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A personal perspective by Tony Attwood Taking on the subject of Qatar, what it is, what it stands for and indeed what it is doing, is dangerous ground. Dangerous because opinions are so polarised that anything one says is going to be open to discussion, debate, and dissent. So I headline this, a personal perspective. …
Read More “Qatar, Fifa, Barça. Is this how we want football to be?”
By Tony Attwood Having done my bit of summarising as to where we are following the Emirates Cup I’m going to take the plunge and try and do a bit of thinking about how it has been so far for us, and what our rivals in the Premier League are up to. Now I do …
By Tony Attwood Thinking inside the box, and clutching at stories that require no effort, these are the daily activities of most sports journalists. The vision is of an audience that is only interested in the now, not the deeper analysis. “Simple words for simple souls” is the motto. It is as if the 1960s …
Read More “How we may have found an answer to the defensive midfielder issue”
By Walter Broeckx With Tony at the Emirates I have not idea what BT will do today so for those who want to inform us you can do so. With Valencia winning with 3-1 against Benfica they took over the lead from us and we had to at least score a goal to win the …
By Tony Attwood First off Djourou – we had a discussion as to whether he was an Arsenal player or not. He still appears on the Arsenal web site – but without a number. But Wiki has him transferred already, as a result of his loan last season. I can’t take this any further – …
Read More “Arsenal v Monaco: the line ups, the options, and funny ol’ stuff”
By Tony Attwood Well that was fun. BT Sport behaved in the way that one would expect a mainstream station to behave and the AAA were not to be heard. I can only hope Arsenal have saved a few goals for me to see on Sunday. So what happened? It would be pretentious to suggest …
Read More “BT Sport reformed, good pre-season game and Arsenal’s 17?”
THE LOT OF TOP REFEREES…….Don McMahon Walter recently wrote an excellent piece about the PGMOL and the imbalances seen in that organizations’ handling of their members. As you may know, I am a retired professional referee who spent his career trying to be the best referee he could be and also hoping to make the …
Read More “Why some refs rise to the top, and what they lick on the way”
Saturday 2 August is just about the last chance for BT Sport to redeem itself as Arsenal’s media partner. This time last year they gave a performance at the Emirates that was so awful in terms of criticising the very competition they were supposedly covering that it beggared belief that they had actually pitched for …
Read More “2 August is BT Sport’s last chance to redeem themselves as Arsenal’s media partner.”
By Tony Attwood As you may well know, (and telling the world about it is by far the best thing the Guardian has done in recent years), if you live in Britain then you are under surveillance. You might be monitored in real time, you might be watched if you are allowing your pic …
Read More “Beware where you watch football. It is not as safe as you think.”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Head of Translation Services, University of the North Circular Road. I’m starting to think that the blogs and newspapers that specialise in transfer gibberish (“gossip” seems too upmarket a word) are actually vying with each other to see who can produce the greatest level of nonsense. The only …
Four Signings and a Wedding. By Ian Jenkinson @Gooneriano It has been a busy time both for Arsenal and me this summer. While Arsenal has been busy extending their family, I have been busy planning a wedding. I am due to be married this Friday and the excitement is really high in our house as …
By Walter Broeckx On this site we have spend a lot of time debating not only the decisions of the referees in matches but also have done a lot of work in analysing the way the PGMOL works. And one of the things we have found is that for a rather unknown reason there is …
Read More “Refereeing the referees: is it a Northern thing or worse?”
By Tony Attwood Politically I much prefer the liberal credentials of the Guardian to the right wing approach of the Daily Mail. But credit where it is due. The Daily Mail has actually done its own analysis of this coming season’s prices and come up with, among other thing, this little gem… Tottenham’s £1895 season …
Read More “Guardian joins BT Sport in the forefront of this anti-Arsenal season”
INVISIBLES MARK 2? by Don McMahon There has been a great deal of speculation, hypothesizing and ruminating about Wenger’s intent in buying so many top class players in such a short time and many of these posts maintain that he wants to recreate the Invincibles of yesteryear. However I am convinced that anyone thinking …
Read More “The Invincibles Mark 2? No; more likely The Untouchables.”
By Walter Broeckx As Arsenal this summer wants to drive us poor bloggers to the limit another signing was announced yesterday. Hardly 36 hours after the last signing of Ospina we now were informed that young defender/midfielder Calum Chambers joined Arsenal coming over from Southampton. This is not the first time in history that Arsenal …
Read More “The pain of Southampton as Calum Chambers joins Arsenal”
Arsenal Football Club and BT Sport have today extended their partnership for a further two years. Yes quite unbelievably that is the headline on Arsenal.com at the moment I write this. Of course they might realise just how much this is going to annoy a lot of fans, and take it down, but it is …
Read More “Arsenal score multiple own goals at once in their biggest error yet”
By Walter Broeckx Dear Arsène, Dear Ivan and Dear Board members, I hope you don’t mind that we call you by your first name (this is of course for you Mr. Wenger and Mr. Gazidis). But as we have been very supportive for you all these years you will probably forgive us for taken that …
Read More “Official complaint towards Mr. Wenger, Mr. Gazidis and the board”
By Walter Broeckx The other day I found this interview that was published in Sports Illustrated. It was an interview and some interesting words that Gazidis has said. The full interview can be found here and there are other interesting things you can get from it. But I want to highlight just one part of …
By Tony Attwood On 5 August 2013 Untold ran an article with the heading BT Sport: easily the worst TV sports station of all time But taking no notice of our concerns Arsenal went ahead and signed a partnership deal with the Sprout in October 2013. It is a deal that allows Sprout to promote itself through …
Read More “BT Sprout is an Arsenal partner. So why are they on the attack?”
By Walter Broeckx As has been a public secret for a few days now, and has been confirmed by arsenal.com yesterday, David Ospina will join Arsenal and will fight with Szczesny for the number one spot in goal this season. So who is he? An attempt to fill in the gaps that nobody really fills …
By Tony Attwood with a pair of binoculars Calum Chambers, 19, is said by those who seem to know these things, to have agreed personal terms to move to Arsenal and completed a medical on Friday. The BBC are saying he is signing today. There is nothing about him on Arsenal.com. But then the old …
According to the BBC (which is not always accurate but is more accurate than any other news organisation I know) Arsenal have now signed Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina. And that is not according to “sources” and not a “we understand” but according to the BBC it is according to Nice coach Claude Puel. Which is …
By Walter Broeckx Good evening dear readers welcome to our live blog where we will bring you in an Untold way some live thoughts about the match between NYRB against Arsenal. The Arsenal starting line up will be : Szczesny, Jenkinson, Hayden, Monreal, Gibbs, Ramsey, Arteta, Wilshere, Zelalem, Rosicky, Cazorla And on the beach as …
By Tony Attwood I know that in running this blog I’m supposed to know stuff, but sometimes I don’t. The only thing about that I can say is that at least I sometimes come out and admit it. And I am admitting that I don’t know if tonight’s game is on TV. I can’t find …
Read More “Red Bull game on TV, signing Chambers, William Carvalho, Champs league draw…”
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday there was a story doing the rounds about a practical joke that was perpetrated while Arsenal were travelling in the USA. The story was that Flamini, Gibbs and Szczesny replaced the cup of coffee that Wenger was going to drink and put a cup of gravy in the place. The story …
