Untold Arsenal » 2008 » October

Why we must applaud Tottenham’s plans for a new ground

Transforming yourself is important.  You feel down, but you have to go out and play football or sell computers or write wonderful pieces of literature – so you have to reinvent yourself – and then those around you.
The master at this art is Mr Leavy at Tottenham Hotspur.   The masters at not doing this […]

And now something completely different

I started this blog as an experiment just around a year ago.  The experiment being to see if anyone was interested in following a different sort of approach to commenting on Arsenal – one that backed Wenger, covered issues that others didn’t bother about too much, including the financial background, and which maybe included a […]

At least we don’t have to buy a new team

This is not the only day I have felt bad about football.  Like when we lost to Wrexham in the Cup – I can still remember the feeling the next morning.  Took me days to get over that.
Or when we lost 6-1 to Manchester Bankrupt (or Manchester U as they were known in those days). […]

What can we do with Eduardo?

In a couple of weeks time Eduardo will be back in the squad, possibly playing as a sub in the Wigan league cup game, possibly being a sub in a subsequent league game. Either way, assuming none of the others gets injured in the meanwhile this will be our forward situation Adebayor, Van Persie, Eduardo, Bendtner, Vela

With […]

FA action against Nottm Forest, SFA against Rangers, and then Tottenham

There are two interesting reports doing the rounds today.  One is that the FA have put out a statement about chanting by Nottm Forest fans against Dave Jones who is manager of Cardiff City.  It says, “We strongly condemn any chanting which contains foul and abusive language or is of a homophobic or discriminatory nature.”  […]

Mr Leavy takes action to save the club’s success

Making some sort of sense of what these Tiny Tott characters say can be a bit of a time-consuming job. Indeed I’ve been working at it all day and I still can’t quite make it work.
Mr Daniel Levy, that jolly nice fellow-me-lad who “runs” (I use the word lightly) one of the more minor footballing clubs […]

North London disturbances brought under control by police

Police services report that most of North London is now back to normal following a night of disturbances.  A senior officer at the Met apologised to local residents and said that his officers were taken by surprise.
“Two sets of celebrations took place at once, and we really hadn’t expected it,” said DCI Yard, of the […]

Tiny tott managers: a comparison

Points per game for best tiny tott managers  

Martin Joll 1.51 Francis 1.39

Ramos 1.17

Points per game for Harry

West Ham = 1.31 Portsmouth first time round = 1.18 Southampton = 0.91

Portmouth part 2 = 1.42

So we can see that Mr Rednapp is not quite up to the Martin Joll standard although he is better than most Tiny Totts..  He did […]

“Relegation is our aim”

So now we can guess why Portsmouth failed to push the case against the Tiny Totts over the behaviour of the Tott supporters who used racist abuse against Sol Campbell.  It looks like Portsmouth were in negotiation with Tottingham over the manager’s job, and sending a file to the police would not have helped the […]

How the Curse of Arsenal is affecting Tottenham

The Curse of Arsenal was placed upon Tottenham Hotspur (the Tiny Totts) following the appalling scenes at the Portsmouth vs Tinies game in which Sol Campbell was abused.   The failure of Tottenham to take any serious action over the incident resulted in the Curse being made official.
As we saw last season (when Birmingham and Milan […]