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 Journalists as we know, live on transfer rumours. Reporting them takes no time or effort, no money needs to be spent (except for the cost of booze in the Toppled Bollard public house where the journalists gather to exchange inventions), and anyone can do it. Make up a rumour and you are …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Arsenal had a net spend in the window of £67.8m – considerably more than most pundits were saying at the start. Indeed the standard theme (and there are always standard themes because these journo types love to copy each other) was, as the Mirror put it “Arsenal must sell before they …
by Sir Hardly Anyone Today Arsenal, along with all clubs playing in Europe, have to hand over their list of players for the Europa League and Champions League games this season. As ever the list is in two parts. The A list of 25 players who are over 21, of whom a minimum of eight …
Read More “Arsenal about to show who is being dropped as we create the “25””
By Tai Emeka Obasi Whoever is still an Arsenal fan needs commendation. In the modern craze of ‘get rich quick’, being an Arsenal fan has that subconscious assurance that one can be relied upon in areas of patience, diligence and conscientious living. Liverpool fans come close in this regard. From 1996, when I followed …
Read More “Partey: It Feels Great To Continue Being An Arsenal Fan…”
by Andrew Crawshaw The six matches for this last weekend were Aston Villa v Everton Manchester United v Brighton Manchester City v Spurs Arsenal v Bristol City Birmingham v Chelsea West Ham v Reading Aston Villa (0) v Everton (6) was played on Saturday. Villa were promoted at the start of the season, Everton have …
Read More “Women’s Super League Matchweek 3 Review: Arsenal top of the league”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Astonishing? well yes. We need to get rid of two senior players in order just to get down to 25 before we start bringing anyone else in, otherwise we will be left with players we can’t get rid of and will have to pay. Guendouzi has gone, but he is not …
Read More “Arsenal’s astonishing transfer window. 2 players being paid not to play.”
By Tony Attwood Last season Leicester City raced to near the top of the league and for a long time were looking dead certs for at the very least a top four finish, if not a runners’ up spot. And then they fell apart and slipped right back down the table. So, in our normal …
Read More “Tackles, fouls and yellow cards: the PL season so far”
by Tony Attwood In football reporting, every incident becomes a crisis, because every day needs a story. And yesterday we got two, with the defeats of Liverpool and Manchester United. Such things have happened all the way through football history. There are famous tales told of Arsenal losing 7-0 away to Newcastle in 1925 just …
Read More “Yesterday was great fun, but the scores alone don’t tell us much”
by Bulldog Drummond As we started to put this little piece together the story emerged that “Blades agree £23.5m deal for Liverpool striker Brewster”. That is from the BBC. Sheffield United have always been a difficult team for us to beat in the Premier League. We’ve played them eight times, won two, lost two, and …
by Bulldog Drummond The Telegraph seems to have got a clearer picture of things than the Guardian, for speaking of this weekend’s game they say, “The Gunners go into the match at the Emirates on a high after beating Liverpool on penalties in the Carabao Cup on Thursday, whereas the Blades have made an alarming …
Read More “Sheffield United visit Arsenal with an attack that hasn’t scored yet.”
by Tony Attwood Last season we started studying the number of tackles, fouls and yellow cards each club received. And we found some extraordinary figures – figures which marked Leicester City out as the real outsiders in this regard, tackling far more than any other club, and yet getting very few yellow cards. And yet …
Read More “Comparative stats for Sheff U, Arsenal and industrial scale rotational fouling”
By Tony Attwood Allow me, if I may, to give an example of what I mean by bias. This comes from Nick Ames speaking of Sheffield United against whom Arsenal play this weekend. “Against Arsenal they will probably be required to go with what they have got, but the same goes for their opponents given …
by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have been drawn against Rapid Vienna, Molde (not to be confused with Mold which is quite a different place), and Dundalk in the group stage of the Europa League. Here’s a preliminary look at what these clubs have been up to of late. Rapid Vienna have been playing regularly since August …
By Tony Attwood Last night’s match confirmed the turnaround in Arsenal’s fortunes, in the club’s approach, in the desire and willingness of the team not to give up, and the inventiveness of the manager in the way he can re-organise the team and galvanise the players. Between August 2015 and October 2019 our record against …
Read More “Beating Liverpool is far more important than beating Liverpool!”
By Bulldog Drummond Liverpool got away with their fairly blatant intimidation tactics in monday’s game with the two very serious fouls only getting yellows, while ensuring that Arsenal realised that they would likely get punished far more aggressively by the referee if they retaliated with fouls of their own. It is a clever tactic that …
Read More “Liverpool! v Arsenal again. The team, plus we sign an exciting youngster”
By Tony Attwood We have previously run the fact that Arsenal need to sell before the transfer window just to avoid having players on their books who need to be paid, but who cannot play. But I’m going through this again because most of the media is simply ignoring this, and talking over and over …
Read More “Arsenal have to sell two just to get legal; more if we sign anyone else.”
