——————— In the past 31 days this site has received over 750,000 visits. Many thanks to everyone who has supported what we are trying to do here. ——————– By Tony Attwood The story that those people who don’t like Arsenal love to tell is that Arsenal gets it wrong. Transfers, financial policy, tactics, youth policy,…
————————————————————– . Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. —————————————— By Shard This is a continuation of yesterday’s Untold Economics article: “Red and White are planning a takeover using non-dividend equity. Beware!” The first part related to the Red and White Open Letter, which…
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood I have bored you stiff many times before saying that this is the moment when football collapses under the weight of its own financial stupidity. Yes, I hear you shout, but when? And who? “Where’s the evidence?” you call (and I know you…
by Mahdi. “We haven’t won anything in X years. Sack the manager as he has lost the plot and is not ambitious enough and won’t spend any money. I don’t care about finances but trophies. That is what football is all about.” Now how many times in the last 7 years have we had the…
Mr Wenger doesn’t make predictions of gloom, doom and disaster lightly, so when he speaks of football being about to collapse through financial mismanagement, we need to take notice. And in fact everywhere we look clubs are teetering on the edge. For the moment I am not writing about poor Plymouth, who could be the…
By Tony Attwood I recently saw this post come through at Untold. “yea ofcouese sell RVP for measly 15 mil to our greatest rival does make sense.How on earth anybody let such situation to build up in the first place…..now i am hearing song is about to go too….fk our self sustaining economy model.” (Obviously…
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood A while ago the excellent Swiss Ramble covered Bolton. Bolton, (generally known as Notlob in these august columns), a team symbolic of all that was previously wrong with football: rotational fouling, rotational time wasting, and the snarling antediluvian himself: the Fat Slug. But…
By Tony Attwood Phil’s comment in his Man U match preview that his boss was offering a bet that Everton would end up higher than Arsenal this season made me smile. Of course my smile vanished in the light of the result in Manchester, but that did not change the fact that Bill Kenwright has…
Following the appointment of Remi Garde as manager of Lyon I suggested I might throw in an article or two about French football. Here’s the first. By Tony Attwood Go back fifteen years and you can see a very clear picture of European football. Italy, lauded in the 1990s as the home of great football,…
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood The fact that Liverpool managed to scramble out of the mire, and Barca, having famously run out of cash so they couldn’t pay the players, are still there buying the likes of Cesc etc makes some people think that there is no crisis. But crisis there is,…
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