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 Andrew Crawshaw We kick off our Champions League journey on Tuesday Evening at Borehamwood with the first leg of a home and away tie against Ajax. The game starts at 19:30. The UEFA website has no information of any live stream coverage, neither does arsenal.com (they do say that they will have audio available) so …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal finally got the WSL Season up and running with a home tie against Brighton at a sold out Borehamwood on Friday evening. Match Highlights are below and are also available through arsenal.com or the FAPlayer (which also has a full match video). Here are the highlights. https://youtu.be/g3v2Q-irM6k Our starting 11 – This …
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By Tony Attwood Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? There is a piece in the Guardian today which says, “The bond the match-going contingent shares with his players feels stronger than with any Arsenal team for many a year.” Maybe that’s so, although it seems rather a simplistic and possibly …
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When did Arsenal last have 18+ points from 7 games – and what happened? Comparing 2022/3 to Wenger’s title seasons: more points, more goals, more wins by Tony Attwood Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal this season 7 6 0 1 17 7 10 18 1 Manchester …
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By Tony Attwood Quote of the weekend: Garth Crooks on Granit Xhaka: “On his day he’s a very good player. He should have left Arsenal years ago.” I thought we might continue our earlier thoughts (Comparing 2022/3 to Wenger’s title seasons: more points, more goals, more wins) by tracing back how Arsenal were doing after …
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By Tony Attwood Last season I wrote a series of articles which wondered where Arsenal would be in the league if the club hadn’t had that awful start of three consecutive defeats at the start of the season. Those three defeats are still mentioned by the media – they were even part of …
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By Tony Attwood After five straight wins the first defeat is bound to bring some nervousness among the fans if not the players – and certainly there didn’t seem to be any sign of uncertainty among the players at all. It was as if they knew they were vastly superior to everyone else and that …
Read More “Brentford v Arsenal: a brilliant result from the youngest team in the league”
By Bulldog Drummond The story so far… Brentford against the big six; Arsenal against the smaller 14 Arsenal is running the smallest squad in the PL. Is that good or bad? Arsenal are the most fouled team in the Premier League Zinchenko joins injury list as Arsenal prepare to play its bogey club. …
By Bulldog Drummond Last season Brentford won two of their 12 matches against the traditional “big six,” drew two and lost nine – there were 13 games all told as Brentford played Chelsea in the league cup as well as the league. Removing this league cup game from the tally it is a case of …
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. Why is the media so certain Arsenal will fail in 2022/23? Arsenal told they’re five players off mounting title challenge In our first article in this series we opened with an examination of the argument that having a small squad in the Premier League is not a clever idea since clubs need …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September:Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years:100 Years in the First Division By Bulldog Drummond We now have available once more that most curious of information: the data concerning how often each …
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Brentford away; high noon on Sunday. The prognostications By Bulldog Drummond The early team news doing the rounds suggests Oleksandr Zinchenko is set to miss the game against Brentford after the Ukrainian Football Association confirmed he has picked up a calf strain during the international break. The Mirror suggests that the injury “means Kieran Tierney …
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6 September: Lazio 2 Arsenal 2, and the fight in the restaurant By Bulldog Drummond So finally we have some football to think about. There’s the women’s game against Brighton tonight (sold out, as we noted) but available to all as it is showing on Arsenal.com We have previews of that game already …
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By Tony Attwood What is a supercomputer and does it tell us anything we don’t already know? The prime thing to remember is that there is not the slightest chance in the world of anyone doing football predictions using a supercomputer, so any article that claims to do so, is lying from its headline onward. …
Read More “Arsenal: the most improved PL team over last 44 games”
By Tony Attwood In our previous article on the men’s game we opened with an examination of the argument that having a small squad in the Premier League is not a clever idea since clubs need a lot of players to be able to maintain a high standard, and indeed to have cover in case …
Read More “Small squad or big squad: what works best (part 2)”
Women’s Super League: Arsenal start the season on Friday and it’s SOLD OUT! Arsenal v Brighton head to head (Arsenal in red) Year WSL home WSL away FA cup League Cup 2021/22 2 – 1 0 – 3 3 – 0 2020/21 2 – 0 0 – 5 2019/20 4 – 0 0 …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for nearly every day of the year By Tony Attwood The argument in the media is often that having …
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By Andrew Crawshaw The start of the WSL season, like all other sports events, was disrupted last weekend by the death of our late Queen. As far as I am aware, Arsenal was the only team invited to Buckingham Palace for tea by the Queen and it was rumoured that she always took …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood I don’t think I’ve ever copied something from Twitter onto Untold before in any of the 12,000+ …
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Home / away bias of referees As we saw last season some referees favour the home club, and some the away club. As we can see from this season’s results Attwell and Jones have over seen four straight home wins, while Pawson has overseen four straight awa6y wins. Four referees have gone through four …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division By Tony Attwood 1: The date of the PSV game. This is something that matters to a …
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By Tony Attwood Suddenly a key set of referee statistics does not appear. Why is that? Manchester City put in fewer tackles in each game than any other club in the Premier League. They put in 10.2 tackles a game on average this season compared with Chelsea who put in 21.5 – more than double …
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By Tony Attwood In this strange interregnum, something very odd has happened to Arsenal We have hinted at this already, but there is now growing evidence. The sports media is turning away from its staple diet of attacking Arsenal, and actually starting to say positive things about the club and its players. Take for example …
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By Tony Attwood Clubs are being encouraged to tackle more and more by referee’s approach. Most yellow cards are given in professional football for bad tackles. Which might make one presume that there could be some sort of general relationship between the number of tackles and the number of yellow cards that Premier League clubs …
Read More “Any suggestion that referees are accurate and consistent over fouls is a myth”
Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories By Tony Attwood “The best month to change your manager – and why sackings always work” Back in March last year we ran a piece “Why Arsenal supporters should support Tottenham’s fans’ push for …
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