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 Walter Broeckx Next in our series where we look back at last season we move on to the left back. We had two players playing in that position: Gibbs and Monreal. Bellerin did play there once in the CL but in this series we keep it to the PL only. When you look at …
Tim Charlesworth Following the cup final there was a general consensus in the ‘commentatorsphere’ that Arsenal would challenge for the Premiership next season, but only if they bought ‘two or three high quality improvements. This started me thinking about who or what these reinforcements might be. So here is a view of Arsenal’s players and …
By Tony Attwood Carl Jenkinson came to Arsenal in 2011 from Charlton for about a £1m transfer fee. On 11 November 2012 he was given a new six year contract by Arsenal which was reported by the not-necessarily believable Daily Mirror to include a salary of £25,000 a week. He had played just eight …
Read More “What happens now to Carl Jenkinson could be a model for the future.”
By Tony Attwood Last season’s second half improvement was hardly new for Arsenal. Indeed looking back through the club’s history, for every amazing start to a season (like 1947/8 where we won the first six and didn’t get defeated until game 18 – and went on to win the league) one can find multiple seasons …
Read More “Why did Arsenal do so much better in the second half of the season”
By Tony Attwood I’ve just had a call from Blacksheep who, for reasons that will not become clear at this point, is currently driving his car in the outer reaches of Scotland. And he has told me that he has received confirmation from Arsenal that his project to get an Untold Banner up in the …
Read More “The Untold Banner at the Emirates: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
By Walter Broeckx How can we pass the time in those boring weeks that Arsenal doesn’t play ? Why don’t we try to compare the different players a bit and see how they have done in the last season. I will try to work my way through the various positions on the field and see …
by Andrew Crawshaw Tony picked out some headlines from the newly published Football Observatory article, I also saw it and thought the analysis looked interesting. I am not going to go over the aspects that Tony covered but concentrate on the last table in the article, the overall squad value. The article compares the squad …
Read More “How Squad Values allow an near perfect prediction of league position”
By Gibberish McGibbon Our man with a spot Easy mistake to make of course. Arsenal going to sign a keeper whose name starts with C so we all get worked up about Petr Cech. But no, it turns out it was not him after all but was in fact Iker Casillas of Real Mad. The …
Read More “No! There is a keeper whose name starts with C, but it was the wrong guy!”
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal toured Brazil in the summer of 1949 it was hailed as a national event in Brazil. They welcomed what they called “the greatest football machine in the world.” When after the first press conference Arsenal’s manager Tom Whittaker was very annoyed with the way his comments were reported in the …
By Tony Attwood Players released in June, as per Premier League rules, may still be re-employed by their club on a new (and normally lower salary) contract, but also may leave to seek employment elsewhere. Hence in the list below of the players released today, it is possible that this will happen with one or …
Read More “Farewell, farewell. The released players’ list 2015.”
By Tony Attwood Not all of the media is heading our way of course but there are signs that, given the bit of hiatus there has been in Fifa news for the last few days, there is a bit of reflection going on as to where we might go next. Now of course no one …
Read More “Shock, horror, media edges towards Untold’s ideas. This must be the end…”
By Tony Attwood I raise the question above because of a review I saw this morning on the Football Observatory site in which various player attributes are combined to work out the worth of the players and whole squads. The tally starts by taking six issues related to a specific player age position contract international …
Read More “How much is Arsenal’s squad worth, and who are the most valuable players?”
By Fishpie I know you don’t want to. Not yet at least. After all, it’s only a fortnight or so ago since we finished last season with such a wonderful exhibition of glorious cup winning football; us, at our brilliant footballing best. So let’s bask, bask and bask some more, all summer long in …
By Tony Attwood We know that Arsène Wenger has done some amazing things, such as… Being the most successful FA Cup manager in the last 100 years Being the only manager in the last 100 years to win the FA Cup in successive years, twice Being the only manager to take a team all the …
Read More “Is Arsène Wenger the most successful manager Arsenal have ever had?”
By Tony Attwood Funny ol’ world ain’t it. All these odd stories popping up, including gawd elp us, a growing level of support for Untold’s little campaign to do something about the loan system. Who’d have thought it. Support for an Untold campaign or analysis does happen, although invariably without the newspapers ever acknowledging we …
Sniffing out the news once more You will probably have heard the story by now: disabled Arsenal supporters with tickets attempting to enter Old Trafford this season had their walking sticks removed because a) they could be used as weapons b) no one had told Man U that the disabled were coming. It is shocking, …
Read More “Why does Old Trafford make disabled people more violent?”
By Sam A few months ago, Jose Mourinho branded Arsene Wenger a “specialist at failure” due to his lack of trophies in the past decade or so. The media lapped up the phrase in their click-bait articles and the social media world went into a frenzy about Mr. Wenger’s perceived failures. Last week, Mourinho …
The dedication that Arsenal fans from all over the world have, in supporting the club, often amazes me. And over the years of running Untold it has been a pleasure to meet with many overseas supporters – particularly those who have got to know us through the work of Walter Broeckx on Untold. Here’s a …
Read More “Belgian fans at the last home game, hotel and catering report”
By Tony Attwood . It seems I haven’t done my homework, and not for the first time. I really had thought Damien Martinez was still very much on the up, but it appears he is out of contract this summer – not the sign of a man who is staying. Ah well, shows what …
Read More “All the players in next season’s Arsenal line up, and some who aren’t”
Friday night is the night when the editorial and marketing team from Untold Websites and Blogs meet to discuss the week’s news, and what lies ahead. And wild and crazy nights they can be too! Over the years our numbers have grown, and we now boast editorial and advertising teams from Untold Arsenal, Untold Dylan …
Read More “Editorial night at the Toppled Bollard; Untold’s public house of choice”
By Walter Broeckx The season is over; time to have a look back. I will go in to individual players later on in this most silly of silly seasons, but now I first want to take a look at some numbers. Numbers like winning, drawing and losing matches in the different competitions and then mix them …
Read More “Arsenal’s win percentages; why we need Theo next season”
By Tony Attwood So where have we got to? The first extraordinary thing about all this Fifa malarky was the fact that Fifa could have avoided the trouble either by keeping an eye on the change made to Swiss law last December, which allowed the Americans to get arrest warrants executed on Swiss soil. You’d …
Read More “FA still anxious to put its nose in the trough even further”
Now me hearties, here’s one that you will love. Or not as the case may be. Untold has told us all to scout out the strange and bizarre this summer, and here’s my contribution. An online video ad, has been created for the the Charlton Athletic YouTube channel (do you ever watch anything else?) It …
Read More “Dorking Danny scores late at night in Charlton with willing tart”
By Tony Attwood It is a while since we did anything much on transfers, what with the FA Cup final and end of civilisation as we know it, but no matter if one turns away for a day, a week, or a month, the news is the same. We need three players if we are …
Read More “Who we should buy this summer (which is not the same as who the press suggest).”
By Tony Attwood It is rather amusing, one might even say “rather droll,” that just as FFP is being dismantled by Uefa in the face of multiple legal claims, and a year after FFP in the Premier League was supposed to have been introduced (but never was), the media is celebrating the success of FFP …
