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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 |
35 comments - (Comments are closed) According to Virgin Money’s Football Fans’ Inflation Index 13% of season ticket holders in football league and Premier League clubs won’t renew for next season. They also claim that in the EPL 31% of regular match-goers who do not have season will reduce the number of games they attend. The Index also shows the average [...] By Tony Attwood The top four clubs in the Premier League have between them three different models of financing. Money from an established world-wide marketing scheme (Manchester United) Money from a very rich owner (Chelsea, Manchester City) Profit made from running the business (Arsenal) This blatantly obvious fact is easily ignored when the debate rages [...] By Billy The Dog McGraw Tony and Walter are off playing in the Supporters Club tournament on the Emirates pitch today, and thus have asked me, their trusted colleague and devoted lacky, to take over for the day. In fact I am just off down the pub, but here’s a few thoughts to be going [...] By Phil Gregory Right, in order to head off some of the usual confusion around what we have to spend I thought I’d put together this article. The big question surrounds this mythical, unspent war chest that stubborn old Arsène likes to sit on and shout “NON!” when anyone asks about it. Do we actually [...] By Tony Attwood The 20 clubs in the Premier League were very careless last year. And I mean very careless. I mean if lose a £5 note I am fairly pissed off. And these guys lost 100 million times that amount between them. £25 million per club on average. Lost. Gone. Down the plug. Vanished. [...] 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 [...] May 7th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances |
14 comments - (Comments are closed) By Richard Bedwell Ticket price increases – a different perspective. I have an above average priced season ticket at Arsenal. The 6.5% increase means that I’ll be paying about £80 more than I did last season. However I also pay £48 per year for my ATVO subscription which will now be included in my membership [...] By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as you will know, has said they plan to increase ticket prices by a total of 6.5% from the start of the 2011-12 season. They also said a number of changes are being introduced to ticketing and particularly thanked Arsenal Independent Supporters Association for their positive input over the past [...] Manchester U are regularly seen as the richest club in the world. This, despite their debts, is once again the feeling of Forbes 2011 Soccer Valuation, in its latest survey. Manchester U have been number one on the Forbes list for seven years running, which is rather dull, and is now valued at something [...] By Tony Attwood I didn’t see it coming – in fact I have written a number of times on this blog to say that Mr Kronke would not be buying Arsenal. And then lo and behold he does. (Exit editor stage left covered in egg). Good or bad it is certainly the end of a [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here 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 [...] April 8th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances, International affairs, FIFA, UEFA |
22 comments - (Comments are closed) Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Billy “the Dog” McGraw, gratefully released back into the community. For our old pals at UEFA Arsenal is seen as the ultimate football club in terms of financial probity. We are the Gods. The people what gets it right. The moral [...] By Tony Attwood Man U’s parent company Red Football has delivered a record pre-tax deficit for the year ended 30 June. Last year it made a £21m profit largely due to the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80m. This year the company suffered the £64.7m cost related to the setting up of [...] A brief pause from Walter’s series on football referees, following our coverage on the BBC web site (see the home page for the latest). Here’s a piece on Deloitte’s latest figure fest. Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony by Tony Attwood For some reason the [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory You may not be familiar with the name Karen Murphy, but I imagine you soon might be. I saw on BBC news last week that Ms Murphy has had her first victory in her war in [...] Untold’s submission to the Commons Enquiry into Football: let’s sort out the EPL/Championship divideArsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory, Righto, here we are with the final part of my musings on the general state of football finances for the Commons Inquiry. Since starting this report, I’ve decided to do my dissertation along similar lines, so [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory Following on from my last article, looking at the debts of United and Arsenal, we go onwards with this piece where I’m going to have a look at whether football should be treated as a totally [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory My article on how the Emirates as financed, was put together as a result of researching for my report for the Commons Inquiry into football. What I was looking to do was compare the debt burdens of Manchester United [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory This article about the way the Emirates stadium was financed arose from the work being done in relation to the Parliamentary Enquiry into Football – to which Untold Arsenal is presenting evidence. I have popped all the key information [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood It was while we were standing outside the Auld Triangle mingling with the Leeds fans before the match on saturday that Ian reminded me of the last time we watched Arsenal / Leeds. We were challenging to win the [...] January 11th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Finances, Football & club strategies |
35 comments - (Comments are closed) Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here 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 [...] January 10th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Corruption, Finances |
11 comments - (Comments are closed) Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Predictions of Arsenal’s imminent downfall are always interesting, and 2010 gave us quite a few of them. The most amusing one, and the one that was talked about the most I guess, was the complete failure of the season [...] 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: [...] Avatars by Sterling Adventures |
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