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By Tony Attwood Uefa sanctions against Barca start to bite and English clubs could be next At last, the competition watchdog is questioning Uefa If you have a fair football memory, you might recall the case of Nicolas Pépé who was bought by Arsenal under the regime of Unai Emery for something in the …
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At last, the competition watchdog is questioning Uefa Arsenal celebrate 100 years since Chapman arrived, as Tottenham sack their manager By Tony Attwood While we have often meandered around the topic of financial fair play on this site, it is rarely one that other commentators in England seem to take up, although why …
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By Tony Attwood Join us in celebrating 100 years since Herbert Chapman signed for Arsenal Arsenal’s problems last season come from one particular area You won’t read about this in the English media of course… but it is making waves in most other countries where the media is less beholden to the football authorities …
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By Tony Attwood A full index to our series on 100 years since Chapman joined Arsenal can be found here. Oh what an absolute irony. As Arsenal prepare to celebrate 100 years since the manager who transformed the club arrived at the doors of Highbury, Tottenham wonderfully go and sack their manager! So …
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It’s 100 years since Herbert Chapman signed for The Arsenal AISA, the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, is celebrating the centenary of Hebert Chapman’s arrival at The Arsenal at St Mary’s Church, Hendon on Thursday 12 June from 3 o’clock onwards. Chapman is buried at St Mary’s and had a long association with …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s problems last season come from one particular area There are things that are very wrong in football, and here are two of them And so the basic deals that we all expected have started to happen. We knew a little while ago that Jorginho was leaving and that has …
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The problem Arsenal will have with off-loading unwanted players Arsenal chasing 29 players, while 8 are tipped to leave By Tony Attwood With Arsenal having scored more goals than in any season since 1964 during the 2022/3 and 2023/4 seasons and despite Arsenal suffering more injuries than any other Premier League team in the …
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Arsenal chasing 29 players, while 8 are tipped to leave Why is everyone so dissatisfied with how their team performs? By Tony Attwood Personally I am not one of those who think that Arsenal need to off-load players in the way that some clubs do – we will, of course, lose a few …
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By Tony Attwood There are things that are very wrong in football, and here are two of them Qatar now runs European football and ensures only its clubs can win Today we highlight eight new stories and five updates in terms of Arsenal’s transfers for the summer as reported by the media in …
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by Tony Attwood There are things that are very wrong in football, and here are two of them Should it have been us out there last night? Why did Arsenal lose to PSG Reddit has presented a “satisfaction-o-meter”, which has also appeared in the Athletic and the New York Times. It is a …
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Qatar now runs European football and ensures only its clubs can win The 12 players who should feature in every Arsenal game next season By Tony Attwood If you have been a regular reader of Untold in the past you will know that somewhat unusually among commentators on football in England we have …
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Should it have been us out there last night? Why did Arsenal lose to PSG Want to know how the end of the season will look? Here’s how you do it By Tony Attwood Who cares about the violence? Obviously not Qatar because they didn’t have to pay the police, tend the …
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The 12 players who should feature in every Arsenal game next season Will there ever be an end to the clubs owned by the mega-rich winning everything? By Nitram I don’t know about anyone else, but I found watching last nights Champions League final incredibly frustrating. We should of been there. We deserved …
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The 12 players who should feature in every Arsenal game next season Why Arsenal have a problem when trying to buy a centre forward By Tony Attwood The job of the pundit is primarily to tell us what will happen in the future. Many pundits just make things up, although they usually claim …
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By Jack Bannister First, why 12? Because we always bring on one sub, and when I looked I couldn’t choose which midfielder / forward to drop. But there is a second point: we have most of these players in my list already on the boos. And that is a benefit because many newly …
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