By Tony Attwood Prior to yesterday’s match the Guardian newspaper kindly reminded us that new Australian referee Jarred Gillett has handed out 15 yellow cards in his three previous matches – figures that we didn’t have before. That is pretty amazing and I wondered just how far he would go in yesterday’s game. Two against …
By Bulldog Drummond To get a prediction of how the game will be played out, the regular tackles, fouls and yellow card statistics generally gives quite a good measure. Indeed the only time it does not is in cases such as the recent game against Liverpool where the opposition deliberately set out to unsettle Arsenal …
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly sorry this report wasn’t ready last night. A 7pm kick-off should have left me plenty of time to get back to South London and write it but a track problem interrupted my journey home and I didn’t get in till well after 11 by which time I was too knackered. The …
By Bulldog Drummond And so the negativity in the media rambles on. 90mins opens its preview of the match with “A club never too far away from a crisis, Arsenal welcome Southampton…” but when we look at the situation in reality terms rather than journalistic hobgoblin terms, we find that Arsenal currently have four players …
By Bulldog Drummond Eight historic games against Southampton – the Videos The anti-Arsenal Arsenal hardly needs an excuse to go on the attack against the club, the players and the manager. But given an excuse they will get every knife out, and of course, the bloggettas will cut and paste and copy. And certainly, the …
By Tony Attwood “Not a single senior FA executive even so much as has their role scrutinised in the 129 pages of this review, commissioned and paid for by the FA” That is not me raving about the gross incompetence of the FA yet again, but actually a comment of incredulity from the Daily Telegraph. …
By Andrew Crawshaw Our match against Barcelona is being played tomorrow evening at the Emirates with a 19:00 kickoff. It will also be shown live on the DAZN streaming website and probably also by arsenal.com so you should be able to watch it wherever you are in the world. Barcelona are, without doubt, the best …
By Tony Attwood Football, as presented on TV, on the radio, on the internet and in print, feeds on one thing, and one thing only: controversy. But that controversy has to be contained. Only certain controversies are allowable. Through the game, at half time and after the game pundits ooze pleasantries about how good the …
By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Mirror today, last night’s game was “the same old story for Arsenal as they struggled to create goal-scoring opportunities.” The clear statement is that without more goals Arsenal will be in serious trouble. And yet that is not always the case. For example, we are currently on track …
By Tony Attwood We regularly cover issues of racism and violence within football. See for example “Racist abuse, physical violence” in August this year. Back in 2018 we were asking “Should clubs be responsible for the behaviour of their fans inside and outside the ground?” We also know that there was a lot of bother …
By Tony Attwood The problem with tactical rethinks is that they can take a while to get right. And we have perfect evidence of that with the first third of last season when the whole approach to defending was changed and we slipped to 15th in the league. I must admit I had hoped that …
By Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal – the referee and past matches Everton v Arsenal: comparisons of the current state of the clubs Everton v Arsenal, the turmoil in the build up, the walk out by the fans. Everton v Arsenal: the tackles, fouls and yellow cards. What will the ref do? And now here’s …
by Bulldog Drummond If you have been reading Untold for a while you will know that uniquely, we’ve developed the process of comparing tackles, fouls and yellow cards for clubs, and have found it a great source of information in terms of how clubs set themselves up. And of course what the referees get up …
by Jon Preston A word of introduction – These are the thoughts of my Son, Jon who accompanied me (Andrew Crawshaw) to the game. As FA Cup finals go, today’s was unusual. Carried over from last season, I found myself at Wembley in December to watch Arsenal against Chelsea, a traditionalist’s tie if ever there …
By Andrew Crawshaw The 50th playing of the final of the Women’s FA Cup was held at Wembley this Afternoon in front if a crowd of marginally over 50,000. I was there along with Jon, my son and his daughter Josette. It was Jon’s first Arsenal Women’s game although we sit together at the Emirates …
By Bulldog Drummond The referee is either Andre Marriner or Mike Dean, depending on which website one reads. Marriner we have not had at all. However last season we had him in charge of our games three times. Mike Dean we have had once for the game in October against Palace. Last season, six referees …
By Bulldog Drummond I don’t think we’ve been in the position of writing previews of two major Arsenal matches in two days, but if you are looking for our coverage of the Women’s Cup Final today that is here 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 1 History …
By Bulldog Drummond 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 1 History 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 2 – Match Preview With Andrew having covered today’s big match in detail (see above) all there is left for me to …
by Andrew Crawshaw 2021 FA Women’s Cup Final – Arsenal v Chelsea Sunday 5 December – Part 1 History The match is at Wembley and kicks off at 14:00 UK Time. If you can’t be there in person it is also being broadcast live in the UK on BBC1 and BTSport 1 and local carriers …
by Andrew Crawshaw This will be the 50th Women’s FA Cup Final, but why only the 50th? It will also mark the centenary of a disgraceful act by the FA which by itself should preclude that body having any authority over the game we all support. On 5 December 1921 the English Football Association (FA) …
By Tony Attwood On Radio 4 in the UK today there was a discussion of the events at Wembley for the Euro 2020 final. And yet despite a fulsome piece on the subject, the interviewer completely failed to ask a representative of the FA, “Why did you not realise this could happen?” The reason that …
by Tony Attwood Untold recently ran the series: The biggest scandal in football – the first part of the three part review is here with links to the other two parts at the end. The scandal is that there is no one single body looking after the well-being of children who are taken on by …
By Tony Attwood In its ratings of Arsenal players last night the Daily Telegraph generally gave Arsenal players ratings of six out of ten apart from Ramsdale, Gabriel and Martinelli who all got seven. Which is another way of saying that we didn’t have a standout player who could turn the match and remotivate the …
By Bulldog Drummond I have to admit, getting news about this game has been tough since the media seem only to want to talk about Manchester United. And I know that normally on Untold we end our run of match previews with a prediction of the team – (which as you may have seen in …
By Bulldog Drummond Perfidious is the only polite word I can think of for these journalist chappies. Consider this headline: Arsenal suffer injury blow ahead of Man Utd clash as three players could miss out It suggested that there has been a new injury in training, when it appeared this morning, but no – it is …
