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 And so it goes on and on and boringly on. Press conference time and the silly nutters who sit their supposedly on our behalf asking probing questions to reveal hidden truths instead ask the manager if he is going to stay, and/or when will his future be decided. I think we’ve been …
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By Tony Attwood The FA, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, have decided, very late in the day, to introduce the possibility of retrospective suspensions for players who dive or feign injury. The maximum punishment would be a two-match ban, with the arrangement starting next season. It is the copy of a punishment already in force …
by Tony Attwood We live in a world where there is a great drive to simplify anything and everything. It happens everywhere from the President of the United States, who said today, “No politician in history has been treated more unfairly,” through to Untold Arsenal where, if we make a point about referee errors, …
By Tony Attwood In recent months, Fifa has considerably accelerated the testing of the video-assistance to referees (known as VAR) procedures, which, as the chairman of Fifa (who is an awfully nice and upright fellow) has annouced, will be used during the World Cup 2018. Now Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the Fifa Referees Committee, and …
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The curious case of the wrath of penalty Gods on Arsenal! By Sam If you watch the Premier League, or any league for that matter, you might have at times been baffled by the refereeing decisions. Of course, Referees are human beings and deserve sympathy for not getting decisions right all the time. There is …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone There are only 74 days left before the transfer window falls back into place with everything all over and done, and the glass shattered on the floor, and so far we only have 39 players listed who are going to join Arsenal this summer. …
Read More “Arsenal Transfer Index Edition 6. 39 players joining the club; 13 players leaving.”
By Tony Attwood With Fifa having effectively having wound up its entire ethics committee, and all procedures for ensuring that the organisation is reformed and corruption removed, the remaining “ethics” cartel is left running the show. They are being paid salaries of between $300,000 and $450,000 for attending four meetings a year – and meanwhile …
Read More “How Fifa corruption is continuing, and how we can help bring it down.”
By Tony Attwood Oh I really did enjoy last night at the Emirates. Going towards the ground the crowds were clearly smaller than normal, which mean one could just sail by the pat-your-clothes-sir inspectors at the entrances to the concourse. There were also none of those wretched banner holding marchers who deliberately stretch out across …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, Gabriel, Coquelin, Elneny, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck Sunderland trying to press high but the first shot was from Alexis but well over the goal. Alexis has a shot from distance that is diverted by the arm …
By Bulldog Drummond Quite how Sunderland mutates into Wonderloaf and what Wonderloaf was and what it had to do with north London was revealed in our last Sunderland piece in October last year. Anyway, there is not too much news around about this evening’s game, but there were two stories away from our match I …
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting to note just how balanced Sunderland’s home and away form has been this season – three wins at home and three away. They have however performed slightly better at home picking up five draws there, against just one away. They have also scored four more goals at home …
by Bulldog Drummond It seems to be injuries all round at the moment. Here’s the physioroom latest with Sunderland top # TEAM Total men down Whose down last What’s up 1 Sunderland 8 V Anichebe Hamstring Injury 2 West Ham United 8 M Noble Hernia 3 Hull City 7 H Maguire Ankle Injury 4 Manchester …
by Going Going Gooner 5th Can’t say that it thrills me much. Certainly watching football on Thursdays doesn’t do anything for me, either. And, I am not looking forward to hearing all the rubbish from Spurs fans or the Wenger Out Brigade… although there is not much we can do about it… Well, actually, …
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-0 this season I didn’t see a quite how Chelsea were going to turn matters around. But as Mr Wenger said this past weekend, “in the last two seasons the team that won the league hasn’t played in Europe,” and I started to wonder if that could possibly …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are, of course, only as good as their last match. That’s not what I think but it certainly is a view that is very strongly held by many people who like to put their viewpoint across. But even then, the need with Arsenal is always to dampen down matters just in …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Mustafi, Koscielny, Holding, Bellerin, Coquelin, Xhaka, Monreal, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, Gabriel, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck A long ball from Mustafi finds Alexis but he was offside and wasted the chance anyway. Arsenal monopolizing the ball in the opening stages and Stoke defending in numbers. …
By Bulldog Drummond By and large when a manager says, “We are looking to dent Arsenal’s top-four hopes” one can take “dent” as a metaphor, but when Stoke City manager Mark Hughes says it you know he means “dent” literally. It will be all out war, with very little to do with football. And with …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal: the preface to the violence and the line up”
By Bulldog Drummond Although it was largely missed due to the mass hysteria of Chelsea winning the league, there was another match last night: Everton beat Watford 1-0. Rather amusingly Statto has made a mistake in its calculations and have Everton above Arsenal in the league, but just in case that is where you started …
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By Bulldog Drummond. . “Arsenal injury blow as key duo missing from training ahead of Stoke clash” screams the Excess. And yes they must have a story because they go on with “ARSENAL are likely to be without two key stars for their clash with Stoke City at the bet365 Stadium on Saturday.”But who …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal: players miss training and the scoring omens look awful.”
By Tony Attwood Unfortunately Andrew is away on holiday and can’t do his normal referee preview, and I certainly don’t feel qualified to stand in his shoes. So all I can do is pick a highlight or two from the fact that the referee is Mike Dean. As you will probably know the Untold team …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal. Mike Dean is the referee. A note about what that means.”
By Bulldog Drummond. As one or two people began to realise just around the time of the Southampton match, Arsenal have gone across to wing backs, and started winning. OK, all the media attention was on Tottenham finishing above us for the first time since the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066 but rather the …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal: Injury news, recent form and the clue to what’s happening.”
By Tony Attwood The league table according to goals scored is a funny little thing especially as it shows Bournemouth above Man U Pos P W D L F A GD Pt 1 Chelsea 35 27 3 5 75 29 +46 84 2 Liverpool 36 20 10 6 71 42 +29 70 3 Tottenham Hotspur …
By Tony Attwood Way, way back, before the dawn of time (well, March 2015 actually) Untold published its article Football for the fans: the visions of three Arsenal supporters Within days the Guardian rushed out its article Reclaiming football for all: presenting the manifesto for a better game by David Goldblatt. From the length of the recommendations, …
By Tony Attwood Have you heard the one about Fifa reforming itself? It’s a story that is much liked in the English media as it encourages the thought that the world cup in Russia is going to be a jolly good thing, with no violence, no corruption, and beautiful football throughout. Which makes it rather …
By Walter Broeckx Koscielny didn’t make it in the end and so we had one change as Mustafi took his place. Arsenal starting line up: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Alexis, Welbeck On the beach: : Ospina, Bellerin, Gabriel, Coquelin, Iwobi, Walcott, Giroud. Southampton with the brightest start in the match …
