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 The media is full of Arsenal being the team that has won the FA Cup more times than anyone else, and have just been knocked out by a Championship side, and that in itself seems interesting. Why wait until we have been knocked out of the cup to remind readers that we …
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By Tony Attwood As you will know if you have been a regular reader of Untold for a while, we have been most interested in the comings and going at Fifa – the sort of things that are not generally reported in the British media – for reasons best known to themselves. Much of this …
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By Tony Attwood Going out of the FA Cup is always a disappointment, and doubly so yesterday because it looked like a competition which, given Arsenal’s pedigree as all-time record winners, the club might have had a chance of taking the FA Cup once more. But there is an extra danger beyond that defeat, and …
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By Tony Attwood Quite obviously we’d all like to see Arsenal continue in the FA Cup. We are the record winners, and even if Manchester United were to win the Cup this year (they play their third-round tie tomorrow) we’d still be the club with the most FA Cup wins. But here’s another question: at …
Last year, 30 teenagers were murdered in London – the highest number in a single year since records began. “No More Red” is the campaign to support young people in our communities. https://arsn.al/NoMoreRed By Bulldog Drummond Nottingham F v Arsenal: Different lives in different leagues Forest v The Arsenal. Home and away form …
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By Bulldog Drummond As I have mentioned before, we have the fifth best attack in the league and the seventh best defence. But it looks like we are losing Nketiah, Aubameyang and Lacazette at some time or another, so buying another striker seems a good idea. But, again as noted before, in the meanwhile we …
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By Bulldog Drummond Injury and absence levels among the Premier League clubs are getting out of control. Here is the latest list of players missing across the Premier League as of lunchtime today. Leicester City: 17 Newcastle United: 12 Watford: 12 Liverpool: 11 Norwich City: 11 Brentford: 10 Leeds United: 10 Southampton: 10 Chelsea: 9 …
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By Bulldog Drummond The story so far: Nottingham F v Arsenal: Different lives in different leagues Let’s now have our regular look at the home and away breakdown of the two clubs: Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts % Pts per game 17 Nottingham Forest home 13 4 3 6 14 …
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By Bulldog Drummond Thinking about Nottingham Forest v Arsenal the opening discussion chez Untold concerned not just how the two teams were doing (which led to an immediate review of the “last six” and “last 10” league tables) but also how the other teams around Arsenal were doing. For example, we know Tottenham are breathing …
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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of psychological interpretation and other stuff, at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road Wretched 10-man Arsenal left in tatters by strikerless Manchester City That was the headline in The Guardian following Arsenal’s third defeat in the first three league games at the start of this …
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By Tony Attwood O One of my arguments against the way the entire media in England presents Arsenal is that the media has a “standard view” into which all the facts are twisted to fit. This view says that anything that is negative that surrounds Arsenal is normally totally Arsenal’s fault. Many of the things …
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By Tony Attwood I need your help. Some people on reading our website of late, are reporting a number of blank spaces on the screen part way through the article. The articles are still there, but instead of there being one line of space between one paragraph and the next, sometimes there can be a …
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By Tony Attwood From 1997 when we came third in the league, to 2016 when we were runners’ up, Arsenal always finished in the top four and gained admission to the Champions League. It was the longest run of any club ever from England in the Champions League, and second only across the continent to …
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By Tony Attwood The national authorities have just cut internet and phone access within Kazakhstan, also making it impossible for local people to contact others. This is what made me think of PGMO. PGMO have no website for its Premier League activities, no connection that the outside world can use, no postal address that is …
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By Tony Attwood As you will have heard the match against Liverpool tomorrow has been postponed. The decision was made at lunchtime today, 5 January. Quite honestly, I imagine that if the board of the EFL thought about the people who wanted to be at the game being messed around, their response would probably have …
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by Andrew Crawshaw This coming Sunday 09 January sees the resumption on the Women’s Super League, where We are, as yet undefeated. Here is the current table Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 9 8 1 0 30 3 27 25 2 Chelsea 9 7 0 2 27 6 …
By Bulldog Drummond Given that the game against Liverpool may or may not be on (at the time of writing) I thought I’d do one of the sets of data that we normally cover ahead of the game, just in case the game goes ahead. And not least because the data is quite interesting of …
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By Dr Billy the Dog McGraw, head of the Department of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Liverpool as you will have heard, has asked for their league cup semi-final against Arsenal to be stopped on the grounds that although Liverpool are higher up the league than Arsenal, Arsenal’s …
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By Tony Attwood It is perhaps typical of football in England that despite the raging pandemic there seem to be no plans at all as to what to do if clubs can’t complete the season. Fifa has already given full permission to its friends in Africa to carry on running their international tournament in the …
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By Tony Attwood Allegedly, in the summer of 2007, Arsene Wenger described Arsenal as a club that “makes superstars”, rather than buying them. At least that is what a wide range of media outlets say. Then, in March 2020, Daniel Levy commented that external perceptions of transfers can be different to the facts and also …
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To read about the free Arsenal video collection and about the new Arsenal Day by Day series, please see the note at the foot of this article. By Sir Hardly Anyone Bukayo Saka tipped to leave Arsenal as Mikel Arteta’s hardest task is spelled out So shouts the Daily Mirror, telling us that “Bukayo Saka …
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Could Mesut Özil soon to be a club owner? That is the question posed in the Swiss press today, in turn quoting Bild, the German newspaper. They say, (obviously in German) that “the former Real Madrid and Arsenal player, now at Fenerbahçe, would like to acquire Corum FK, a Turkish third division club.” Now Mesut …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Our last three defeats (Manchester United, Everton and Manchester City) have all been by one goal. This is in contrast to our first four defeats in which we failed to score and conceded 13 (Brentford, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool). So clearly Arsenal has improved. We are still sometimes getting beaten, but …
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By Tony Attwood You may have noticed that over time I have often made the suggestion that in the Premier League no club should get the same referee more than twice in a season. And if you take the time to read the comments made on Untold you might have noticed that this has been …
Read More “More evidence to suggest PGMO is not acting fair with Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Players have started to pack their bags, as tomorrow, 3 January is the day by which they are obliged to turn up at their national training camp for the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The government’s official website on travelling abroad refers readers thinking about being in Cameroon to …
Read More “It’s not the transfer window that’s the issue it is AFCON”
