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 Bulldog Drummond So we’ve got the name for this team – not Arsenal Reserves, but “Arsenal II.” Let’s hope we get to use it lots of times. We’ve got three more Europa games for sure and hopefully a few more beyond that, plus maybe some more League Cup games all being well tonight, and …
Read More “Arsenal II v Norwich – the team, the beach and the logic (although maybe not the latter)”
by Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud’s scorpion against Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day won the Puskas Award for the best goal. Below, if I’ve put the right link up (!) you can see not just that goal, but if you stay with the video the ten greatest Giroudian goals. With a bit of luck there …
Read More “Giroud wins the Puskas Award for greatest goal of the season. Of course.”
By Bulldog Drummond Norwich are currently sixth in the Championship, in the bottom play-off place five points off the second spot that brings automatic promotion. Pos Club P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 13 9 2 2 24 13 +11 29 2 Cardiff City 13 8 3 2 18 10 …
Read More “Arsenal v Knor Which Sit Ee. A load of numbers and a bit of a preview”
by Tony Attwood The Everton supporter who, while holding his three year old son, ran or was pushed forward and assaulted the Lyon player has said that he is “ashamed” of his actions. That’s obviously quite right, so he should be. However he also has blamed Everton for not taking the right security measures to prevent …
Read More “There really is something a little odd about Everton especially when they play Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood The figures from yesterday’s game were something else. Arsenal had 65% of possession, 30 shots to Everton’s eight, 14 on target to their three on target, and seven corners, to their none. Of course the mainstream media had hyped up Rooney’s goal against us 200 years ago, and that was indeed a …
Read More “We won 5-2 so what did they say about it? How football commentary is being manipulated”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started with Cech – Bellerin – Koscielny – Mertesacker – Monreal – Kolasinac – Ramsey – Xhaka – Özil – Alexis – Lacazette And Arsenal started really well and pushed Everton back and created lots of space for ourselves…. and chances. Özil brought the ball to Alexis who came in from …
Read More “Everton – Arsenal 2-5, a walk in the (Goodison) Park”
by Bulldog Drummond Ah Everton. You might remember that we did a review of the home support of most of our rivals in the Premier League before this season began. It is still on the website if you want to see it all, but here is the commentary on Everton. “Everton is one of those …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal. The teams and how the toffee went soft and the media forgave them”
By Bulldog Drummond According to the ever amusingly illogical Sky Sprout discussion Everton are suffering from the pressure of the crowd. The view, we were told is that,”We’ve got the money we’ll have a new ground” and so apparently they ought to be winning. Perhaps we should tell them that building a new ground is …
By Tony Attwood If you have taken a glance at the broader news of football of late you will know that there is an ever deepening scandal surrounding the FA at the moment, a scandal that has swamped Greg Clarke, the chairman, and Martin Glenn, the chief executive. It has shown the FA completely unable …
Read More “Why the government can’t reform the FA, and why the FA will (sadly) survive forever”
By Bulldog Drummond And so Arsenal return from foreign parts having won their last four European away games – which is not bad considering how everyone says we are useless away from home. And we also kept a clean sheet away from home for the first time since beating Olympiakos 3-0 in December 2015. …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: early team news, player and spectator violence at Goodison.”
by Andrew Crawshaw For this Sunday our Officials are :- Referee – Craig Pawson 38 years old from South Yorkshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Lee Betts From Norfolk and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Eddie Smart From the West Midlands Fourth Official – Robert (Bobby) Madley 31 years old from West …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal, 22 October – The Match Officials. Evidence suggests blatant bias.”
By Tony Attwood Bloggettas – blogs with average articles of around 100 words – sometimes fewer – often published by their operators several times an hour, with the prime interest in getting negativists to click on adverts, usually by mistake. Many are owned by newspapers desperate to find a way to make money in their …
by Bulldog Drummond The latest name in the frame for Arsenal tonight is Josh Dasilva. He’s what is known on the Arsenal.com profile as a “Dominating mid elder” (all the young midfielders on Arsenal.com have been listed as “mid elders” for reason that have never quite become clear). “Josh proved his worth at both …
by Bulldog Drummond Just when you might be thinking it couldn’t get any worse it gets worse as along comes the headline “Arsene Wenger dealt injury blow ahead of Everton clash”. “Blimey”, you may be thinking if your mind encapsulates such quaint 20th century expletives. “Blimey. We haven’t dealt with things in Serbia yet, and …
Read More “Just when you thought the Arsenal situation couldn’t get any worse, something very big.”
by Andrew Crawshaw From the start of the 2018 season, the FA intend to make radical changes to the makeup of Women’s Football. Currently there are 20 clubs in the the Women’s Super League, 10 in each of the two divisions. Eight of the clubs in WSL1 are fully professional, Sunderland and Yeovil are not, …
Read More “Yet more changes proposed by the FA for Women’s Football”
By Robert Staples Paris Saint-Germain’s elite winger, Julian Draxler, made it to the headlines after rumors about his possible transfer to Arsenal surfaced. All of this started when Draxler posted a photo of his friend Kolasinac’s shirt in social media. Because of this, netizens, specifically those found on Twitter, can’t help but expect the …
Read More “Julian Draxler to Arsenal? Knowing the Truth Behind It”
By Tony Attwood As far as I can work out (and I must admit I am only an amateur historian) fake news was introduced into English newspapers as a method of filling their pages during the first world war at a time when the government imposed a strict censorship on the war news. If you …
By Bulldog Drummond Yesterday’s meander around the possibilities of who might play against Red Star Belgrade on Thursday gave us this range of possibilities Ospina, Holding, A, B, Nelson, …
Read More “Red Star Belgrade v Arsenal: an alternative approach to the line up.”
by Tony Attwood The FA, like all national associations, allies itself utterly and totally to Fifa, an organisation known to have used, and quite probably is still using, corrupt methods in its running football. And an organisation known to being working hand in glove with a country that uses slave labour to build its …
Read More “Every day the FA reveals its corruption and incompetence more fully”
by Sir Hardly Anyone Part 1: Sign the wonderkid When we have the Metro quoting the Mirror and the Mail for a story whose origin is “according to reports” you know that reportage has got just about as low as it is going to go. But for the sake of the record, let’s give it …
Read More “The amazing centre back revelation and kicking Mesut out the door.”
by Bulldog Drummond And so off we go again into foreign parts, primarily with a different team from that which played at the weekend in the League. Just so you know what to expect here is a picture of the stadium. It is a 2 hours 40 minutes flight, and there is also a …
Read More “Red Star Belgrade v Arsenal: the team and early prognostications and whatnot”
By Tony Attwood Ever since the organising countries for the world cups in 2018 and 2022 were announced questions have been asked. Russia, because (to give just one tiny example) it undertook all of its application work and correspondence on computers that it hired, and then gave back to the company it borrowed them from. …
Read More “Fifa and Uefa: the corruption continues. Is it really just limited to the world game?”
By Tony Attwood The little piece yesterday afternoon giving the reasons why it is logical to expect there to be corruption in Premier League football, brought a larger than normal amount of vitriol and a larger than normal number of commentaries that had little if anything to do with the post, or contained no evidence …
Read More “How do we know if match fixing is taking place or not?”
By Tony Attwood There are, it seems, many people who don’t or won’t believe that the Premier League has been corrupted in way. And I have begun to wonder why they believe that there is no corruption. After all, one only has to look around the UK to know that corruption is everywhere. Indeed …
Read More “Why would anyone ever believe that the Premier League is not corrupt?”
By Walter Broeckx Another season, another PGMO hate party it seems. What we have been showing through detailed analyses all these years is just continuing to happen. And the worst part is that the media is just joining in with the referees and making nothing of it. They love it. At Stoke we should have …
Read More “Referees and the lack of VAR have cost us 6 points so far this season”
