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
Untold Video Updates: Currently showing “Just show the pictures and shut up” We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews By Nitram and Tony Attwood The answer is that all are hinting, one way or another that one solution to Arsenal’s current problems could be to …
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Untold Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews And we’ve finally made progress on viewing this site on mobile devices. Click on an article, give it a second or two to load and click on “Show simplified view” at the bottom of the page. by …
Read More “You want to see media bias and inaccuracy? Try this.”
Untold Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews And we’ve finally made progress on viewing this site on mobile devices. Click on an article, give it a second or two to load and click on “Show simplified view” at the bottom of the page. By …
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Arsenal and Ozil: Why Mesut should be allowed to speak his mind – the video Reading on your phone? Look for the “Show simplified view” tab at the bottom and click there for a clearer view of the article. By Tony Attwood Has there ever been a new Arsenal manager that the media have rejoiced …
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By Tony Attwood Reading on your phone? Look for the “Show simplified view” tab at the bottom and click there for a clearer view of the article. Arsenal and Ozil: Why Mesut should be allowed to speak his mind – the video As anyone who has bothered to ask me knows, when it comes to …
By Tony Attwood Reading on your phone? Look for the “Show simplified view” tab at the bottom and click there for a clearer view of the article. I’d particularly like to thank Christophe Jost for his help in researching this article. In England there is little debate going on about the effect of constant negativity …
Read More “Time for Arsenal to fight back against negative fans and disruptive media.”
By Tony Attwood The departure of Mr Wenger was something that a lot of journalists, bloggers and some fans in the stadium with placards had campaigned for, for quite a while. So finally they got what they wanted. When Mr Wenger left, the team was in sixth at the end of his reign, with 63% …
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By Bulldog Drummond The general feeling is that the injured list consists of Ceballos, Holding, Xhaka, and Tierney. In addition there are doubts about Bellerin and Pepe. Both sides include a currently top rated scorer (these figures and others below calculated before this weekend’s games). Player Club Nationality Goals 1. Jamie Vardy Leicester City England …
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by Bulldog Drummond The knocking copy continues day after day, hour after hour, and the effect on the club, its players, its supporters and its manager can only be negative – I find it hard to see how any of the stuff written say how useless the players are, how out of his depth the …
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By Tony Attwood “How useful is it to boo your own team?” is an article that appeared in the Guardian newspaper a few weeks after I started writing more specifically than in the past about the subject. Of course that doesn’t mean that they have picked up the idea from Untold – it could well …
Read More “Does booing Arsenal really improve Arsenal’s performances? An investigation.”
By Tony Attwood Had Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Vitoria in Germany, Arsenal would have finished second in their group in the Europa League and been faced with the prospect of meeting the best Champions League dropouts in the next round of the Europa League. But it didn’t happen and so we’ve got a slightly easier draw …
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by Tony Attwood So at the start of the week we got three goals in nine minutes and then on Thursday it was two goals in three minutes. Which rather suggests that for supporters the trick with Arsenal under Freddie it seems is to find the right ten minutes to watch. The trouble is, what …
Read More “Arsenal: the team that scores in bursts and bursts the scores”
By Tony Attwood So we got a draw, and were somewhat lucky to end up top of the group – but that’s how it can go. The table ended up looking like this: Pl W D L F A GD Pts Arsenal 6 3 2 1 14 7 7 11 Eintracht Frankfurt 6 3 0 …
Read More “We won group F and the bloggers go wild… with vindictiveness and bloody minded anger”
By Bulldog Drummond And so on to the final game in the Europa group stages in which we play Standard Liège away. And what we will find in this match is an illustration of a key point that we have been making on Untold for the last couple of seasons. Some clubs have crowds that …
Read More “Standard Liège v Arsenal: the return of the prodigal?”
by Tony Attwood Prelude: If this article looks to be in a strange format, my apologies. We are trying to get rid of a bug in the system to ensure that Untold looks ok on all devices, and for the moment there appear to be problems throughout the site. I live in a country in …
Read More “Why the media’s unified view of Arsenal is so utterly dangerous”
By Adam Up Untold Gooner News video: A lesson in how to silence the critics The Daily Mirror has done an update of the list of men said to be “in the running” for the job of Arsenal coach, and what do you know. Although the list is remarkably similar to the list …
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by Tony Attwood Untold Gooner News video: A lesson in how to silence the critics One of the things that footballers tend not to do is to respond to abuse from fans, no matter what is said. The theory seems to be that if one engages in the debate then it legitimises what …
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by Tony Attwood As you may have heard the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association recently held an event at Islington Town Hall to celebrate Arsenal’s 100 years in the top division of English football. We had ex-players, club directors and fans all mingling – it was a very jolly affair. As our part of the celebrations, …
Read More “100 years ago we were 10th in the 1st division, exactly as now!”
by Tony Attwood Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look at how far we’ve got visit Untold Gooner News An Arsenal win is of course the last thing the journalists and bloggers wanted since their whole narrative is that Arsenal are appalling, every player …
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By Bulldog Drummond It is curious that at this time Arsenal is doing badly in matches we are doing far better than in the Wengerian days when we were criticized for having more injuries than anyone else. Maybe that means we are not getting stuck in enough. In fact we never did have more injuries …
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Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look at how far we’ve got visit Untold Gooner News By Bulldog Drummond Once upon a time we played league games on Saturdays at 3pm. Funny old idea that was. It meant you could have lunch with the …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal; result prediction, a minus one all draw.”
We are developing our own video channel. If you would like to have a look it is at… Untold Gooner News By Sir Hardly Anyone. Beware: your mind is being played with. The aim of many blogs and newspapers is simple: to generate Arsenal stories that cost nothing to research or create, but …
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by Tony Attwood Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News We recently published research that showed that only 20% of clubs in the PL that have changed managers in the past 18 months are now better …
Read More “Do we want Arsenal to wait 30 years to recover. Or is there a shortcut?”
Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News By Tony Attwood I suppose one of my biggest gripes about football journalists is that they treat their audience like little children who will gobble up anything that …
Read More “The journalist code: Treat the audience like children, treat the players as worthless.”
Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News By Walter Broeckx Once a village had a goose. Nothing unusual in that of course. But in this case it was something special. Because this goose had a special …
Read More “Arsenal: a modern fairy-tale to tell to your children.”
