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 story so far: Nottingham F v Arsenal: Different lives in different leagues Let’s now have our regular look at the home and away breakdown of the two clubs: Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts % Pts per game 17 Nottingham Forest home 13 4 3 6 14 …
Read More “Forest v The Arsenal. Home and away form and who played in the last round”
By Bulldog Drummond Thinking about Nottingham Forest v Arsenal the opening discussion chez Untold concerned not just how the two teams were doing (which led to an immediate review of the “last six” and “last 10” league tables) but also how the other teams around Arsenal were doing. For example, we know Tottenham are breathing …
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By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of psychological interpretation and other stuff, at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road Wretched 10-man Arsenal left in tatters by strikerless Manchester City That was the headline in The Guardian following Arsenal’s third defeat in the first three league games at the start of this …
Read More “How one journalist is utterly incapable of letting go of his anti-Arsenal agenda”
By Tony Attwood O One of my arguments against the way the entire media in England presents Arsenal is that the media has a “standard view” into which all the facts are twisted to fit. This view says that anything that is negative that surrounds Arsenal is normally totally Arsenal’s fault. Many of the things …
Read More “13 games in six weeks! Chelsea’s hard luck story; Arsenal have been there done that”
By Tony Attwood I need your help. Some people on reading our website of late, are reporting a number of blank spaces on the screen part way through the article. The articles are still there, but instead of there being one line of space between one paragraph and the next, sometimes there can be a …
Read More “Untold Arsenal needs your help on a technical matter”
By Tony Attwood From 1997 when we came third in the league, to 2016 when we were runners’ up, Arsenal always finished in the top four and gained admission to the Champions League. It was the longest run of any club ever from England in the Champions League, and second only across the continent to …
Read More “What can we say about Arsenal’s chances of finishing in the top four?”
By Tony Attwood The national authorities have just cut internet and phone access within Kazakhstan, also making it impossible for local people to contact others. This is what made me think of PGMO. PGMO have no website for its Premier League activities, no connection that the outside world can use, no postal address that is …
Read More “What is the difference between PGMO and the government of Kazakhstan?”
By Tony Attwood As you will have heard the match against Liverpool tomorrow has been postponed. The decision was made at lunchtime today, 5 January. Quite honestly, I imagine that if the board of the EFL thought about the people who wanted to be at the game being messed around, their response would probably have …
Read More “Supporters are once more being treated with total contempt”
by Andrew Crawshaw This coming Sunday 09 January sees the resumption on the Women’s Super League, where We are, as yet undefeated. Here is the current table Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Arsenal 9 8 1 0 30 3 27 25 2 Chelsea 9 7 0 2 27 6 …
By Bulldog Drummond Given that the game against Liverpool may or may not be on (at the time of writing) I thought I’d do one of the sets of data that we normally cover ahead of the game, just in case the game goes ahead. And not least because the data is quite interesting of …
Read More “Liverpool and Arsenal: the tackles, fouls and yellow cards (in case the game is played)”
By Dr Billy the Dog McGraw, head of the Department of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Liverpool as you will have heard, has asked for their league cup semi-final against Arsenal to be stopped on the grounds that although Liverpool are higher up the league than Arsenal, Arsenal’s …
Read More “Liverpool beg for mercy and ask for game against Arsenal to be postponed”
By Tony Attwood It is perhaps typical of football in England that despite the raging pandemic there seem to be no plans at all as to what to do if clubs can’t complete the season. Fifa has already given full permission to its friends in Africa to carry on running their international tournament in the …
Read More “How to sort matters out if games are being postponed wholesale…”
By Tony Attwood Allegedly, in the summer of 2007, Arsene Wenger described Arsenal as a club that “makes superstars”, rather than buying them. At least that is what a wide range of media outlets say. Then, in March 2020, Daniel Levy commented that external perceptions of transfers can be different to the facts and also …
Read More “Are Arsenal about to buy another shedload of players? Or just sell Auba?”
To read about the free Arsenal video collection and about the new Arsenal Day by Day series, please see the note at the foot of this article. By Sir Hardly Anyone Bukayo Saka tipped to leave Arsenal as Mikel Arteta’s hardest task is spelled out So shouts the Daily Mirror, telling us that “Bukayo Saka …
Read More “The pundit’s need for his daily fix is football’s biggest enemy”
Could Mesut Özil soon to be a club owner? That is the question posed in the Swiss press today, in turn quoting Bild, the German newspaper. They say, (obviously in German) that “the former Real Madrid and Arsenal player, now at Fenerbahçe, would like to acquire Corum FK, a Turkish third division club.” Now Mesut …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Our last three defeats (Manchester United, Everton and Manchester City) have all been by one goal. This is in contrast to our first four defeats in which we failed to score and conceded 13 (Brentford, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool). So clearly Arsenal has improved. We are still sometimes getting beaten, but …
Read More “Why it could be a mistake for Arsenal to buy a new centre forward”
By Tony Attwood You may have noticed that over time I have often made the suggestion that in the Premier League no club should get the same referee more than twice in a season. And if you take the time to read the comments made on Untold you might have noticed that this has been …
Read More “More evidence to suggest PGMO is not acting fair with Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Players have started to pack their bags, as tomorrow, 3 January is the day by which they are obliged to turn up at their national training camp for the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The government’s official website on travelling abroad refers readers thinking about being in Cameroon to …
Read More “It’s not the transfer window that’s the issue it is AFCON”
By Tony Attwood In our pre-game article we used the home/away analysis that is regularly included before a match, this time to suggest that the result might be closer than was generally considered by the pro-Mancunian punidts… Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts 2 Arsenal home 9 7 1 1 17 …
Read More “Arsenal match Man City, but can’t beat the ref. But why do refs behave like this?”
by Bulldog Drummond According to the BBC website Arsenal don’t have a chance as they suggest, “As much as Arsenal have improved, and as good as their home record is – only Manchester City’s is better this season – there is still a huge gulf between these two sides. “The difference is not going to be …
by Bulldog Drummond Despite Manchester City’s near invulnerability since they gained the sponsorship of middle eastern oil money, took on the Premier League into an eternally rambling on court case about finances (which it seems will simply end by the court ruling that the League is out of time), took on Uefa who lost because …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City: the head to heads and historical comparisons”
by Bulldog Drummond The injury list of players that we have been running, ahead of each Arsenal game for years and years has never previously been like this, including both on-pitch injuries and cases of the pandemic. Nor can I recall when we last recorded a player being missing from a squad because he was …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City: are injuries related to the level of tackling?”
By Bulldog Drummond At the moment of writing this match is still on, with Arsenal’s touchline made up of skeletons (or to quote the Telegraph “Arsenal could host Man City with a skeleton coaching staff”) but with the way things are going, who knows what will happen. However on the basis that we are going …
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you will know that whereas when crowds were present, the home teams in the Premier League were likely to win games more often than the away team. Since games have been played without crowds present the reverse has been true. The explanation for this (as I’ve …
Read More “Are football journalists biased, lazy or just ignorant?”
By Tony Attwood Why West Ham can commit twice as many fouls as Newcastle, before getting a single yellow card. Yes it is true. The number of yellow cards received by a club, is not directly related to the number of fouls committed. Indeed the number of fouls clubs need to commit before seeing a …
Read More “Clubs that get most yellow cards are NOT clubs committing the most fouls.”
