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Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————————————————————– By Anne. Part one of this article is available here. ______________________________ Money laundering through the transfer market is slightly more complicated than the activities described in the first article. [...] Money laundering, football and the press – part 2 (with added Lassana Diara) By Anne In our first article in this series exposing corruption in football we took a quick look at the situation at Tottenham and the minor matter of how a set of phone records got into the wrong hands – before contemplating [...] December 30th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances |
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You know, it’s amazing how quiet the football media can be when they want to… Leading into our upcoming series on the transfer market, transfer rumours, and (here’s the big one) possible money laundering in the EPL, I thought I would give our readers a few things to think about in [...] December 29th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances |
49 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood . In football there is a bit of a rule that says that you can lose money and win things, and that’s fine. But to lose money and not win things – that is called “doing an Everton”. . Of course the world has got more complex now that Manchester City and [...] By Tony Attwood Manchester City added another honour to their trophy cabinet last night by securing the most expensive shot in the history of football. Their squad last night cost (including this season’s salaries) something in the region of £200m, and managed one shot on target – an all time record. Some of the squad [...] —————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s rebirth Twitter us on follow (or the other way round) @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood If there is a man in football who seems to love his club and be doing all he can for it, it must be Bill Kenwright, who appears [...] November 16th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies |
75 comments - (Comments are closed) We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood . The Sun newspaper is in a bit of a pickle at the moment. You see, Harry Redknapp is their columnist and (presumably) paid lots of money to write stuff, which means that when the big news in football is that Harry Redknapp is going to [...] November 15th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances, Tottenham Hotspur |
29 comments - (Comments are closed) The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Tony Attwood The AGM of Arsenal Holdings plc lasts an hour – several hundred people and a bunch of journalists turn up, there’s tea and biscuits before and after, and this year it was held in the Woolwich section of Club Level, which was nice [...] October 28th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies |
15 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood In case you don’t know the blog, The Swiss Ramble is a King among blogs. Blogger of the year, praised by the media, written by a British guy who has lived overseas for many years, everyone loves it and admires the erudition and research to be found therein. So, first rule of [...] October 7th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies, Football blogging, Players |
29 comments - (Comments are closed) Arsenal have opened Pandora’s Box Don McMahon Following the departure of Cesc Fabregas for a derisory sum of around 30M Euro after add-ons, with Barca’s mocking confirmation that they robbed us, and with the sale of Samir Nasri to City for 25M sterling, there were innumerable cries of outrage and dismay from the British media,punditry [...] September 29th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, F.A., Finances, Football & club strategies |
28 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 [...] September 22nd, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies |
19 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 [...] Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal by Tony Attwood We all know there are lots of anti-Wengerians on the internet, telling us daily what a useless manager he is. There are also a number of people (some of whom are kind enough to read this blog) who argue that this is not the [...] Are Arsenal a selling club ? The true crack(s) of the great Arsenal way ! Ibrahima Fode NDIAYE For the last couple weeks or months or even years, Arsenal FC its board and manager are under immense critics from all corners. The general consensus is that Arsenal are an unambitious selling club only interested in [...] August 26th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies |
44 comments - (Comments are closed) Nick Tolhurst Harsh Truths about Arsenal’s “Decline” Forget debates about whether Arsène Wenger is too miserly, stubborn or just plain wrong in the transfer market – the truth is far simpler. So another summer ends and, despite the best efforts of Tony and Untold Arsenal; the media, the pundits and of course the assorted “collectible [...] August 18th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies |
94 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Marc Bénier At the end of last season it appeared that Arsenal was a club in crisis. Injuries and a lack of mental strength, combined with some seriously flawed defending horrified fans, and even AW appeared to be promising major changes – including transfers in and [...] Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood 1. Because as soon as Barca have him they will do the same thing with Ignasi Miquel who left Barca under similar circumstances. This really is a key point because Arsenal transferred Cesc quite properly within the laws of the game, and yet [...] July 29th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies, Players |
21 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The Summer of our Discontent By Ian Trevett There is no doubt that this summer has been a disaster and it is a bad time to be an Arsenal fan. Manchester United has spent in the region of £60m. [...] July 26th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Players |
78 comments - (Comments are closed) Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood In the novel “1984″ by George Orwell (the book that gave us such phrases as “Big Brother” and “Room 101″ and the notion that newspapers exist to make up news that fits a particular political viewpoint), one of the features of the regime that [...] July 15th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances, Journalists and their comments |
64 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood If you have read any of my ramblings on the FFP issue you’ll know I did hope that it might have an impact. I was encouraged by Chelsea pulling back on expenditure, until last January when they went wild. I have been discouraged by the way Man City is spending its billions [...] Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood There is a continual theme that emerges from those people who like to call themselves Arsenal supporters but who criticise virtually everything the club does, and it goes something like this: The club is being run [...] July 12th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Journalists and their comments, Tactics |
164 comments - (Comments are closed) By Phil Gregory The Arsenal Supporters Trust isn’t happy. A few weeks back they had a Q&A session with Ivan Gazidis that was feisty to say the least. Despite some of the usual football fan penis measuring “I’ve been a season ticket holder for TWENTY FIVE YEARS …” (therefore my view is more valid than [...] 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 [...] July 2nd, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA |
47 comments - (Comments are closed) 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, [...] By Tony Attwood For a while it looked like Man IOU and Liverpool (previously known as the Insolvents) were going to come a cropper over the Uefa financial rules which aimed originally to make clubs playing in European championships be financially solvent. But with those two, and Chelsea and Man City spending like they had [...] June 10th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA |
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