Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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This is not the pre-season we wanted: but there is one great shining light Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. By Tony Attwood In fact virtually everything and everyone is revolting for the Sun, but in this case they have run the headline, “ARSENAL fans demanded that Gabriel …
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Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning By Tony Attwood Clearly, the first part of the headline is true, since Arsenal have been losing games, and have not shown us the stunning football that we had hoped …
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By Tony Attwood From the Arsenal History Society – just published, the first part in our series celebrating 100 consecutive season in the top diviison…. 100 seasons in the top division. 1: The Election And from Untold Arsenal Arsenal v the Yellow Submarine tonight: how have the opposition been doing. Arsenal v the chaos …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal v the chaos club. Hello Villareal Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Given Villareal’s record in recent years, it may come as a surprise to realise that Arsenal have only beaten Villareal twice in six competitive matches. However, if we just look at the Champions …
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Fifa, Uefa and FA are not above the law after all. Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning By Tony Attwood Villareal ended last season in fifth place in the Spanish League, 18 points behind Barcelona who were of course, followed by Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid, …
Pre-season is about tactics, and liaison with foreign fans, not about winning How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal By Tony Attwood As we have often noted in the past, it is a fundamental of the Football Association that football is above the law. It makes its own …
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How the media create fantasy stories in order to talk down Arsenal Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about= As I have already pointed out, pre-season matches are not about winning, but about bedding new players in and making sure that the new players start to get used …
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Why some people just can’t understand what pre-season games are all about Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? By Tony Attwood There is a line in the Guardian’s preview of Arsenal for the season that says that “there remain concerns about a lack of creativity in the …
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Premier League introduces Extra Access to players. But will we even notice? When they are talking about you in Europe, you know you have arrived by Tony Attwood There is a growing anger in the Arsenal fan base. It is not shared among those who gather data and ideas for Untold Arsenal, nor …
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Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players? By Tony Attwood We will be seeing some innovations in the 2025/26 season and there is no doubt that the broadcasters will be pitching them as “revolutionary.” Not because they …
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Tottenham: better than Arsenal? Or is football teetering on the brink? Media finally starts to realise: Arsenal are being screwed by referees By Tony Attwood One of the great points about Arsenal giving Max Dowman outings with the first team in the pre-season tour, is often overlooked in commentaries, but it is real all the …
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By Tony Attwood The point was put to me yesterday that “in recent years” Tottenham have done better in the league than Arsenal. That didn’t feel right to me so I went and looked, and being an honest chap, I then had to admit I was wrong. Or looked at differently, right. Across the …
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Do Arsenal need to sell before buying any more players? Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) By Tony Attwood We’ve written a lot about penalties in recent times, so it is nice to see at last that the BBC has picked up on the issue of just what is going …
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Arsenal: Getting ready to start season 100 (twice) As supporters, do we support everything or do we criticise and petition? By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta has, as I am sure you will know, signed six players for fees this summer, the fees ranging from a small amount to lots. Here’s the …
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