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 Bulldog Drummond The continuing strange tale of how PL referees punish tackles Why do rich men want to buy football clubs? It has taken us four years of mucking about with managers to get us back to the position where we were in 2017 – the penultimate season of the Wenger years. 30 games …
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By Bulldog Drummond We have often noted the great change that came over Arsenal last season as the club worked to eliminate tackles from their playing style. And in fact this has worked as Arsenal are now 19th in the tackles league for the Premier League this season; only Manchester City undertake fewer tackles. …
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By Tony Attwood Corruption in football; the story spreads: Juve boss threatened with prison Changes to the financial controls of clubs in Europe looked doomed to failure In one sense it seems a crazy thing to do – to buy a big football club where the fans have expectations of success. After all most clubs …
PREVIOUSLY: Changes to the financial controls of clubs in Europe looked doomed to failure By Tony Attwood The argument that I am trying to make is that there is a huge amount going on in football which is beneath the surface and is not being covered by the English media because journalists are afraid that …
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8 more players coming to Arsenal making total of 52 incoming players this summer By Tony Attwood It is always interesting to see the treatment that clubs and their managers are given by the media. Unai Emery, while at Arsenal was portrayed as inept, and lacking in insight but now he is seen as …
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By Tony Attwood Football journalists can be called many things including lazy and bonkers, but little of their daily activity is quite so bizarre as the range of players that they cite each season as coming to Arsenal in the summer. Normally the number reaches over 100, and generally about two of those tipped actually …
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By Tony Attwood One of the great problems of football and the way it is covered by the media is that the notion that underneath it all there is wholesale rule-breaking, not to say corruption, is either not considered at all, or is considered just in passing, and not with any serious thought. (One of …
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By Tony Attwood There is no end to the knocking of Arsenal that the media will do and certainly no end to the abuse and misuse of statistics (including simply making them up) that they will indulge in. Consider for a moment, if you have the time, the headline from the Mirror which reads “Arsenal …
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Fifa considers changing football rules again: as ever it is to enhance its income Are Arsenal in a Position to Hold onto Saka, Or Should They Sell to Improve the Squad? By Tony Attwood We have in the past looked at how Arsenal are doing this season compared with the same point (in terms of …
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By Tony Attwood Recently, the notion of a biennial World Cup, supported by Fifa under the guidance of its Supreme Leader, Gianni Infantino, aroused what one might call a certain wave of opposition. Faced with this, the Italian-Swiss overseer now resident with his family in Qatar for legal reasons, said last week, “Let me be …
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We’re breaking down Saka’s position in Arsenal and what the consequences of trading him out could be. Arsenal is currently licking its wounds from an embarrassing defeat on Monday, made worse by the fact that the game should have been a slam dunk, to mix metaphors. The game was supposed to be an easy one …
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By Tony Attwood Have Arsenal really been led into chaos by a ludicrous transfer policy? Why beating the Little 14 is more important than beating the rest of the Big 6 Before the game there was nervousness in and around the crowd A lot of that came from repeating the mantras of the media that …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal v Brighton the form guide from when Brighton were 9 places above AFC. The BBC is showing itself to be at its worst in its preview of this game saying, “Arsenal kind of reverted to type in their defeat by Crystal Palace on Monday because they didn’t just lose, they got …
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By Bulldog Drummond How Brighton can put in more tackles than Arsenal without having a foul called Arsenal injuries, the size of the squad, and past matches against Brighton Let’s take a look at how the two teams have been doing recently. The last six games shows Arsenal have sunk to fifth because of our …
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By Bulldog Drummond How Brighton can put in more tackles than Arsenal without having a foul called Arsenal injuries have been the prime talking point in the media for the last few days, but as ever there is little by way of comparison between Arsenal and other clubs in order to make a proper judgement …
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By Bulldog Drummond Have Arsenal really been led into chaos by a ludicrous transfer policy? 91,000 attended the last Barcelona women’s game. What can Arsenal learn? If one is looking for a spot of good news, look no further than the Guardian (not normally a friend of Arsenal) who tell us that “Arsenal’s record against …
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By Tony Attwood 91,000 attended the last Barcelona women’s game. What can Arsenal learn? Why beating the Little 14 is more important than beating the rest of the Big 6 There is a paragraph from an article on Arsenal, in the Telegraph, which sums up a lot of the current criticism of Arsenal. It reads, …
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By Tony Attwood Why beating the Little 14 is more important than beating the rest of the Big 6 Arsenal chase 7 more players making 45 incoming players in all with 20 leaving To be open and clear about this, I’ve only been to a handful of women’s games. I live in the East Midlands, …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal chase 7 more players making 45 incoming players in all with 20 leaving Is Chelsea really being sold? SuperLeague II: the return of the billionaires Today’s kick around story in the media is that Arsenal are in a dire position because we have a terrible record against the other members of …
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Is Chelsea really being sold? SuperLeague II: the return of the billionaires Arsenal: knocking down walls or getting back to where we used to be By Sir Hardly Anyone It looked for a while like we might get through a window without being tipped to buy Zaha, but no, as with previous windows, he’s now …
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According to the Daily Mail, Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea FC has decided that he won’t sell the club to a person or group of people associated with any country that has sanctioned Russia or its oligarchs. As a result Abramovich has insisted he is going to decide to whom he sells the club. Which …
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By Tony Attwood A team who have blips, or just a team with two key players missing? There is an interesting comment in The Athletic within an interview with Unai Emery (behind a paywall) in which he says, “With Arsenal, you first had to knock down the walls, which is hard work, then start to …
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By Tony Attwood This has been a season of blips, and each blip has been seized upon by the media as a total disaster, and quite possibly the end of civilisation. Not to mention the time for a major overhaul of the team. Except that is what we had with the defence last summer. It …
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Previously about the game… Palace v Arsenal, the team and the developing commentary Palace v Arsenal: the team and the oddities Arsenal have only won once against Palace in the last seven. But… Crystal Palace v Arsenal – a history of the matches in seven videos… Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the injuries and the curious …
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By Bulldog Drummond Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the home and away form shows AFC favourites Crystal Palace v Arsenal; doom and gloom, tackles, fouls and yellow cards Crystal Palace v Arsenal – a history of the matches in seven videos… Crystal Palace v Arsenal: the injuries and the curious case of draws Arsenal have only …
