Untold Arsenal

By Tony Attwood There is a general perception that teams that do well, foul the least. But as Evelyn Waugh might have said, that is true “Up to a point” – meaning that actually isn’t really true. Some of the teams that did rather well last season, achieved their success ... read more

Part 1 of the list of transfer rumours appeared 10 minutes before this one.  We’ll add a link when the editorial wake up after ... The post Arsenal’s 124 players we are signing this window: K to Z first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone I noticed this little quote the other day: “The Arsenal management’s inability to manage the squad, manage transfers, and inspire trust ... The post Arsenal now tipped by all-knowing pundits to be signing 124 new players first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone The media’s aim is to make Arsenal look stupid and to suggest that they (the media) know more than the ... The post The strange story of Leno, Martinez, Ramsdale and an out-of-work Spurs player first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and ... read more

by Sir Hardly Anyone The transfer window slams shut (please note it never closes, but it always slams shut) on Tuesday, 31 August at ... The post What’s gone wrong in the transfer market? In essence, everything. first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

By Tony Attwood “I think we showed some really positive stuff and some worrying stuff when we gave the ball away in difficult positions, and when we had to do defensive organisation, it opened spaces in difficult moments. “For what we could do against that team and where we are ... read more

By Tony Attwood Throughout the last couple of months the media have kept up the incessant talk that all is not well at Arsenal ... The post Newpaper reports show journalists’ failure to grasp what’s happening at Arsenal first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

By Tony Attwood You may read that this was a 1-2 victory to Chelsea but actually Arsenal scored two perfectly reasonable goals. However, one was ruled not a goal because the ref, who was standing about 12 yards from the goal line couldn’t tell if the ball had gone over ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond So we return to the pre-season games after an interruption with the cancellation of the American trip, with the game against Chelsea. Despite the cancellation of the American meander we have managed to put in a few friendly games 13 July: Hibernian 2-1 Arsenal (Easter Road) ... read more

By Tony Attwood Arsenal have issued a notice stating that “ticket holders for Emirates Stadium that are aged 18 and over may be asked ... The post Chaos at the Emirates tomorrow? Arsenal demand vaccination or LF test. first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

By Tony Attwood Back in 2016 the European Commission hardened its attitude towards clubs in the European Union getting “state aid” – which is ... The post How EU Foreign subsidy rules will harm football in Europe but boost PL clubs first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone “Arsenal sign £50m Ben White and want Bellerín and Xhaka to extend contracts” announces the Guardian today (31 July 2021). How 8 Arsenal players swept to the top 20 table in Europe this month was the headline from Untold Arsenal on 21 May – which by ... read more

by Tony Attwood That headline comes from the story in the Guardian, following a decision by Chelsea to introduce a control system from this ... The post Vaccine passports to be introduced for attendance at football matches first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

By Tony Attwood “The writer clearly believes there is a media conspiracy against Arsenal…” That was a comment made recently in relation to the article here which basically summed up the various statistical analyses we have been presenting through the summer. Issues such as the dramatic decline in yellow ... read more

By Tony Attwood It is oft said that there are always two sides to every argument. So while Jamie O’Hara in the Mirror has branded Arsenal a “mess” in a virulent attack on Arsenal’s perceived lack of transfers in the article on the summer transfer window I have been criticising ... read more

By Tony Attwood An article in the blog “You are my Arsenal” appeared recently under the title “Winging It: Willian and the definition of ... The post The illusion that its all about the quality of the players is just an illusion first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, ... read more

By Tony Attwood This table shows the fouls committed by each team and the fouls that are committed against them.   The final column shows ... The post Which PL clubs foul more than they are fouled? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

This continues the list of all the players the media are telling us that Arsenal are chasing or who are coming to Arsenal this summer. Does anyone ever tell these newspaper and TV people that we can only take 17 foreign grown players in the squad – and we already ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone There is a certain extra caution in the air at the moment what with Smith Rowe re-signing for Arsenal, and an increasing edginess that the tales of the amazing Arsenal recovery in the last two thirds of last season are actually true, and there clearly is ... read more

By Tony Attwood In general terms the teams that commit the most fouls in the PL are those seeking to avoid relegation, which is not surprising. The teams that commit the fewest fouls are generally the teams that are pushing towards winning the league. The league winner isn’t always the ... read more

By Tony Attwood The key issues in the Premier League investigation into expenditure by Manchester City seems to be that Manchester City appears to ... The post See how the media treat Man C, and how first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone When a football story breaks there are often two factors that indicates whether there is likely to be any substance ... The post Manchester City: suggestions of naughty behaviour just keep on popping up. first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

by Tony Attwood Talk Sport (“The world’s biggest sports’ radio station”) ran an article last May, reporting the Arsenal victory with the headline Arsenal ... The post Arsenal: the new positive emerges as finally the truth dawns. first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

By Tony Attwood Mikel Arteta tipped to “surprise a few people” with Arsenal in new Premier League season So says, The Daily Mirror, in a radical change of heart and direction, although of course the Mirror is a little behind the times, given that the surprise came last season when ... read more

By Tony Attwood Although you wouldn’t know it from the coverage in the media, the mundane, everyday tackle in Premier League football has become ... The post How tackling is changing in the PL and how it is affecting clubs’ position in the league first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone ‘EVERYTHING IS FORGIVEN IF YOU MAKE THIS HAPPEN’: SOME ARSENAL FANS BUZZ OVER TRANSFER RUMOUR That headline comes from HITC, ... The post A complete lack of an exit strategy is causing Arsenal havoc first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

By Tony Attwood We are, as you will of course know, “Untold Arsenal” and not “Totally comprehensive Arsenal” and so we do miss things. And we’ve missed a pre-season friendly. And not just any old friendly. But a friendly billed as the “Real North London Derby”. It is to ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone That headline is bonkers – at least I suspect it is, because I just made it up.  But recently we ... The post Arsenal keeper to be replaced by 8 year old who’s never played football first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager ... read more

By Sir Hardly Anyone There is an article in the Express newspaper in which what they call Arsenal’s “dream team” for next season is ... The post Arsenal: ESR stays in dream team for next season, avoiding an almighty disaster? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager ... read more