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 Leaving aside all the chatter about the super league, the question now is, how does this situation Arsenal find themselves in, compare with the past? In the table below I’ve set out our position after 32 games first in three difficult years: 1930 under Chapman, 1976 under Mee and 1995 under Graham. …
Read More “After a season like this we became champions. Can we do it again?”
By Tony Attwood The European Club Association, of which Arsenal were a member and of which Vinai Venkatesham was a member, is losing the clubs that have proposed the new independent midweek league. Manchester United have also resigned from the ECA and Ed Woodward has stepped down from his role with UEFA where he was …
Read More “Arsenal leave the European Club Association; Mourinho out, Boris vows”
By Tony Attwood So the richest people in football want to form a super league of their own, beyond the realms of Fifa. What could possibly be wrong with that? “Everything,” scream the people who currently make money out of football – Fifa, the media… Which when you come to think of it is a …
Read More “So what exactly is wrong with having Arsenal in a European Super League?”
By Bulldog Drummond The interesting stat we haven’t covered yet is the last six games table, which really is a good indicator of form and player psychology. Thanks to The Fishy for this one… Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester United 6 4 2 0 8 2 6 14 …
Read More “Arsenal v Fulham: who is going to play? And how many will we win by?”
By Bulldog Drummond Here are the key statistics for the forthcoming game Event Arsenal Fulham Passes per match 520 466 Pass accuracy 84% 81% Crosses 605 590 Cross accuracy 20% 24% Tackles 375* 486 Fouls 150 219 Yellow cards 42 56 Tackles per foul 2.38 2.22 Fouls per yellow card 3.57 3.91 *Lowest in the …
Arsenal v Fulham: the history in videos Watch the video highlights of six different Arsenal / Fulham games from recent years By Bulldog Drummond Just settling down to type up this post and out of the blue Joe Willock scores a cracker of a header for Newcastle. I think that is his third of the …
Read More “Arsenal v Fulham: the injuries and details of all those Fulham victories.”
by Bulldog Drummond As we all know, the season started so well including a nice win against Fulham in the League, as Arsenal meandered through three different competitions winning the first five games. Date Game Res Score Competition 29 Aug 2020 Arsenal v Liverpool W 5-4* Community Shield 8 Sep 2020 Ipswich Town v Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal v Fulham: how the two clubs have been doing of late.”
by Tony Attwood Studies by social scientists often suggest that in contemporary society it is often the case that a set of politicians can identify a group, and then convince voters that the members of this group pose a threat to the rest of society. Politicians thus gain voter support by having a clearly identifiable …
Read More “How the media work ceaselessly to undermine Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood The media are getting very excited about the idea of clubs pulling out of social media, not least because social media takes attention away from the lies that the media publish about clubs on a daily basis. So they have introduced the notion that Arsenal need six new players. Football Whispers has …
by Bulldog Drummond Nice line on Twitter from Welbeast: “Arsene Wenger would have beat them 7-0 with our under 21s.” Ah a man after my own heart – although perhaps we should not get carried away. 5-0 would have done. And a nice helpful line from Sky Sports today: “With Arsenal needing goals to go …
Read More “Slavia Prague v Arsenal: the team predictions (confirmed or otherwise)”
By Bulldog Drummond After the clean sweep in the six qualifying matches we have had a run of games in the Europa that sees us with two wins, one defeat and two draws. Which by and large is a bit of a disappointment given that we won all six of the opening group stage games …
Read More “Slavia Prague v Arsenal: the recent runs of form and how it’s looking”
By Bulldog Drummond Slavia Prague’s Ondřej Kúdela has been banned for ten matches for racist behaviour. This includes the one-match provisional suspension served in last week’s EL quarter-final v Arsenal. Meanwhile there is no certainty about the fitness of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Martin Odegaard. Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe are however both ready and …
Read More “Slavia Prague find that Chinese money is not always what one might hope”
by Bulldog Drummond Since the first leg one week ago, Slavia Prague, the club run by a subsidiary of the Chinese state, have played one game, as have Arsenal. While we beat bottom club Sheffield United 3-0 Slavia Prague beat their local rivals Sparta Prague 2-0. So the position at the top of the Czech …
Read More “Chinese Prague away: Arsenal injuries, Xhaka’s leadership, Prague at the weekend”
By AKH Bullying: can be regarded in a number of ways and forms. For me, bullying is “the use of force, or coercion, or abuse, in order to to aggressively dominate and intimidate an individual or group of individuals”. I would like to concentrate on the notion of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of …
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By Tony Attwood So far this season Arsenal has had the third highest number of minutes played by players aged under 21 in the Premier League. We also have the seventh youngest average age of players used this season. Only Wolverhampton W and Sheffield U have had more minutes out of under 21 year olds …
Read More “The strength of Arsenal’s youth policy revealed through latest data”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes this is it, this is true, and no one can tell you any different. In the past three days alone, websites, blogs and newspapers have mentioned 24 players in a grand total of 57 reports concerning who Arsenal are going to buy. According to the consensus Arsenal need at least …
Read More “The 24 players Arsenal have been tipped to buy in the past 3 days!”
By Tony Attwood Here’s a little snippet of information you might have missed: The dates for this summers transfer window in the Premier League starting and ending have not yet been set. Yes honestly! We don’t know when the window creaks open and slams shut (as the journos have it twice a year). Now, …
Read More “Transfer window dates still not set but 24 players already tipped to join Arsenal”
By Bulldog Drummond We have beaten Sheffield U more than they have beaten us, but not by as much as you might think. We have won 50 and they have won 40 with 27 draws. Who Scored gives us a prediction of Sheffield United 1 Arsenal 2 and has our top three players from all …
Read More “Sheffield United v Arsenal; big scores, team selections and a lack of capitals”
By Bulldog Drummond According to WhoScored our injury list is pretty much as expected. David Luiz and Kieran Tierney are both out and Martin Odebaard is a doubt. Sheffield United have six players definitely out: Jack O’Connell, Jack Robinson, Jack Rodwell, Billy Sharp, Chris Basham and Sander Berge, with George Baldock and Jayden Bogle doubtful. …
Read More “Sheffield United v Arsenal; the line up; injuries and the zero spend technique”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal remain the lowest tackling club in the Premier League – Sheffield United have engaged in 35% more tackles than Arsenal during the course of this season. Although not as many as Leicester City who have put in 46% more tackles than Arsenal. Team Tackles Fouls Tackles/foul Yellows Fouls/Yellow Sheffield United 490 …
Read More “Tackles, fouls, yellows, goals… how Arsenal and Sheffield United match up”
By Bulldog Drummond As is the media’s tradition when Arsenal have a bad result, the knives are out for the players and the manager, with ceaseless negative commentary. It is an absolute fundamental of these writers that they have no impact on events, they only report, but that seems very unlikely. Sheffield United have a …
Read More “Sheffield United v Arsenal: who can come out of this alive?”
by Tony Attwood There is a commentary that has appeared in the website HITC in which it is proclaimed that “For far too long Arsenal have been toothless in the market. They’ve missed out on targets and settled for second-best far too often.” There is no evidence for this, we are simply asked to accept …
Read More “Wild rumours are undermining Arsenal day by day. But who is responsible?”
By Tony Attwood There is a double problem with Arsenal at the moment. One is the fact that quite obviously the club is not doing as well as we would like, nor as well as we would expect after the level of expectation was raised through the Wenger years. The other is that there is …
By Bulldog Drummond Everyone is full of tales of injury woes, but really Arsenal have had far fewer injuries than most teams this season. According to Physioroom we have six men down at the moment, a number which is exceeded by Sheffield United: 8 Brighton and Hove: 7 Crystal Palace: 7 Everton: 7 So yes …
Read More “Arsenal to win 15-0 tonight, according to WhoScored”
By Bulldog Drummond. Let’s start with a Tweet – an unusual thing for Untold to do I know but can’t resist this one. (Ash Corbett-Collins) @corbettcollins —————— I hold a low opinion of @talkSPORTLive as it is, but this morning the presenter talked about how Arsenal face former boss Unai Emery and Villarreal tonight. We’re …
Read More “Arsenal v Slavia Prague, utter confusion and Gary Neville”
