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 Christophe Jost The fallout of the pandemic is far from clear, we have no idea how bad it will be, yet there are some things that will change forever. Like there was a before and after 9/11, or a before and after Bosman. Football will never be the same. Untold appears to be the …
Read More “This is the end, my Arsenal friend, this is the end”
By Tony Attwood This story is jumping from newspaper to newspaper in England, and seems to have originated in the Athletic. The Mail, Sun, Standard, Mirror all have it, although interestingly the heavyweight papers such as the Guardian, Telegraph and Times don’t run it. Their last comment was from last month when they said …
Read More “FIFA to allow each country to extend season and transfer window as it wishes”
By Tony Attwood The problem we have is that everything is interrelated. The problem we have is a lot of people expect it all to be sorted out, “because it always is.” Those two statements may seem completely separate but they are in fact part of a single big difficulty that is arising in relation …
Read More “Just because the media says this will soon been fixed, doesn’t mean they are right”
By Tony Attwood I have several times raised the point that the media hates the question “why?” And so it seems today as none of the main news outlets in the UK are asking why the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said that he wanted footballers to take pay cuts and thus …
Read More “At least this time, the media can’t attack Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood The way the media has reported football’s issues during the current crisis has been desperately slow and illogical, They started out by continuing to report potential huge money transfer fees, while suggesting that this issue would all be over shortly, and seem to have now got to the position of saying that …
Read More “Fake news vs fake hope. The crazy battle that is going on for football”
By Tony Attwood “Why should players take a pay cut?” That’s an interesting question, but because that question begins with “why?” you can be sure that it doesn’t get much coverage in the media. For the British media is notorious for ignoring the “why?” in any debate. What they do is skate over issues, and …
Read More “I object to some of my tax payments being used to pay staff at Liverpool FC”
by Sir Hardly Anyone We’ve now got 36 players being tipped to be coming to Arsenal, with enormous sums being suggested, just at a time when Arsenal has had its most expensive transfer window ever, and along with the rest of the Premier League is facing an unprecedented financial challenge. Some of the stories are …
Read More “The 36 players now tipped to be joining Arsenal and an unexpected departure”
by Tony Attwood Uefa is bringing pressure to bear on European leagues by suggesting that any leagues that do not complete their 2019/20 fixtures may be excluded from the Champions League and Europa League for next season. This follows the decision by the Belgian League to abandon the 2019/20 season, and declare the league table …
Read More “In desperation, Uefa’s “TV Solution” is being considered”
by Don McMahon There are many dire and some less morbid predictions being mentioned by the desperately understaffed media as to the future we face as a human collective. Some media figures like the Muppet in chief in Washington, are inventing their own future based on their most recent brain-fart. Others, whose intellectual gifts and …
Read More “The shape of things to come: a north American view of the aftermath that is to come”
By Tony Attwood So this is where we’ve got to. 1: By and large the players in the Premier League, following the lead of their union, are refusing to take pay cuts. Some very public players in Europe are taking pay cuts. 2: Clubs are laying off lesser paid staff, and telling them they will …
Read More “Football is now in deep crisis, and it is hard to find a solution”
By Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost So we have had weeks and weeks of pretending nothing is happening, or if it is happening it is only those silly foreign people getting into a tiz, while we English know that it is all alright, and indeed it would all be fine in Europe if only those …
Read More “Top earners take no cut; media attack, gambling firms lose money”
By Tony Attwood Daniel Levy, (Mr Tottenham), has suggested that Premier League players and managers should accept lower pay. The club has also placed 20% of its staff on furlough. This is the sort of thing that Untold has been predicting through this crisis, while the blogs and newspapers have been outshouting each other with …
Read More “How the richest men in football are telling the poorest staff to take pay cuts”
