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 Last season we began the campaign under a different manager. The general feeling put about among the all-unknowing media is that it was a disastrous start but was it? Date Match Result Score Competition 11 Aug 2019 Newcastle United v Arsenal W 0-1 Premier League 17 Aug 2019 Arsenal v Burnley W …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal: the injuries, the team… and time to forget the journalism”
By Tony Attwood And so we get to the end of the club by club preview in the papers we find that “Arsenal in chaos, may make fifth, no money without selling lots more” is the summary of it all. Elsewhere “Manchester City will push Liverpool all the way, Jose Mourinho CAN deliver Spurs a …
Read More “Fulham v Arsenal and Auba about to sign…. according to “reports””
By Tai Emeka Obasi. A very significant thing one must have noticed since Mikel Arteta arrived at Arsenal is that the English press have not been as ruthlessly against Arsenal as it used to be, particularly during the Arsene Wenger era. . Give it to the Spaniard – he has been spotless in his conduct …
Read More “The fact Arteta needs to be reminded of – Football is an emotional game! “
By Tony Attwood Financial misdeeds in football are often said by those in the know to be everywhere. And indeed we used to come across the consequences of them with clubs going into liquidation, and then using the notorious “football creditors” arrangement to ensure that other clubs got money owed while local traders got nothing. …
Read More “Premier League clubs tax fraud investigation gathers speed”
By Tai Emeka Obasi. Mikel Arteta, Arsenal’s chief coach, is a man, who appears gifted enough and divinely favoured to be a great football manager. It is not an easy feat to start a career as a manager with a team very clearly in disarray and steady that ship within so short a time. When …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Despite the ceaseless announcements by the media concerning purchases by top clubs, there is not that much happening in the window at the moment. Club Incoming Cost Outgoing Income Current £ Arsenal Willian Mkhitaryan Free Mari £14m Greenwood Undisclosed Soares 6 Loans Gabriel £27m Ceballos -£41m Chelsea 7 players £201.30m 5 …
Read More “The big six: how the transfers are going to far, and ignoring Liverpool’s decline”
By Tony Attwood It is not unusual to find that at the start of the season there is talk in the media about clubs breaking into the top four or top six or top anything else. Usually this is accompanied by talk about Arsenal dropping out of the top group – it is the media’s …
Read More “The new big six? A big eight? Just a big four again? A big two?”
By Tony Attwood As a prelude to this season we have been looking at a few strange issues that arose last season, and have been trying to make sense of the resultant statistics. Following this, the suggestion has been made that one area we’ve not touch on at all is penalties, with a view to …
Read More “Penalties: are they fairly distributed among the clubs or is there a bias?”
by Tony Attwood When one reads an article that opens, “Over the past couple of seasons, there have evidently been two hugely dominant sides in the Premier League — Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool,” there’s no need for an eyebrow to be raised. Last couple of seasons – well yes. Manchester City …
Read More “A prime example of the extraordinary bias in the media against Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood As matters stand, in something like 160 Premier League games in the early part of this season there will be no live TV coverage and no chance of anyone paying to go to the ground to watch the game. These are the games that fall outside the pick of Sky, Amazon and …
Read More “We might get to see all Arsenal’s opening games after all”
by Sir Hardly Anyone… How well were you watching? All the questions here are about last season. The answers are below, followed by a second quiz in case you are feeling emboldened by the first… 1: Four players started over 20 first team games but didn’t score. Who were they? 2: Also, four players made …
Read More “Were you watching last season? Here’s a little quiz to find out.”
The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Tai Emeka Obasi. Mikel Arteta inherited a team completely lacking in self-belief. What he did with that stuttering Arsenal …
Read More “Who should be in this season’s Arsenal squad, and who should leave…”
The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Andrew Crawshaw The WSL starts this Weekend, a week before the Men’s PL. This season, as last year, there are 12 …
The Arsenal History Society is now publishing a video of an Arsenal match for this day in history, each day. To access the current video, or ones from earlier days please click here. _________________________________________________________________________ By Tony Attwood When Untold runs a story which is not in any of the media, I always like to keep a …
By Tony Attwood. Research by Mike Mcfarlane Goodness knows how many times the point has been made that the UK media deliberately censors football news, so that it meets its agreed and established agenda. (If you want a few examples see The ten big football stories that the media won’t cover.) By way of a …
Read More “The Swiss government is fighting Fifa. And now so is the USA!”
By Tony Attwood ‘The perfect appointment’: Everton name Carlo Ancelotti as manager” That was the full-on, top of the range, up-and-at-em headline in the Guardian when Everton changed their manager – just about at the same time that Arsenal appointed their new man. A certain Mr Arteta as I recall. By a strange coincidence, the …
Read More “Ancelloti v Arteta. They changed clubs together, but which club got the best deal?”
by Tony Attwood In 2018/19 Arsenal had the fifth highest match day revenue of any football club in the world, behind Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man U and PSG. That Arsenal have maintained this position, despite falling out of the Champions League and having a supporters’ revolt going on around them, along with massive antagonism in …
Read More “Arsenal’s financial problems were clear a year back, and now are worse.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is interesting that the level of promised signings continues to rise without any consideration of money, or sales or indeed fitting the team together. In fact it was only a short while ago that Arsenal announced a series of redundancies among the recruitment staff, which was widely interpreted in the …
Read More “These purchases for Arsenal make no sense financially or logically”
Top-flight games will be played in empty stadiums and the PL refuses to broadcast almost half of them. The reason of course is because between them, the clubs and the broadcasters failed to come up with anything in the contracts that worked out what to do in the case of a national emergency. Now the …
Read More “PL games will be played with no TV coverage, and no fans in the ground”
by Tony Attwood The purchases So, as we know, we have purchased four players. A number of others are being discussed, but for the moment let us work with these four… Willian: Winger — from Chelsea, free Pablo Marí: Defender — from Flamengo, £14m Cédric Soares, Defender — from Southampton; free Gabriel Magalhães; Defender — from …
Read More “Arsenal currently have 27 players to fit into the 25 list. Who should we lose?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone As you will know if you have been paying attention 134 players have now been tipped to be coming to Arsenal this summer. And having reached that number, the wild and wacky inventors employed by newspapers and blogs have pretty much run out not just of ideas but also of players. …
Read More “Arsenal’s next transfer: one of these five (plus five youngsters tipped)”
Mikel Arteta wants to create new opportunities in his midfield. In the course of this, Arsenal FC is interested in Amadou Diawara. Its advisor confirms the London efforts.Recently, Arsenal’s alleged interest in Amadou Diawara popped up for the first time. There was talk of a possible swap deal with AS Roma, which could receive …
Read More “Amadou Diawara: Agent confirms Arsenal FC interest”
By Tony Attwood First off, Gabriel Magalhães has joined Arsenal from Lille for £27m, signing a five-year contract. The delay in the signing has simply been because of the lastest covid restrictions, which mean he is still in isolation having travelled from France on 24 August. There has of course been a lot of talk …
Read More “Five signings, not one, for Arsenal, and the Arsenal man with 9 Wembley appearances”
by Tony Attwood From NBC Sports to the Guardian, the scribblers are out doing their guesswork as to where various clubs will finish in the League. To remind ourselves this is what the BBC gave us this time last year. This is Phil McNulty’s prediction showing the predicted position on the left and the actual …
By Tony Attwood and Christophe Jost These days it is not so hard as it used to be to knock up appearances at Wembley Stadium since FA Cup semi-finals and the Community Shield games are played there as well as the final. But even so what Mikel Arteta and Arsenal have done of late really …
Read More “Arsenal’s record breaking cup final run and Arteta’s amazing Wembley record”
