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 If you have been reading all the bloggettas with their tattle and their tittle (that’s tittle tattle if you have only just woken up after a rather fulsome Christmas – but do try to keep up, there are likely to be 700 words or so in this piece) you will know that …
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By Bulldog Drummond Trying to guess who Arsenal will put out for Arteta’s first game is virtually impossible – he may have seen something interesting among the youngsters, he may have an idea for surprising the opposition, he may want to say to the established crew, “show me what you can do”. And as a …
By Bulldog Drummond So it is Mr Arteta’s first game as complete manager – his first pick of a team. And he comes to the game knowing that our away form is indeed modest, with the draw being the favoured result of the team… Away games only Team P W D L F A GD …
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by Tony Attwood Happy Christmas, and thank you. Supporting Arsenal is never easy because of the remorseless criticism that the club gets from the media. But of course being a positive supporter it is easier in the good times rather than the hard times. And this year we have had some hard times indeed. Not …
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By Tony Attwood The media, self-evidently needs something to report, so if there is not much to report, it has to make up an issue. One of the recent issues that they have devised of late, to occupy the time when there is nothing else to write about is the cult of the manager. Most …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Untold Video Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews Oh yes. We have a new manager so now we have a list of all the players that we are going to buy. And here, right before your very eyes, we have …
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By Tony Attwood So how did it all go so right? Arsenal Fans TV and its camp follower Piers Morgan have been making fun of Arsenal, its players and its loyal Arsenal supporters for years. Outrageously proclaiming on its web site that “AFTV is the No.1 Fan Channel on YouTube” it was set up with …
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Untold Video Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews by Bulldog Drummond Thus we have kicked out the most successful Arsenal manager of all time, in terms of trophies and in terms of win percentage, and replaced his with the second most successful manager of all …
Untold Video Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews by Bulldog Drummond The 4th Official were one of the first sites out of the blocks with a team prediction. It goes… Leno Maitland-Niles Chambers Sokratis Saka Guendouzi Torreira Pepe Willock Aubameyang Lacazette The Express and …
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By Tony Attwood (with a suddenly very enlarged head) Just a quick note here. First Arteta is appointed Arsenal manager and is saying all the right stuff. OK so we knew that, but it is now announced. But that news pales into utter and total insignificance when noted alongsidethe fact that the Guardian has just …
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Untold Video Updates: Currently showing “Just show the pictures and shut up” We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have now got six players injured according to Physioroom. It is quite a jump up the charts, but Arsenal are by no means the …
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Untold Video Updates: “Fans deserve more clarity” We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews by Bulldog Drummond Everton v Arsenal is a tale of the fallen. The clubs that have slipped down the league and carelessly found themselves without managers. Their league positions tell it all. But …
Untold Video Updates: Currently showing “Fans deserve more clarity” We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, senior psychologist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Tony has reported both on the Untold Goonernews videos and on a …
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Untold Video Updates: Currently showing “Just show the pictures and shut up” We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews By Nitram and Tony Attwood The answer is that all are hinting, one way or another that one solution to Arsenal’s current problems could be to …
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Untold Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews And we’ve finally made progress on viewing this site on mobile devices. Click on an article, give it a second or two to load and click on “Show simplified view” at the bottom of the page. by …
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Untold Updates: We’re continuing to experiment with our video commentaries: do take a peek at Untold GoonerNews And we’ve finally made progress on viewing this site on mobile devices. Click on an article, give it a second or two to load and click on “Show simplified view” at the bottom of the page. By …
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Arsenal and Ozil: Why Mesut should be allowed to speak his mind – the video Reading on your phone? Look for the “Show simplified view” tab at the bottom and click there for a clearer view of the article. By Tony Attwood Has there ever been a new Arsenal manager that the media have rejoiced …
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By Tony Attwood Reading on your phone? Look for the “Show simplified view” tab at the bottom and click there for a clearer view of the article. Arsenal and Ozil: Why Mesut should be allowed to speak his mind – the video As anyone who has bothered to ask me knows, when it comes to …
By Tony Attwood Reading on your phone? Look for the “Show simplified view” tab at the bottom and click there for a clearer view of the article. I’d particularly like to thank Christophe Jost for his help in researching this article. In England there is little debate going on about the effect of constant negativity …
Read More “Time for Arsenal to fight back against negative fans and disruptive media.”
By Tony Attwood The departure of Mr Wenger was something that a lot of journalists, bloggers and some fans in the stadium with placards had campaigned for, for quite a while. So finally they got what they wanted. When Mr Wenger left, the team was in sixth at the end of his reign, with 63% …
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By Bulldog Drummond The general feeling is that the injured list consists of Ceballos, Holding, Xhaka, and Tierney. In addition there are doubts about Bellerin and Pepe. Both sides include a currently top rated scorer (these figures and others below calculated before this weekend’s games). Player Club Nationality Goals 1. Jamie Vardy Leicester City England …
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by Bulldog Drummond The knocking copy continues day after day, hour after hour, and the effect on the club, its players, its supporters and its manager can only be negative – I find it hard to see how any of the stuff written say how useless the players are, how out of his depth the …
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By Tony Attwood “How useful is it to boo your own team?” is an article that appeared in the Guardian newspaper a few weeks after I started writing more specifically than in the past about the subject. Of course that doesn’t mean that they have picked up the idea from Untold – it could well …
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By Tony Attwood Had Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Vitoria in Germany, Arsenal would have finished second in their group in the Europa League and been faced with the prospect of meeting the best Champions League dropouts in the next round of the Europa League. But it didn’t happen and so we’ve got a slightly easier draw …
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by Tony Attwood So at the start of the week we got three goals in nine minutes and then on Thursday it was two goals in three minutes. Which rather suggests that for supporters the trick with Arsenal under Freddie it seems is to find the right ten minutes to watch. The trouble is, what …
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