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By Bulldog Drummond Brentford are one of the small number of clubs that have beaten Arsenal, more than Arsenal have beaten them. We’ve won four, four have been drawn and they have won six – including of course the first match of this season. After a Woolwich Arsenal cup game in 1902 which was a …
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By Tony Attwood The point about our recent series (links at the end of this article) on The Media Conspiracy is not specifically to show that the media is made up of a bunch of ill-formed or highly speculative writers, but rather to show that the approach the media has taken to football leads to …
Read More “Do Arsenal really urgently need a striker as the media says?”
This is the concluding part of the series on the media conspiracy against Arsenal. Previously… The media conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded. Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story Is there really a conspiracy against Arsenal? Part 3: Ownership, laziness and repetition The evidence of …
Read More “The media conspiracy 5, Conclusion: Lay off the proof, stay clear of the facts”
Previously in this series… The conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded. Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story Is there really a conspiracy against Arsenal? Part 3: Ownership, laziness and repetition By Tony Attwood In the last article in this series we looked at four key …
Top professional footballers have beyond doubt been given a staggering natural talent – a talent that can bring them in an income that is beyond the wildest dreams of most “mere mortals”. But, of course, they have to work hard on the training ground to keep up the level of fitness and talent that allows …
by Tony Attwood Preface: this little series was initially planned as a three-parter, but as I have gone on I’ve felt the need to cover more and more topics that support the thesis that there is something wrong with the media’s reporting of the Premier League. I suspect this will end up as a five …
Read More “Is there really a conspiracy against Arsenal? Part 3: Ownership, laziness and repetition”
By Tony Attwood This article follows on from The media conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded. In part one of this short series, I argued that the media (TV, radio, newspapers, bloggers) united to ignore key elements in what was happening at Arsenal last season, and in the early stages of this season …
Read More “Conspiracy, laziness, or stupidity. Part 2 How the media missed the big Arsenal story”
By Tony Attwood This is the first part of a short series that pulls together the evidence which reveals a significant conspiracy against Arsenal set up and wilfully maintained by much of the media. In it I take a look at what has happened in terms of media reporting of Arsenal, how it has warped …
Read More “The media conspiracy against Arsenal. Part 1: How it unfolded.”
By Tony Attwood In response to my post yesterday about how Arsenal were doing in the last six games, and how the media insisted on ignoring this, (instead focussing on the disaster that they proclaimed our transfers window was in January), Matthew Campbell wrote in with the league table for the last 19 games. The …
Read More “How the vendetta against Arsenal is run with a total disregard of the facts”
by Tony Attwood “Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word.” At 1300 GMT Untold Arsenal published its commentary on the Guardian’s piece “Talking points from the weekend’s action,” reviewing an article written by the editor of “Intelligent Life” which seemed to have no grasp whatsoever of Arsenal’s current form. At 1407 GMT …
Read More “Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word. The tragedy of English football.”
By Tony Attwood There is a screamingly funny and utterly lunatic article in the Guardian this morning, in its regular post-weekend series “Talking points from the weekend’s action” It is by Tim de Lisle (author of “How to Write Well”), whose profile on Wikipedia reads, “De Lisle is a feature writer for The Guardian, focusing …
Read More “Outrageous attack on Arsenal as recent games give boost to hope of top four finish”
By Tony Attwood SC Freiburg gained a point against Mainz at the weekend, after first falling behind in the match. Now I know that is hardly a matter for debate on Untold Arsenal much as we do like to stay in touch with European football. But this one incident shines a very, very bright …
Read More “The discussion PGMO won’t allow in England, and how it is corrupting football”
By Tony Attwood I’ve not seen anyone publish details of just how many points a club needs to get to fourth place each season, so I created the list myself, and immediately I was struck by the variability. Over the years anything from 66 to 79 points would be needed to not get a trophy. …
Read More “How many points do Arsenal need for fourth place this season.”
By Tony Attwood Prelim: Today is the anniversary of the first report in a newspaper of Arsenal fans signing a song to celebrate a victory. A recording of the original of the song, and a report on where it came from appear today in the regular anniversary of the day series. Are they trying to …
Read More “Are clubs and the media trying to unsettle Saka and force a transfer?”
By Tony Attwood When people start having a go at Arsenal I do like to delve a little to see what lies beneath. Like for example how odd the transfer of Auba to Barca really was, given that there was no transfer fee. And (as I explore below) Arsenal’s alleged inability to score goals. Three …
Read More “Are really Arsenal in as bad a state as the Mirror suggests?”
By Tony Attwood This is a report on a story that the media is ignoring completely. And it is not the story of Arsenal’s form of late (which is another story they are ignoring, for as you will know, if you have been taking notice, across the last six league games Arsenal have recorded the …
Read More “Why are Arsenal getting so many yellow cards this season?”
by Andrew Crawshaw After our draw last weekend against Manchester United we remain top of the WSL. Chelsea are second, two points behind us but with a game in hand. This game is therefore the epitome of a “six pointer” Here is the current table P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal …
Read More “Chelsea Women v Arsenal: Friday 11 February – A Season Defining Encounter”
By Tony Attwood We’ve been paying a lot of attention of late to the issue about Arsenal and its recruitment of players. What has been particularly of interest here is the issue of whether Arsenal are singularly inept at all matters concerning recruitment or whether Arsenal are no more or less likely to get things …
Read More “Is Arsenal really the most inept club when it comes to transfers? The evidence.”
By Tony Attwood They’ve been anxious to do it for some time, finding that Arsenal have been on the same number of red cards in the league this season as almost half the clubs in the Premier League, but finally they got their desire and Arsenal are back on top (taking alphabetical order into account). …
Read More “PGMO invents new rules to take Arsenal top of the league, as the triumph continues”
By Bulldog Drummond The story so far Wolverhampton v Arsenal: at last some tackles, fouls and yellows (and injuries) Wolverhampton v Arsenal: how to come out of a bad run. Wolverhampton’s runs, referee behaviour and head to heads Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Elneny triumph; media frenzy And so after our little saunter around the diatrbies and …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal: the huge factor that all the media have missed”
By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… Wolverhampton v Arsenal: at last some tackles, fouls and yellows (and injuries) Wolverhampton v Arsenal: how to come out of a bad run. Wolverhampton’s runs, referee behaviour and head to heads In the Premier League era Arsenal have played Wolverhampton 15 times , 14 in the league and …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal. Elneny triumph; media frenzy”
By Bulldog Drummond In the previous article we were looking at Arsenal’s bad runs of form, and noting that Wolverhampton had suffered in the same way at the start of the season. But for them the bad run went on longer, as their opening results show… Date Match Res Score Comp 14 Aug 2021 Leicester …
Read More “Wolverhampton’s runs, referee behaviour and head to heads”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously we looked at the issue of tackles, fouls and yellow cards by each team in this forthcoming match, and how many injuries each are facing. So what about recent results? How you want to interpret Arsenal’s form of late depends on whether you want to take the standard sort of view …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal: how to come out of a bad run.”
By Bulldog Drummond This seems to have been an eternal break without league football, but now we are back to the old routine, and the opening question of who is available and who not as revealed by the EPL Injury Table. For Arsenal Nicolas Pepe is back from the Africa Cup of Nations, Credric Soares …
Read More “Wolverhampton v Arsenal: at last some tackles, fouls and yellows (and injuries)”
Referees and Arsenal By Tony Attwood We’ve used the winter break to examine a few regular old chestnuts that the media and others put forward day after day. So what have we found? We started out by noting that although everyone was making a fuss about us not having a striker, we were …
