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By Sir Hardly Anyone Is Pierre Emerick Aubameyang signing for Arsenal? What about Malcolm? What about Martial? The bloggettas and the newspapers tell us that all three are, or are not signing. And that is not just that one blog picks one, and a newspaper picks another. They are all changing their views by the …
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By Tony Attwood We live in a world in which it is commonplace to see problems as simple, and thus open to one solution, rather than seeing problems as caused by multiple issues. In short there is a problem, and there is a single cause of that problem. And yet history suggests over and over …
Read More “Changing Arsenal’s fortunes could take a lot more than is imagined.”
By Bulldog Drummond So now we see the PGMO fighting back against VAR – undoubtedly the first assault of many. An article has appeared in the Guardian including these lines Refereeing decisions are not the real problem here. The real problem is the ludicrously disproportionate attention devoted to discussing refereeing decisions. The number of actual …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal: the team, an honest bloggetta and a multiplicity of line ups.”
By Tony Attwood 14 January, 2018. You’ll know, if you have been paying attention, that we are celebrating Untold’s 10th anniversary. Well, to be more precise, I’m celebrating Untold’s anniversary, I am not sure what you are doing. Now if you also occasionally take a look at the Arsenal History Society web site you’ll know …
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by Bulldog Drummond As we saw in the last piece, Arsenal are in what one might call “modest” form away from home and this really should start picking up now. Bournemouth have been having a poor run with just one win in the last 12 games, although the last four matches that one win (against …
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by Bulldog Drummond And so to the seaside, where Bournemouth have been given a £7.6m fine for breaching Football League Financial Fair Play rules after accruing losses in their season en route to Premier League promotion. The rules were instituted specifically to stop clubs running up such debts with the idea of paying them off …
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The ref preview for 14 January 2018 Bournemouth v Arsenal by Andrew Crawshaw I was asked for a table showing the effects VAR would have made on wrong decisions. I have now had time to go through Usama’s twitter thread where he has highlighted what he considers are potentially wrong Important Decisions I can see …
By Tony Attwood We probably all know about what Graham Rix got involved in post-Arsenal, and it’s not something I’ve particularly wanted to re-visit. Many of us watched Rix, enjoyed his work for Arsenal as a footballer, and then, well… everyone can have their own views. But at the same time I’ve tried to do …
Read More “Perhaps the most horrific report I have ever read in 10 years of running Untold”
By Tony Attwood One of the criticisms Untold has repeatedly made of the TTT (transfer tittle tattle) that is so beloved by the newspaper websites and their bloggetta coat-tail hangers on, is that none of the rumours take any account of a simple known fact – how much space each club has in its 25 …
Read More “The real transfer story: How much space does each team have in its squad?”
by our Anglo-French revolutionary team. It is part of the cleverness of PGMO that no one – mark this my friends, no one – oversees the body. It is independent, separate, complete in itself and above all laws. Now of late there has been some debate to whom the PGMO answers. Certainly in a sport …
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly a brief look at the overall picture so far this year – which referees are over and under used, which teams should be sick of the sight of referees etc. The games this coming weekend form matchweek 23. To date the PGMO have employed 18 referees, each officiating between 19 and …
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By Bulldog Drummond If we take a look at the last 10 games between Arsenal and Chelsea this is what we find Date Game Res Score Competition 25 April 2015 Arsenal v Chelsea D 0-0 Premier League 02 Aug 2015 Arsenal v Chelsea W 1-0 FA Community Shield 19 Sep 2015 Chelsea v Arsenal L …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal, the teams, the transfers, and that 100.6% accuracy from the referee.”
By Bulldog Drummond We’ve been reporting of late how the newspapers have stopped doing Arsenal match previews, perhaps in an attempt to suggest that Arsenal are no longer of any interest to the public at large. But now suddenly they have a chance of some scandal there’s megaloads of coverage, with the denigration being heaped …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal; with one defeat in 10 Arsenal are in meltdown.”
By Bulldog Drummond Although all attention will be on the referee’s assistants back in the PGMO Bunker there is also a football match on tomorrow – the first leg of the league cup semifinal. My guess is that having put the kiddies out in front of Nottingham Forest Mr Wenger will return to the mainstream. …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal in the League Cup. Is anyone fit and not in disgrace?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As you may have seen, our two matches against Chelsea have been chosen by the FA to trial their Video Assistant Referee system. The first match of the trial was last night’s third round FA Cup Tie between Brighton and Crystal Palace, a game that usually can be trusted to be a …
By Tony Attwood On 13 August 2013 the Daily Mail ran a piece on referees which says, “According to the Premier League, 99 per cent of offside decisions are correct, for the third season running. They also claim that 98.6 per cent of decisions made in the penalty area are accurate. “The assistant referee makes …
Read More “Referees will be over 100% accurate in matches with VAR according to PGMO figures”
by Tony Attwood I have written a little on the Arsenal History Society website comparing today’s AAA and wondering how they would have got on in the time of Herbert Chapman. Chapman, as we know railed against the antics and jeering of the “boo-boys” as the anti-Chapman gangs were called, and they took the FA …
Read More “Just how bad is Arsenal II? Nottingham Olympiakos set for the future.”
By Walter Broeckx Lots of changes as expected in the team and on the bench. Arsenal team at the start : Ospina, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Holding, Willock, Elneny, Nelson, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck. On the beach: Macey, Chambers, Osei-Tutu, Dasilva, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Nketiah. In the stands: Wenger. First shot of the match from Nottingham but Ospina …
By Bulldog Drummond So as we now know, the end of last season was all a myth and Arsenal did not win the FA Cup (see FA insist that Chelsea are the current holders of the cup). So we move onto today’s little outing to try and overcome not just Forest, and the raging media, …
By Tony Attwood Before we finish our round up of the forthcoming match with Nottingham Forest I thought I would offer a little insight into the workings of the FA in relation to the FA Cup, and its relationship with Arsenal. The Emirates FA Cup web page is a page which promises us “A complete list …
ByBulldog Drummond The constant attempts at undermining Arsene Wenger have now geared up to another level as the bloggettas and their feeder newspapers are now tending to ignore the fact there is a game coming up and instead focus on attacking the manager. The Guardian has been doing this for months, and now others are …
Read More “Forest v Arsenal: bloggettas attack Mr Wenger and home and away form and recent games”
Sorry for the delay in publication of this article this morning; my car was involved in an altercation with a fox in the early hours of the morning over who had the right of way on a particular country lane. No one hurt except the fox (although amazingly it still managed to run away – …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Hello again my dear pals and chums, and welcome to another round up from the wild, crazy and one might say semi-skimmed world of transfer stories. Yes, we have signed one player, two more about sure to come (I know that cos I read it on the bloggettas) and everything is …
Read More “Arsenal in danger of ending right back where they started as transfer chaos deepens”
. How the Flat Earthers took over football journalism at the Guardian. By Tony Attwood From my perspective one has to be either fairly silly or rather desperate to dismiss a proposition as “ludicrous” without giving any reasoning or evidence, especially in a newspaper that prides itself on the quality of its journalism and ability …
By Blacksheep In the last week Arsene Wenger has been the focus of much press attention on account of what he has had to say about the standard of refereeing in the Premier League. In the last decade Untold Arsenal has ploughed a sometimes lonely but determined furrow in highlighting the ineptitude of some of …
