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 Andrew Crawshaw Well Mr Pawson nearly managed to completely cock up the game at Burnley scoring a (to date) season low of 38.2% on our weighted performance chart. I have now had to add a ‘Wall of Shame’ table to my season spreadsheet which I had hoped to avoid this year. Here is the …
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By Tony Attwood On the afternoon of 13 October 2016 two things happened. First the other Untold site, Untold Dylan, started to get hits like it has never done before. Untold Dylan is doing ok with an audience of over 300,000 page views a year, but its subject matter is a bit esoteric. It deals …
Read More “How Arsene Wenger’s spending on players has given us a team to marvel over”
The Yanks are coming! By Tim Charlesworth The American influence has been growing in the Premier League for many years now. Two of Arsenal’s directors are American citizens, and our own Silent Stan is the wealthiest of the Americans to buy a Premiership club. This Americanisation is more than just skin deep – the statistics …
By Tony Attwood How many players do Arsenal have out on loan? It is not a difficult question, and I suspect that if you are here as an Arsenal supporter not only will you get the answer right you will be able to name the players The number is five and the details (taken from …
Read More “Chelsea and Man City dominate the loan system. But what is the point?”
By Tony Attwood I get sent a fair number of video links but rarely pass them on, because most other sites do that, and we are after all Untold. But this one from FFDTV is worth watching – all the way through. Here is what they say… Arsenal’s highly rated 15 year old Trae Coyle demonstrates …
By Tony Attwood What is it in football that makes corruption so likely? It is not just the large amount of money – that always causes problems in every industry, and not every industry is in such a mess as football. Rather, according to the Financial Times, it is the short termism in football. …
Read More “The 10 major sources of corruption and dubious practice in football”
By Tony Attwood International football is dying. It is a phrase that Untold wouldn’t use because the general view here is that it died a long, long time ago, and is now only kept alive by the corrupt and the gullible (see last few articles on this site). To support international football is to support …
Read More “International football is dying, and at last the media discover why.”
By Tony Attwood From time to time we get comments at Untold that the site’s operators in general (or more often, me in particular) are too smug and self-satisfied, endlessly talking up Untold as a crusader that gets things done. That’s not how I see Untold (not surprisingly), but I do find that I like …
By Tony Attwood As Walter pointed out in his article Taking on Fifa: How the Dutch FA has become the first to tell Fifa it has had enough Fifa is now facing legal action in the Swiss courts over alleged complicity in the mistreatment of migrant workers in Qatar. The writ argues that “Swiss law, and …
Read More “At last Fifa being taken to court: what the legal case claims.”
by Andrew Crawshaw This year the U18s managed by Kwame Apadu have experienced a welcome, if rare, great start to the season. With seven games played we are top of our table having won 5, lost 1 and drawn 1. We have scored the most goals (22) and only West Ham (6) have conceded fewer …
Read More “Arsenal U18 team: a Progress Report – Extra Experience counts”
By Walter Broeckx I think we have over the years written a fair number of articles about Fifa and the way the association is very close to a criminal organisation that is standing above laws that other companies and people have to obey. If you allow Fifa to organise a worldcup in your country you …
Read More “Taking on Fifa: How the Dutch FA has become the first to tell Fifa it has had enough”
By Tim Charlesworth Congratulations to the leader of a red army who has managed to stay in his job for a surprisingly long time. I speak, of course, of loyal Gooner, Jeremy Corbyn, who has been re-elected as leader of the Labour Party. Despite having been a Conservative candidate in the 2001 General …
By Tony Attwood It has long been noted that people with an agenda will re-write history to fit their message. Thuat the aaa notoriously re-write Arsenal’s history to show that this is a bad time in Arsenal’s history. Football journalists and their chums in the FA rewrite the England football teams history to make out …
Read More “There is a big problem in Britain with not seeing our history honestly”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s next four games are something of an oddity – for they are all at home: Swansea Ludogorets Razgrad Middlesbrough Reading Swansea and Middlesbrough, our league opponents, sit next to each other in terms of their league fortunes just now. Here’s the table with the final column showing the results this season …
Read More “What is likely to happen in Arsenal’s next four games?”
By Tony Attwood It may seem strange that the FA, whom we know as an organisation that will willingly crawl on all fours to lick up the droppings from the grand table of Fifa, might actually consider pulling out of internationals, but that is exactly what they did in 1934. Not all internationals I should …
Read More “On an interlull weekend let’s remember when the FA contemplated stopping internationals”
By Tony Attwood If you have been reading the referee reports this season you will know that the Untold referee review team has expanded its work quite considerably. As a result in the reviews this season we have included these two tables: Table 9: Major Wrong Decisions Against Teams Table 10: Major Wrong Decisions in …
By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the things I have noticed is that the further north you get the slower the information travels. Thus they are still dealing with the last transfer window in Birmingham, as the ReadWestBrom web site tells us “West Brom made a late bid to try to sign Portuguese winger …
Read More “Arsenal make first signing of the next transfer window!”
By Tony Attwood Goodness it is difficult running a blog during the interlull. I mean you try and enter the news desert with some good back up stories ready to roll, but even so you are dependent on some sort of news coming in to keep it all rolling along. So I look for good …
Read More “A spot of good news, a spot of bad, a spot of gibberish, a spot.”
By Tony Attwood It is of course commonplace to claim that Arsenal have the most expensive tickets in England, Europe and the world, the solar system, the galaxy, the Local Cluster, the universe and the multiverse, although none of these claims is true when like is matched with like. Pricing is a complex issue, and …
By Tony Attwood Power in football – now that is an interesting topic and I am obliged to the Daily Telegraph by thinking about writing an article on it. It is a bit of a tough read because there is so much puffing up of themselves and all their collective work in coming up with …
Read More “What organisations and what people really have the power in football?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now normally I take the honest working man’s regular holiday – September to December, February to May – but quite ludicrously Untold has demanded that I work in October and write a column all about transfer type things. Well! I mean, “Well!” And to my utter surprise the transfer rumours have …
Read More “There is no open window, but there are ten transfer rumours for Arsenal next January”
By Walter Broeckx In a recently published article Tony spoke about how the aaa remembered the past with rose tinted glasses. They tell us that we always have out rose tinted glasses on. Well to be honest I rather prefer to look at the present and the future with rose tinted glasses. Because that way …
By Tony Attwood If you feel that the commentary columns of Untold have been rather quiet of late it has been largely because of the fact that (for reasons that are not yet clear) we have dropped off the pages of NewsNow. I have written to the publishers several times telling them about it …
Read More “Revealed: the psychological condition behind the anti-arsenal-arsenal”
By the Referee team 1: Details of the Match Officials and Assistants Manchester United vs. Leicester City [4-1] Referee – Mike Dean 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Long 2nd Assistant Referee – Ian Hussin Fourth Official – Lee Mason Swansea City vs. Manchester City [1-3] Referee – Neil Swarbrick 1st Assistant Referee – Scott Ledger …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek 06 – with video evidence”
By Walter Broeckx With the late winner from Koscielny against Burnley a whole lot of people felt the need to give their comments on the goal. There was the question of the offside that was a non-question as it was Koscielny who struck the ball and not Oxlade-Chamberlain. So that could be ignored. But the …
