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 Tony Attwood When Arsene Wenger left Arsenal the club had a magnificent chance to restructure everything. After all Mr Wenger had been at the club 22 years and because of his success record had the opportunity to create a club structure of his own design. Indeed it is said that once he sold Anelka …
Read More “Even Untold did not expect redundancies on this scale”
By Tony Attwood As you might know, I have a fascination with the way in which football, and its many aspects are presented on the media. How the integrity of referees is never questioned, how the notion that transfer rumours (which are 97% wrong) come to be considered news, how the key issues of the …
Read More “No turning back: why no one dares let the image of football slip”
By Tony Attwood One or two bits of the media in the UK have started to cover the incredible upheaval within Uefa, but where the UK media has taken an interest they seem to be playing down its importance, suggesting that it is all a bit of a storm in a very tiny teacup indeed. …
Read More “Are the media helping to cover up Fifa’s activities, on behalf of the FA?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The greatest fear of the football journalist is that he or she should be out on his/her own when it comes to a story. With no one doing any proper research they are anxious that their inventions should be backed up by other media. Which is partly why every possible transfer …
Read More “Media unites on six players who are leaving Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood The article is headlined “Ein paar Lügen zu viel”. In English, “A few lies too many”. It appears in Süddeutsche Zeitung, and by and large that’s a good place for it to appear. On 6 October 1945 five months after the end of the war SZ was the first newspaper to receive …
Read More ““The noose is drawn around Gianni Infantino” but don’t tell the UK media”
By Sir Hardly Anyone There are some weird tales in the Daily Mail today. And they are so weird that even the word “weird” doesn’t seem to be enough. First, have this: “Sometimes, with Arsenal, it seems as if we have seen it all before. In this case, we pretty much have. In 2017, having …
Read More “How one journalist is responsible for making up Arsenal transfer tales”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of my ramblings you will know of my constant criticism of the English media that it ignores issues relating to Fifa. So when on 27 May 2015 seven Fifa officials were arrested at the Hotel Baur au Lac, Zürich, the English media were shocked. If they had read …
Read More “Compelling evidence that Fifa is corrupt and media has been negligent.”
By Tony Attwood “Never let a trophy get in the way of the constant knocking.” That could well be the Daily Mail’s basic rule of thumb as Martinez, Holding, Tierney, Bellerin, Xhaka and Lacazette were each given six out of ten for their performances in the cup final. “Just above average”. It seems a bit …
Read More “The Arsenal players were just above average, so who will we buy now?”
By Tony Attwood So we have been in 21 finals, one more than Manchester United, seven more than Chelsea and 12 more than Tottenham. We have won the FA Cup 14 times, two more than Manchester United, six more than Chelsea, six more than Tottenham In a season in which we had a manager who …
Read More “Every FA Cup record you might care to imagine now belongs to Arsenal*”
By Bulldog Drummond In my earlier piece I looked at a run from 1960 to 1970, in which Arsenal’s form was truly awful. We might now contrast this with the spell from December 1995 to March 2004. That was a spell of 26 games in which we lost just two. Date Game Res Score …
By Bulldog Drummond As we have often noted, the constant negatives run by the media against Arsenal, constitute a prolonged and deliberate attack on the club. The media does it because…. well, the rest of the media does it. Like smoking or taking heroin, it becomes a habit. Such has been the case with Arsenal, …
Read More “How the media is manipulating supporters’ thoughts before the Cup Final”
