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 One of the big cries last season was for Arsenal to “get rid of the deadwood”. The club certainly seem to have addressed the number of players within the club and one way or another have moved on no fewer than 25 players. Some were well known and high ranking, others barely …
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By Tony Attwood We’re at the international break with the newly fangled “Extragames Country Cup” which from my limited experience not too many people quite get, and since I’m persistently anti-international matches I’m not going to explain. But before the season began we made a prediction about who would win six different leagues in Europe …
Read More “The top of the league predictions across Europe: how are we doing”
By Tony Attwood After each transfer window I like to try and wrap things up with the publication of Arsenal’s list of 25 players registered with the Premier League and then separate them into home grown and foreign grown. But this year there is something fishy. For example Jeorge Bird, who is normally 100% reliable …
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by Tony Attwood On the Star’s web site today this appeared from Garth Crooks. “The very suggestion Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can’t play together as a pair at Arsenal sends me apoplectic,” Crooks told the BBC Sport. “The fact of the matter is Arsene Wenger lacked the nerve to play the two up front on a …
Read More “Did Wenger lack the nerve to play Aubamayang and Lacazette together?”
By Tony Attwood Fake news needs someone to believe it, otherwise it is laughable and of course completely pointless. In much of life the credibility level people impose on stories can be quite high – for many simply won’t believe the stories they hear because the everyday evidence and past experience suggests they are nonsense. …
Read More “How fake news took over football journalism – and it is about to get far worse”
By Tony Attwood Over the last 10 years Man City have spent £1.3bn (or for the mathematically challenged, £130m per year.) During this time they have won 3 league titles 3 league cups 1 FA Cup That works out at £429m per league title. If we include the FA cup it is £325m per trophy. …
Read More “How much does the League title cost, and what power do mere supporters have?”
By Tony Attwood I cancelled my Sky subscription just over a year ago, because of my ever growing frustration at their authoritarian approach of knowing what was right and what was wrong, what I thought and what I didn’t, their patronising of me as a viewer and paying customer, and my frustration at what they …
Read More “Cardiff v Arsenal; beware Now TV, Sky’s commentary, and Tottenham Nomads.”
By Bulldog Drummond It appears that Untold is now fully https (whatever that means) and has a new server. Lots of cheers and celebrations somewhat akin to a Nasa spacecraft entering the magnetic field of Jupiter. We know how to celebrate! And here’s a thing, since we started highlighting the insanity and arrogance of “all …
Read More “Cardiff v Arsenal, teams, 9 year old signs, drama at Southend, Eddie, running.”
By Bulldog Drummond Thus far, as we can see, Cardiff City have not been doing too well. With two goalless draws and a 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth, plus a league cup defeat to Norwich. In short, they have quite simply been finding life harder than it was in the Championship. And in a way, to …
Read More “Cardiff v Arsenal. It will be 0-3 to Arsenal but Cardiff will score.”
By Bulldog Drummond The story thus far… Cardiff City v fresh orange juice and a touch of the Arsenal How journalists knew Özil was not ill, Mkhit’s travel issues and Cardiff v Arsenal Premier League Matchweek 4 – The Match Officials, the downfall of Madley and Cardiff v Arsenal Cardiff have picked up a couple …
Read More “Cardiff v Arsenal: culture shock, playing against 10 men, ground size, and no goals”
by Bulldog Drummond Yes the story that Arsenal players are only allowed fruit juice that has been freshly squeezed has taken the media by storm, with journalists never having heard anything like it before. No beer at breakfast? Are these not men? However there are a few who are still playing the Ozil card. I …
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by Bulldog Drummond According to the latest revelations in the press conference last week Mr Emery was asked about Özil and constantly said he was ill, without giving any other suggestion of any reason for him not being in the team. But then, it seems, there was the question “When you spoke to him [Özil] …
Read More “How journalists knew Özil was not ill, Mkhit’s travel issues and Cardiff v Arsenal”
by Andrew Crawshaw and Tony Attwood We have now found out a little more about PGMO referee Bobby Madley who has the Premier League after it was suggested he had sent an offensive social media message which allegedly mocked a disabled man. It appears that Mr Madley has a lady friend in Norway and has now …
by Tony Attwood Shock horror, for if it is Arsenal it is a problem. And the problem is Arsenal have to travel to Qarabag in Azerbaijan and FC Vorskla in Ukraine. (And of course to Lisbon to see Sporting but even the most rabid anti-Arsenal journalist is struggling to find that journey a problem). But for …
Read More “Arsenal in the Europa League. It’s a long way to go.”
By Tony Attwood Of course it is not always easy to determine what is fake news and what is not. For example just five of the 122 transfer rumours associated with players coming to Arsenal this summer were real, and I suspect most of us would have been able to spot 90 or 100 of the …
Read More “Away from the fake news: Team for Cardiff, Europa draw, Tottenham-land (the experience),”
By Tony Attwood Several newspapers are daring to venture into the “All you need to know” department for the Europa League draw, and based on what people like the Daily Beast are saying, that is precious little. In fact the less you know about it, it seems, the better, at least as far as they …
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was sensational for Arsenal during the second half of the 2017/18 Premier League campaign. Having moved to the Emirates Stadium midway through the season, most fans expected Aubameyang to start slowly as he adjusted to the pace of English football. However, the former Borussia Dortmund man was simply sublime, notching 10 goals …
Read More “Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Slow Start to the Season a Cause for Concern?”
by Tony Attwood I suspect most people are aware of what fake news is. And are aware of Mr Trump’s turning the phrase on its head by calling “fake news” any seriously reported news with evidence that notes his odd doings as President of the most powerful nation in the solar system. It is interesting …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As Arsenal didn’t have a match this weekend you may chose to stop reading now, but I hope not. Information about the men’s game is everywhere – searching for information about the women’s game can take a while. The group phase of the competition has the 22 competing teams – 11 each …
Read More “The FAWSL Continental Cup week 2. The Untold Arsenal review”
Tech note: Sorry about this article. It was published and then vanished as we are still upgrading the whole of Untold Arsenal to https:// and other unfathomable places. Here is a quick rundown… The Yaya Toure story came and went in a flash and our tale in the midst of it “What technical ploy …
Read More “What happened about Yaya Toure, and what question should we be asking?”
It’s been an inauspicious start to life under Unai Emery this season, with Arsenal losing their opening two Premier League games under the Spaniard. With two tough assignments against Manchester City and Chelsea out of the way, the Gunners are expected to improve significantly over the coming months and Aaron Ramsey is likely to play …
Read More “Arsenal Must Avoid Losing Aaron Ramsey to a Premier League Rival”
By Tony Attwood It seems reasonable to take it that clubs that are doing well, touch the ball more often, both because they are controlling the game and so have higher possession rates, but also because they are evolving complex movements between players which can be harder to defend. Of course it is not a …
Read More “Arsenal under Emery: What do the stats actually say?”
By Tony Attwood Situations are complex. Virtually all situations are complex. Some are incredibly complex. Of course the brain simplifies them by putting habits in place and skills in place so we don’t actually have to think how to move the muscles to put one foot in front of the other, but that just hides …
Read More “Emery vs Ozil: Fact or the wild ramblings of deluded telepaths?”
Mariana Trench, the head of Better at Sky TV, gives us her views on how football blogs are teaching the multi-channel platform a thing or three. It is of course very important in 24 hours a day TV to keep the “discussion” going. It isn’t a discussion of course because one person sets up questions …
Read More “Why don’t players sue newspapers and blogs for the downright lies they tell?”
by Tony Attwood A big player turnover in the January window? Promotion of some of the very promising kiddies from the under 23 squad? A constant sniping, increasing to all out attacks on every player in the squad? Rumours of discontent among the players growing into talk of outright rebellion? Talk that the Emery is …
