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 As we all know, after coming second in 2015/16 Arsenal ended their glorious run of consecutive years in the Champions League – a run that exceeded any other club in Europe except Real Madrid. And we also know of course that this run didn’t contain endless Premier League trophies – we won …
Read More “Why one particular club is finding it hard to buy or sell this summer.”
by Tony Attwood Arsenal sign Zinchenko, and how the 25 is looking To get back to third position the first thing we have to do is not change our manager. This might seem an odd thing to say, but after a poor start to last season we had ceaseless calls for the manager to be …
Read More “What Arsenal need to do to get to third next season.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Group A Austria 1 v Norway 0 – Manuella Zinsberger in the Austrian goal with another clean sheet. So far the only goal she has let in was the beautiful lob from her Arsenal teammate Beth Mead in the opening game. The only goal of this game coming towards the end of …
Read More “The Women’s Euros – Third round games and quarter finals preview”
Super League is far from dead. In fact it is just starting its final battle. By Sir Hardly Anyone Zinchenko has been signed or is about to be signed, according to our old friend R E Ports. He has played mostly as a left-back by Manchester City but he can play in other positions, particularly …
Read More “Arsenal sign Zinchenko, and how the 25 is looking”
By Tony Attwood How Arsenal’s 25 man squad is shaping up for next season The reason that Super League (which you may recall, included Arsenal for a while) was needed was that Barcelona (and a few other clubs) were in mega-debt and had no way of continuing, unless they could get their hands on not …
Read More “Super League is far from dead. In fact it is just starting its final battle.”
Are Arsenal in line for a return to the top four? The transfer dealings of the Big 7: how they compare. By Tony Attwood Every summer I try and predict the squad that Arsenal will have for the coming season, while doing what the media generally refuse to do: taking into account the rules of …
Read More “How Arsenal’s 25 man squad is shaping up for next season”
The women’s euros The women’s Euros: what we learned from the second round of games? The Women’s Euros, what have we learned from the opening round? Arsenal started out with: Turner; Cedric, Saliba, Gabriel, Tavares; Partey, Xhaka; Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli; Jesus. On the beach… Okonkwo, Bellerin, Mari, Walters, Holding, Elneny, Maitland-Niles, Lokonga, Torreira, …
Read More “Everton 0 Arsenal 2: the video, the report, the prognostications”
Are Arsenal in line for a return to the top four? The transfer dealings of the Big 7: how they compare. The 102 players the media say are joining Arsenal this summer By Bulldog Drummond There’s widespread reporting of the notion that Arsenal ‘agree £30m transfer’ for Man City star Oleksandr Zinchenko (Football London). The …
Read More “Arsenal’s latest signing announcement and AFC v Everton preview”
By Tony Attwood In a recent article we argued that a lot of the fake stories that circulate at this time of year concerning transfers were deliberately set up by not just by the media trying to fill space and grab readership, but also by the clubs themselves and by players’ agents. One implication of …
Read More “Is turning up without tickets the new trend in football supporting”
By Andrew Crawshaw The Women’s Euros – what have we learned from the opening round of fixtures? Group A Austria 2 v Northern Ireland 0 – this match went according to the form-book, Northern Ireland showed plenty of industry, but never really looked to have the touch of class they required to beat Manuella Zinsberger …
By Tony Attwood In the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking, off and on, about how the Premier League has changed over the last ten years. Most recently we’ve started to ponder the possible move from the traditional “big six” of Manchesters City and United, plus Liverpool, in the north west, with Arsenal, Tottenham …
Read More “Are Arsenal in line for a return to the top four?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone The 102 players the media say are joining Arsenal this summer The media story about summer transfers at Arsenal is not just that the club is interested in over 100 different players, but also that Arsenal is prone to making mistakes. The media can see it, and the fans can see …
Read More “Transfers: the six sources of information feeding the media”
The 102 players the media say are joining Arsenal this summer By Sir Hardly Anyone According to data supplied by the Guardian, Arsenal are the top spenders so far in the Premier League having a net spend on £68.7m. The figures take into account the sale of Mattéo Guendouzi to Marseille, Dinos Mavropanos to Suttgard …
Read More “The transfer dealings of the Big 7: how they compare.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone As the number of players said to be heading Arsenal’s way now passes the 100 mark the Telegraph suggests that “phone calls stop immediately when interested clubs learn that a potential new signing is not vaccinated.” It’s the first time we’ve seen that published in one of the more serious newspapers, …
Read More “The 102 players the media say are joining Arsenal this summer”
Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? By Tony Attwood Looking at Arsenal’s development last season, we have focussed on two particular sets of statistics, generally not used by other commentators. One is what happened to Arsenal after the disastrous first three matches, and the other what happened in the second …
Read More “How easy is it for Arsenal to reach the top three next season?”
Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? By Tony Attwood Most commentators on next season, speak of Newcastle United’s rise, but because they refuse to use any statistics to analyse the position, feel that Newcastle are not going to rise that far. Mind you they also don’t comment on the issue …
Read More “Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Newcastle”
By Andrew Crawshaw Last night’s match between France and Italy was the last of the first round of group matches. This afternoon the focus switches to the second round with Austria v Northern Ireland at St Mary’s kicking off at 17:00 and England v Norway at Brighton’s Falmer Stadium at 20:00. Both matches are …
Read More “The Women’s Euros – what have we learned from the opening round of fixtures?”
By Tony Attwood As we know Arsenal lost the first three games of last season, and the media made a huge fuss about that. Then amazingly Arsenal made a significant recovery, and became the third-best club in the league over the remaining 35 games. Only Untold Arsenal covered that. Only one other team had a …
Read More “Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23?”
By Tony Attwood What if Arsenal hadn’t had that awful start to the season… In recent articles we have looked at how the alleged “supercomputers” have predicted how the 2022/23 season will work out, and looked at how the teams around Arsenal at the end of last season were doing, and compared this with Arsenal. …
Read More “Is the media finally saying “football is fixed”?”
Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: West Ham Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Manchester United Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress. Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Tottenham Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Tony Attwood Last season, It wasn’t just a bad start to …
Read More “What if Arsenal hadn’t had that awful start to the season…”
Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress. Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Manchester United Last summer the Guardian’s football writers suggested West Ham would finish 10th in the league. Sports Mole went for the same. …
Read More “Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: West Ham”
Arsenal to finish sixth? Not likely! Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Chelsea and the notion of progress. Arsenal’s opposition in 2022/3: Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Leicester City By Tony Attwood And now of course the Sun has discovered a supercomputer which can be taken away from its day job or …
Read More “Arsenal’s opposition in the coming season: Manchester United”
By Tony Attwood Platini and Blatter innocent. So there is only one person left to find… We have for many years been showing that clubs are each treated very differently when it comes to the relationship between tackles and fouls. But it also turns out that the number of fouls called varies from one referee …
Read More “The more clubs tackle, the more they get away with it. The stats.”
By Tony Attwood The two mountains Arsenal have to climb Sadly I don’t have time this evening to write a complete review of the game, as I’m off to Derbyshire for a dance, but I would like to note just how fantastic I thought that game this afternoon was. Of course, I know we went …
Read More “A pre-season game where we score five; this season could be rather jolly…”
By Tony Attwood As you may have heard, the case we have been following in Switzerland involving Michael Platini and Sepp Blatter ended with both being found not guilty of fraud and other offences over a lack of evidence of ill-intent relating to the £1.3million payment made for consultancy work. Following the result, and not surprisingly, Platini …
Read More “Platini and Blatter innocent. So there is only one person left to find…”
