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 Years ago we had a bash at trying to raise support for having live football on TV on a saturday afternoon, on the grounds that Arsenal’s matches were always sold out, so why not let those who can’t go to the game watch it live? Nothing came of it of course, but …
Read More “Live football on TV on a saturday afternoon – and Arsenal’s team this afternoon”
By Bulldog Drummond So we have just won three league games in a row and Newcastle have just drawn one and lost two in the league (see the last article for more details: Arsenal v Newcastle in the FA Cup: the injury situation is unprecedented What’s more, we have scored eight, and they have scored …
Read More “Beating Newcastle 7-3 (the video), recent results and Newc’s virus worries”
By Bulldog Drummond Now here is a funny thing. Just look at the injury table – we are no longer at the top, in fact we are almost at the bottom. Of course this will be an opportunity for one or two anti-Wengerians to come in and say that they told us all along that …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle in the FA Cup: the injury situation is unprecedented”
By Tony Attwood In this series I have looked at how we have discovered the level of influence that crowds can have on referees, thanks to the LSE research, and then considered from there how clubs have responded to that knowledge. This is the concluding article. Here is a list of the articles so far …
Read More “Referee tactics and why Arsenal are in the bottom half of the table”
This is part of a major series on refereeing in the Premier League, reflecting Untold’s work in analysing exactly what is going on, using both data from academic research and from our own analyses. Here is the series so far… however each article is by and large readable on its own… How clubs manipulate referees …
Read More “How some clubs manipulate referees and journalists to their own advantage”
by Tony Attwood This is the third in our series reviewing what is happening to refereeing in the Premier League. The previous articles are: Revealed: How clubs have evolved their “referee handling” tactics with such success How the impression refs have of certain clubs influences how they are treated You might recall that back in …
Read More “How clubs developed the fourth type of match fixing in the Premier League”
By Tony Attwood In my last article I suggested that there were numerous issues we had discovered with regards to refereeing in the Premier League. In summary these are 1: The LSE research which shows how crowds influence referees. This destroyed the PGMO assertion that referees are getting 99% of their calls right. 2: The …
Read More “How the impression refs have of certain clubs influences how they are treated”
By Tony Attwood In my recent articles about the bias of referees in terms of favouring the home team when there is a crowd present, I have moved away from earlier commentaries on this site which have sought to show that there is persistent bias by referees in the Premier League. Now I want to …
Read More “Revealed: How clubs have evolved their “referee handling” tactics with such success”
By Tony Attwood If you have been following this series, you’ll know that it has been shown, through research undertaken at London School of Economics (part of the University of London) that referees are clearly influenced by the crowd. This in turn explains why the bias towards there being more home wins than away wins …
Read More “Proving unconscious bias by referees is rife in the Premier League: penalties”
by Tony Attwood When I started the articles this season that compared tackles, fouls, yellow cards and penalties between the clubs I wasn’t sure what I was going to find. And it has taken a while to work out what is going on, but I think we’re getting there, and I think it is weird. …
Read More “How clubs manipulate referees through their tactics”
By Tony Attwood There is obviously a major difference of opinion between Untold’s scribblers and those all knowing all seeing transfer correspondents of other blogs and the newspapers concerning the rules for transfers of players now England is not part of the European Union. I’ll try and set it out once more as I understand …
Read More “What exactly are the new rules concerning transfers of non-UK citizens?”
By Tony Attwood Of course we never know all the ins and outs of player issues within the club, but Arsenal do have some urgent work to do to restore a sense among players of being an organised club with a clear set of plans. Buying Saliba and then not including him in the squad, …
Read More “Everyone says Arsenal need to thin down the squad but what does that mean?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone. We are in a curious transfer window. The key issues (how to bring in non-English players under the new post-Brexit regulations, and how to move on players to make room for new comers in the 25 when everyone is facing the same problems of ditching unwanted foreign players) are just being …
Read More “Is it likely? Arsenal tipped to sign two players and ditch one of our young stars?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It turned up on a BBC radio programme today: Benjamin Mendy broke the Covid-19 isolation regulations by inviting people from outside his household to a New Year’s Eve party. Of course he’s not the only one to do it within the world of football. Erik Lamela, Giovani Lo Celso and Sergio …
by Tony Attwood Well, to answer the question in the title, several things. Because although three wins and a good splattering of goals are fine, but there are still some problems. The biggest problem I guess are the bloggers and journalists who are daily telling us that a) Arsenal must buy lots of players and …
Read More “3 Arsenal wins in a row, so what’s left to worry about?”
By Bulldog Drummond Our old chum Kieran Gibbs is a doubt to face the Arsenal, having picked up a thigh injury according to SportsMole who also tell us the line up against the Larger Sam and Co could be Leno; Bellerin, Holding, Mari, Tierney; Elneny, Xhaka; Saka, Smith Rowe, Martinelli; Aubameyang The Standard chicken …
Read More “WBA v Arsenal, there’s a unanimity over the team”
by Bulldog Drummond Three teams have let in three or more goals in four consecutive home fixtures. West Brom are on the edge of this, and of course it will be very much to Arsenal’s benefit if that can be achieved. Date Game Res Score Competition 06 Dec 2020 West Bromwich Albion v Crystal Palace …
Read More “WBA v Arsenal: The ups and downs of the Larger Sam”
By Bulldog Drummond Looking at the performance statistics of Arsenal and West Brom we can see that Arsenal tackle less often, commit fewer fouls and have fewer penalties against them than West Bromwich Albion, and yet curiously, West Brom are able to get away with more fouls before they get a yellow. A curious state …
Read More “West Bromwich v Arsenal: the curious case of home and away”
By Bulldog Drummond Remember the old days? Arsene Wenger is to blame for Arsenal’s injury crisis screamed the Daily Mirror on 30 November 2015. They were just a little behind the times (as they so often are) because over one month earlier Talksport.com had come out with… ‘Old-school’ Arsene Wenger must be blamed for Arsenal’s …
Read More “Suddenly we’re almost top of the (injury) league”
By Sir Hardly Anyone We are now entering the new world of post-Brexit transfers, and given that the FA is in charge there is no need to say, it is going to be chaotic, making the Rutland livestock auctions look like a walk one the water. Sadly most journalists and bloggers don’t seem to have …
Read More “Forthcoming Arsenal transfers, except… those new Brexit regs are a bit pesky.”
