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 This match was broadcast live on the BBC Red Button and kicked off at 12:30 on Sunday 18 November. The match was played at the Select Security Stadium the home of Southport Football Club. Everton had sacked their manager, Andy Spence leaving after 12 years with the club as assistant to Mo …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal Women the Match Report. 8 games, 38 goals!”
By Tony Attwood There is a strange stat that truly is worth of Ron Manager doing the rounds to the effect that Arsenal hasn’t been ahead at half time this season in the League. In a Sky Sport piece that is titled “Your PL season in a stat” that is the headline story. And yet …
Read More “Crazy stats, junk headlines, upcoming youngsters and the return of Ron Manager.”
By Tony Attwood Many objections have been raised, mostly but not exclusively by supporters of Manchester City, to our coverage of Financial Fair Play, which has been our main topic of conversation during this period without any men’s football (although it has been wonderful to see how great the women’s team has become – boosted …
Read More “Is FFP legal or could it be challenged in the European courts?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It seems we live in interesting times, and as the Chinese saying would have i,t that is not always a good thing. For we are told by those who claim to be in the know that Manchester City are getting close to being given a one-year transfer ban from Fifa. This …
Read More “The unsavoury face of youth transfers raises its head. Enquiries are being made.”
by Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. As regular readers will know I am usually called in when we have a spate of mind readers writing to the site telling anyone who cares to read just what someone else is thinking. Checking with the …
Read More “Tottenham advertising stopped, new delays, Arsenal bribery allegations”
by Tony Attwood Breakaways, breakaways, everywhere we look are breakaways. But not it seems involving Arsenal. Arsenal has become the first (or if I missed it while arguing with Man City fans, one of the first) clubs to put out a statement saying that they are not interested in the notion of the European Super …
Read More “Arsenal not interested in Euro league but there is a breakaway brewing”
by Tony Attwood A while back I saw a survey on why some people in the UK voted to leave the EU. As we all know, fewer than half the electorate voted to leave the EU, although just over half of all those voting did vote Leave and that is taken as the definitive statement. …
Read More “Football after the UK leaves the EU. The FA remains in total denial of the research.”
by Sir Hardly Anyone These days, even when the news report seems to have some semblance of reality within it, and comes from a decent enough source, the headline invariably has to be written to give a different impression. Take for example this headline from This is Futbol: “BBC expert: Arsenal have tabled loan-to-buy offer …
Read More “Football headlines and the strange stories that follow them. (The two are not connected)”
By Tony Attwood The Manchester Evening News has evolved a staunch defence of Manchester City in an article under the headline “Man City Football Leaks revelations are missing a key piece of information” The article is by Stuart Brennan who is best known to many of us who watch the ducking and diving of journalists …
Read More “A defence of Manchester City appears in the press, and it is very worrying”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One story says that Arsenal are losing money (largely because of two seasons out of the Champions League), and the owner has no intention of putting any extra money in to fund further purchases. A second story says we are buying everyone imaginable. In the midst of all that we have …
Read More “The 7 top players Arsenal are signing this January (you can count them).”
By Tony Attwood There is a simple point at the heart of the scandals and allegations so far and that is that Man City and PSG, according to the released documents, have broken Uefa rules and threatened to elminiate Uefa from the landscape unless Uefa is complicit in covering up the affair. And while we …
Read More “And now another major set of football allegations. Who’d have thought it?”
by Andrew Crawshaw With no Men’s Club games for a couple of weeks and my back now allowing me to sit down in front of my computer again, I thought I would take a look at some of the data I have been recording and see if there was anything new that jumped out at …
Read More “Why do some home teams commit so many more fouls than away teams?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Two interesting tales emerging this day: one that Fulham asked Mr Wenger if he fancied being the manager and the other, positive sounds from Reiss Nelson. Plus a load of tattle and some tittle, which I will come to in a mo. To take your Reiss first, I was fearing that …
Read More “Reiss Nelson looks to Arsenal return, Arsene Wenger turned down Fulham”
By Tony Attwood There is a lot being said and written about Unai Emery and the changes he is making to Arsenal in relation to the style of play and his methods of training. And of course the result of this so far – as with the way the team doesn’t score in the …
Read More “What are our chances of getting top four this season?”
by Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you may well have picked up on the fact that one of our bêtes noires is the Football Association, largely because of its willingness to spend public money without accounting to the taxpayers who give it, while ignoring the fact that the House of …
Read More “How much money raised by the FA in the names of charities goes to charities?”
By Tony Attwood The Premier League has said it will take action in the Manchester City case if any of its rules have been broken. Uefa (now under new management since the Manchester City scandal was initiated) has said that it could go back and look again at the 2014 FFP investigation. This is a …
Read More “The whole football system seems to exist only to protect and enlarge itself”
by Tony Attwood Let’s open with a nice piece of news: Reiss Nelson has scored six Bundesliga goals this season. No non-German player has ever reached six Bundesliga goals at a younger age. Actually it wasn’t a bad weekend for our loanees: Matt Macey played for Plymouth as they won 1-0, David Ospina played for Napoli …
by Tony Attwood According to Amnesty International, Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi owners are “brazenly trying to “sportswash” their country’s “deeply tarnished image” by pouring money into the Premier League club.” And indeed given the level of support that Manchester City has, their success in the league, and the utter reluctance or perhaps inability of any …
Read More “Renaming Manchester City to make it sound more in keeping with its sponsors’ activities”
Arsenal Women’s Nobbs wins October Women’s PFA Bristol Street Motors Fans’ Player of the Month Award Arsenal Women FC’s Jordan Nobbs has been voted the October Women’s PFA Bristol Street Motors Fans’ Player of the Month by football fans across the country. In a tightly-contested vote, run by fan engagement experts Snack Media, the England …
Read More “Arsenal player wins Women’s PFA player of the month”
By Tony Attwood According to the banners and the chants when Mr Wenger left and a new manager was found the fans wanted and expected to get “our Arsenal back”. Quite what that Arsenal was, was never made clear, but the chants of the away support at Fulham suggested that was the Arsenal they wanted …
Read More “How personal gratification and a desire for profit create the negative feel at Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start : Leno; Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Kolasinac; Torreira, Xhaka; Iwobi, Özil, Aubameyang; Lacazette. On the beach: Cech, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Mkhitaryan, Nketiah All stood up in silence to hear the always impressive Last Post and an even more impressive minute of complete silence to commemorate the end of …
by Bulldog Drummond Mr Emery has been talking about the evolution of Arsenal under him and the way in which the game against Liverpool showed the direction he was taking the club in terms of the power within the team. “Our idea is to repeat matches with this pace over 90 minutes,” he said. “It …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton team news and the need to avoid corners”
By Bulldog Drummond The terrible injury to Danny Welbeck has highlighted another aspect to the growth in players running down their contracts. Danny, like Ramsey and Cech will be free to leave the club this summer and find themselves a new club to play for. But of course if the player gets a serious career …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton and what to do after Danny’s injury”
By Bulldog Drummond As we saw against Crystal Palace analayses of home and away team performances don’t give an exact indication of how a match will go, but over time we have found they are one of the very best ways of making predicitons, and are more often right than wrong. So despite the failure …
By Bulldog Drummond As we saw in Gordon’s super-analysis of referee actions earlier this week, Arsenal have inflicted the need for treatment on the opposition 11 times this season while Wolverhampton have inflicted the need for treatment on opposition players 5 times. So we shouldn’t have too much worry about fouls from them resulting in …
Read More “Which teams are benefitting most from referee decision making this season?”
