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 It is interesting to note from afar that West Ham have been having a little local difficulty with different fan groups attacking and fighting each other. True they have had a fairly grotty run of late… Date Game Res Score Competition 27 Jan Wigan Athletic v West Ham United L 2-0 FA …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone The attacks on Arsene Wenger continue of course. The guy says that he has had a hard time personally over the recent defeats, and the response of The Transfer Tavern web site is to publish a handful of tweets abusing him. That’s probably par for the course these days. As Tony …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Our man who counts the numbers… Here is the update on players coming and going… and we know it is all true because every single one of these stories has been verified by a football journalist. Those who are leaving No Player Going To Source What’s the story Update Bellering Barcelona …
By Tony Attwood, still in Australia. Of course they would have to wait until I was in Australia to get back to form, but I’d settle for a fine win against a Milan team that has improved greatly of late, even if I was on the outer moon of Pluto – which incidentally I am …
Read More “It’s all too easy to be a fan after a win. It’s being a fan ALWAYS that really counts”
by Bulldog Drummond Milan has multiple attractions: the San Siro stadium, La Scala, and Cimitero Monumentale di Milano – the cemetery. If I had to nominate which one stays in my memory it would be the latter. If you have ever been there you will know why. If you haven’t, you just can’t imagine what it …
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By LE GALL Opinion is a flitting thing, But Truth, outlasts the Sun – If then we cannot own them both – Possess the oldest one – On the one hand, you have the never-ending gossip of the dirtymoney-grabbing “pundits”, including some renegades whose statue would well deserve the Lenin treatment. Dear old Woody said …
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World Cup 2018 – a focus on the three favourites After suffering through the regularly frustrating four year wait, another World Cup is almost upon us, and it’s time to consider who looks like the most likely candidate to be crowned tournament winners. The World Cup is such a gigantic competition, where even those who …
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By Tony Attwood Recently I read the story that a junior referee was “badly let down” by FA officials after he reported being verbally abused by adult coaches. In this report (one of many of the type) a campaigner for better refereeing reported that Max Ormesher, a 15 year old brave enough to take on refereeing, …
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By Bulldog Drummond Milan have had a resurgence of late and after an unbeaten run lie seventh, just outside next season’s Europa positions… # Team Pl W D L F A GD Pts 1 Napoli 27 22 3 2 62 19 43 69 2 Juventus 26 22 2 2 63 15 48 68 3 Roma …
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By Tony Attwood It has taken one hell of a time to reach a decision, but it looks like a decision is almost there. And it is a decision of importance, because it will tell us whether The City Group – the conglomeration of clubs across the world that includes Manchester City, New York City, …
Read More “Who exactly controls law and order in world football? We might be about to find out.”
By Andrew Crawshaw I thought it was time I had a look at refereeing in the other major leagues in Europe to try and determine categorically what the differences are between the way the PGMO operate compared with elsewhere. Germany – Bundesliga Number of teams 18 Number of referees – 23. 22 men and one …
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By Tony Attwood Just how low do you need to go, how many tall tales do you need to tell, how many downright lies do you need to publish, in order to knock Arsenal? These are not the questions most people interested in the club are asking, but even so they are indeed questions that …
Read More “How to invent history: blog uses disgraceful tactics to undermine Arsenal”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’m certainly not going to turn Untold into a political forum, but if you can spare me one minute I’d like to show you what to me is an interesting parallel. So if you don’t have a minute to spare, and can’t bare to read anything other than football for the …
By Jerry Jones The Gunners have spent £105m this season on two centre-forwards of real world-class quality. Alexandre Lacazette finally secured his move abroad after leaving Lyon in the summer, before being joined by Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in January. The only issue now is how to get the best from both players at the same …
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By Tony Attwood Watching the newspapers and UK media outlets discuss VAR while I am in Australia has been illuminating to say the least. Two days go the BBC announced that the Premier League clubs were not expected to announce that VAR is being introduced next season. The next day the Daily Express announced that …
By Tony Attwood My headline above is not meant to suggest that I think there is a conspiracy of some kind – I certainly don’t think that people are plotting in dark corners how to attack Arsenal, how to undermine the club, how to do damage to its manager or anything like that. …
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No Ramsey in the team and Bellerin not at right back, that were the most noticable changes before kickoff. Wilshere came in the team for Ramsey and Chambers playing at right back. Arsenal XI: Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Wilshere, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi, Aubameyang Bench: Ospina, Bellerin, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Elneny, Welbeck, Nketiah Iwobi with …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal have played Brighton just 16 times across the centuries, so for once I can give the complete run down. Date Match Result Score Competition 12 Jan 1935 Brighton and Hove v Arsenal W 0-2 FA Cup 18 Aug 1979 Brighton and Hove v Arsenal W 0-4 Division One 30 Oct 1979 …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Well, I’m afraid I didn’t get the award of a penalty call correct for the City game (I said we wouldn’t get one)- I’ve given the crystal ball an extra polish for this preview. Arsenal are on 14 different referees this season and we are in Matchweek 29 so only nine games …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone The media always knows when it is on to a winner, and that is certainly the mood at the moment with the feeling that with enough pressure Arsenal can be laid to waste in such a bad state that it will take a decade for the club to recover. This is …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone We’ve had one clear piece of proof of the imaginary nature of transfers for quite some time, after discovering that if all the transfer rumours of the summer are added together then it turns out that only three in every 100 rumours actually manifests itself in a transfer. A figure that …
Read More “Why in terms of Arsenal, the transfer rumour has become a thing of the past.”
By Tony Attwood When the media en mass ignores a particular point of view (such as the one that asks why our refereeing system is so secretive, and is organised in a way that is different from most of the rest of Europe) I am on safe ground. I know where I stand. For …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. These are indeed tough days for the media as they desperately try to find more and more problems that are inherent in Arsenal. Take for example 1: The huge problem that scuppers everything or doesn’t depending on forgetting what you said last time around. The Star tells us that Arsenal want THREE …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As I am writing this at lunchtime the London Weather forecast for the Emirates is for light snow to continue until about 18:00. After that it should be overcast but dry. Temperatures between -1C and Zero and easterly winds of about 17mph. So if you are going wrap up well. Also check …
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Into by Tony Attwood I left England as the Beast from the East was a few scattered snow showers, the motorways were clear and there was no disruption to air traffic. I’ve read there might be a threat of disruption to this game – you’ll know better than I since I’m about as far from …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City: the comparison of results and the teams”
