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 is a remarkable piece in the Telegraph today headed Why Chelsea should be relegated from the Premier League by Jim White who is a regular writer for the paper and what is called “an ardent Manchester United supporter.” OK so he is biased. As am I. As is everyone. But he …
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by Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal started over 14 years ago. We’ve published over 11,000 articles and over 249,000 comments. And I don’t think we have ever had a moment like this before. For, as you may have heard Roman Abramovich is now banned from all transactions with individuals and businesses based in the UK, due …
Read More “Government takes action of Abramovich and Chelsea FC.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone (with added links!) The next transfer window opens 1 July, which by my reckoning is around about 100 days away, and is planned to close on 2259 BST on 31 August although there seems a certain amount of uncertainty over the closing time – as indeed there is at the Toppled …
Read More “15 players tipped to join Arsenal in this summer’s transfer window”
By Tony Attwood We’ve recently looked at the corruption that has been cited as a major force in football. Not the corruption in terms of bribing the referee or one club bribing another to lose, but the corruption that centres on the key organisations within football. If you are interested in that aspect of football …
Read More “The three forces that are changing football in England forever”
By Tony Attwood I am sure you will be as impressed as I have been, by Arsenal’s recovery from the start of the season and the club’s ability to handle the mindless assault on all aspects of the club, to which the media subjected Arsenal. So you’ll probably know the current top of the league …
Read More “Finishing 4th: How does this season compare with past seasons after 25 games?”
By Tony Attwood Why are so many sports administrators corrupt or incompetent or both? Wholesale mega corruption in football (part 2) In recent articles (linked above), I have been trying to show what has happened to world sport, by briefly suggesting that there are difficulties within the committees and organisations running the Olympics, the World …
Read More “Why is it that the media will not cover the corruption in football.”
By Tony Attwood Recently we asked: Why are so many sport administrators corrupt or incompetent or both? That question can’t be answered in full, although we will be trying to give some answers in the coming days, but before that, we have other matters to consider such as the awarding of the 2022 World Cup, …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Aubameyang made his final appearance for Arsenal on 6 December 2021 for the away game at Everton, which Arsenal lost, 2-1. Arsenal at this point were seventh in the league – with none of the games in hand that were subsequently to become our hallmark. We were four points behind West …
Read More “Was it really helpful to get Aubameyang out of the squad in December?”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women v Birmingham Match Highlights On Sunday Lunchtime Arsenal Women played the reverse fixture against the only team to have beaten them this season. No not Chelsea or Man City who were busy elsewhere but bottom of the table Birmingham. The early 12:00 kickoff was in order to show the match …
Read More “Arsenal go 8 points clear of Chelsea: Arsenal women v Birmingham highlights”
by Tony Attwood OK we’ve never done this before (as far as I remember, although as we have published over 11,000 articles I may well have forgotten and as I write this I am taking the first sip of Australian red while planning to spend the evening in, so that will not enhance my memory …
Read More “An Untold Arsenal preview: Tottenham v Everton. With bias.”
By Tony Attwood In the world of big sport there have traditionally been four big organisations. The Olympic Committee, Uefa, Fifa and the Court of Arbitration in Sport And all have something in common beyond the fact that they are involved in sport. All have demanded that they are totally independent of individual countries, and …
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By Tony Attwood FURIOUS Arsenal fans blocked Mikel Arteta’s car and told him to “do yourself a favour” and leave the club after Sunday’s 2-0 loss to Chelsea. That was the headline in the Sun earlier this season while the Mirror weighed in with “Arsenal set Mikel Arteta sack deadline.” Even the bookies got involved …
Read More “Across the last quarter of the season, Arsenal are top of the Premier League”
By Bulldog Drummond It is seemingly impossible to find any commentator who is not expecting an Arsenal win, although the BBC tries to find some Watfordian hope by noting that Watford “have only lost one of their last three home matches versus the Gunners.” But they do also admit that “have scored in all 15 …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal – the Arsenal team and the youngest team of the season”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played Watford just 33 times in competitive league and cup matches, winning 19, drawing two and losing 12. It was in the 1980s that Watford left their mark on Arsenal, the two sides playing 13 games against each other (12 in the league, one in the FA Cup). Quite amazingly …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal. The history, and the way the media is changing its view of Arsenal”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously: Watford v Arsenal: Are Arsenal up for sale as well? Watford v Arsenal: we could be back in fourth at the end of the weekend The tackles and yellow card data that we use throughout the season come from the Premier League’s website. The Premier League website does actually have an …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: Tackles, fouls and yellows, and the strange way referees react”
By Bulldog Drummond There’s a very interesting little note in the “Reading the game” Newsletter from the Independent. On the subject of takeovers, Arsenal are seen as the only club in the Premier League who are absolutely not for sale. The article claims that the Kroenkes see the whole project as too valuable to their …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: Are Arsenal up for sale as well?”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems centuries since we last had a game, but here we are again playing Watford – the team with the worst home record in the league. Arsenal have an average away record, but as you would expect (if you have been paying attention) Arsenal now have two away games in hand …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: we could be back in fourth at the end of the weekend”
By Tony Attwood Last November, Football.london, told us that Chelsea could spend £241m in the winter transfer window while remaining inside the financial fair play restrictions. It seemed a huge amount of money, but of course I always have complete confidence in Football London as a source and the ability of FFP to keep matters …
Read More “How might the sale of Chelsea proceed? An Untold perspective.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the more bonkers approaches by the trash-media these days is that the transfer is the thing. The transfer in short is far more important than the performance of the football club on the pitch in terms of team selection, how well a club is doing in the league overall, …
Read More “That one Arsenal transfer tale the media refuse to let go of”
By Tony Attwood The Premier League official referees index does not indicate which FA Association the referees on the Premier League’s books are associated with. Indeed in the officially published logs there is no record of where the referee has come from at all. Which is an interesting oversight, because I am sure many fans …
Read More “Why do the refs come from the north when the clubs come from the south?”
by Andrew Crawshaw Unlike February when we only played 3 matches, March has a far busier schedule seeing us play in three competitions, the WSL, the 2022 FA Cup and the 2022 Champions League where we are the sole remaining English club. I have added a column to indicate where we are playing our home …
By Andrew Crawshaw February was something of a transitional month for Arsenal Women. New players bedding in, those away at the Asian tournament returning (but not necessarily ready to play immediately) and then a two week international break for European players. It was a month where we only played three games, two draws in the …
Read More “Arsenal Women: February 2022 Roundup – Chelsea, Man U and Liverpool”
By Tony Attwood Infantino is using Fifa for his own global policy with a sense of impunity; Russia is declaring war on the rest of the world with a sense of impunity. The PGMO runs the refereeing system with its multiple mistakes with the media refusing to take a look. The Daily Mirror misdirects fans …
Read More “Does publishing totally false information to knock Arsenal, actually matter?”
By Tony Attwood I have long complained about how the incompetent FA has endlessly supported the appalling Fifa in the desperate hope of getting Fifa to ignore the disaster of the Euros Cup final at Wembley, and think that the FA could be a possible host for a big show once again. And being …
Read More “Now is the time to break up Fifa and reconsider the whole of international football”
