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
50 players now coming Arsenal’s way and 12 leaving. Arsenal nearly half way there. What happens when a club starts to go wrong? A work in progress. By Tony Attwood According to Swiss Ramble (whose reports I absolutely recommend to you especially if you want a more detailed account that I can give here) …
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What happens to a club when the transfer policy goes wrong? It will not be long before another club defaults on its debts By Tony Attwood Arsenal are in real trouble – there can be no doubt about that, for they are currently looking at signing… well, we’ve counted – 50 players. …
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Leicester charged yet again over Profit and Sustainability Rules Tackles, fouls and yellow cards: Arsenal and Leicester compared Why do Leicester get such strange stats for fouls, cards and penalties? Arsenal v Leicester and the very curious case of Leicester’s yellow cards By Tony Attwood Leicester City is the club whose statistics always …
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It will not be long before another club defaults on its debts Which clubs transfers are being hauled in because of PSR rules this summer? By Tony Attwood When one of the top clubs doesn’t win a trophy or perhaps enough trophies, there can be annoyance expressed by fans, leading to demands for …
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By Tony Attwood Just how stupid is it for a PL club to change its manager? Which clubs’ transfers are being hauled in because of PSR rules this summer? According to Statista.com five of the ten football clubs generating the most revenue in the world, are in England. They are in order of …
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By Tony Attwood Which clubs transfers are being hauled in because of PSR rules this summer? Do clubs really join in a “race” for a player. Are there really no plans The flurry of articles this summer saying that Arteta should be sacked and a new man brought in to run Arsenal, caused …
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Arsenal transfer targets reach 47. Nine players leaving (maybe) One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. By Tony Attwood PSR rules are “profit and sustainability rules” and they are the Premier League’s way of controlling some of the spending by clubs. Certain spending is allowed, particularly …
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One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it It is one of the most common forms of newspaper and blog post at this time of year: Liverpool ‘join Man Utd and Arsenal in race …
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One example proves that buying more and more players leads to a decline in performance. Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it By Tony Attwood In our last review we looked at how much Arsenal have spent in recent transfer windows. What we can see from the …
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Recent posts Which are the League’s favourite teams, and how are they rewarded Transfer doomscrolling: Arsenal are having a bad summer, and you know it By Tony Attwood One of the most curious features of the transfer window is the desire by seemingly quite a few Arsenal supporters for Arsenal to be more like …
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By Jack Beam Can Arsenal Lift A Trophy In The 2025/26 Season? After repeatedly going close, can Arsenal get their hands on more silverware in the 2025/25 season? Here’s what they need to do. It doesn’t matter which way you look at it; Arsenal have been one of the best teams in the …
The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league Manchester City fined again, and yet it seems to mean nothing By Tony Attwood The Premier League is owned by the Premier League clubs, and so the notion of the League itself having favourites seems a bit curious. And …
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There is something rather confusing and odd about football at the moment How to predict the end of the season after just six games By Tony Attwood An awful lot of people spent an awful lot of 2020 doomscrolling. Then as the pandemic eased off. up, lots of people stopped doomscrolling (reading …
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There is something rather confusing and odd about football at the moment The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league By Tony Attwood What happens when a club comes under wholesale attack day after day during the summer? Quite often it seems the will of the management crumbles and …
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By Jack Beam Arsenal fans are understandably still shaping their own thoughts when it comes to a good European campaign and further consolidation under manager Mikel Arteta by finishing in the Premier League runners-up spot in the 2024/25 campaign, but it is of course tinged with frustration and disappointment that we could not get …
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How to predict the end of the season after just six games Why it could be best for Arsenal not to spend a fortune on transfers this summer The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league by Tony Attwood I am beginning to think that I have got football …
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The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league Manchester City fined again, and yet it seems to mean nothing The courts are starting to get involved in issues of abuse of youngsters in sport By Tony Attwood The media has a vested interest in portraying the Premier League as unpredictable …
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The proof: spending money on transfers takes a club DOWN the league Manchester City fined again, and yet it seems to mean nothing By Tony Attwood One of the key approaches by journalists in writing about football is that by and large football is going to stay pretty much as it is. …
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Manchester City fined again, and yet it seems to mean nothing The courts are starting to get involved in issues of abuse of youngsters in sport By Tony Attwood An article in the New York Times website read “Here, we look back on windows-past and Arsenal transfers, good and bad and how they …
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The courts are starting to get involved in issues of abuse of youngsters in sport Arsenal’s opening fixtures look tough, but maybe that’s not the case… By Tony Attwood Association Football, or indeed “football” as we like to call it, is not a game that is native to the United States. It is …
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by Jack Beam From matchday routines to decking out the mancave with Arsenal decor, here’s how to make the most out of being a Gooner in 2025. Whether you’re a new addition to the red-and-white clan or an old one, growing your allegiance to Arsenal can be as much a thrill as the game …
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By Tony Attwood The courts are starting to get involved in issues of abuse of youngsters in sport Arsenal’s opening fixtures look tough, but maybe that’s not the case… One of the key issues concerning discipline and punishment is always the question: “Does it work?” As in does it work in stopping the …
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By Tony Attwood The level of child abuse in sports is horrifying, but is rarely reported Being a football-orientated blog, when it comes to issues such as the abuse of young people, we focus on that topic in relation to football. But we also note that there has been a rise in disclosures …
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A major change to the law concerning transfers will happen very soon Utter bias: The different way that different clubs are seen by the media By Tony Attwood For the fifth time in the last seven seasons, Arsenal start their Premier League campaign away from home – this time against Manchester United. Is …
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by Tony Attwood A major change to the law concerning transfers will happen very soon What happens if ManC and the rest of the League can’t agree on anything? On the Mathday Finance website, there is a statement in relation to 2023/24 that calls it “another record-breaking year.” Now that phrase is one that …
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