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 Andrew Crawshaw There are two games this weekend in the WSL, both involving clubs with games in hand. We are away to Liverpool in a game that will be televised on BT Sport on Sunday at 12:30 UK time, so there is a fair chance of finding it on a stream for those of …
by Tony Attwood The directors of Dreambox, Dreambox TV Limited, and Digital Switchover Limited, have now been jailed in England for offering illegal access on TV of matches involving Premier League clubs. The League might be feeling a bit jolly about that, but is perhaps less happy knowing that BeoutQ is still broadcasting Premier League …
Read More “When you deal with countries with different values, you can expect different values.”
By Tony Attwood I have written many times before about the child sex abuse scandals in English football, and my dismay at the way that the media has been handling them. If you want a quick re-run there is an article at https://untold-arsenal.com/archives/61818 – there have been a fair number since. Football doesn’t want …
Read More “Why are the scandals involving football so often removed from most of the media?”
By Andrew Crawshaw I saw an article this morning referencing the latest CIES Observatory weekly report which according to the headline was listing the most fouled teams in Europe. On checking the source document it was, of course, not actually doing that at all but the difference between the numbers of fouls committed by a …
Read More “Arsenal Squad Values – Changes since the start of the season”
By Tony Attwood When I see the words “super computer” used in a football blog I tend to shy away from the report, simply because I have no idea what “super computer” means in terms of anything, let alone football. I mean, the little laptop I am using to write this while in Australia is about 1000 …
Read More “Computer predicts final league placings, but how good is the computer?”
By Walter Broeckx It has been some 11 years ago I started the referee reviews. And in those days I was a lone voice in saying that football needed some system to help the referees in their difficult job. From what I found in my reviews and in the reviews we did with non-Arsenal supporting …
Read More “How VAR is used will be the most important matter for the future of VAR”
By Tony Attwood Following Arsenal from the far side of the world (Sydney, Australia to be precise) is something of an odd affair. The games don’t appear to be shown live (at least not in the bars that I can find) and anyway does one really want to follow football in the middle of the …
Read More “Arsenal and Napoli: it is going to be very close in the Europa League”
By Walter Broeckx As we knew no Sokratis of course because of his double yellow card last week. Arsenal playing with 3 at the back. And with Lacazette in the team after we won our appeal against the high punishment of 3 matches. Xhaka is the only player that has to be carefull if we …
Read More “Full time Europa League live match report Arsenal – Rennes : 3-0”
by Andrew Crawshaw Whilst the most that our Men’s team can achieve is third place in the Premier League, our Women and U18s are in with a real shot of winning their leagues, sadly our U23s are not going to retain the title they won last year. Arsenal Women Current League table :- Team P …
by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know our match on Sunday against United was our last this season against the other ‘top six’ clubs. All of the others have two matches to play against each other. Here is the current mini-league table P W D L +/- Pts Man City 8 6 1 1 12 …
Read More “The top 6 head to head and the run in to the PL title”
By Tony Attwood If you have been with us for a year or more you may recall that each spring I take a break from UK and head to the other side of the world wherein lives one of my daughters. Depending on all sorts of complexities which I won’t bore you it can be …
By Tony Attwood I am about to toddle off to the other side of the world so I may not be able to clear all the comments that come in – more on that in the next post. But first here is a little thought that popped into my head. Mr Emery is mostly very …
Read More “The curious issue of what managers say about their players”
By Tony Attwood “This topsy-turvy season continues to confound,” says the Guardian in an article today in relation to Arsenal. Which I’d say isnt really totally accurate. For the last couple of years we’ve been focussing on the difference between Arsenal’s home and away form, and for quite a few games making predictions of matches …
Read More “Arsenal continue to confound: it is not Arsenal that is in chaos.”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to the last two matches. Some because of suspension other just an attempt to pick the best team. Arsenal playing with 3 central defenders a tactic that didn’t Always work so far this season. Up front we have the combination of Aubameyang and Lacazette with Özil also starting. …
Read More “Final score and live report Arsenal – Manchester United : 2-0”
By Bulldog Drummond I’m having to write this some way in advance of the match, because of my convoluted travel arrangements to the game, but even though there will have been a result on saturday evening after my writing of these notes the general point still applies. While Arsenal and Manchester United remain one point …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester United the teams and the home v away form”
By Tony Attwood The headlines revealed in the aftermath of the Arsenal defeat in the Europa league tell a story of their own. They include… Arsenal are out of Europa League because of one player – fan theory Daily Star Arsenal flops abused at airport by their own fans after Rennes defeat Metro.co.uk Ben Arfa: …
Read More “Arsenal lose, and thus we are back to the land of abuse.”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader you might remember that over four years ago we ran the story, Man City decides to take on Uefa; the result will finally decide who runs football. We’ve come back to that from time to time until back in November last year we ran …
Read More “And so, the investigation into Manchester City has begun.”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously we had a look at the recent form of the two clubs involved in this game in Rennes v Arsenal: the predictions Now here’s the update on what the journalists report as the issues – and the teams. There has been quite an attempt to get Mr Emery to suggest that …
By Tony Attwood There was a general feeling of disappointment following the draw with Tottenham last weekend, obviously so given the nature of the Tottenham goal and the missed penalty at the end. But if we look at Arsenal’s recent record in the league, things are not too bad Date Game Res Score 19 Jan …
Read More “Arsenal’s form: we’re closer to the top four than you might think”
Here’s a quick run down of how Rennes are doing in recent matches Date Competition Home Score Away 14/02/19 Europa Rennes 3 – 3 Real Betis 17/02/19 League Reims 2 – 0 Rennes 21/02/19 Europa Real Betis 1 – 3 Rennes 24/02/19 League Rennes 1 – 1 Olympique Mars… 27/02/19 Cup Rennes 2 – 0 …
By Sir Hardly Anyone As a rule, the football journalist doesn’t do anything which might be considered by the general population to be related to the concept widely known as “thinking” during the hours of daylight. Upon waking he or she will stroll to his or her favourite public house, order up a few short …
Read More “Pub talk: Stoke imitate Arsenal, the summer window shuts, Petit lashes out.”
By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is today publishing a story about Denis Suarez which makes particularly interesting reading. I am most grateful to my pal Steve who sits next to me at Arsenal Stadium for picking up on this story and alerting me to it today. The story attempts to get to grips with …
Read More “Is Manchester City’s Suarez contract is hindering the player’s development?”
By Tony Attwood There is an interesting paragraph in a report on the Tottenham v Arsenal match in the Daily Telegraph website that says “There were a number of contentious incidents with replays showing Harry Kane was offside in the moments before Skhodran Mustafi barged him over for Spurs’ second half penalty. The referee Taylor …
Read More “We get every statistic imaginable about players, but why no stats about referees?”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to our last midweek match. No Özil but in his place Ramsey at the start. Mustafi starting at right back with Monreal at his normal left back position. One could say we still have a few options on the bench if things wouldn’t go according to plan. Arsenal …
Read More “Final score and live match report Tottenham – Arsenal : 1-1 Poor PGMO… poor PGMO”
By Bulldog Drummond On 8 February Arsenal were ten points behind Tottenham. A win in this game would leave us just one point behind them. In terms of injuries both Koscielny and Lichsteiner are thought to have a chance of being available for selection for the Tottenham match. Otherwise it is just our three long …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal; the injuries, the media picks the team and recent runs.”
