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 like statistics, and use them a lot. But they have to be statistics that are realistically related to the real world. Consider this for example from Statsbomb “Arsenal are conceding an eye popping 1.50 expected goals per match. The only five teams with worse defensive numbers than Emery’s team are Brighton, …
By Walter Broeckx This is the fourth and final part of our series on Arsenal’s training centre. The earlier articles were: Untold Arsenal (and Arsenal Belgium) get the VIP treatment at London Colney Arsenal players exposed to temperatures of minus 160 degrees. London Colney Arsenal training centre: virtual reality and tales of past recoveries …
Read More “Arsenal training centre: the under 18s and 23, and the man who made it happen.”
By Tony Attwood I don’t get to see that many under 23 games since every Arsenal first team home match involves a 175 mile round trip in the car, plus a train journey at the end, but when the game is not too far away and there’s someone else to go with then yes, I …
Read More “Leicester 1 Arsenal 2: last night’s match at Holmes Park with Freddie Ljungberg”
By Tony Attwood Two of us went off to watch Arsenal at Coventry recently in the Checkatrade Trophy. Now its time to go and see the club in the under 23s league, known as Premier League 2 as tonight they are playing at Leicester. I occasionally use these games as a riposte to people who …
Read More “Arsenal under 23 v Leicester under 23. Another match to go and see.”
Recently Walter Broeckx, Untold’s regular correspondent and chair of Arsenal Belgium was invited by Arsenal to look around London Colney. The first parts of his reports appeared here Untold Arsenal (and Arsenal Belgium) get the VIP treatment at London Colney Arsenal players exposed to temperatures of minus 160 degrees. London Colney part 2. Now the …
Read More “Arsenal training centre: virtual reality and tales of past recoveries”
By Marianna Trench, our in depth investigator What anyone reading a report of a match in a newspaper or on a blog has to realise is that football reports contain a lot of editing. And the editing is not so much of the copy that is published, but of the reality that preceded it. “Arsenal …
Read More “How Arsenal’s win v Watford was re-written to fit with an alternative reality”
