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"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 C.Ed., B.A., M.Phil (Lond) F.Inst.A.M. Consider this headline: Gary Neville claims if Mikel Arteta was “hard” he would leave Arsenal if they got fourth. It comes from that old bunch of scallywags and ne’er-do-wells, the Daily Mirror journalists. In this case the guilty reprobate is Samuel Meade described as the Sports …
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By Bulldog Drummond Does the media control football? Most certainly yes Why football needs more money urgently and why one day it must all fall apart It was a rather odd-looking Arsenal team that beat Brentford yesterday in an Interlull game but it was a chance to find out how some of the up and …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Why football needs more money urgently and why one day it must all fall apart How Arsenal have built the youngest team in the Premier League If you have been a reader of Untold for any length of time you’ll know this is a major theme of ours: that the media …
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By Tony Attwood How Arsenal have built the youngest team in the Premier League Why the demand for a new high-scoring Arsenal centre forward is wrong “…But unless they’ve got an oligarch or state fund to pump money, it’s hard for clubs to keep up with the relentless rise of Premier League players’ wages and …
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Why the demand for a new high-scoring Arsenal centre forward is wrong 37 players Arsenal tipped to buy this summer and 20 men “set to leave” By Tony Attwood We have known for quite a long time that Arsenal has the youngest team in the Premier League, a fact which becomes all the more significant …
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By Tony Attwood According to an article in the Daily Mirror, for Arsenal “there’s a crisis waiting just around the corner.” And that crisis is … “After allowing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to join Barcelona in February, the Gunners have just two senior strikers on their books – Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah – and both of them are out …
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Are Liverpool really as good as the media ceaselessly tells us? PGMO and Arsenal reach an agreement on future refereeing By Sir Hardly Anyone As we have done for a number of years, Untold is recording the names of players that the highly esteemed English media report as being on the move – both incoming …
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By Tony Attwood PGMO and Arsenal reach an agreement on future refereeing Martinelli and the question of some pretty awful mistakes “Liverpool have been run supremely well recently. That they have – just about – kept pace with Manchester City despite spending a net £220m less over the past five seasons is remarkable.” Thus says …
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By Christophe Jost Looking at the referee numbers for Arsenal, it means if I read them right that in 24 games, Arsenal have had only 6 referees If I deduct the lone Paul Tierney game, in 23 games, they have been only 5 referees officiating. It is the select group within the “select group”. Referee …
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By Tony Attwood There are mistakes and there are mistakes. And then there is Manchester United. In a recent article, the Independent has told us that “Gabriel Martinelli has revealed that Manchester United turned down the chance to sign the Arsenal forward as a teenager.” Which is a bit of an odd thing to say since it is hardly …
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By Tony Attwood This article continues from Boris Johnson: “Football should have a regulator.” And what would Fifa say about that? In part one we looked at what happens when Fifa decides that things are not going according to its rule book, and steps in, sweeping aside the body running football in a particular country, …
Read More ““Football should have a regulator”: England’s government challenges Fifa. Part 2.”
By Tony Attwood Speaking in Parliament, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said, “I do agree with my honourable friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch), who has just conducted a review on the matter, that we should indeed have an independent regulator for football.” As a result of this those of us …
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Premier League refereeing is going to be reformed, but it still won’t help Do Arsenal really need to change their attack and buy a classic number 9? By Tony Attwood A lot of football commentary is based on certainties. Certainties about the number of points needed, the number of goals needed, the need for a …
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By Tony Attwood One day ago we ran the headline: How the Leeds situation proves that Halsey’s attack on Riley is right: PGMO has gone wrong. In this article, we complained about 1: Lack of oversight of PGMO by an independent body that is not part of the current cosy football world. 2: Unwillingness …
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By Tony Attwood Football journalists love easy questions and easy answers. Do Arsenal need a new centre forward? Yes! Why? Because our current centre forward is out of contract at the end of the season and anyway he’s not scoring goals. That is a perfectly valid reason in that across the last 25 games we …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Last summer’s 136 Arsenal transfers were predicted by the media. You can read about them here: Part one; Part two. Below is the latest edition of the list of players deemed by the all-seeing and usually totally inaccurate media that report such matters, to be coming to and going from Arsenal …
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By Tony Attwood There was an article in the Sun recently (yes I know) which had the headline LAUGHING STOCK Premier League referees struggling because chief Mike Riley and those in charge NOT giving proper coaching or education It was written by Mark Halsey who was on thePremier league’s list of Select Group Referees from …
By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta has been in charge of Arsenal for 822 days (at least according to my calculator). Which is not bad given that according to the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post the average tenure of a Premier League coach is 772 days. This is longer than the Bundesliga for which the average …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal resume their quest for European glory this evening with a game against the German league leaders Wolfsburg, at the Emirates with a 20:00 kickoff. I understand that the match is moved to the Emirates due to the requirement for VAR to be in place and this not being achievable at the …
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By Christophe Jost I do of course appreciate that you may get bored by Untold’s crusade against what we perceive as the media bias against Arsenal. And regularly, we get comments telling us to bugger-off, that Arsenal fans are sore losers, that it all evens out at the end, and other such general comments based …
Read More “Bias in sport reporting is systemic. The view from afar.”
By Tony Attwood It has always struck me that starting the league season while the transfer window is still open is a pretty dumb thing to do. Surely the logical approach is to close the window, have a week for players to move to new clubs and then get going. As it was Arsenal last …
Read More “If Arsenal had been treated as Liverpool, where would we be now?”
by Ivebeen Downthepub Are Arsenal really heading for fourth or could it all go wrong? Let’s knock Arsenal. Find a story, any story, and paint Arsenal in a bad light. Here are just eight of the current crop of raging negativities… 1: Arsenal’s goal should not have stood in the game v Villa This Is …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The media has gone into a mini-frenzy of late suggesting that it is far from certain that Arsenal will get fourth spot, because of the difficult nature of the games that they have yet to play. In an earlier article I tried to show that this is far from being right, …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Does Arsenal spend enough each summer on new players? According to the media the answer universally is “no,” in that for every 100 players they tip Arsenal to be looking at buying, or indeed in many cases actually buying, we only get three, often showing no interest in the player whatsoever. …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are in trouble because of their remaining away games, says Martin There was an insight into what is wrong with Aston Villa after the Mirror published a piece that suggested that Ashley Young has “slammed” Arsenal players for celebrating “like they won the league” after they secured the one-goal victory over …
Read More “Far from being in trouble, Arsenal are close to the form of our double winning side”
