Where is football actually heading? Well, since you ask, Saudi Arabia.

      How the Premier League manages to have a feeling of continuity The solutions are there: why don’t the clubs take note of how to move forward? By Tony Attwood At the end of the last decade the Gulf blockade (in which Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic …

How the Premier League manages to have a feeling of continuity

    If we know how to make a club successful, why can’t every club do it? Part 1 2: Why are some clubs so unsuccessful? Chairmen and journalists are ignorant By Tony Attwood Tucked away in the middle of a very long article on what football will look like in seven years time in …

The solutions are there: why don’t the clubs take note of how to move forward?

      By Tony Attwood If we know how to make a club successful, why can’t every club do it? Part 1 Why are some clubs so unsuccessful? Chairmen and journalists are ignorant.  Part 2 There are a set of key figures which give a general indication of how well a club is going …

Why are some clubs so unsuccessful. Chairmen and journalists are ignorant

      By Tony Attwood If we know how to make a club successful, why can’t every club do it? Part 1 In part one of this series (linked above) we gave three reasons why, if the factors of how to build a successful team are known, so many clubs simply seem to ignore …

If we know how to make a club successful, why can’t every club do it? Part 1

    Arsenal Women Season Review – part 3 the midfield and attack Why don’t clubs look at evidence or act rationally as they seek to improve? By Tony Attwood It is not just Untold that has an idea on how to make a football club rise up the league, journalists and broadcasters give their …

Arsenal Women Season Review – part 3 the midfield and attack

    Arsenal women: the season’s review The hidden problem facing Arsenal Women by Andrew  Crawshaw Our midfield and attack was the strongpoint at the start of the season but also where we suffered the most from injuries as the season progressed.  Here is my player by player analysis. Midfield Kim Little – Our Captain …

Why don’t clubs look at evidence or act rationally as they seek to improve?

    Why don’t more teams do the obvious in order to rise up the league table? Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from? Actually, its very simple. By Tony Attwood What I have been trying to show is that there are ways of developing a football team that work, and which are known, but which …

Arsenal Women Season Review – part 2 the defenders

    Arsenal women: the season’s review part one ———- Goalkeepers We  have four first-team goalkeepers :- Manuella Zinsberger – our undisputed No1 and with 1 on her shirt.  Manuella is 28 and is also the Austrian No1.  It was strongly rumoured earlier in the season that she would be leaving this summer but has …

Why don’t more teams do the obvious in order to rise up the league table?

    Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from?  Actually it is very simple Six players who appear to be in the mix for next season By Tony Attwood Our headline for the last article was “Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from?” and we concluded it was very simple.  In defence, as we have so often …

Where has Arsenal’s improvement come from? Actually, its very simple.

      Six players who appear to be in the mix for next season Today is the anniversary of the start of the collapse of Uefa – at the hands of Man C By Tony Attwood Football pundits talk of goals, passes, and expected goals, but not much else.  It is as if those …

Six players who appear to be in the mix for next season

    Today is the anniversary of the start of the collapse of Uefa – at the hands of Man C What do Arsenal need to do to win the league next season? 25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave By Sir Hardly Anyone It is being widely reported that William Saliba …

Today is the anniversary of the start of the collapse of Uefa – at the hands of Man C

      The future of football What do Arsenal need to do to win the league? 25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave Is the PL getting harder to win, and who expects to be in the top four in 2024? By Tony Attwood It is not being picked up …

What do Arsenal need to do to win the league next season?

    Preparing for next season 25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave Is the PL getting harder to win, and who expects to be in the top four in 2024? Arsenal and Tottenham: two styles, two approaches, different results Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing? …

25 players now tipped to join Arsenal; 9 who will leave

  The world of transfers in five snap shots…. Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave? Did Arsenal really go for Mudryk or was it all a clever trap for Chelsea? How spending a fortune on transfers is not always a good idea. The significant success of Arsenal’s recent …

Is the PL getting harder to win, and who expects to be in the top four in 2024?

    Arsenal and Tottenham: two styles, two approaches, different results. Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing? Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors By Tony Attwood Competition at the top of the league is getting tougher.  Once upon a time we would talk …

Arsenal and Tottenham: two styles, two approaches, different results

  Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing? Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors By Tony Attwood Arteta joined Arsenal on 20 December 2019.  Tottenham now have their new manager ready for the next season.  So how does the state of the two clubs …

Just how revolutionary is the Arsenal side we are now seeing?

      Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors 8 Arsenal men in most valuable players list, and which stadia had seats spare in 2022/3? By Tony Attwood According to the new edition of Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson “The standard of defending has declined alarmingly among elite clubs, …

Fifa’s WC depravity knows no bounds. If you agree, avoid all their sponsors

  8 Arsenal men in most valuable players list, and which stadia had seats in 2022/3? Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave? By Tony Attwood That Fifa tells fibs is hardly news, but this one was one of the biggest.  For as the Guardian reports (and as is …

8 Arsenal men in most valuable players list, and which stadia had spare seats in 2022/3?

      Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave? The Premier League will be different next season By Sir Hardly Anyone An article in Issue number 425 of the Weekly Post from CIES Football Observatory, offers us the top 100 estimated transfer values using the statistical model developed by …

Arsenal have too many players in the 25 man squad. Who will leave?

  Arsenal’s 25 man squad The Premier League will be different next season Over half the coaches in professional football clubs were sacked this year By Sir Hardly Anyone Every summer there is an issue that lots of websites playfully ignore, while Untold struggles on desperately trying to make sense of it.  It is the …

The Premier League will be different next season

  Over half the coaches in professional football clubs were sacked this year Summer 2023: Arsenal Transfers episode 2. 17 players in, 4 out. By Tony Attwood We’ve been talking a bit of late about managers being sacked, and how Arsenal now have the fourth longest-serving manager in the Premier League, and it brought to …

Over half the coaches in professional football clubs were sacked this year

    Summer 2023: Arsenal transfers, 17 players in, 4 out. Arsenal women: the season review. We made the Champions League By Tony Attwood More than half of coaches or managers in professional clubs in sixty top divisions around the world did not finish the season with the club they started with.  Indeed in the …

Summer 2023: Arsenal Transfers episode 2. 17 players in, 4 out.

    Arsenal women: the season review. We made the Champions League The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4. By Sir Hardly Anyone In January, as we usually do, Untold Arsenal tracked the rumours concerning who Arsenal were going to sign.   And as you might recall there were 53 separate reports …

Arsenal women: the season review. We made the Champions League

    The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4. Football’s in trouble. The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress part 3 Andrew Crawshaw The best place to start the season review is where we finished – in third place, which none of us would have been happy with a …

The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4. Football’s in trouble.

    By Tony Attwood The ten reasons why Arsenal will continue to progress part 4 – football is in a mess and Arsenal are working around it. Previously in this series we have had  The ten reasons why Arsenal will make more progress in 2023/4. Part 1.  (A young team is maturing; Scoring from …