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“Arsenal’s prudence is an open invitation to be gazumped on players” read the headline in the Guardian newspaper in the UK. It was not a balanced piece – it was opinion.  Nothing wrong with that for newspapers print “news” (occasionally) and “opinion”.   But the Guardian seems to be doing a lot of this just now…

Yesterday I took a look at Liverpool.   Now about Manchester City. They have joined Leeds United and Chelsea in imposing tough restrictions on who can get near the club – following the revelations about how they sacked Mark Hughes.  (Leeds ban papers who report on the legal battles of K Bates, or report on the…

Great Expectations – Why are you an Arsenal Fan? Guo Sheng Lee I’ve been putting off writing this piece for quite a while now, as work has limited the time I have to write for Untold. However, after reading the piece on Le Grove and actually visiting the blog for the first time, I felt…

They had to wait until Arsenal put out a team with six first team regulars missing, and a team for most of the game including our 4th and 5th choice centre backs, but it had to happen one day. After 10 years of waiting, after the endless defeats and humiliations, Tottenham finally managed to beat…

(TMS) The Transfer Matching System. Adam Brogden In 2009 a new system was introduced by FIFA to regulate the migratory movements of footballers from one country to another or rather from one association to another. All associations have received training on this new system and have implemented it, over 5’000 clubs and 208 associations. It…

I watched two things on TV last night, and both rang bells in my head. The first was an old Hercule Poirot film with David Suchet, based on the 1924 Agatha Christie short story “Western Star”.  It contains the lines… Hastings: “I don’t know how they get these stories in the papers.” Poirot: “They make…