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
By Tony Attwood Why are so many Premier League clubs losing so much money? And so there we are: Champions at last! Thanks to every player and every supporter. If you have been reading Untold for a while, you will know that it is not unknown for there to be a negative comment or …
By Tony Attwood And so there we are: Champions at last! Thanks to every player and every supporter. Champions Champions Champions Winning the league this season takes Arsenal up to 14 top division titles – something I did not hear many people on the radio say yesterday, although everyone seemed to want …
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Champions Champions Champions Why I want Arsenal to win the league and have an asterisk in this season’s league table By Tony Attwood It is of course a bit hard to get up and write a commentary first thing in the morning after a night like that, and even harder to find anything …
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As the investigation into ManC finances evolves, what now? Why I want Arsenal to win the league and have an asterisk in this season’s league table By Tony Attwood An independent commission has reported looked at Manc’s accounts, although we don’t know what was found. And as I have stressed repeatedly, I have no evidence …
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The ultimate truth on why refereeing in the Premier League is not all it should be Is Arsenal really the most hated club in football? By Tony Attwood So now we have a new way of insulting and attacking Arsenal. “most gruelling of title pursuits…”, and “another night of football as pain, sport …
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Arsenal against West Ham: results across the years and the game tonight The ultimate truth on why refereeing in the Premier League is not all it should be By Tony Attwood There is a project going on at Arsenal, but it isn’t the one that the media wants you to believe in. You …
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The ultimate truth on why refereeing in the Premier League is not all it should be Is Arsenal really the most hated club in football? By Tony Attwood In terms of Arsenal against Burnley across the years, Arsenal have won 58, and lost 34 with 24 draws in League and FA Cup matches, …
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Is Arsenal really the most hated club in football? The most detailed research into what is wrong with PL refereeing, yet found. Part 1 By Tony Attwood Referees have to declare their interest in clubs before the start of the season, and it is up to them to keep the list up to date. …
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The most detailed research into what is wrong with PL refereeing, yet found. Part 1 Is it possible to have error free refereeing in football? By Tony Attwood. Normally, on the days before an Arsenal match, we’d be focusing exclusively on the forthcoming game, but there was recently an article in the Guardian which …
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By Tony Attwood. Full acknowledgement of the source of much of the data for this piece is given at the end. Is it possible to have error free refereeing in football? Arsenal are almost there, with just minor issues ahead When Untold first started publishing articles about refereeing, we were enormously helped and supported by …
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Is it possible to have error free refereeing in football? Arsenal are almost there, with just minor issues ahead By Tony Attwood In answer to the question in the headline, I would say probably not, because the game moves at speed and we have the notion of “playing the advantage” within the rules. For …
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By Tony Attwod The Premier League is now approaching its ultimate crunch moment Arsenal’s red and yellow card numbers have collapsed this season. The figures are amazing. So we are still a couple of days away from our next matchday, which is on May 18 at home to Burnley, although elsewhere today we …
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By Tony Attwood Has there ever been a moment like this? A moment when the whole club and its fans seem to be in total turmoil, not to say actually fighting each other. To see what is going on, one only has to look at some of the headlines – and these are all appearing …
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I am often interested in the stories that football journalists don’t tell us, as much as the ones they do, not least because they tend to reveal the bias that journalists and their editors have in their reporting. And one set of stats that is not being reported stands out this season: the yellow …
How a new part of league football has been thoroughly weaponised. Who runs football? PGMO? The clubs? And what happened to the Combination? By Tony Attwood There once was a time when managers and other officials in football clubs watched what they said, being careful not to blame referees even for mistakes, let alone …
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Who runs football? PGMO? The clubs? And what happened to the Combination? Do Arsenal need a goalscorer? And indeed did we need one last summer? By Tony Attwood There are many issues that the media that covers league football choose not to cover, and one of these is the issue of yellow and …
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Do Arsenal need a goalscorer? And indeed did we need one last summer? Approach those last couple of matches, and the nerves are jangling By Tony Attwood Who exactly runs football is an interesting point, and of course, to answer it, one needs to ask, what do we mean by “runs”? And I …
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by Tony Attwood Approach those last couple of matches, and the nerves are jangling The Great Mistake which the others made but Arsenal avoided Now I may have miscounted, but it seems to me there is only one Arsenal player in the top 37 scorers in the Premier League this season. Just one. …
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The Great Mistake which the others made but Arsenal avoided Court decides footballers have the same basic employment rights as everyone else By Tony Attwood I think my heart is still beating twice the speed that it should be, and I am not going to try and write a review of that game yesterday …
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The strange case of the West Ham games against Arsenal The Great Mistake which the others made but Arsenal avoided By Tony Attwood The officials for Arsenal’s game againsts West Ham United Referee: Christopher Kavanagh Assistant Referees: Dan Cook & Ian Hussin Fourth Official: James Bell VAR: Darren England Assistant VAR: Akil Howso …
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The Great Mistake which the others made but Arsenal avoided Court decides footballers have the same basic employment rights as everyone else By Tony Attwood If we look through the last 40 games between Arsenal and West Ham we get back to 29 September 2007 and a match for which the result was …
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by Tony Attwood Most clubs and their owners talk a decent fight when they are forced to, but of course not all of them have the 100% baacking of their fans AND the national media. Liverpool generally are the big exception – they have undying support from Liverpudlians and those who have chosen to …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal: celebrations, clubs with the most yellow cards, low scoring games and what’s to come For once it is not Arsenal and us fans who are to blame, but we probably will be If you have been reading Untold across the years, you may have noticed that we have, from time …
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For once, it is not Arsenal and us fans who are to blame, but we probably will be Arsenal: This is the best it has been for the last 20 By Tony Attwood There was a line in the Guardian review of our last match which read, ” It was as if a sizeable …
