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 Sir Hardly Anyone According to the Daily Mail, home of the truth and purveyors of all things real, “Arsenal agree £1.6m deal with Dijon for goalkeeper Runar Alex Rúnarsson with Iceland international due in London for his medical… but why are they interested in a shot-stopper who has let in 61 goals in just …
Read More “Arsenal reportedly sign utterly useless Wenger-hating goalkeeper”
By Bulldog Drummond Yes this is the world of post-fact football. A world in which facts are just irrelevant, unnecessary and so last-century, because now we have OPINIONS. As all football journalists now openly acknowledge, facts get in the way of the free flow of beautiful prose. Facts are too complicated for football supporters to …
Read More “West Ham Untidy v Arsenal in the world of post-fact football”
by Tony Attwood The huge Fifa trial currently running is important, I believe, because the FA is a member of Fifa, and pays funds into Fifa. The FA gets its money from the government, which gets its money from the tax payers, like me. Mugs like me who live in England and pay their taxes …
Read More “The Fifa court cases continue, more corruption, more scandals and the FA says…”
By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a story in circulation that says that nine players in the BVB Dortmund squad are aged under 21 and all are serious members of the squad. Which is interesting given that while it is written into the German constitution that Bayern Munich win the league each season, BVB Dortmund …
Read More “Should Arsenal be using more youngsters? And Aouar”
by Tony Attwood Last season we looked at the inter-relationship between fouls, tackles and yellow cards in Premier Legaue clubs. Untold did it because, as with so many other topics, this is something that is an absolute no-go land for the media and football commentators. Even after we showed how bizarre and extraordinary the Leicester …
Read More “New figures show a third of all referee decisions were wrong before last season”
by Tony Attwood We have been highlighting the negativity of the media against Arsenal which prior to the opening game was bubbling over at near 100% agreement that without some more serious work on transfers we had not got much hope of even staying in the top 10. So it was interesting because of this …
Read More “Premier league hope and misleading expectations: the fans’ view”
by Tony Attwood As we have seen of late, English journalists don’t have a clue what is going on in football. As a result they make things up. They could do some research, but they don’t. Instead they just read what each other writes, take that as the normal, and write some more about that. …
Read More “The football media just follow each other; how they miss Elneny”
By Notme Guvna Bellinzona is a historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its three castles that have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000. It is beautiful, it lies at the foot of the Alps, it stretches along the river valley, and unless you are an intrepid …
Read More “How Fifa is finally falling apart in the courts (but the English don’t want to know)”
By Walter Broeckx If you have been reading Untold for quite a while you might remember I have in the past been a regular writer on the Untold website. Then my life changed, very much for the better I should add, and I just couldn’t find the time to write anymore. I went from being …
Read More “An unheard media as Riley finally admits to huge number of referee errors.”
By Minze A’duble This article continues from How Fulham 0 Arsenal 3 was a total disaster… for journalists If that is the case, the journalists have the perfect way of making us doubt ourselves and believe in them, since they all stand together, making the same allegations, taking the same route. Never explaining, always complaining, …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal: how the journalists got it wrong. Part 2”
This article continues from How Fulham 0 Arsenal 3 was a total disaster… for journalists and “How the journalists got it wrong” By Minze A’duble It is this sort of appallingly lazy and misleading journalism that I have tried to illustrate in the previous two articles today, that really does frustrate. I often take the …
Read More “Why football journalism is both misleading and making no sense at all.”
By Minze A’duble As we were told in the build up to the Fulham game, “Arsenal’s squad is an incoherent mess.” That was the phrase conjured up by Sam Dean, a man with a whole two years experience as a football writer now working for the Telegraph. Of course not everyone was quite so ludicrously …
Read More “How Fulham 0 Arsenal 3 was a total disaster… for journalists”
By Tony Attwood In the preview of this game Untold said, “Elneny is certainly one of those players the pundits and bloggers like to ignore – he doesn’t fit with their image, and yet as the manager showed by playing him in the two games of this season so far that we have been able …
Read More “Them: nothing. Us: three. Player prediction: spot on. Result: perfect. Arsenal win.”
By Bulldog Drummond Last season we began the campaign under a different manager. The general feeling put about among the all-unknowing media is that it was a disastrous start but was it? Date Match Result Score Competition 11 Aug 2019 Newcastle United v Arsenal W 0-1 Premier League 17 Aug 2019 Arsenal v Burnley W …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal: the injuries, the team… and time to forget the journalism”
By Tony Attwood And so we get to the end of the club by club preview in the papers we find that “Arsenal in chaos, may make fifth, no money without selling lots more” is the summary of it all. Elsewhere “Manchester City will push Liverpool all the way, Jose Mourinho CAN deliver Spurs a …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal and Auba about to sign…. according to “reports””
By Tai Emeka Obasi. A very significant thing one must have noticed since Mikel Arteta arrived at Arsenal is that the English press have not been as ruthlessly against Arsenal as it used to be, particularly during the Arsene Wenger era. . Give it to the Spaniard – he has been spotless in his conduct …
Read More “The fact Arteta needs to be reminded of – Football is an emotional game! “
By Tony Attwood Financial misdeeds in football are often said by those in the know to be everywhere. And indeed we used to come across the consequences of them with clubs going into liquidation, and then using the notorious “football creditors” arrangement to ensure that other clubs got money owed while local traders got nothing. …
Read More “Premier League clubs tax fraud investigation gathers speed”
By Tony Attwood You perhaps won’t be too surprised to read that the statement that “Arsenal’s squad is an incoherent mess” is not a phrase conjured up by Untold Arsenal, but was written by Sam Dean, a man with a whole two years experience as a football writer now working for the Telegraph.. Now it …
Read More ““Arsenal’s squad is an incoherent mess” So what do we do?”
By Tai Emeka Obasi. Mikel Arteta, Arsenal’s chief coach, is a man, who appears gifted enough and divinely favoured to be a great football manager. It is not an easy feat to start a career as a manager with a team very clearly in disarray and steady that ship within so short a time. When …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Despite the ceaseless announcements by the media concerning purchases by top clubs, there is not that much happening in the window at the moment. Club Incoming Cost Outgoing Income Current £ Arsenal Willian Mkhitaryan Free Mari £14m Greenwood Undisclosed Soares 6 Loans Gabriel £27m Ceballos -£41m Chelsea 7 players £201.30m 5 …
Read More “The big six: how the transfers are going to far, and ignoring Liverpool’s decline”
By Tony Attwood It is not unusual to find that at the start of the season there is talk in the media about clubs breaking into the top four or top six or top anything else. Usually this is accompanied by talk about Arsenal dropping out of the top group – it is the media’s …
Read More “The new big six? A big eight? Just a big four again? A big two?”
By Tony Attwood As a prelude to this season we have been looking at a few strange issues that arose last season, and have been trying to make sense of the resultant statistics. Following this, the suggestion has been made that one area we’ve not touch on at all is penalties, with a view to …
Read More “Penalties: are they fairly distributed among the clubs or is there a bias?”
by Tony Attwood When one reads an article that opens, “Over the past couple of seasons, there have evidently been two hugely dominant sides in the Premier League — Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool,” there’s no need for an eyebrow to be raised. Last couple of seasons – well yes. Manchester City …
Read More “A prime example of the extraordinary bias in the media against Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood As matters stand, in something like 160 Premier League games in the early part of this season there will be no live TV coverage and no chance of anyone paying to go to the ground to watch the game. These are the games that fall outside the pick of Sky, Amazon and …
Read More “We might get to see all Arsenal’s opening games after all”
by Sir Hardly Anyone… How well were you watching? All the questions here are about last season. The answers are below, followed by a second quiz in case you are feeling emboldened by the first… 1: Four players started over 20 first team games but didn’t score. Who were they? 2: Also, four players made …
Read More “Were you watching last season? Here’s a little quiz to find out.”
