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 Bulldog Drummond Just to say, before we get into the Tottenham game, its Arsenal Women v Birmingham at 2pm. It is live on the FA Player. Our preview of that match is here As for the men’s game, the Evening Standard has clearly taken heed of our bit of fun concerning the notion of …
Read More “Tottenham H v Arsenal: the confirmed predictions, and women’s game live”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal, according to the media, don’t have a chance. Not now, not in the future. No one realises that Arsenal’s away form and Tottenham’s home form are virtually the same. It is all doom and gloom. “Gilberto Silva claims things ‘would be different’ at Arsenal if Wenger hadn’t sold £18m man” announces …
Read More “The knives are out against Arsenal as the media goes beserk in its attacks”
By Tony Attwood I’m delighted to say that Andrew, who covers Arsenal Women’s matches for Untold Arsenal has got a ticket to attend the Arsenal Women match against Birmingham City tomorrow, and thus be among the 900 people watching the match. If you have not got a ticket and fancy going you need to visit …
Read More “Arsenal Women v Birmingham City Women: we’ll be there”
By Bulldog Drummond This is the season where statistics have been turned upside down, and the fact that the journalists, commentators and writers fail to deal with this topic (in the mistaken belief that the football going public don’t understand maths or don’t like statistics) leaves the field open to us. As we showed this …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal – so maybe all is not lost… (injuries and recent games)”
By Bulldog Drummond Tottenham fans will be relishing the game against Arsenal, as a chance to reduce by one their historic deficit in matches between the two clubs (Tottenham have won 65 while Arsenal have won 82). But there are a couple of other numbers that show some interesting pointers ahead of this match – …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal: unexpected statistics point to an unexpected result”
by Tony Attwood There is little that is more amusing than a confused commentator – one who spends all the game acting as if he is the arbiter of truth, the interpreter of the game, the know-all of all-things-football, and who then suggests that he thinks maybe away teams have been doing a bit better …
Read More “Slightly confused BT Sprout thinks away teams might be doing better”
By Tony Attwood “They came, they sanitised, they socially distanced,” says the Guardian while the Daily Mail goes with “‘The Europa League group phase doesn’t motivate some of the players’: Jose Mourinho accuses his Tottenham side of not taking European games seriously after conceding late equaliser at LASK” The Mail does have an Arsenal headline, …
Read More “Arsenal make it through the night, and rather jolly it was too”
By Bulldog Drummond This being a Europa League game we don’t have too many statistics around to help us, but we have found this little lot from Uefa… Rapid Vienna Assists: 6 Saves: 10 Fouls Committed 68 Fouls received 37 Yellow cards: 11 Fouls per yellow card: 6.18 Arsenal Assists: 10 Saves: 8 Fouls committed: …
Read More “Arsenal v Rapid. The team and some interesting comparative stats”
By Bulldog Drummond It’s all left to play for in Group B of the Europa League… well, not quite. Arsenal need a single point from their last two games to win the group and Molde FK and Rapid Wien (not Wine as I saw in one outlet) are fighting it out tooth and nail, hand …
Read More “Arsenal v Rapid Vienna: how the opposition are doing, and injuries”
by Tony Attwood I received a note at the end of last week pointing out that Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, who have been under investigation by Swiss authorities for some time, are now suddenly facing a more serious charge of fraud. This comes after Swiss federal prosecutors intensified a five-year investigation into the pair’s …
Read More “Extraordinary story on Blatter in the Athletic which whitewashes current case”
By Tony Attwood This season we have been looking at some statistics that seem never to become headline news in the media, but which, when we look at them really give us pause for thought. Below are all the details we have looked at. And our prime conclusions now are that Liverpool, Leicester, Man City …
Read More “The four PL clubs that are getting very special treatment from referees.”
By Tony Attwood It has never been any secret that the Football Association generally feels that while it might not be 1935, it jolly well ought to be. All English players in English teams playing in the English 1st Division, with none of these johnny foreigners lurking about. (Mind you they also think they are …
Read More “Brexit bites the Premier League: we’ll never be the same again”
By Tony Attwood On Monday morning I took a call from a friend in the medical services who has little interest in football. She had been reading up about David Luiz’ injury and was utterly astonished. As a medic she could understand that in a contact sport serious accidents can happen, and had no criticism …
Read More “Head injuries: football in England is once again on another planet.”
By Tony Attwood While there have been some comments about Arsenal’s decline of late, until recently the media in England has been content to avoid placing the blame anywhere, not least because in the last few years the club has followed their advice, changing all the players around, changing the managers and spending, spending, spending. …
Read More “What on earth is wrong with Arsenal. The media speak out.”
