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By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes indicating that Arsenal finds the PL more important than the FA cup at this moment in time. I’m not going over all the changes but only Mustafi held his place in the starting line up compared to the Burnley match. The most important fact maybe was the …
by Bulldog Drummond In the Cup we have progressed from 16 of the 20 FA Cup fourth round ties contested under Mr Wenger, losing only to Leeds (1996/97), Leicester (1999/2000), Bolton (2005/06) and Stoke (2009/10). Better still we have won the last five away FA Cup matches in a row – although we have never …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: the Cup runs and the teams”
By Bulldog Drummond The Top Scorers Chart in relation to the Southampton v Arsenal match (or as the Telegraph had it yesterday, Arsenal v Southampton) is interesting. Arsenal have three players in the top 27 while Southampton have one in Charlie Austin – who is out of the team until April. Their next highest is …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: top scorers and comparing the clubs’ style and approach”
By Tony Attwood As you will probably have seen Arsène Wenger was given a four-match touchline ban by the Football Association following the Burnley game. Arsenal have said they will not appeal and so the ban starts today. Mr Wenger can sit in the stand and communicate with Steve Bould by telephone, or should the line …
Read More “Mr Wenger v The FA – the full 20 year history. And the world of the fake innuendo.”
By Bulldog Drummond According to the X Files (remember them?) the Truth is Out There. Now we have Jose Mourinho telling us that the result of the match against Hull wasn’t a win for Hull because the ref made a mistake, so their unbeaten run continues. (Which means that Arsenal’s unbeaten run wasn’t 49 at …
By Bulldog Drummond Now this is all very curious indeed. According to the Independent, as we saw this week, Arsenal have more injuries than the rest of the league put together and are way out in front of everyone else, largely because of the introduction of the 56 week year and counting injuries of …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: something must be wrong with the injury tables.”
By the referee team BOURNEMOUTH vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 20 DATE: 3rd January 2017 VENUE: Vitality Stadium (Bournemouth, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Michael Oliver 1st LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 4th OFFICIAL: Graham Scott First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
Note: There are clips included in the report for every wrong decision and every major decision in red bold text ARSENAL vs. BURNLEY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 22 DATE: 22th January 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss 1st LINESMAN: Marc Perry 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 4th OFFICIAL: Anthony …
by Andrew Crawshaw It has been some time since I did an update of the progress of our U23 team this season and with their game against Chelsea being shown live on Arsenal Player at 13:00 on Friday this seems like an appropriate moment to do so. The league is split into two groups with …
Read More “Arsenal U23s: an update plus preview and team prediction of Arsenal v Chelsea”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal suffered more injuries than any other Premier League team last season – costing the club £15m in wasted wages, according to a report on the website of the Independent dated 24 January 2017. The report goes on to quote Talk Sport and “Dutch fitness coach Raymond Verheijen” and suggests “The numbers could raise …
Read More “The Independent claims Arsenal suffer most injuries after using obviously faked data”
By Tony Attwood We know all the stories. Arsenal don’t spend money in the transfer window. Arsene Wenger insists on using youngsters all the time. Other clubs never do this, it is only Arsenal. If we had a different manager who brought in proper players we’d be ok. New managers always work. So do transfers. …
Read More “Why the Tiny Totts are so called, and why Arsenal can’t win anything with youngsters.”
By Tony Attwood The big threat facing Premier League football today is not so much from the failure of referees to follow the rules of the game, or from the activities of the ultra-secretive PGMO, but from the persistence of immature football journalism that fails to examine these topics properly. I thought on this today …
. By Tony Attwood Data from OuLaLa and from Statto Saqnti Cazorla has not played since mid-October after injuring an Achilles in Arsenal’s 6-0 Champions League win over Ludogorets on 19 October. Immediately the news of just how serious the injury was, the press got very excited. “Santi Cazorla injury will derail Arsenal’s season – unless …
Read More “Shock news: We do better without Santi Cazorla than when he plays. But why???”
By Walter Broeckx As I sat in the stadium for this match I had to form my first opinion on the sending off based on the view from the upper corner above the Burnley fans. As the foul was made on Dufour, whom I know from Belgium, I thought he was overdoing his reaction. I …
Read More “Xhaka sending off proves Untold is right about anti-Arsenal bias”
Fans challenge new police powers… and win – and do a great service to all travelling fans. A father and son have successfully challenged the police over the use of new powers – setting an important legal precedent for fans and winning compensation in the process. The Football Supporrters Federation covered the story, and …
Read More “Police abuse of Section 35 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act successfully challenged.”
By Tony Attwood Listening to TalkSport’s commentary on the Manchester City game at the weekend I was struck, not for the first time, by a very simple point. It was the failure of the commentators to ask “why?” The particular situation was the Kyle Walker push on Sterling and the failure of the referee to take …
Read More “How football could be improved forever through one simple adjustment.”
Spare a thought for the disenfranchised By Tim Charlesworth (@Timc1972) So Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States to a chorus of generally gnashed teeth, the world over (although the world still seems to be turning). Trump puts me in mind of the apocryphal Roman emperors Nero and Caligula. …
Read More “Trump, Piers Morgan, Caligula, post-truth football, post-Wenger Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx Well it sure wasn’t the easiest of trips we have ever made to the Emirates. I left my house around 5 in the morning. I got the tickets for the group as that was the most important thing of course. Imagine not getting the tickets at the starting point… Well not that …
Read More “Arsenal – Burnley: The long road to the upper corner”
“I didn’t see Arsene Wenger sent off” “Neither did he”. By the front row, Block 110, and the Untold Team Hysteria and humour seemed to be the main response to yesterday’s game. Humour with the comments and headlines above, and hysteria of such proportions from the Telegraph that one begins to fear for the well-being …
Read More “Steve Bould’s managerial career begins with a victory”
By Bulldog Drummond For days on Facebook I have been seeing adverts showing pictures of somewhat eccentric Arsenal supporters (one large guy holding an Arsenal scarf above his head with the words upside down, another large gent with a bald head tattooed throughout with Arsenal motifs, that sort of thing) followed by the slogan “91% …
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly some news Mike Dean has demoted himself this week after being heavily criticised in the press following so-called errors in his decision making over the last few weeks, most notably his sending off of Feghouli which was overturned on appeal and failing to send off Barclay for a foul on Henderson …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley Sunday 22 January 2017 – The Match Officials, and news of a promotion”
By Bulldog Drummond Burnley let us not forget, were there at the start. At the very start of organised league football in England and fairly near to the start of FA Cup football. Six years before Royal Arsenal made it to the first round proper of the Cup for the first time Burnley were there …
by the Referee Review Team If you find our ever growing referee analysis too much, we’re now publishing a quick summary version. You’ll the summary for this matchweek on Untold here. But of course we would be very critical of anyone who just published such a summary without the details, so if you like the …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #15 complete with video evidence”
by Tony Attwood In February 2015 the Premier League announced that it had sold the television rights to its games for a record £5.136bn, 71% above the amount it gained three years before. Sky paid £4.2bn for five of the seven TV packages while BT Sprout paid £960m for the other two in the record …
by The Referee Team Just in case you find the full weekly referee review to long – here is a quick summary in bullet point form. The full analysis will follow later today. Matchweek 15 included these games Saturday 10th December 2016 Arsenal 3-1 Stoke City Burnley 3-2 Bournemouth Hull City 3-3 Crystal Palace Leicester …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek 15 – The bullet points”
