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 Seven teams have played in the Premier League in every season since it was founded: Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur. Five of those clubs have won the Premier League at least once – the odd men out of course being Tottenham Hots and Everton. But although …
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By Tony Attwood In the days of Mr Wenger, Arsenal was regularly mauled in the press because of the number of players the club had out injured. Arsenal was rarely at the top of the injury league (except when one “outlet” managed to count some players twice) but the club was in the upper reaches. …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The journalistic and blogging world has been praising Aston Villa for getting Buendia as being exactly the man they wanted. At the same time Arsenal are being criticised for not trying hard enough. Buendia is a winger who scored 15 goals last season for Norwich in the championship. Now Norwich are …
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By Tony Attwood Part 1: We need a new keeper One of the dominant Arsenal stories of the moment in blogs and newspapers is that Bernd Leno has to go, and so anxious is the club to get him out that they are willing to buy a replacement who is currently banned for a year …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone “Aston Villa deal Arsenal huge blow as they close in on club record signing of Emiliano Buendia after agreeing £40m deal with Norwich… as midfielder has medical in Argentina after agreeing personal terms.” So sayeth the Daily Mail, and of course they have to say that because all through the last …
Read More “All 48 players tipped to be coming to Arsenal and 22 tipped to be going.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone If you have been here before you’ll probably have seen that we’ve spent ages researching and explaining the incredible tactical turnaround that Mr Arteta created last season at the club, which resulted in very poor results in the first third of the season as the change was implemented, and stunning results …
Read More “48 players tipped to join Arsenal? The media suddenly changes its mind!”
By Tony Attwood The Daily Telegraph is reporting this morning that Manchester United have announced that they will allow fans to buy shares in the club. Shares that will have full voting rights. Which I am sure will make some Manchester United fans claim a victory and some Arsenal fans who support the Arsenal Supporters …
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By Tony Attwood What Arteta did last season at Arsenal was little short of a miracle. He completely changed the style of playing of the defence resulting in the fact that Arsenal could tackle more before committing a foul, and foul more before getting a yellow card. It was a complete reversal of what had …
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By Tony Attwood The differences between Mr Wenger and Mr Arteta seem so obvious: Mr Wenger was a player of modest proportions who had had significant experience and success as a manager before coming to Arsenal. For Mr Arteta there was success as a player in Scotland and England. But people forget, Arsene Wenger knew …
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by Tony Attwood Speaking generally, there are two ways to express an opinion on a football club. One is by providing lots of facts and comparing how the club is doing with other clubs. That’s the traditional method. The other is the Trump method, which is simply to assert something and then just treats it …
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By Tony Attwood More details are being added to Arsenal’s summer, and the summer break looks shorter than ever before. Players involved in the Euros should be back in training by the time the season starts, but whether they will be fit and ready to play is a different matter. Worse we could lose some …
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By Bulldog Drummond They don’t come much better than that. Edu takes his shirt off. With American owners it is not too surprising that our pre-season tour for 2021/22 will start in the USA. In this case in Orlando, where we shall be playing a game against Inter Milan and then one of either Everton …
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By Tony Attwood As we have seen of late Arsenal have been working on a stunningly revolutionary approach to football in the past 18 months. One that involves cutting our yellow card haul in half, creating what throughout the whole of last season (not just the last two thirds) was the third best defence in …
Read More “The enemies of Arsenal, and how they are attempting to bring about our fall”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Ask most people what they thought of maths at school and they will tell you it was boring. Or they hated it. Of course some quite liked it, but these people generally keep quiet about that, because they get to be called nerds and are told (by people who have no …
By Tony Attwood One of my arguments about blogs and newspapers, not to mention radio and TV stations, is that the commentators seize on an idea and run with it. So the idea grows that Arsenal have a rubbish goalkeeper and need to replace him. Also Arsenal “needs to trim a hefty wage bill.” That’s …
By Sir Hardly Anyone If this were a traditional war, this would be the moment when a significant amount of hunkering down into bunkers would be taking place. And I say that because although no one is shooting at anyone else (at least not as far as I know) there is not the slightest sign …
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By Tony Attwood Last season is one that investigators into the oddities of football will probably dwell on for a long time, because it gave us a unique insight into the influence of the crowd upon referees. Of course it’s not something PGMO encourage their pals in the media to talk about, but… I wondered …
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