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Arsenal sign Argentine goalkeeper, plus Roberts and Ebecilio and maybe Barca’s Assulin

By Tony Attwood

Through a special arrangement with the excellent Young Guns web site, Untold can now bring you the in-depth news concerning our latest youth signings.

You might remember (if you were paying attention that is) that I went into a spin after Arsenal became the first team to retain [...]

Be proud, be very proud. Arsenal become first team ever to retain Premier Academy League

Arsenal have won the Premier Academy League – the first team ever to retain the title. What’s more they have secured their position as the most successful youth team club of all time.

What’s more, Arsenal won the title without using their main players from last year. Jay Emmanuel Thomas, for example, who could have [...]

What is happening to the 15 players who were on loan last year

This article was published at about 8am on 11 May but there were reports from readers that it was not visible, so I am trying it again.

Tony

There were 15 Arsenal players on loan by the end of the season. Here’s an analysis of them – the percentage figure at the end comes from [...]

15 loans: a survey of the players who ended the season elsewhere

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There were 15 Arsenal players on loan by the end of the season. Here’s an analysis [...]

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Arsenal Ladies and Arsenal Youth both win

by Tony Attwood

Arsenal Ladies have won the last ever Premier League – [...]

Why Wenger must go: the bluffers’ guide

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It is easy to argue that Wenger should go by taking one issue and shouting it, without any backup argument.

But it is harder to construct the logic over a larger number of issues.

In [...]

Tottenham tricked by con man, Liverpool’s incompetence, Arsenal sail on

This week’s special activity:

Go to your local public library this week and ask them to order a copy of “Making the Arsenal” by Tony Attwood. You don’t have to read it but I would like to get a few more sales as we are coming out with a new edition [...]

Some things are more important than football.

Sometimes I get the distinct feeling that football isn’t real at all – but is just made up.

I mean, we have got through to the quarter final of the Euro Cup – which is further than our recent rivals Chelsea and Liverpool, and the same as Manchester United.

We went out when playing [...]

Which Golden 30 youngsters will play in the first team next season: survey results

This was quite a survey, done all proper and exact like. None of your fiddling of results and mucking about.

We went through three stages.

Part One:the first gathering of names

I asked for suggestions of names as to who might make it from the ranks of the reserves and the youth team into [...]

Arsenal’s Golden 30: an update on our list of brilliant young players

I started this list the other day, just because I wanted to try and get my head around all the names of young players that crop up.

There was some laughter and criticism of my efforts – laughter because I managed to get people in twice, and criticism because it was said that younggunsblog.co.uk/ and [...]

Arsenal’s Golden 30. There’s so many brilliant reserves we need a new training centre

Untold recently published some thoughts on the players who are part of the club and could be on the edge of breaking through. I asked for gaps in the list to be completed and for the details of loans, along with thoughts on the future to be added.

Below is a simple [...]

Tonight’s ref: the inside story, plus the journos prepare their excuses

Tonight the ref is the number one ref in Belgium. Or as Zafod Bebblebrox says in the Hitchhikers’ Guide “Belgium Man!”

Here’s the assessment of our resident Belgian Referee: Walter Broeckx……..

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I really hope he doesn’t screw up on us.

Last season he had the Liverpool – Real Madrid game and before [...]

3 new players, 11 “almost new” players, and a vote for Untold Arsenal

I have only just found out about the Soccer Lens Awards (thanks to our good friend Gf60) so there is only a day or so left for getting entries in. (Sorry I have been so taken up with all the events of the last few days. Fancy Liverpool losing all their players at once. Well [...]

Every EPL club going bust except Arsenal. Extra, extra, read all about it.

Well hi diddley dee do! I have just spent 2.5 years screaming about the insanity of football in the EPL and how it will all end in tears, and what do you know? It is all ending in tears! (Apart from those down the pub where it all ends in beers).

There is so much [...]

What are you playing at Fran Merida

Let me make it clear that this is not a tirade against Fran Media. If he goes, or if he has already gone, then I will be sorry, but I’ll understand. It is what agents do to young players. Get games every week, grass is always greener, all that stuff.

But if he is going, [...]

This was the best thing that could have happened to Fran and Jack.

By Walter Broeckx

Great was my expectation when I saw the names of Fran Merida and Jack Wilshere on the team sheet. I have seen them play a few games in the Carling Cup, the Emirates Cup, in the reserves and even in the Champions League.

When they play in the Emirates cup, which after [...]

How Arsene Wenger has got it horribly wrong: the complete debate.

WARNING THIS ARTICLE AND MOST OF THE COMMENTS WHICH FOLLOW IT CONTAIN IRONY. IF YOU DON’T LIKE A LAUGH PLEASE DO NOT READ ON.

1. He doesn’t buy enough players.

Quite clearly we need a new centre forward. Eduardo is done for, Arshavin is too small, Nasri and Rosicky are midfielders not forwards, Vela can’t [...]

How to knock the Arsenal: a journalists’ guide

By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood

Knocking the Arsenal is an important part of the job of every reporter. To be fair some do back off when we are playing brilliant football and winning stuff (only the Guardian and Observer did snarling cynical pieces about the club in the days after we finished the unbeaten [...]

When you are carrying a knock, do you put it in your pocket or hold it in your hand?

So everyone is “carrying knocks” or is downright injured.

I have often wondered about “carrying a knock”. I mean, carrying where? In my pocket? And what, after all, does a knock look like when it is carried?

Is it perhaps a bit like the dark matter that physicists keep talking about every time they try [...]

Arsenal/Liverpool: team sheet and complete analysis

By Phil Gregory

Arsenal welcome Liverpool to the Emirates stadium for Wednesday’s Carling Cup tie.

The Reds, already six points off the pace in the Premier League despite a solid home win over champions Manchester United are expected to put out a below strength side for the tie with an eye on their match at [...]

Lord Wenger for President

So having spent a day arguing about when people were signed and the value of our youth system, the Lord Wenger now tells us it is all going to be pulled to bits by the new FIFA plans to limit transfers of players under 18.

Our Great Leader pointed out that we have the “90-minutes” [...]

The world has fallen out of love with our kids

As Adam Smith pointed out yesterday, you couldn’t watch last night’s game on any sort of TV system anywhere south of Pluto.

In fact if you tried BBC radio you would have found that in the summary half hour from 10 to 10.30 (when a couple of extra times were going on) the match actually [...]

Arsenal v WBA: the style, approach, players, prediction

By Phil Gregory

West Brom, managed by Roberto Di Matteo (formerly of MK Dons) are Arsenal’s opponents in the Carling Cup on Tuesday.

They will undoubtedly be coming into this match on a wave of confidence, having beaten Middlesborough 5-0 at the Riverside, and holding a one point lead over Newcastle at the top of [...]

Wenger’s genius revealed as clubs face new “home grown” rule

Starting next season all EPL clubs will have to name 25 players over 21 before the season begins as their registered players list.

Eight of those players must have been developed for at least three years by an English or Welsh club before their 21st birthday.

The clubs can also have a limitless list of [...]

Arsenal must fight bent UEFA to the bitter end

At last, a club willing to stand up and fight against the insane, bent and discredited UEFA.

Arsenal’s statement over the Eduardo affair was everything we could have wished for – a complete catalogue of everything that is wrong with the warped European governing body, including its arrogant belief that it can get away with [...]

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