By Tony Attwood
It has been interesting to read comments on blogs which but a short while ago were calling for
"glass ankles" Van Persie to be set aside, and yet without a blink (or an admission that they were
wrong) are now blaming the Arsenal management for not having tied the same VP [..
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees
analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches.
Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which
do not "even out" through the season, as some commentators would have [.
By Tony Attwood
In the week that he might have thought could end with him taking England to the Euros, H.
Redknapp Esq. might be forgiven if he is looking over his shoulder. With one year left on his
contract he is said to want three more after that. Daniel Levy is reluctant, according [...
By Tony Attwood
There is, among the big share-holders at Arsenal FC, a lock down agreement. This means that
those who have signed the agreement (including Mr Kronke) have agreed not to sell their shares
before October 2012.
But what happens after that? It is worth asking now, because if there is a move to [.
by Tony Attwood
I had just got used to thinking that we had two billionaire clubs doing the rounds Man City and
Chelsea.
The came the news that PSG was in the same group and then Malaga. And there is QPR although I
can't quite work out what is going on there.
So [...]
By Tony Attwood
A little while ago when we were doing our Untold Awards it was suggested we might create a few
more awards. So I then collected all the award suggestions that we had (you'll find them listed on
the Awards site), and thought maybe we might see if we could get some suggestions [.
by Tony Attwood
Since the season ended every journalist who can lift a drink and find a keyboard (preferably
simultaneously and without spilling the drink) has been telling us about this that and everyone
else who is going to sign for Arsenal.
Meanwhile the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal (AAA) collective with their multifarious web sites have
[.
Stop the Presses! Could Arsenal be forced to delist its stock in the near future?
By: Anne
*I would like to thank Shard for bringing this critical issue to my attention. Otherwise, I
probably wouldn't have noticed it either.
While we've all been settling into a lazy Summer with the only "exciting" topics of discussion
[.
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees
analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches.
Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which
do not "even out" through the season, as some commentators would have [.
By Walter Broeckx
Why on earth can we fly to the moon and back but still there is no time machine available on
earth where we could put ourselves a few months ahead in time.
If such a machine did exist I surely would make use of it and move myself forward to September
1. [...]
By Tony Attwood
The finances of Real Madrid are fairly sound. If the full-blown FFP were up and running now,
Real Madrid would be ok. They are nothing like Man City, Chelsea, PSG etc.
Real Madrid owe money, but not too much compared with their turnover. So in normal times they
won't fail.
By Tony Attwood
The finances of Real Madrid are fairly sound. If the full-blown FFP were up and running now,
Real Madrid would be ok. They are nothing like Man City, Chelsea, PSG etc.
Real Madrid owe money, but not too much compared with their turnover. So in normal times they
won't fail.
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees
analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches.
Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which
do not "even out" through the season, as some commentators would have [.
By Tony Attwood
The normal process for Arsenal recruiting new players in the summer is that we all go around
talking about the big names on the horizon and then Mr Wenger goes and signs a Peruvian left back
we have never heard of and plays him at centre forward. Or puts him out on [...]
By Tony Attwood
You would not know it from reading the papers, and even less from watching TV, but football is
in total disarray. I'll try and summarise just some of the issues that are facing the game at this
moment.
1: Italy, Finland, Turkey...
Yesterday the Italian prime minister said, "Football should be stopped [.
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees
analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches.
Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which
do not "even out" through the season, as some commentators would have [.
By Tony Attwood
If there was no Match of the Day there'd be no need for blogs like this.
Well, maybe not quite, but even so, when Untold appeared for the first time on 14 January 2008
with "Arsenal witness the end of football", the way in which commentators were ignoring what seemed
to me [.
By Tony Attwood
I have to say that in setting up this article I am not so much saying "this is how it is going
to be" but hoping you will be able to write in and tell me more about how the seedings work in
practice for the Champions League next season.
I have [...]
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees
analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches.
Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which
do not "even out" through the season, as some commentators would have [.
By Tony Attwood
Would you believe it. A week or so ago, while I was staying in Antwerp with Walter, we sat down
together to look at an article which would outline just how one would go about fixing football
matches. There was no allegation that match fixing was taking place, but rather, if you [.
By Tony Attwood
Let's imagine that you wanted to fix the Premier League so that your favourite team won. What
would you do?
1. The most obvious approach would be to get someone else to suggest to certain referees that if
they saw their way clear to helping your team then that lovely villa you [.
By Tony Attwood
Man City are the richest club in the world, and yet they have increased season-ticket prices by
an average 9% for next season. And just to make sure supporters get the message there was a price
rise of 6% 12 months ago. The price rise is an average some areas have [...]
By Tony Attwood
This series of articles is based around names of players that come up in newspapers and
elsewhere as players "Arsenal are Tracking..."
Of course very few of them actually do come, but in my view it is always good to be prepared and
we have over the years even got one [.
By Tony Attwood
Co-writing the book "Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed history" I came to realise very
early on that some of the most important moments in our club's history had been lost. Indeed there
is an iconic moment in 1893 when one of the leading lights in the club says, "when the history
[.
How it all began: the book that re-writes Arsenal's history
When Arsenal almost died. The story of 1910: "Making the Arsenal"
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By Walter Broeckx
A comment was made by "goonergerry" in one of the articles we published at Untold. And it was a
very interesting thing he [.
By Tony Attwood
For me (and of course this is just a personal reflection, as are many of the posts on Untold the
personal reflection of the authors) the supporters of all clubs should take note of the AAA* and
the damage they can do. Their unremitting attacks on certain players undoubtedly do [.
By Walter Broeckx
Some things are hard to understand. A current line that is being used when it comes to Arsenal
is that "we should show some more ambition". And those words are followed by a list of players we
should buy. The more expensive the better is the only thing that seems to matter.
By Anne
This article continues from the earlier piece: Sagna claims his leg was broken deliberately. You
can read part one here
The first article which focusses on events at the start of the 2011/12 season concluded with the
thought that in the case of injuries to Koscielny and Sagna, opposition player actions which
appeared [.
Last night the BBC did a TV programme about Rangers. It was only shown on BBC Scotland, rather
than nationally across the UK, perhaps on the basis that the BBC planner think that no on in the
south is interested in Scotland.
And yet what is happening at Rangers is a warning to all of [...]
The Bleacher Report is a regular email which has a wide reach across the world, from its USA
offices.
I have long seen it as an AAA product, and must admit I gave up looking at it on a regular basis
long ago.
But today a headline in the report forced me in. It reads
[...]
By Tony Attwood
We've published a lot of articles on Untold over the years but a few stand out not least one a
couple of years back on the question of why England was so poor as an international football
team.
I like that one because I didn't know the answer when I started [...]
By Anne
Part I: Introduction
I've decided to go back and revisit the very first Untold Media article that was published on
Untold, which Tony headlined The Sun goes bananas (even by their own sub-basement standards). If
you look at the link, you'll notice that this particular article is unique from any of my other
[.
By Walter Broeckx
The subject of referees was raised in an article of one of our readers this week, and the
question was asked how the FA or the PGMOL could make sure refs would make less mistakes.
A reader asked about some kind of punishment that should be installed if a ref has had [.
By Tony Attwood
May 29 is deadline day for the Euro squads although we seem to be well into the season of
pre-tourney issue of warnings about what might happen if you go. (The latest warning is utterly
shameful in my view in that it overtly admits that the games are being held [...]
By Walter Broeckx
How depressing to see teams win titles that are solely build on the money from the owner of the
clubs is something that we have experienced the last weeks.
Manchester City, Chelsea...two clubs that have been spending money that is not theirs. And
winning things that way.
By Abdulaziz Alfarhoud (Follow me on Twitter @azizalfarhoud )
"Including all the penalties that refs denied to the Arsenal"
Two months ago I wrote an article about referees. Now in this article I want to focus on
Penalties that Arsenal should get and the ref denied it. I can talk about other teams & [.
By Walter Broeckx
We should have dealt with it earlier. If people talk about our last season they sometimes use
this sentence to criticise the way Arsenal has handled the Fabregas and Nasri situation and the
first weeks of the season. But I really don't think it is that simple to deal with the situation
[.
In our Untold Awards we have looked at which Arsenal players will break through next season and
hold down regular first team slots.
So let us start trying to get the list down in size... We are talking of players who will really
make some sort of impact next season who were not central this [.
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees
analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches.
Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which
do not "even out" through the season, as some commentators would have [.
By Tony Attwood
I have tried to get this article written five times, and each time something else happens. It is
as if there is more action in the Premier League out of the season than within it.
The idea of the original article was to do a quick review of a few clubs [...]
