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Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood In the modern blogging world, exploring the issue of cause and effect is sometimes known as moaning – and “moaning” of course is a pejorative word. No one likes a moaner. So what is a …
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By Tony Attwood When Arsenal moved to the new Arsenal Stadium and increased their capacity from around 38,000 to over 60,000 they also doubled their match day revenue overnight. And it has continued to rise thereafter. But of course the stadium had to be paid for, and that drain on the club’s finances was managed …
Read More “What exactly do we need in order to win the League again?”
by Tony Attwood That headline is taken from an article in the Guardian and I suspect that after last night quite a few people might agree with that. Although the situation takes on a somewhat surreal notion when one looks at other headlines and finds this one from The Hard Tackle. “8/10 Mustafi the sole …
Read More ““Mikel Arteta’s rebuilding job has barely scratched the surface””
By Bulldog Drummond Now here is something very new. It is not directly relevant to the team for tonight’s game, so if you want that just scroll down a bit, but it is relevant to the topic of what blogs and websites are up to (which is something Untold likes to keep an eye on). …
Read More “Arsenal’s team and scoreline prediction for tonight’s game, and some naughty people”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Bulldog Drummond It really begins to look as the dreadful run of results in home matches is well and truly over and tonight’s game gives the club a chance to take another step towards recovering our credibility …
Read More “Arsenal at home, and Arsenal at home to Olympiakos”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Bulldog Drummond Since playing their first leg of the current Europa League round both Arsenal and Olympiacos have won – in the case of Olympiakos it was a 0-1 away win that means that the club is …
Read More “Arsenal v the eternal champions who are once again, well… you know.”
Arsenal is a team with a rich history of winning trophies in some of the best most prestigious competitions in the UK. Over the course of their 100 years in the top division of English football, the Gunners have won thirteen EFL and Premier League titles, two League Cups, fifteen FA Community Shields, and …
Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood Preliminaries: this article uses the same figures as used in articles from a couple of weeks back concerning tackles, fouls and yellows. This means the numbers here are a few weeks out of date – however I …
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by Tony Attwood The essence of the always-famous novel “1984” by George Orwell, published in 1948 which predicted the dystopian world to come, is that history can be changed, re-written, re-told, manipulated, re-imagined by the powerful in order to keep the thoughts of the proles in order. George Orwell was not a great football fan, …
Read More “How the history and effect of VAR is being re-written to mislead us all”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Psychiatric support for those who wrote the original pieces is available from Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. All the latest transfer tales, with translation into English. 1: Aubameyang leaving Arsenal could be forced to sell Gabon forward …
Read More “From the blindingly obvious to “being courted” Translating media gossip into reality”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look Recently… The total failure of VAR, yellow cards and the team: Arsenal v Everton By Tony Attwood There is little as dispiriting or come to that sickening and nauseating, as the anti-Arsenal Arsenal, that disgraceful combination of alleged …
Read More “The grotesque and disgusting behaviour of the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal, enemies of our club.”
By Bulldog Drummond Pundits presenting themselves as people who know, getting it wrong, offering no apology, and then doing it again is what football journalism is made of. Like the wholesale prediction for yesterday’s game that Saka would start the match. Totally wrong prediction; no one seems to have apologised. Which is why Untold likes …
By Bulldog Drummond One of the key factors of the weekend is the issue of yellow cards, in the Chelsea 2 Tottenham 1 game. The BBC website says, “Giovani lo Celso should have been sent off for a dreadful second-half challenge on Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta. The video assistant referee decided against punishment, although officials …
Read More “The total failure of VAR, yellow cards and the team: Arsenal v Everton”
By Bulldog Drummond Physioroom’s injury list has seven on the list of injured players. Three are definitely out, three are possible and one (Sokratis) is an unknown. Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Condition Calum Chambers Knee Injury Ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee.” 29/08/2020 Ruled out Kieran Tierney Shoulder Injury Aiming …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: the injuries, the yellows, the worst season, and Sako”
by Bulldog Drummond When we look at the respective home and away record of the teams we find Arsenal at home are the seventh best team in the league with five wins, five draws and three defeats with a goal difference of plus four (thanks to our last home match!) – which is pretty much …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: Arsenal in their best form of the season”
By Tony Attwood These last few years have seen the implementation of the policy of the anti-Wengerians; get rid of Wenger and spend a lot of money on players was the battle cry of most of them, as far as I could understand it. As a result of the Board following their demands, the old …
Read More “What exactly do Arsenal have to sort out, to get into the top six?”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Andrew Crawshaw In my last article I looked at how some match officials have the opportunity to have an adverse effect on a team’s points score in the season to date. Some comments quite rightly pointed out …
Read More “The VAR referees: who are they, and is there a chance of bias?”
by Bulldog Drummond Mesut Ozil and Lucas Torreira were both missing from the travelling party on Wednesday; Ozil’s wife is due to give birth while the Uruguayan has been struggling with illness. Again set to start at left-back however is teenage starlet Bukayo Saka. Arsenal chiefs are hoping to tie him down to a new …
Read More “Olympiacos v Arsenal: the team, the rows, the droppings and other stuff.”
by Tony Attwood Olympiakos v Arsenal is the tie drawn for us in the round of the last 32 in the Europa League in 2020. And of course, as ever, if we think of Olympiakos and indeed Greek football, we think of corruption, so I thought I would try and update the occasional articles we’ve …
Read More “Olympiakos v Arsenal in the Europa: a history of corruption; what can we expect”
by Andrew Crawshaw The PGMO have 17 referees on its list of Select Group (i.e those fully accredited to take charge of Premier League matches). In addition, so far this season, four referees from the Select Group 2 have each taken charge of a single game. This group comprises those referees accredited up to Championship …
By Tony Attwood I’ve mentioned from time to time that I am a member of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, a supporters group recognised by Arsenal, which aims to work constructively with the club to improve supporters’ experience, rather than criticise the club over its activities, strategies and so on. Obviously anyone can join AISA …
Read More “Working with Arsenal: how supporters are influencing the club. The Fans’ Forum.”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Sir Hardly Anyone Even by the standards of football on the internet the website HITC’s recent concerted full-on attack on Arsenal through a series of stories about cock-ups and disasters has been extraordinary. And it is worth …
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Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Sir Hardly Anyone We all know that Granit Xhaka gets yellow cards. All the time. Which means that he spends most of his playing time being doubleplus extra careful, hardly daring to do another tackle because he’ll …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look Classifying the travails of Manchester City at the moment as a battle between Man City and football’s regulators actually answers the question in the headline: from the off, Untold Arsenal has concerned itself with the …
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Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Tony Attwood In an earlier piece about Manchester City and FFP, I asked: “How could they have got it so wrong?” Meaning, given the size of Manchester City and their obvious financial clout, how could the club …
Read More “If Man City thought things were this bad, why didn’t they join us in the fight?”
