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 Another day another crisis. “Arsene Wenger’s gamble” it is called. Mathieu Debuchy out for a couple of months, and OMG that’s it, its all over. So who exactly do we have who can play in defence now the irreplaceable Mr D has gone? Calum Chambers can play right back Hector Bellerin can …
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By Tony Attwood Lots of writers love the notion that there are “five things we learned over the weekend,” but if I ever read them I am left with the notion that two of them I already knew, two of them I disagree with and one of them might well be a new thought – …
Read More “Five things we learned this weekend and a few we didn’t.”
By Tony Attwood It may be the result of Sunday Thinking (Sunday being a notoriously dodgy day on which to contemplate the world, given its propensity for being a day in which one takes in too much rather unhealthy food with the family, and spends far too much time pontificating on life, the universe and …
April 6 2011 Sammy the snake wrote an article, Groundhog day for Untold. Earlier this month Jonny Cooper the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Men tried rather unsuccessfully to re-use the story and we covered that on Untold. Now Groundhog Day stands for the same thing happening over and over again, so today Amy Laurence in the …
Read More “Groundhog day in the media is here again, and again, and again…”
Dear Walter, I hope you are having a lovely break away from it all. Today we went to see Arsenal take on the International Petroleum Investment Company’s Works’ Team. It was a bit of a curious affair, with some of the company’s team appearing to be what I believe are called “hearty roughs” – at least …
Read More “Arsenal 2 International Petroleum Investment Company XI 2”
By Bulldog Drummond So with the Almighty Wenger meeting with his holiness the pope, and then claiming devise intervention for the signing of our Danny, while Sky whipped up a load of passing yobs on deadline day and got them to boo when they announced the deal to sign Welbeck was on, and cheer when …
Clairvoyant’s Wanted (but you already knew that) By Psychic Brian, Professor of Applied Frotteurism at the Tamakeri Institute In order to satiate my thirst for matters Arse brought about by this interminable Arsedrought ©™ I found myself rambling through the cavernous catacumbal archives of Untold, down paths seldom trod, prying into the dustier corners. …
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Arsenal v Manchester City 13 September 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw A quick reminder before I start that parking at Cockfosters station is unavailable until June 2015, if you normally use it then you need to use either Oakwood or Arnos Grove instead. There are also disruptions to trains south of …
By Tony Attwood Quite what Mr Wenger meant with his comment about the fact that if he had not been going to Rome on transfer deadline day we wouldn’t have signed Welbeck, is a matter for conjecture. It is certainly something that seems to be causing a bit of debate with different people quoting …
Read More “Mr Wenger’s joke, Mourinho, bombastic shallow times, Barnstoneworth.”
By Tony Attwood We don’t normally do match previews until the day of the game, and I don’t want to steal Mr Drummond’s thunder, but with the Man City match being the first since the summer transfers ended it seems that the normal timetable is out of the window. The key point is whether Danny …
Tottenham Hotspur, have announced that, as previously speculated here and on many other sites, and in the press, they are to move out of their ground at 748 High Road Tottenham, but not for a while – following another delay in the re-construction of their stadium. Tottenham has had similar delays to those experienced by …
Read More “Tottenham admit that 2017 opening of new stadium “unlikely””
By Tony Attwood As the season began I raised the suggestion that we might do a review of places to eat before the games. I’ve got a number of suggestions and some reviews, but I am keen to get more. Ideally I’d like a review, but if not, please suggest a place with the name …
Read More “Arsenal v Man C: catering preview: The Swimmer at the Grafton Arms”
By Tony Attwood First off, Aaron Ramsey. He was in Andorra doing an impersonation of Bale’s drag back and turn, with which the captain of Wales had wasted time in the first half, when he got kicked, slipped on the artificial turf and fell. He was replaced at once, and we now wait to see …
Read More “Ramsey injured? Man City pay Arsenal, and the corruption of the loan system”
By Tony Attwood In June this year I wrote a little piece Could Leicester and QPR be relegated to League one? which was my second foray into the morass that is FFP in the Championship. The point being that clubs which buy their way out of the Championship could be severely punished if they ever return …
Read More “And while we are on the question of FFP – think of QPR”
By Tony Attwood Last season Drew and I trotted down to our nearest league ground (Sixfields, home of Northampton Town) to take a peek at Coventry City, who at that time were playing their home games in Northampton, for reasons that won’t become clear at this point. Among the Coventry team was one Chuba Akpom. …
Jonny Cooper is the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Men. He also describes himself as an Arsenal supporter. And he recently wrote a piece in which he comments on Arsenal’s past and how it relates to this season. In doing this he cites the movie Groundhog Day in which exactly the same thing happens day after day. The writer …
Read More “How a newspaper re-writes the past, to prepare for Arsenal’s collapse”
By Tony Attwood It’s been a while since we looked at FFP, but I was reminded of the subject by a rather curious coincidence. When I dealt with FFP in depth last time we were in the period following 28 April 2014 when Uefa said that they were looking in depth at 20 clubs including Manchester …
Read More “Premier League club finances and the future of FFP”
The Ennui of an Arsedrought By Melancholic Brian I hate the ‘interlull’ (© ™ Arseblog patent pending), watching our warriors play in often meaningless games to repay the ill-advised and usurious debt of the national stadium. I had a conflict of emotion, pride at seeing so many of our players in the team, performing so …
By Tony Attwood Another week, another Fifa corruption story. Which isn’t really surprising given that Fifa itself is the absolute embodiment of corruption and that corruption is supported by every football association that allies itself with Fifa. The current story is that Canover Watson, a member of the Fifa’s financial watchdog has been arrested …
Read More “In international week, thoughts must always turn to corruption”
by Tony Attwood The one thing you can be certain of. The newspapers never did anything wrong. Despite getting 99% of all transfer stories totally upside down, despite, endlessly predicting that players who were never in a million years going to this or that club, despite falling for the ridiculous story that Welbeck was off …
Read More “After the sex toys: the media takes stock of their cock-ups.”
By Tony Attwood Last season our academy teams seemed to do exceptionally poorly, compared with the sorts of results we have been used to. The central cause was that the vast majority of the under 21 squad were let go during the summer of 2013. There were of course many different reasons, and Arsenal …
Why the AAA behaves as they do From the case notes of Dr Brian. MBChB, BSc, Dip.So.Mani@c Consider 2,008 years ago in the days just before football was a twinkle in Tony’s eye, Narcissus was a really, really, really good looking bloke who suffered from the unwelcome attentions of a nympho called Echo (so good …
By Tony Attwood I buy two magazines a week, neither of which have anything to do with football. One is Radio Times – the magazine that lists radio and TV programmes on the main channels available in the UK and the other is New Scientist, which as you might guess, relays the main science …
Read More “End of the Nation. Get used to it Roy, your job may go!”
By Andrew Crawshaw So after the transfer window who do we have registered and likely to play for us this season – at least until the next session of madness (the January Window). Name Squad No. Home Country Position List Home grown? Wojceich Szczesny 1 Poland GK S Y Mathieu Debuchy 2 France RB S …
If you think that Financial Fair Play has had no effect, take a look at the summer transfers. Not the total amount spent, but the net spend. The money spent on transfers less the money brought in from sales. Now “What might have happened” is always by definition a hypothetical argument, but even so …
Read More “The net spending of each club gives insights into their take on this year’s FFP”
