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 I have often railed against the FA for getting things wrong. For example throughout last season when Arsenal were the holders of the FA Cup, the FA’s official site refused to accept this, having a picture of Liverpool on its front page and a list of winners that was completely out of …
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by Tony Attwood I don’t think too many people predicted what would happen this season once there was no Arsene Wenger. What we were used to was a daily assault on the manager which had the benefit to a certain degree of reducing attacks on the players. Of course some players were heavily criticised but …
Mariana Trench, the newly appointed head of Better Football, Sky TV, gives us her views on how football commentary and in-depth analysis is being enhanced by the broadcaster. Reinventivisational momentum. Is there such a thing? Well I can tell you that yes, no there certainly is. And the point is that as every journalist …
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By Tony Attwood In the old days it was easy – if Arsenal lost some fans and a lot of the media knew what to do – knock the manager. Indeed I noticed one of the old timer blogs that the Daily Mail still seems to like, continuing to do that, putting the boot in …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Following a good pre-season this match was serious and potentially a decider for first and second places in our mini-league group between the two Premiership clubs. Our team was :- Back row – Sari Van Veenendaal (GK), Louise Quinn, Leah Williamson, Lisa Evans, Dominique Bloodworth (nee Janssen), Katie McCabe Front row – …
Read More “Arsenal begin their defence of the Continental Tyres Cup with a 3 – 1 win”
Untold Arsenal will be unavailable on Monday because of technical upgrades. Details are on the home page. If the work takes longer than expected we’ll publish on our Facebook page instead. By Tony Attwood I see that Manchester City have brought out an electronic gizmo worn on the wrist which gives their supporters “everything …
Read More “Football is teetering on the edge and it is too disgusting for words”
By Tony Attwood Please note that Untold Arsenal will be unavailable for a while on Monday as we upgrade the site. If the delay continues for beyond the expected time we’ll do updates on our Facebook page. Please see www.untold-arsenal.com for more information. My general view after games is that with Walter’s coverage of …
Read More “The media turn on the fans; an interesting twist after two defeats”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start : Cech, Bellerin, Sokratis, Mustafi, Monreal, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang. On the beach : Leno, Lichtsteiner, Elneny, Torreira, Ramsey, Welbeck, Lacazette. So one change was forced as Maitland Niles got a broken leg against City and lucky this time Monreal was fit so we got …
Please note that on Monday, Untold Arsenal will be unavailable for a while as we upgrade the site and move to a new server. If the down time is more than for a short while we’ll publish articles and news on our Facebook page. Please see the home page, www.untold-arsenal.com, for more details. By …
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Untold Arsenal will probably be down for some time on Monday. There are details on our home page at www.untold-arsenal.com We’ll keep up the chit chat on our Facebook page. by Bulldog Drummond And so the news keeps on rolling in. The latest is that England youth international Stephy Mavididi has now departed these …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal, the injuries and another player leaves, and the ed to ed.”
By Bulldog Drummond It’s only Friday and we have some news. In an interview Mr Emery has said he will continue to play out from the back and develop his new style, adding, “We didn’t lose because of our personality, our idea, our style. We lost on other things. We can improve on other things, …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal: the keeper and left back and how many Chelsea men went on loan”
Please note that on Monday this site may be unavailable for a while. Full details are on our home page. If you do find us gone you can follow us on Facebook. Matchweek 2 – The Match Officials and news of Bobby Madley By Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood Overnight we have heard that Premier …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Our Women completed their pre-season preparations by taking part in the Toulouse International Ladies Cup last weekend against three of the top teams in Europe – Montpellier and PSG from France with Bayern Munich being the fourth team involved. Like the Emirates Cup each team played two matches, we were …
Read More “The Arsenal Women – a Season Preview ahead of the game against West Ham”
By Tony Attwood There are basically five models of finance in English football at the moment. 1: The self-sustaining club The club which through commercial sponsorship, attendances at matches, TV revenue and advertising revenue makes enough money to keep going without the need of an outside investor. This is the model of Manchester United. Through …
Read More “Arsenal’s models of finance and the difficult road we’re travelling”
by Tony Attwood Even the most dislocated and indeed dissolute newspaper football columnist will have recognised four factors about this season: a) Arsenal have a new manager. b) The new manager is working to instil a different style and approach in the players from that which has gone before. c) Five new players have been …
Read More “What will happen if Arsenal lose to Chelsea this weekend?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Welcome to the round up. The out door is still open, so who is on the move? Actually no one really seems to have much idea, or if they do, they are not telling. 1: Bielik According to the Sports Mole which has apparently been digging around “Arsenal to send Krystian …
Read More “The 10 big Arsenal transfer updates and next weekend’s team”
By Tony Attwood Jeremy Wilson, deputy football correspondent of the Daily Telegraph newspaper and website has written a piece in which he says, “Unai Emery is facing significant restrictions with Arsenal’s wage bill during the next transfer window in January following a series of deals that have been agreed over the past year.” Immediately upon reading …
Read More “Why will Arsenal suffer a freeze on increasing its wage bill, as the media suggests?”
On Monday 20 August Untold may disappear for a while. For details please see the home page. by Tony Attwood In March this year, the Sky Sports website opened an article on refereeing with the comment by Keith Hackett that players and pundits criticising referees in the Premier League is “a little bit like …
Read More “How we can tell there is still something seriously wrong with Premier League refereeing.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, our man in the Toppled Bollard; watering hole of the football journalist. I don’t know if you have ever seen a tiger or wildebeest or tyrannosaurus rex or something along those lines, raising itself up to its full height in preparation of rushing at several thousand mph across the fauna and …
Read More “What do journalists do when the window is cracked? Sir Hardly Anyone finds out.”
By Tony Attwood From my perspective the move from Highbury to the new stadium went rather well. It was only after we’d got there that I realised just how much impact it was having on the club in terms of its ability to compete in the transfer market. And since we’d already had the phrase …
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By Tony Attwood Ian Wright made his comments last night on BBC Radio 5, and I think it is fair to say that it caused the chair of the discussion and the other guests a certain on the show an amount of discomfort and uncertainty as to how to handle the conversation thereafter. Unfortunately for …
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By Tony Attwood I must say I was singularly surprised by the large number of comments Untold received from Manchester City supporters after I commented negatively on the ownership of that club. Most of these comments were to my mind of very little merit being simplistic and/or crude, and so did not get published, and …
Read More “Does the sponsorship of a club really mean that fans can’t criticise the sponsor?”
By Andrew Crawshaw My recent look at squad values using data from the website transfermarkt.com indicated a total value of the City squad as being well in excess of £900m whilst that of Arsenal was virtually £500m. To put this discrepancy into perspective mere are the stated values of the two squads starting 11s broken …
Read More “Manchester City’s two nil win should have come as no surprise to any Gooner”
By Tony Attwood Quite why some of the Manchester City supporters felt like singing “Only one Arsene Wenger” during this game, I am not too sure although I’ve never understood northern humour. Perhaps it was not a recognition that one could win the League and FA Cup across a number of years without the input …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City: how the media continues once more to have no idea”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal XI: Cech, Bellerin, Sokratis, Mustafi, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ramsey, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang. Subs: Leno, Holding, Lichtsteiner, Elneny, Torreira, Iwobi, Lacazette. The new era starting today with also two new players in the starting line up : Sokratis and Guendouzi. Certainly the latter is a big surprise when we bought him I …
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