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 Are we looking at a golden generation of Arsenal youngsters coming through? It is one of those questions that is so hard to answer. One watches Reiss Nelson play for England’s under 21s, and think, he really is rather good. And then remember that he is just 18 and think, actually, he’s …
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By Tony Attwood When it comes to England games something strange happens to the reporting. and not just with the delicate way the media handles the FA, suggesting that they might be reasonable decent set of people trying hard to do their job (as opposed to them being a bunch of charlatans happy to take …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone There was an awfully large amount of fuss about shutting the 2018 summer window early so that transfers were done before the season started. Which makes it seem rather odd not to say illogical not to say bizarre that we now have a one month transfer window during the season launching …
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By Tony Attwood “The Arsenal and The Arsenal” theme suggests that there are two different groups of people interested in the club, and each sees what is going on, and considers what is important, in ways so different from the other that there is just no connection between the realities, except that they are all …
Read More “Football is changing, although most of the time it doesn’t look like it.”
By Tony Attwood As you may have read, in Belgium there has been a series of arrests at football clubs and elsewhere related to fraud and match fixing. These followed around 50 raids in Belgium and another raft in France, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia. Reports suggest that the Brugge coach Ivan Leko and a former …
Read More “If there were match fixing in England would we ever be told?”
By Chayasai Very early in the season Arsenal played Chelsea and Man City without those players who are the backbone today. And, in hindsight, with the great advantage of having training under Emery, and getting immensely better, physically, mentally and tactically, Arsenal can justifiably believe that they are a completely different team right now from …
Read More “Emery’s Arsenal EPL and Europa Winning Team, with Lozano, Pavon, Filipe Louis and Jardel”
By Tony Attwood Over the years when it comes to football, newspapers, broadcasters and most recently bloggers have merged their own thoughts and prejudices with the facts, to produce their version of reality. And for years that version of reality has been one in which Arsenal make more mistakes than anyone else as well as …
Read More “Arsenal under unprecedented attack. To survive it is time to join the Resistance”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw Arsenal’s upturn in form, in the guise of winning every single match in every single competition since the opening two games of the season, has caused some commentators a problem. Their whole approach to Arsenal is that Arsenal is a failure. If Arsenal win then it is by chance …
Read More “Arsenal are going to concede a shed full of goals soon, but it really doesn’t matter.”
By Andrew Crawshaw I met Mark at Hammersmith Station just after 11.00 giving us plenty of time to walk to Craven Cottage. For those of you who don’t know the ground it is rather old fashioned and, for the Premier League, quite small with a capacity of some 25,700; so less than half of that …
Read More “Retrospective: what was it actually like being at Fulham?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone and Marianne Trench. Our complete update on the really big stories this evening that are showing us what a huge thing a football is. But first, something no one actually said about Fulham but might have While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, the never spared themselves in …
Read More “Shocking claims: the ten biggest stories about Arsenal doing the rounds this evening.”
By Tony Attwood As we speculated a while back, Arsenal’s next kit sponsor will be Adidas, with the deal worth £60m a season. This is roughly double the size of the last deal (that’s the one that I’ll always remember as Puma released a video to commemorate the launch, which included a good five seconds …
Read More “Comparing this season’s start to that of the unbeaten season (And a new kit sponsor)”
By Tony Attwood As Walter kindly pointed out (and thanks for reading it Walter – I know you always do, but even so, thanks), in the preview to the game Untold wrote, “So now maybe this could be the start of four games in which we knock in five.” Of course we have scored five against …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting with: Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Monreal, Torreira, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, Welbeck, Lacazette On the beach near the Thames: Martinez, Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Aubameyang No Özil who seems to have a back problem according to arsenal.com. Mkhitaryan comes back in the team. Also Iwobi back in the starting line …
By Bulldog Drummond If a manager changes his tactics from one match to another he is either flexible and tactically aware, or unsure what his best line up is. But it has to be one or the other because everyone has to have an opinion. Because opinions, even when there are limited facts available and …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal. Can Fulham make it 9 out of 56? And the teams”
By Bulldog Drummond Nothing too dramatic in the injury news so far: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has recovered from his illness and is available for the game. Of the rest of the injured, there is not much change – just some general progress… Ainsley Maitland-Niles expects to be back to full training in about a week. Petr Cech …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the full list of officials for this coming weekend from premierleague.com:- Last night: Friday 5 October 20:00 Brighton v West Ham United Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Simon Beck Fourth official: Simon Hooper Today: Saturday 6 October 15:00 Burnley v Huddersfield Town Referee: Chris Kavanagh Assistants: Daniel Cook, Sian Massey-Ellis Fourth official: Martin Atkinson …
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By Bulldog Drummond We’ve talked so much about Arsenal’s current run of form, let’s have a look at what it has been like for our next challengers. Fulham at the Cottage. Here’s their form thus far… Date Game Res Score Competition 11 Aug 2018 Fulham v Crystal Palace L 0-2 Premier League 18 Aug 2018 …
Read More “Fill em up v Arsenal. A first attempt at the team and the home/away form”
by Tony Attwood “It feels like a new club,” said Héctor Bellerín in a recent interview. And I am sure he is right in many respects. Obviously I’m not there with the players, but Héctor comes across as a very intelligent and deep thinking young man and I can’t imagining saying that if he didn’t feel …
Read More “Arsenal were performing as though they thought the assignment was beneath them”
By Tony Attwood OK, let’s set the context. Arsenal have just won nine in a row. If you don’t want to count the FL Trophy, eight in a row. If you don’t want to count the League Cup or the Trophy, seven in a row. If you don’t want… well, that’s getting ridiculous. Seven in …
Read More “Arsenal’s 3 most utterly useless players at Qarabag; they should all go now”
by Bulldog Drummond Here’s the quiz. One point of utterly nil value for each right answer. 1: OK let’s start where we start, and ask the question no one asks… “Where is the game being played?” The Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium 2: What is the nickname of Qarabag? The horsemen. So when four of them …
By Bulldog Drummond There are two types of vision of football at the moment. One is to bash Manchester United in article after article, and the other is to say that Arsenal are flattering to deceive or to put it in techno speak “Arsenal’s underlying numbers suggest results are running ahead of performances.” In short …
Read More “Arsenal in Baku. The put downs and the likely line up.”
By Bulldog Drummond One of the many annoying things about Arsenal having slipped out of the top four for the last two seasons is that when one looks for news about the club on the websites of the English newspapers one finds the articles dominated by pieces about last season’s top four. The week’s European …
By Tony Attwood Just as the Mirror has told us that Arsenal are travelling without a backup keeper but with Ramsey, so other sources are telling us Ramsey has not travelled. It really is all very confusing. After all if we can’t trust our newspapers who can we trust? (That’s irony. The opposite of irony …
Read More “Tottenham complain about fixtures, but Arsenal have it worse. And Barce have no cash.”
by Bulldog Drummond There is the strangest thing on the Sky site today (at least at the moment I write this) in which they have a page which they proclaim as covering the recent results of Arsenal and Qarabag. What it should be called however is a “selection of results from the two clubs with …
By Sir Hardly Anyone These stories have all “broken” this morning. I thought you might enjoy seeing some old favourites. 1: Arsenal get more injuries than anyone else but now Tottenham are overtaking them Headline: ‘Nightmare’, ‘Turning into Arsenal’ – Some Tottenham fans react to reported season-ending injury. Source: This Is Futbol The tale: Luke Amos …
Read More “8 utterly extraordinary Arsenal stories circulating this morning”
