Untold Arsenal

By Tony Attwood There is an article on the Football.London site which runs with the headline “Stan Kroenke could force Mikel Arteta into transfer ... The post Are Arsenal really utterly hopeless at all transfers or is it the media that’s wrong? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, ... read more

By Tony Attwood Every year around this time, websites start to tell us that they have had access to the results produced by a ... The post What is a super computer and does it tell us anything we don’t know? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the ... read more

By Tony Attwood Under the new regime announced by Arsenal FC Arsenal fans won’t be Arsenal fans any more.  We’ll be customers.  Customers trapped ... The post Fans into customers: what can Arsenal fans do to fight back? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

Written by Darryl Rigby, Immigration Advice Service The United Kingdom formally exited the European Union on January 1st 2021, ending a near-50-year alliance that ... The post 4 Transfers That Would Never Have Happened Under Post-Brexit Rules first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

By Tony Attwood Sky Sports have presented a list of “days lost” to clubs by players being injured or ill. It is an interesting list and is combined with a note from Sky that notes that this is fractionally under 10% higher than for the first 26 games last season. ... read more

By Tony Attwood This is a very curious and odd league table at the moment. The almighty glorious wonderful Liverpool of yesteryear have slipped down to sixth and are hobnobbing it with their neighbours (three points below and two games in hand). Arsenal and Tottenham (the latter being regularly tipped ... read more

By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s consumerisation scheme is being pushed ahead at high speed Arsenal are pushing ahead with a scheme that will remove the concept of supporters from the club and replace them with customers and consumers. At the heart of the programme is a new “Rewards Scheme” ... read more

By Tony Attwood There is a little piece about the weekend’s Arsenal match in the Guardian which reads… “Brendan Rodgers looked glum at full time. He looked even glummer as the man from Radio Leicester informed him the airwaves were already alive with callers asking if Leicester City were about ... read more

By Tony Attwood Earlier today we reported on how Arsenal had told the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association and the AST that Silver Members would ... The post Should we be worried about Arsenal’s attitude towards its most loyal fans? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and ... read more

By Tony Attwood During the past week Arsenal FC sent a note to people holding Silver memberships in which it said it recognised that “Silver Members have been unable to utilise their priority ticket access due to matches being played behind closed doors or with vastly reduced attendances in line ... read more

By Tony Attwood That game today was so much better, it was one of those matches that made me wonder why we couldn’t run the game in this way all the way through every match. We are still a long way down in the league on where we should be, ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal still have the third-best defence in the league – just one goal more than Chelsea conceded this season. We have conceded one fewer goal than Leicester. However, in terms of attack, we are 11th in the League, having scored 13 fewer goals than Leicester. Leicester have ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond Yes a shock announcement and the horror only comes because it is unbelievable.  It really is because seemingly Arsenal have only ... The post Leicester v Arsenal: Arsenal in shock horror injury amazement crisis first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal are slowly getting to grips with the way referees treat them this season. As a result they are getting slightly more tackles in per foul given against them (1.25 against 1.15 in December), they can commit slightly more fouls before getting a yellow (6.47 against 6.31 ... read more

By Tony Attwood Football London has a headline today saying “AS Monaco are eyeing a summer move for striker Alexandre Lacazette. “That is according to the Mirror as Arsenal may be prepared to cash in on the Frenchman this summer if he shows no signs of signing a new deal, ... read more

By Tony Attwood Could it be that our constant campaign to embarrass the PGMO (and the mass media that supports it), by pointing out referee errors, their refusal to give any public statements or to bring themselves in line with the rest of Europe, is having an effect? And could ... read more

By Tony Attwood When there is mention the unbeaten season and my thoughts immediately turn to the last match of the season, going one ... The post Narrow escapes are always part of being successful, but they’re not everything first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and ... read more

Previously: Arsenal v Benfica; where it’s at, what’s the co-efficient, what happened, who’s injured? Arsenal players forced to isolate after home game! AFC news ahead of Benfica game   The Standard confirms that Thomas Partey traveled to foreign parts where we play the club of one country in ... read more

Darryl Rigby – Immigration Advice Service Last month was undoubtedly the slowest January transfer window on record. With clubs still reeling from the ongoing economic impact of COVID-19, many simply cannot afford to recruit new players in these dark and uncertain times. The Gunners were actually one of the ... read more

By Bulldog Drumond Previously: Arsenal v Benfica; where it’s at, what’s the co-efficient, what happened, who’s injured? It appears that English clubs that travel ... The post Arsenal players forced to isolate after home game! AFC news ahead of Benfica game first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the ... read more

by Bulldog Drummond The main question is where on earth is this game being played? Well, of course, as you probably knew the answer is Στάδιο Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης, which for those who studied ancient Greek at school rather than the up to date version is the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, ... read more

By Tony Attwood For some time I’ve laid off the topic of slave labour being used in Qatar to build the world cup stadia, ... The post Stop this football bigotry. All lives matter. first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

Darryl Rigby – Immigration Advice Service      Elsewhere, though, there was little to no action – at least with players coming in – with the ... The post How is Brexit Impacting the Transfer Market? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

By Tony Attwood Way, way back before the dawn of time, well before the pandemic anyway, I wrote a few articles about the state ... The post Clubs are starting to mortgage themselves. We’re approaching a tipping point. first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the ... read more

by AKH Untold Arsenal has recently questioned reasons for the apparent cause of Arsenal’s current demise and asks the question “What does the club do now?” This follows on from a Guardian newspaper article which suggests that the Arsenal transfer policy must be considered to be one of the main ... read more

by Tony Attwood   It was of course only a few years ago that we were in the Champions League every season, and creeping ... The post The ten routes out of Arsenal’s decline into mid-table obscurity first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team. ... read more

by Tony Attwood (Picture is from The Truth about Blank Mind Syndrome)   “Arsenal are paying for their poor transfer business,” is the opening headline of the Guardian’s review of Arsenal’s defeat to Manchester City, but their solutions to the current problem show a stunning lack of imagination. For ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond OK here is the horror story.  If we fail to score in this match against the United Arab Emirates club, this ... The post Line up for Arsenal against Manchester £. Can they really use 35 players in one game? first appeared on Untold Arsenal: Supporting the ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond It’s over 12 years since Untold Arsenal started noting the number of injuries each Premier League club had each week, and I have never seen a table of the number of players out injured before that looks at all this before. Crystal Palace: 9 players Liverpool: ... read more