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By Sir Hardly Anyone I love it when the English media ignore a big story in Europe. Of course sometimes it is because the journalist assigned to the case spent too long drinking in the Toppled Bollard public house the night before. Sometimes it is because they think “English readers won’t be interested in this …
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By Bulldog Drummond Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look The league table shows just how urgently more points are required. With Manchester City banned for Europe (pending an appeal), the 5th placed club is likely to qualify for the Champions League, meaning the teams …
Read More “Arsenal v WHAM and a look back to the last time we won fewer games in a season”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood Here’s a couple of Arsenal facts. Arsenal made a loss in its last set of reported accounts, and contrary to stories that will not stop doing the rounds, there is no hard evidence that it was …
Read More “Booing players is not the solution, nor is spending more and more”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you may recall that for the past several years I’ve been banging away about the fact that there was not something fundamentally wrong with the Arsenal team in terms of its overall performance, but rather there was something very wrong with the way we were playing …
Read More “Arsenal’s new strategy emerges but the club faces huge difficulties from without.”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Tony Attwood A petition signed by over three-quarters of a million people which calls for curbs on the British media has been handed into the government. And while the motivation behind the petition has nothing to do …
Read More “The media should be “held accountable for the way they harass and vilify people”.”
by Tony Attwood About three and a half years ago Mikel Arteta, when assistant to Pep Guardiola was asked by a journalist if he felt anything needed to be changed in English football. Now the standard answer to this question is “no”, with the foreign interviewee replying that the Premier League is the strongest league …
Read More “Football gone wrong, and how the clubs could act if they wanted to”
By Tony Attwood “Arsenal are now one win from Wembley and two wins from, errrm, Wembley. They can start to smell success in a competition that has lit up their otherwise barren last decade and a half …” That bit of stupidity comes from the Guardian in relation to last night but it wasn’t the …
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Bulldog Drummond In the 1920s and 1930s Portsmouth had a strong 1st Division team, and they did get a few victories over Arsenal, meaning that the head to head results look rather better for Portsmouth than one …
by Andrew Crawshaw The quote in the title was from a Chelsea supporter to me in the Gents after the game and he wasn’t wrong. The trophy went to Chelsea following a 2 – 1 win in a game which saw Arsenal batter Chelsea for 80 minutes. The match as you would expect was …
Read More ““The best team lost” – the story of the 2020 Continental Tyres Cup”
By Bulldog Drummond Portsmouth are a League One (ie third tier) team, chasing promotion. In this League, the top two are automatically promoted; next four compete enter into the playoffs (two semi-finals and a final), with the winner gaining the third promotion spot. Here’s the League One table at present. Team P W D L …
Read More “Portsmouth v Arsenal: how Portsmouth have been doing of late.”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have won the First Division / Premier League 13 times, and won the FA Cup 13 times – the latter being the all time record, with Mr Wenger winning the Cup more than any …
Read More “The all time most successful FA Cup team against Portsmouth; prognostications”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood In the modern blogging world, exploring the issue of cause and effect is sometimes known as moaning – and “moaning” of course is a pejorative word. No one likes a moaner. So what is a …
Read More “The problems at Arsenal: Trying to resolve the cause and effect”
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal moved to the new Arsenal Stadium and increased their capacity from around 38,000 to over 60,000 they also doubled their match day revenue overnight. And it has continued to rise thereafter. But of course the stadium had to be paid for, and that drain on the club’s finances was managed …
Read More “What exactly do we need in order to win the League again?”
By Bulldog Drummond Now here is something very new. It is not directly relevant to the team for tonight’s game, so if you want that just scroll down a bit, but it is relevant to the topic of what blogs and websites are up to (which is something Untold likes to keep an eye on). …
Read More “Arsenal’s team and scoreline prediction for tonight’s game, and some naughty people”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Bulldog Drummond It really begins to look as the dreadful run of results in home matches is well and truly over and tonight’s game gives the club a chance to take another step towards recovering our credibility …
Read More “Arsenal at home, and Arsenal at home to Olympiakos”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look by Bulldog Drummond Since playing their first leg of the current Europa League round both Arsenal and Olympiacos have won – in the case of Olympiakos it was a 0-1 away win that means that the club is …
Read More “Arsenal v the eternal champions who are once again, well… you know.”
Arsenal is a team with a rich history of winning trophies in some of the best most prestigious competitions in the UK. Over the course of their 100 years in the top division of English football, the Gunners have won thirteen EFL and Premier League titles, two League Cups, fifteen FA Community Shields, and …
Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look By Tony Attwood Preliminaries: this article uses the same figures as used in articles from a couple of weeks back concerning tackles, fouls and yellows. This means the numbers here are a few weeks out of date – however I …
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by Tony Attwood The essence of the always-famous novel “1984” by George Orwell, published in 1948 which predicted the dystopian world to come, is that history can be changed, re-written, re-told, manipulated, re-imagined by the powerful in order to keep the thoughts of the proles in order. George Orwell was not a great football fan, …
Read More “How the history and effect of VAR is being re-written to mislead us all”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Psychiatric support for those who wrote the original pieces is available from Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, head of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. All the latest transfer tales, with translation into English. 1: Aubameyang leaving Arsenal could be forced to sell Gabon forward …
Read More “From the blindingly obvious to “being courted” Translating media gossip into reality”
Untold Videos Our videos explore some of these issues in depth – do take a look Recently… The total failure of VAR, yellow cards and the team: Arsenal v Everton By Tony Attwood There is little as dispiriting or come to that sickening and nauseating, as the anti-Arsenal Arsenal, that disgraceful combination of alleged …
Read More “The grotesque and disgusting behaviour of the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal, enemies of our club.”
By Bulldog Drummond Pundits presenting themselves as people who know, getting it wrong, offering no apology, and then doing it again is what football journalism is made of. Like the wholesale prediction for yesterday’s game that Saka would start the match. Totally wrong prediction; no one seems to have apologised. Which is why Untold likes …
By Bulldog Drummond One of the key factors of the weekend is the issue of yellow cards, in the Chelsea 2 Tottenham 1 game. The BBC website says, “Giovani lo Celso should have been sent off for a dreadful second-half challenge on Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta. The video assistant referee decided against punishment, although officials …
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By Bulldog Drummond Physioroom’s injury list has seven on the list of injured players. Three are definitely out, three are possible and one (Sokratis) is an unknown. Player Reason Further Detail Potential Return Condition Calum Chambers Knee Injury Ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee.” 29/08/2020 Ruled out Kieran Tierney Shoulder Injury Aiming …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: the injuries, the yellows, the worst season, and Sako”
by Bulldog Drummond When we look at the respective home and away record of the teams we find Arsenal at home are the seventh best team in the league with five wins, five draws and three defeats with a goal difference of plus four (thanks to our last home match!) – which is pretty much …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: Arsenal in their best form of the season”
