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Roman Abramovich and Michel Platini. Who is kidding whom?

By Tony Attwood

For Arsenal to win the league this coming season we need four things to happen.

Quite obviously the team needs to play well. I know it is patently obvious, but sometimes I like the obvious. Equally obvious is that the under 10s say there’s no chance of that, and they are [...]

Refs and scandals: Argentina, Greece, Germany, Hungary, internationals…

By Walter Broeckx

Untold Arsenal has always been one of those blogs that is very open to the thought that games can be bought in some way, either by buying some player(s) or is it by buying a ref.

Why a player or a ref is bought for is something we don’t know yet. I [...]

A call to arms; let’s sort out this refereeing issue once and for all

Untold needs you – your team needs you and your sport needs you in a very special project! [...]

How the football insanity of Fifa helped wreck a small English club

By Tony Attwood

Here’s a thought and a half. Plymouth Argyle is bust, bankrupt, kaput. So far gone they have brought in Mr Ridsdale who is currently facing a few charges by the authorities in relation to the small matter of his running of affairs at Cardiff City.

Now think of this: In backing England’s [...]

Why I dont like Giggs and other musings about super injunctions

By Billy the Dog McGraw – our legal correspondent.

By and large I don’t like censorship. But I find myself writing on a site that is now censoring comments and have to admit that I see the need sometimes. (At the moment we have the issue of people who come onto the site, look [...]

The problem with Untold Arsenal; moving things on

By Laundry Ender

The problem with untold and moving things on

Credibility, that is the problem. At least it is as far as the assertion that there is a systemic bias in referees towards some teams, or players in the Premier League. And that the bias has an impact on the outcome of games, and [...]

EU to take on Fifa. Now this could be fun

By Tony Attwood

In the past the EU has had quite an impact on football – sometimes positively sometimes not (in my opinion of course).

Its rules gave us the Bosman ruling, which I rather like, and gave us the free movement of players, as with all workers in the EU, which I totally [...]

FA clearly guilty of bringing the game into disrepute. So what’s their punishment

By Tony Attwood . Before England put in their bid for the World Cup they knew that organisation they were dealing with, and the people within it, were corrupt. They must have known because on this site, and of course on many others, there are loads of articles about corruption in Fifa. We even have [...]

From Ridsdale to QPR, there are corruption questions being asked

By Tony Attwood

The main thrust of Untold in terms of corruption relates to the issue of the way in which it seems that the Italian style low-level buying of referees in general as crept into the Premier League.

But while this is our main level of focus in terms of the way football [...]

Untold Exclusive: Arsenal Crowned Champions of EPL!

Untold Exclusive: Arsenal Crowned Champions of EPL!

By Sammy The Snake

You read it here first, live and exclusive to Untold Arsenal.

Gunner’s win over ManU has sealed Arsenal’s strong hold on the EPL, and they have been declared the winners of 2010/2011 season after a gruelling campaign.

Think Sammy’s gone crazy? Think again.

It’s [...]

The Corruption League grinds to a conclusion. If you don’t believe me, you could believe others

By Walter Broeckx

As being a fan you can be biased about some things. So when people say to me that I cannot be neutral in doing my ref reviews this is something that I cannot deny completely. How hard I try to be neutral when doing it, it can still influence me.

The same [...]

There will be sunshine after rain, these things have always been the same

By Walter Broeckx

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and feel: this is going to be a bad day. And you cannot get rid of that feeling. And when you think: what could go wrong? You can only think of Arsenal.

In fact last weekend the first bad feelings started on Saturday when I [...]

Quantifying the Bias of Arsenal’s Referees vs the Rest of the League’s Clubs

Quantifying the Bias of Arsenal’s Referees vs. The Rest of the League’s Clubs

By Zach Slaton and DogFace

This post can also be found at http://numbersgameblog.blogspot.com/

Author’s Note: Special thanks to DogFace for his co-authorship on this post. His voluminous data set, unending patience, invaluable insight and contribution, and constant editorial [...]

Financial Fair Play equals nothing, but someone is going to go bust

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Billy the Dog McGraw runs his finger over Uefa’s financial fair play rules, gets it snagged on a sharp bit and scuttles off to the local A and E for a quick repair.

There is a report on the BBC web site [...]

Beyond the shame; Calciopoli hits as Arsenal’s next home match is fixed.

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By Walter Broeckx

So the news is out. Phil Dowd will be the ref for our next home game against Blackburn.

Other people on this site will bring you statistical evidence on how bad he is as a ref for Arsenal. [...]

Are Premier League matches fixed? The final proof. Part 2.

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By Tony Attwood

This article follows (rather logically I thought given that it is called “part 2″) from part one which is here.

The first step towards resolving the issues raised in part one must be to ask what we feel [...]

Are Premier League matches fixed? A review of the evidence

By Tony Attwood

Consider Mark Clattenburg. He is 35, and one of 16 select group officials that run EPL games.

He is the guy who failed to punish Wayne Rooney for the elbow against Wigan Athletic’s James McCarthy. Then he gave Fulham a penalty against Blackburn Rovers that not everyone was convinced by.

If [...]

Ashley Cole: the question that is never asked

By Tony Attwood

We have been talking in my company about Ashley Cole – and one thing came up. Why did he take a gun to work?

It is an interesting question because it is one that is laden with pre-meditation – unless of course Mr Cole always takes a gun to work.

I agreed [...]

Why players from overseas get more cards than UK players

Dirty Internationals by Alek Pan

What would you say if you were given evidence that overseas players (ie those from outside the UK) make the EPL harder, dirtier and more unfair than it would otherwise be?

Quite probably you would want to look at the evidence twice. Maybe you would suggest that the person [...]

El Capitan, we are behind you

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Victory Through Harmony

By Walter Broeckx

When I wrote my article Arsenal against the rest: Everton, the refs, the epl, the fa….

I didn’t realised that the …would be filled in that soon.

Oh yes we have to play the rest [...]

Final proof that the Premier League is bent; Moyes goes unpunished for slander on Cesc

By Tony Attwood

The FA have refused to act over the wild and unfounded allegations of David Moyes the manager of Everton.

Moyes said after the Everton game that Cesc had abused the ref to such a degree that he (Cesc) should have been shown a red card. Moyes presented no evidence of the offence.

[...]

The Commons Inquiry into football governance

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By Phil Gregory

As the blog that has always written on the big issues such as finance and corruption before they become popular, it makes sense that Untold Arsenal would be interested in a Commons inquiry into football governance.

In particular I [...]

So is the EPL fixed? Taking the argument forward

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By Tony Attwood

If you have been paying attention you will have seen a couple of extremely insightful pieces on this site over the Christmas period from Walter Broeckx. I’ve put a link to them at the end of this note.

As [...]

The Blues 1 Arsenal 11 as Ferguson extends his malign influence on football

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by Tony Attwood

That scoreline is of course shots on target. You might consider goal attempts a better measure. In which case, The Blues 6 Arsenal 18. Either way it was rather jolly – except for two things – the dreadful awful [...]

England, Fifa, FA, corruption, incompetence. The ancien régime approaches its end.

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By Tony Attwood

So what does England really do about this world cup stuff?

There are some interesting options such as

1: Get deep inside Fifa and try to reform what must be the most corrupt sporting body ever seen on the [...]