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 There are euphemisms and euphemisms. The Guardian today says, “Jürgen Klopp’s side mustered all their street-fighting experience to hold them [Arsenal] at bay.” That’s one way to describe it. Looking at the team many would probably say that the return to the squad of a 20 a season centre forward could help …
Read More “Covid certifcate, car insurance, empty seats at £10 each… another Arsenal night”
By Bulldog Drummond According to the BBC, “Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta praised his side’s “fight, determination and brotherhood” after the 10-man Gunners frustrated Liverpool in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final at Anfield.” Of course it wasn’t a fair battle, according to the Corporation’s headline because “Liverpool miss Salah & Mane”. Ah, of …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: Arsenal’s team and the strange issue of Liverpool’s fouls”
By Bulldog Drummond Despite all the negatives about Arsenal of late we are still up there when it comes to current form Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 6 6 0 0 21 4 17 18 2 Tottenham Hots 6 4 2 0 13 5 8 14 3 …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool. Comparisons over the last few games give us hope”
By Bulldog Drummond These are indeed the craziest of football times. With Infantino, head of Fifa, packing his bags and moving to Qatar with his family, seemingly to escape the investigation of his activities by the Swiss authorities who are looking into corrupt and illicit meetings with their most senior lawman, and with the British …
Read More “Arsenal v Liverpool: why do clubs not want to tackle Liverpool players?”
By Lizzie Howard Arsenal FC is a club that is steeped deep in history. The club has gone through many iconic phases in the 135 years since it was established. These phases have produced some of the most exhilarating moments of triumph. Here are the seven greatest moments in Arsenal history. The Invincibles Few …
by Andrew Crawshaw On Wednesday evening 19 January, Covid permitting, our Women’s team enter the Continental Tyres Cup at the quarter final stage. Due to our involvement in the Champions League group stage we were exempt from the earlier group stage of the competition. Our opponents are Manchester United so I expect this to be …
Read More “Arsenal Women v Manchester United Continental Tyres Cup Quarter Final – Match Preview”
By Tony Attwood You will know if you are a regular reader that G. Infantino, the head of Fifa, is under investigation in Switzerland for colluding with the head of the Swiss legal system in a series of illicit, private and unrecorded meetings while he (Infantino) was under investigation. Now the rest of Europe (but …
Read More “Head of Fifa quits Europe and moves to Qatar and escapes Swiss investigation”
By Sir Hardly Anyone “Erling Haaland gives Edu green light for new £58m Arsenal signing after fresh transfer update” according to a headline in Football London. Now FoLo in their funny way are actually not telling us Arsenal are going to sign Haaland, but we can show that this is a false negative and he …
Read More “Erling Haaland gives Edu the green light: it’s on for Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood You may well have read or heard about the referee Janny Sikazwe who made a mistake over his time keeping and blew for full time after 85 minutes during an Africa Cup of Nations game between Mali and Tunisia. He was then taken to hospital suffering from heatstroke. Comments are also made …
Read More “Why can a newspaper criticise refs in Africa, but not refs in the PL?”
In response to the article Tackles, fouls, yellow cards, injuries and illness. How Tottenham and Arsenal compare an email came in from Nicklas Skott in which he said, “Why bother about this when you have cheated your way in to football. This club stinks abd now we get to see it again.” Given that several …
Read More “The accusation that Arsenal cheated its way into football: and the answer”
By Bulldog Drummond The Guardian is reporting that Tottenham are annoyed at the postponement of the game today saying that “Tottenham have been left furious… believing rules regarding Coronavirus-related postponements have been manipulated to create “unintended consequences”.” The Guardian adds that “Arsenal would have been without at least 15 first-teamers for their visit to Tottenham …
Read More “Tackles, fouls, yellow cards, injuries and illness. How Tottenham and Arsenal compare”
by Tony Attwood If you have had a read of some of the commentaries on this site about Arsenal’s request for a postponement of the planned match for today against Tottenham you might notice several points that link the commentaries together. First, although the articles on, for example, the Liverpool postponement carried a fair amount …
Read More “The debate over Arsenal’s postponement of today’s game raises key issue”
By Tony Attwood (Updated at 1507) Tomorrow’s game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has been postponed after the Premier League accepted Arsenal’s request to postpone the match due to their depleted squad. Although the Daily Mirror never once suggested that Liverpool’s postponement of their League cup game was controversial, this one apparently is. Mind you …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal is off, but here’s the team we would have put out”
By Tony Attwood At the moment of writing, we are waiting for any news about tomorrow’s match and whether it is on or not, which is a little frustrating since this is normally the moment that we are doing all the regular preview bits. But thank you in the meanwhile to everyone who has dropped …
Read More “Reading the Guardian while waiting on news of the Arsenal game tomorrow”
By Tony Attwood ————– Today is the anniversary of the first north London derby. What impact did it have on football? ————– Following Liverpool’s request for a match postponement for a group of players who seemingly tested positive one day and negative the next (the chances of which are so unlikely it is hard to …
Read More “Arsenal ask for postponment, but will the club get equal treatment?”
Arsenal is one of the most successful clubs in English football with 13 league titles and a record 14 FA cups. They are also one of the most popular teams on social media, boasting over 5 million followers on Facebook alone. With all this success though, there have been some low points for Arsenal as …
Read More “What Would Count As Success For Arsenal This Season?”
By Tony Attwood Here’s a basic question: is everything that is done in the name of football in England ok and above board? Or are there grounds for suggesting something is wrong? As far as I know there are only two sites on the internet that regularly suggest the latter. One is Football is Fixed, …
Read More “Why suspicions about the integrity of football are always growing”
By Tony Attwood One might have thought that after last night the media could have toned it down a bit and given Arsenal some real praise. Or if they wanted to knock Liverpool, maybe (even it is very late) returned to the miracle of the false positive that let them a) pull out of the …
Read More “Arsenal have had twice as many red cards in the league as Tottenham this season”
“There’s so much fight in this team and it showed today. We dug deep and got the result we needed … It’s not easy to play like that, especially against a team like Liverpool … It was tough, you have to concentrate all game. It’s nice to defend like that asa as defender and keep a clean …
Read More “12 man Liverpool totally fail against 10 man Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood One of the great problems with this transfer malarky – especially in the short January window – and doubly especially when there is an international tournament going on at the same time – and extra especially when there is a pandemic blowing and your opposition have just come up with a world …
Read More “Liverpool False Positives v Arsenal: the Arsenal team”
By Bulldog Drummond There is an article in the Guardian about how soulless and hopeless everything to do with PSG feels. It includes the paragraph… “A 37-year-old Qatari billionaire buys a football club with an unlimited budget to attract the world’s best players to one of its greatest cities. Over the course of a decade …
Read More “With covid testing in football, it’s now a case of two out of three. Liverpool v Arsenal”
By Dr Billy “The Dog” McGraw of the Deparment of Statistical Anomolies at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. The Liverpool manager, Mr Klopp, has revealed that Trent Alexander-Arnold was the only Liverpool player to actually test positive for Covid. And yet the game last Thursday was called off – according to …
Read More “Footballers and their unexpected covid test results ahead of the match”
By Bulldog Drummond Injury lists are of course getting increasingly meaningless, since club injury lists can show maybe four or five players out, and then the next thing we know the club is claiming that it can’t play the game because of the number of players who are unavailable allegedly with covid infection. In fact …
Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal: who has the virus, who is in Africa, who is injured, who is ill?”
by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal’s first signing of the window was not one of the famous foreigners whose names are bandied incessantly by those not in the know, but rather another youngster – at least according to the Daily Mail. And they call it not a signing by a “poaching” – a word that suggests something …
Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal; Arsenal’s first signing and first prognostications of the game”
By Tony Attwood My article Switzerland, Fifa and the crooks. Have they all been involved in anything else? had only been on line for 15 minutes before I started receiving links from interested readers in Europe, pointing me to more and more articles about the extraordinary engagement of the Mafia in Switzerland. Of course, I …
Read More “Just how big is the football, money laundering, match fixing issue? What the papers say.”
