The 105 players now tipped to be coming to Arsenal this summer

By Sir Hardly Anyone You have to give it to these journalists, they certainly don’t lack for imagination.  105 players are now tipped to be heading our way, and it is difficult to see how they are all going to be kept happy in the 25 man squad. Plus another 12 players who Arsenal are …

Is Arsenal academy in chaos or is it merely a manner of speaking?

By Tony Attwood The question is, is there something funny going on in terms of Arsenal’s academy, or is the oddity at the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail It is surely one or the other because the Mirror has, for the last seven months, been running a series of stories about Arsenal’s academy which …

Who are Arsenal selling this summer & what do we need to do?

By Sir Hardly Anyone Preparing for the regular review of who is tipped to be leaving and who is tipped to be coming into Arsenal this summer I came across a previously un-noted (at least by us) website “Top Flight”, which has the headline, “What the Gunners need to do to get back to the …

Will home advantage vanish as the PL restarts? And if not, why not?

by Tony Attwood Germany is discovering it is true.  Games without fans change everything.  Before the ghost games came along Germany’s top division saw 43% of the games end with a home win. 22% were drawn and 35% were away wins. So far since the ghosts came along that has been 22% home wins, 28% …

Arsenal need to sell, Tottenham are financially strong. Oh, hang on…

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” By Tony Attwood And the absurdities have been pouring out day after day, and it has been going on for seven or eight months.  Not (we are told) that we need to sell because the players are no good (although that is always …

20 Arsenal transfer stories that have appeared in the last couple of days

By Sir Hardly Anyone. Here are the current round of tittle tattle and tales.  But please do remember most of these are set up just so that afterwards journalists and bloggers can say that Arsenal have failed to get these players. 1: Bruno Fuchs (The Boot Room, Just Arsenal) “Arsenal have joined AC Milan and …

Those who can make you believe absurdities: how the media affects refereeing

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” By Tony Attwood I don’t normally quote Voltaire on Untold, not indeed do I normally quote 18th century French philosophers in general, but when considering the situation regarding refereeing in the Premier League it is a case of desperate situations… We know from …

Aubameyang leaving Arsenal at knock down price? It’s not quite that simple.

by Tony Attwood There is an assumption behind much that is written on blogs and in the media that Arsenal make mistakes like no one else makes mistakes.   Arsenal management, it is implied, is catastrophically inept at every step of the way.  Indeed if only the club would wake up and allow the journalists to …

The ten big football stories that the media won’t talk about

by Tony Attwood It is interesting that through the last couple of months, although there has not been much in the way of football news the media has by and large ignored most of the big stories. Now one can always put the missing of the odd story here or there down to editorial incompetence …

How the Sun’s story of Arsenal incompetence and money wasting unravelled

By Tony Attwood Either all the editors were out of their heads or they knew the story was nonsense, but chose to run it anyway.   “YOU CAN DAV IT ALL” said the Sun’s headline.  Followed by, “David Luiz’s one year at Arsenal will have cost club £24MILLION as ex-Chelsea defender plots Benfica transfer exit.” Except… …

The revelation that has scuppered PGMO once and for all

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Could Arsenal win the league this season / next season / season after?

by Tony Attwood Give me sport, a rather bizarre website, has run the headline today “Aliens being found in 2019 is 10 times more likely than Arsenal winning Premier League title” Now to understand this piece of gibberish it is worth noting that bookies odds are not based (as Give me sport imply) on the …

Two seasons have ended and no one really minds as a signing is made

by Sir Hardly Anyone 2017/18 may not have been the very best for Arsenal in the Premier League, but in PL2 – the under 23 League, it wasn’t so bad… Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 22 13 3 6 48 32 16 42 2 Liverpool Under 23 22 13 …