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; picture by Krzysiu Szymański It is Slavia Prague in the quarter finals with us at home in the first match. After that, if we get through, it is Dinamo Zagreb or Villareal in the semi final, with our home game as the second match. One thing is quite clear – Slavia Prague …
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By Tony Attwood Obviously, with matters Tottenhamish, we sit in the wings watching a club that has traditionally used quite different methods from Arsenal in its drive for success. Watching to see if anything can be learned from their approach – which has over the course of this century been quite different from Arsenal’s and …
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By Bulldog Drummond In the lead up to today’s game Mr Arteta suggested Bukayo Saka was being assessed after he was substituted at half time in the victory over the tiny totts, because of an injury. But he hopes he is ok by today. I would suspect that means he might give this game a …
Read More ““Martinelli needs to be patient.” Why? And all the versions of the team we can find”
By Bulldog Drummond Mikel Arteta has allegedly “drawn a line” under what we are now learning to call “the disciplinary situation” surrounding Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. What we don’t know is if Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has “drawn a line” under the “disciplinary situation.” As the old song says, “It takes two to draw a line under a …
Read More “Auba, Olympiacos, discipline, past results, and being undefeated in five”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal equalled a UEFA Europa League record by making it 11 away games in the competition without defeat as they beat Olympiacos 3-1. Following their defeat by Arsenal at home, Olympiacos won their next fixture, 1-3 away to Larissa. That was no particular surprise since Larissa are currently bottom of the league …
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Text by Tony Attwood; Picture by Walter Broeckx Today, Dominic Cummings, the former chief adviser to the UK Prime Minister, gave evidence to the Commons science committee about a new UK research funding agency. Today, Lee Bowyer became the latest manager at Birmingham City who has been trying to revive the club which is owned …
Read More “Wenger / Emery / Arteta compared and the thoughts of Dominic Cummings”
By Iver Tail 100 historic Arsenal videos free online Yes rumours are really, really so last year. So last decade. So last century. The new rumour is the conspiracy, because as the blogs show us, football is utterly packed jam solid with solid jam. Or failing that, conspiracies in which clubs plot with each other …
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By I M Tellingyou Discipline is important in team sports; of course it is. But handling players who are on contracts worth anything upwards of £1m a year, by telling them to do as they are told, is a tough call and quite often not very successful. Aubameyang, according to reports, had discipline issues in …
Read More “For Arsenal discipline is not everything; managing players is.”
By Tony Attwood It has long been the policy of newspapers and websites to rate players after games. But I am not sure if anyone in England gives referees ratings. Why is that? Probably because the statistics are so alarming; maybe because PGMO have told them not to. And they might have done that for …
Read More “Are some referees out to get Arsenal? Ref stats compared and it makes bad reading”
By Tony Attwood There is a twitter feed circulating which asks “How did Kane not get a yellow for this on Gabriel?” In case you have missed this I have reproduced it below. But before we get to the question of “How did Kane not get even a yellow card for his assault on Gabriel?” I …
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By Tony Attwood The “last six results” table below reflects where Arsenal is in terms of the last six games played by each club in the top half of the league. The final column on the right shows the actual position of the club in the current league table. The fact that the top five …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Making yourself bigger than the team by making the maintenance of your authority more important than anything else is what the leadership books say you absolutely should not do as a leader. Absolutely not. But Arteta takes a different view, his authority is supreme, he demands obedience and he will be …
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By Bulldog Drummond This picture of Dial Square reminds us of course of the club’s origins, and the ordinary working men who simply wanted to play football on a Saturday afternoon. We’ve travelled such a long way since 1886 and what football is today would be quite meaningless to a traveller in time from those …
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By Bulldog Drummond Every day on the Arsenal History Society site we run a video of an Arsenal game from the past – there is an index of the most recent videos on that site. There was a time when Arsenal regularly bossed the north London derby games but it all started to go a …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham – watch the amazing video as a warm up.”
By Bulldog Drummond Tottenham are a club that like history. They’ve won the First Division twice (but not won the top league for 60 years), and they’ve won the second division twice as well. They have won the FA Cup eight times (once more than Arsene Wenger), the Cup winners Cup once, and the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Yes indeed, Arsenal have fallen off the table. Untold Arsenal has been recording the number of injuries Arsenal have, week by week, since 2010. And as far as I can tell we have never ever ever had a weekend before, during a season, in which Arsenal has no injuries at all. Not …
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By Bulldog Drummond This is a season of runs of alternating success for both Tottenham and Arsenal, For Tottenham after a run of six defeats in eight games in which they conceded 16 goals, they are now on a run of five wins in a row, in which they have scored 16. And it has …
Read More “Tottenham: 73 more fouls than Arsenal, but two fewer yellow cards!”
By Tony Attwood The problem for most of us is that we support one team, watch them a lot, and don’t really know or notice what other teams are doing. What we do see are sanitized versions of their games occasionally on TV, but without that level of detailed attention that we give to Arsenal. …
Read More “Why this could be the moment when it all turns around.”
by Tony Attwood Of course the negativists were dubious about Arsenal’s chances against Olympiacos; doubly so when they saw the substitution of Elneny, complaining he was exactly not the player we needed at this moment, and pondering how Arteta could make such a crucial mistake as such a critical moment. The Guardian follows this point …
Read More “Exceptionally good news for Arsenal; except the media don’t see it.”
By Bulldog Drummond Quite possibly because many websites have been following the Daily Mirror lead which suggests that Arsenal are about to sell half of their first team squad, there is not too much info available about Olympiacos. Indeed the match fixing findings and banning from the league have been totally ignored by the media …
Read More “Olympiacos v Arsenal; the Arsenal line-up, and what could be done about referees”
By Tony Attwood Even Wikipedia is having a go at Arsenal now. For in its article Arsenal FC in European football it has this… European honours of Arsenal F.C. Honour Titles Years European Cup Winners’ Cup 1 1994 That’s it. Elsewhere in passing we do have a note about Arsenal winning the Inter Cities Fairs …
Read More “Olympiacos relegated from the top league, but we are still playing them!”
By Bulldog Drummond So it is Olympiacos tomorrow which means they are most likely top of the league, and most likely involved in a match fixing scandal. That at least is what we might expect from their past behaviour before we do any research at all. Since the start of February they have played ten …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Interestingly, occasional slight justifications and explanations for Arsenal spending money in the summer on the transfer market are starting to emerge. The prime one being that because we are no longer spending money on players who are on the payroll but not in the “25” we now have lots of spare …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Now I know my name causes some mirth among the lower classes, but if might turn out to be a dire warning. At least if the Daily Mirror has its way. For the Daily Mirror has on its site today what appears to be a serious article called “Arsenal keep or …
Read More “Sell them all! The Daily Mirror’s shocking plan for Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood You can’t take in the news these days without realising that there is a lot of anti-vaccination propaganda going on at the moment. It has different edges to it, as for example if you get vaccinated it won’t bring you any personal benefit, or it will have a negative effect, or it …
Read More “Anti-vaccination and anti-Arsenal. Nothing much is making sense.”
