Who should be in this season’s Arsenal squad, and who should leave…

  The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day.   To access  the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Tai Emeka Obasi. Mikel Arteta inherited a team completely lacking in self-belief. What he did with that stuttering Arsenal …

Womens Super League 2020/21 Season Preview

The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day.   To access  the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Andrew Crawshaw The WSL starts this Weekend, a week before the Men’s PL. This season, as last year, there are 12 …

How the media is still failing to explain Leicester’s extraordinary fall from grace last year.

The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day.   To access  the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Tony Attwood When Untold runs a story which is not in any of the media, I always like to keep a …

The Swiss government is fighting Fifa. And now so is the USA!

By Tony Attwood.  Research by Mike Mcfarlane Goodness knows how many times the point has been made that the UK media deliberately censors football news, so that it meets its agreed and established agenda.  (If you want a few examples see The ten big football stories that the media won’t cover.) By way of a …

Ancelloti v Arteta. They changed clubs together, but which club got the best deal?

By Tony Attwood ‘The perfect appointment’: Everton name Carlo Ancelotti as manager” That was the full-on, top of the range, up-and-at-em headline in the Guardian when Everton changed their manager – just about at the same time that Arsenal appointed their new man.  A certain Mr Arteta as I recall.  By a strange coincidence, the …

Arsenal’s financial problems were clear a year back, and now are worse.

by Tony Attwood In 2018/19 Arsenal had the fifth highest match day revenue of any football club in the world, behind Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man U and PSG.  That Arsenal have maintained this position, despite falling out of the Champions League and having a supporters’ revolt going on around them, along with massive antagonism in …

These purchases for Arsenal make no sense financially or logically

By Sir Hardly Anyone It is interesting that the level of promised signings continues to rise without any consideration of money, or sales or indeed fitting the team together.   In fact it was only a short while ago that Arsenal announced a series of redundancies among the recruitment staff, which was widely interpreted in the …

PL games will be played with no TV coverage, and no fans in the ground

Top-flight games will be played in empty stadiums and the PL refuses to broadcast almost half of them. The reason of course is because between them, the clubs and the broadcasters failed to come up with anything in the contracts that worked out what to do in the case of a national emergency. Now the …

Arsenal currently have 27 players to fit into the 25 list. Who should we lose?

by Tony Attwood The purchases So, as we know, we have purchased four players.  A number of others are being discussed, but for the moment let us work with these four… Willian: Winger — from Chelsea, free Pablo Marí: Defender — from Flamengo, £14m Cédric Soares, Defender — from Southampton; free Gabriel Magalhães; Defender — from …

Arsenal’s next transfer: one of these five (plus five youngsters tipped)

By Sir Hardly Anyone As you will know if you have been paying attention 134 players have now been tipped to be coming to Arsenal this summer.  And having reached that number, the wild and wacky inventors employed by newspapers and blogs have pretty much run out not just of ideas but also of players. …

Amadou Diawara: Agent confirms Arsenal FC interest

  Mikel Arteta wants to create new opportunities in his midfield. In the course of this, Arsenal FC is interested in Amadou Diawara. Its advisor confirms the London efforts.Recently, Arsenal’s alleged interest in Amadou Diawara popped up for the first time. There was talk of a possible swap deal with AS Roma, which could receive …

Five signings, not one, for Arsenal, and the Arsenal man with 9 Wembley appearances

By Tony Attwood First off, Gabriel Magalhães has joined Arsenal from Lille for £27m, signing a five-year contract.  The delay in the signing has simply been because of the lastest covid restrictions, which mean he is still in isolation having travelled from France on 24 August. There has of course been a lot of talk …

Arsenal: the underdogs; exactly when we shine

by Tony Attwood From NBC Sports to the Guardian, the scribblers are out doing their guesswork as to where various clubs will finish in the League. To remind ourselves this is what the BBC gave us this time last year.  This is Phil McNulty’s prediction showing the predicted position on the left and the actual …