Arsenal v Manchester United. So what did we learn? The media won’t apologise

    Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. By Tony Attwood Obviously we learned that Manchester United are really not quite as good as the media …

Arsenal v Manchester United: the teams and the clear and present danger of this referee

    By Bulldog Drummond In the previous articles: Arsenal v Manchester United: the tackles, the fouls and the yellow cards Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United …

Arsenal v Manchester United: the tackles, the fouls and the yellow cards

    The Sunday games Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. Brighton V Arsenal Women Sunday 22 January – The Match Preview When we look at …

Arsenal v Manchester United; a game that is not just like old times

    Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. By Bulldog Drummond One of the more curious things about today’s game between Arsenal and Manchester United is that in the predictions made by newspaper columnists last summer neither of these …

Arsenal v Man U: the home/away form and an equal recent record

    By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game. And so onto the usual home / away analysis for the Manchester United game – something still unique to Untold I think, although it proves to be a very good aid to forecasting   Team P W D L F …

Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for the Manchester United game.

By Tony Attwood It appears that we are signing Jakub Kiwior from Spezia, who is a 22-year-old, who joined the Serie A side in August 2021 and is now joining Arsenal for more than €20m including the inevitable add-ons.  Jakub also plays for the Polish national team. It is an interesting transfer in that Spezia …

Brighton V Arsenal Women Sunday 22 January – The Match Preview

    By Andrew Crawshaw Our match in the WSL this weekend is away against Brighton.  The game kicks off at 18:45 and is live on Sky Sports. It will mark the half way point in the season for Arsenal in terms of number of matches played, although technically it is the first of the …

Should Tottenham be doing better: the financial realities suggest not

      The richest clubs are in the Premier League, and many have unimaginable debts By Nitram The thing is, and it is what I have been saying for years and years, winning the PL in particular and trophies in general, is all about medium and long-term spending. I don’t mean the occasional splurge, …

The richest clubs are in the Premier League, and many have unimaginable debts

    Another day another Fifa corruption scandal (but don’t tell the English media) By Tony Attwood “Deloitte reveal more than half of world’s 20 richest clubs are in Premier League”.  That is the headline in the Guardian. According to the article, more than half of the world’s 20 richest clubs are in the Premier …

Why are Tottenham Hotspur having difficulties? An Arsenal perspective.

  Why do some clubs have their players fouled so much more than others? By Tony Attwood In many ways it would appear that Tottenham Hotspur should be doing better than they are. Every major newspaper and virtually all the major online football sites predicted that Tottenham would finish in the top four this season …

What will the league table look like after the next five games. A prediction

By Tony Attwood We recently created a table made up of matches between the big seven clubs of the Premier League in order to remove any suggestion that Arsenal’s current success at the top of the league was due (as some were suggesting) to having had an easy fixture list so far. In case you …

Why do some clubs have their players fouled so much more than others?

by Tony Attwood Tottenham get more yellow cards at their home ground than anyone else other than Nottingham Forest.   They have got almost four times as many yellow cards at home as Liverpool have in their home matches and just on twice as many as Arsenal. Two points arise from that.  One is why this …

Another day another Fifa corruption scandal (but don’t tell the English media)

    Megalomaniac head of Fifa makes new insane demand By Sir Hardly Anyone It is not a phrase that one would expect to see in an English publication but the notion that “the FIFA corruption scandal never seems to end” is one very likely to appear in the media of much of the rest …

Mykhaylo Mudryk: how did the media all get it so wrong? And what next?

    Why football needs an independent regulator now By Sir Hardly Anyone The last time we ran our review of the players said to be coming to Arsenal Mykhaylo Mudryk was reported as making the move in 53 different reports.  19 of those reports involved a publication running the story more than once.   In …

For Arsenal, 50 is the number

  After 18 games: Arsenal’s position and the top team’s tally – and the ultimate target By Admir Pajic It’s been a season that only the biggest optimists could have seen coming. I have to admit that I was thrilled with our preseason performances against Chelsea (4-0) and Sevilla (6-0) where our passing and pressing …

After 18 games: Arsenal’s position, the top team’s tally, and the ultimate target

    For a review of recent articles listed by the theme covered see the home page How are the big seven clubs doing against each other? There are some surprises By Tony Attwood It is always nice when someone comes along and copies one of our ideas – and that has indeed been happening …

How are the big seven clubs doing against each other? There are some surprises

    Tottenham v Arsenal: Sky completely lost, disgraceful scenes, useless Totts, brilliant Arsenal By Tony Attwood Looking at the top seven playing each other is a good way to judge the relative merits of each team this season, especially when analysed on a points per game basis.    And especially so when much of …

Tottenham v Arsenal: Sky completely lost, disgraceful scenes, useless Totts, brilliant Arsenal

    How Tottenham are getting the best out of referees Why do Tottenham players get fouled so often (according to referees)? By Tony Attwood Arsenal were brilliant in the first half, but Tottenham to be fair were worse than useless for much of the game.  Arsenal are now eight points clear at the top, …

Tottenham and Arsenal; the tackles, the fouls, the cards, the team

      The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal! How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today By Bulldog Drummond Now the chances are that as you come to read this you are also watching the Arsenal women game …

Arsenal Women v Chelsea – Sunday 15 January 12:00 – the match preview

by Andrew Crawshaw You will recall that in my piece earlier in the week about returning and new players I said that I was sceptical about the club signing 29 year old Canadian Goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo.  Well yesterday’s official announcement from the club was that she has joined and will wear the 14 shirt.  I …

How Tottenham are getting the best out of referees

  There is an index to the Tottenham v Arsenal articles, and indeed other series on our home page. By Bulldog Drummond The last article on Untold concluded that Mr Pawson, the referee, has overseen 30% of his matches as home wins, 50% as away wins and 20% as draws.  Indeed in terms of the …

Why do Tottenham players get fouled so often (according to referees)?

    The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview, that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal! By Bulldog Drummond The basic news is that Arsenal are getting ever closer to signing Mudryk, and Emile Smith Rowe is ready to start a match.   Saka is also expected to be fit to play.   Reiss Nelson and Gabriel Jesus …

The newspaper Tottenham v Arsenal preview that doesn’t have a word about Arsenal!

    How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today by Bulldog Drummond It is in the Guardian, in a column that previews all of the weekend’s premier league games, that manages to produce a whole article on Tottenham v Arsenal that does not include a word …

How Arsenal moved from 15th in the league two years ago, to top of the league today

      Do Arsenal need to become more efficient in front of goal? By Tony Attwood Things have not been going well for Chelsea, as you might have noticed.  Yesterday they lost 2-1 away to Fulham, to make it one win in the last nine league games.  Although remarkably despite that collapse they are …

Swiss authorities confirm: Infantino is very much still under investigation

  Latest: Have Arsenal really moved up to the level of Machester City? By Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino has been hauled in front of two extraordinary prosecutors appointed to take over the investigation into the secret meetings held between the head of Fifa and the former head of the Swiss prosecution service.   The fact that …