to the bench. None of the other injured players made it for this match. Arsenal starting line up : Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Holding, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Xhaka, Wilshere, Özil, Alexis, Lacazette. On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Coquelin, Elneny, …
By Bulldog Drummond What all the teams in the top section of the league do is touch the ball more than the other teams. Here’s the table of touches this season Position Club Touches 1. Manchester City 20,085 2. Liverpool 17,233 3. Arsenal 17,212 4. Tottenham Hotspur 16,168 5. Chelsea 16,116 6. Manchester United 15,371 …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the teams, a match fixing update and the latest from Paul Merson”
By Bulldog Drummond As we often do with these games, we can have a look at the results Chelsea and Arsenal have had in playing matches against each other and against Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United. Here to start us off are Chelsea’s games… Date Match Result Score Competition 06 Aug 2017 Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea; top six comparisons and the growing injury list”
by Bulldog Drummond Throughout this season we have been comparing the home and away form of the clubs we’ve been playing, and it has proven to be one of the most straightforward and reliable indicators of what might happen. Not perfect of could – we would need to factor in the referee at the same …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the indicators that tend to be the best predictors of the result”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our fourth game in a row with our ‘favourite referees’ and this is the one I’ve been dreading most. We have :- Referee – Anthony Taylor Age 38 from Cheshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Adam Nunn from Wiltshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Lee Betts from Norfolk …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea Wednesday 3 January 20018 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx 2017 is behind us. A moment to look back. And with the last minutes of the last match being the perfect PGMO/Dean horror show we all have been too familiar with over the last 10 years or so these images stay in my mind a lot of course. 2017 was the year …
Read More “Looking back at 2017: you will never be able to take that year away from us!”
By Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal started ten years ago this month, and it started because I was annoyed not just about something I kept seeing on football pitches, but also because it was not being mentioned at all in the media. But that was only half of it, because I didn’t just want to write …
Read More “10 Years of Untold: trying to change football by being different”
by BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS As the new year begins I look back a rather good year personally as well as for the Arsenal. A third FA Cup win in 4 years is a great record, and that too against the Champions of the EPL . I like to think that we have progressed in many ways …
Read More “The Predictions for 2018 from Brickfields Gunners”
By Walter Broeckx I remember some 9 years ago one of my first articles I wrote was about Dean. It is out there somewhere and it was after the match at Old Trafford where Dean did his usual biased tricks to cost Arsenal points. Since then I have written umpteen articles showing the bias from …
Read More “The view of the Video Assistant Referee about the WBA penalty”
