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 Tony Attwood There are basically five models of finance in English football at the moment. 1: The self-sustaining club The club which through commercial sponsorship, attendances at matches, TV revenue and advertising revenue makes enough money to keep going without the need of an outside investor. This is the model of Manchester United. Through …
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by Tony Attwood Even the most dislocated and indeed dissolute newspaper football columnist will have recognised four factors about this season: a) Arsenal have a new manager. b) The new manager is working to instil a different style and approach in the players from that which has gone before. c) Five new players have been …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Welcome to the round up. The out door is still open, so who is on the move? Actually no one really seems to have much idea, or if they do, they are not telling. 1: Bielik According to the Sports Mole which has apparently been digging around “Arsenal to send Krystian …
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By Tony Attwood Jeremy Wilson, deputy football correspondent of the Daily Telegraph newspaper and website has written a piece in which he says, “Unai Emery is facing significant restrictions with Arsenal’s wage bill during the next transfer window in January following a series of deals that have been agreed over the past year.” Immediately upon reading …
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On Monday 20 August Untold may disappear for a while. For details please see the home page. by Tony Attwood In March this year, the Sky Sports website opened an article on refereeing with the comment by Keith Hackett that players and pundits criticising referees in the Premier League is “a little bit like …
Read More “How we can tell there is still something seriously wrong with Premier League refereeing.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, our man in the Toppled Bollard; watering hole of the football journalist. I don’t know if you have ever seen a tiger or wildebeest or tyrannosaurus rex or something along those lines, raising itself up to its full height in preparation of rushing at several thousand mph across the fauna and …
Read More “What do journalists do when the window is cracked? Sir Hardly Anyone finds out.”
By Tony Attwood From my perspective the move from Highbury to the new stadium went rather well. It was only after we’d got there that I realised just how much impact it was having on the club in terms of its ability to compete in the transfer market. And since we’d already had the phrase …
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By Tony Attwood Ian Wright made his comments last night on BBC Radio 5, and I think it is fair to say that it caused the chair of the discussion and the other guests a certain on the show an amount of discomfort and uncertainty as to how to handle the conversation thereafter. Unfortunately for …
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By Tony Attwood I must say I was singularly surprised by the large number of comments Untold received from Manchester City supporters after I commented negatively on the ownership of that club. Most of these comments were to my mind of very little merit being simplistic and/or crude, and so did not get published, and …
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By Andrew Crawshaw My recent look at squad values using data from the website transfermarkt.com indicated a total value of the City squad as being well in excess of £900m whilst that of Arsenal was virtually £500m. To put this discrepancy into perspective mere are the stated values of the two squads starting 11s broken …
Read More “Manchester City’s two nil win should have come as no surprise to any Gooner”
By Tony Attwood Quite why some of the Manchester City supporters felt like singing “Only one Arsene Wenger” during this game, I am not too sure although I’ve never understood northern humour. Perhaps it was not a recognition that one could win the League and FA Cup across a number of years without the input …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester City: how the media continues once more to have no idea”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal XI: Cech, Bellerin, Sokratis, Mustafi, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ramsey, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang. Subs: Leno, Holding, Lichtsteiner, Elneny, Torreira, Iwobi, Lacazette. The new era starting today with also two new players in the starting line up : Sokratis and Guendouzi. Certainly the latter is a big surprise when we bought him I …
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By Bulldog Drummond. This is the hardest game to select a team for, as we have not yet seen the manager in action when not testing out the players in the pre-season matches. Maitland Niles is the obvious replacement at left back, and I suggest Monreal will not even make the beach so he is …
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By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal ended last season with a mixed collection a results Date Game Res Score Competition 08 Mar 2018 AC Milan v Arsenal W 0-2 Europa League 11 Mar 2018 Arsenal v Watford W 3-0 Premier League 15 Mar 2018 Arsenal v AC Milan W 3-1 Europa League 01 Apr 2018 Arsenal v …
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By Bulldog Drummond Coming back to the list of injuries after not having followed the details since the end of last season is something of a shock. And unless you’ve been following the details I think you might be shocked too. Ready? As before I am using the Physioroom list. And I would warn you …
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by Andrew Crawshaw We didn’t undertake any detailed analysis of referee performances last season so I am not going to try and replicate the referee previews this season. Instead I am going to restrict myself to an informative (I hope) post of who is allocated to which match. The data is liftd straight from the …
By Lady Market Dominance In English culture, and maybe elsewhere, the domestic vacuum cleaner is often known as the Hoover, the Hoover being a dominant make of the product dating back to the early 20th century. So dominant did it become in the market that the word passed into the language as meaning “to take …
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by Andrew Crawshaw The Arsenal Women’s senior squad was ‘compact’ to begin with, our injuries have reduced the available players to an alarming level. For the last match against Juventus we only had four substitute players of whom one was a senior squad member. Goalkeepers Sari Van Veenendaal – available for selection Pauline Peyraud-Magnin – …
By Walter Broeckx For many years I have been spending a lot of my spare time on reviewing the referees in the PL and more specific in Arsenal matches. I have done this on my own and I have done this with the help of other Arsenal supporting referees. And we have done this with …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Less frantic activity generally yesterday than on many previous transfer deadline days with not as many players moving. Having said that Everton signed three in the last 10 minutes and Fulham added another keeper. Tottenham added no-one as has become a well-established fact. The first PL club ever to sign no one …
Read More “After Deadline Day August 2018 – The full Arsenal Squad that remains”
By Tony Attwood By the end of course it was getting truly ridiculous. Indeed as Short Fuse announced, “Arsenal’s transfer window descends into farce as structural problems remain.” What they didn’t realise was that the farce was created by the media as time and again they told us deals had been done, and were confirmed, when …
By Sir Hardly Anyone We’re almost there it is almost done – at least in terms of the buying. And as you probably expected, despite all the frantic suggestions by the People Regularly Engaged in Spurious Stories (or PRESS for short) nothing is happening thus far concerning Arsenal in terms of buying, although Perez looks …
Read More “Transfer remnants: What exactly are Arsenal doing, and what is a Spurs fan saying?”
Sir Hardly Anyone reflects on another wasted night at the bar. I have generally thought most “reporters” who cover transfer chit chat to be half baked, but some of those I have met in this fenêtre de transfert don’t seem even to have made it into the oven. And to hear the silly little people …
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Arsenal Squad as at 16:00 on Wednesday 8/8/18 by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is my list of the players who I believe are still with the club and count as over 21 as at January 01 this year, the qualifying date for this coming season. These players are those that will form our maximum list …
By Tony Attwood There has, I think, not been a transfer market quite like this one, and that for two reasons. One is that the Premier League summer market gets crazier every year, first because each year the media tries to do more and more to outdo whatever crazy things they got up to last …
