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Football coverage in newspapers about to end after Untold Media action

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By Tony Attwood

Curiously that headline is quite possibly true, although it is written in the misleading manner that many journalists use. Football coverage in the press could end soon because talk between the football organisations over what rights newspapers, reporters, photographers and agencies have, have indeed broken [...]

Antony Kastrinakis Goes Missing! (and Untold Media Watch Update)

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Antony Kastrinakis Goes Missing! (and Untold Media Watch Update)

By: Anne

As a follow-up to my last article, Antony Kastrinakis: defacing the Arsenal, in which I detailed the exploits of a certain Arsenal-hating journalist employed by the Sun, who publishes under the name of “Antony Kastrinakis,” I [...]

Want to be treated like an idiot? Try ESPN.

By Tony Attwood

If you are old enough to remember, or if you have an interest in 20th century history, you may know that televised football back in the 1950s was a very different creature from that which we have today.

It wasn’t just that there was hardly any [...]

Wenger doesn’t need new players; he needs to spend money on some new fans

Ian’s piece brought a number of the employees of the Ministry of Disinformation onto our site. and I though I would look for a moment at how they are working, what their current message is, and most challenging who is employing them.

In doing this I am returning to a couple of pieces posted by [...]

We have a definite link between buying a club and match fixing

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By Walter Broeckx

As I am not from England I have a bit of a handicap in some things. Even though we can see some channels over here in Belgium we don’t get all the UK channels. So I couldn’t see the Dispatches programme about “buying a football [...]

Antony Kastrinakis: defacing the Arsenal. The story of one journalist’s obsession.

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By: Anne

As a follow- up to my previous article, “Untold Arsenal Media Watch: The Other Side of the Sun,” in which I detailed the Sun’s apparent use of a “talking points campaign” to target Arsenal, I decided to take a closer look at the activities of [...]

Untold Media: Launch of new media section, and we need your help

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By Tony Attwood

Untold is launching a new regular Media section, which for the moment and with amazing originality is being called UNTOLD MEDIA WATCH.

It will run on a regular basis, alongside our other features including…

Dogface’s preview of the ref and his history in refereeing Arsenal [...]

Untold Media Watch: how one paper has read Untold and changed its mind about Cesc

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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 [...]

How the transfer market has been utterly screwed this year

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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 [...]

For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness,

By Don McMahon

For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The plethora of angry, hyper-sensitive, choleric, distressed, fitful, and fickle fans bombarding cyberspace with their tryst lamentations and predictions of imminent doom and unmitigated disaster for all things Arsenal, eagerly abetted and aided by the xenophobic British [...]

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 [...]

Groundhog Season: where did it all go wrong?

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Groundhog Season

By Sammy The Snake

Writing something positive about Arsenal is a real challenge these days. As some of you may have noticed, and most of you haven’t, I’ve been quiet for some time. As the saying goes, if [...]

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 [...]

Fifa seeks to dictate the way leagues work; the leagues fight back

By Tony Attwood

It didn’t make much of an impact in the news when he said it, but S Blatter, head of the discredited Fifa, has demanded a reduction of the number of teams playing in the top leagues in some countries including England.

The man who has presided over the massive growth in meaningless [...]

“Arsenal don’t like it up em.” But are you sure we are bottom of the fair play league?

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By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood

Mr P Neville, a footballer, has been reported in the UK press as saying that Everton’s game plan was to get a trifle rough with Arsenal on Sunday. He also said the strategy had worked in [...]

Was R Green man of the match or should he have been sent off?

By Tony Attwood

There is in the football media a hierarchy. It is not a natural hierarchy, but is one that the media itself creates and re-creates for its own benefit – with each element of the media anxious to keep its own position, endlessly looking over the corporate shoulder at who is coming up [...]

The media influence on supporters

by Walter Broeckx

What is the impact on watching a game in front of your TV compared to watch it in the stands?

Yesterday evening when I had finished my match report for the Arsenal Benelux website I went to our forum where the other fans from our supporters club give their view on the [...]

The most disgraceful, appalling, awful, unacceptable performance of all time

By Tony Attwood

It was the most disgraceful, appalling, awful and unacceptable TV commentary I have ever heard – and there have been some dire ones in the past. I refer, of course, to the commentary on Sky Sports 4 last night.

It wasn’t just that Arsenal were set up from the start by the [...]

Arsène Wenger has three hands – don’t let the media fool you.

Arsène Wenger has three Hands!!!

By Paul Blythe

The Phrygian sage Epictetus said: ‘Everything has two handles, one by which it can be carried and a second by which it cannot’.

There may even be a third handle, often not in clear view and the major problem being you need a third hand [...]

Cesc is leaving according to Vermaelen, or maybe he didn’t quite say that…

By Walter Broeckx – our man in Belgium

So here we have it again with the Cesc DNA and move to Barceloanus.

And this time it would have been Vermaelen who has said something. But has he really said something? I will try to find out. I’m not going to say that I am going [...]

Barcelona claim Cesc will transfer before 31 August

Barcelona: A lone crab

By Ann O’Gram – our girl on the spot

On this fine and sunny day Bar Bar Barcelona have announced that they intend to make one more push to sign Cesc Fábregas (with an accent) before the transfer windows pings shut at the end of the month.

The local paper “Sport” [...]

How the press use Untold Arsenal as a source of football news

By Tony Attwood

You might recall I have been a bit miffed previously about the Guardian newspaper in the UK taking the occasional story from Untold. Now the Observer is following suit. (You might like to know that the The Observer is the sunday version of the Guardian and is Britain’s oldest newspaper still being [...]

“Well we all want Cesc to come to Barcelona, but can they pay for him?”

By Walter Broeckx

Today is my last complete day in Cataluña. And I must say that I feel rather glad about it. I will be returning to a colder place, with less sunshine but with a media and press that is a bit more factual than the rubbish I had to see in the last [...]

The five year deal is done and Cesc is ready to sign for Barca

Just what do the footballing public in southern Europe think about the issue of Cesc, his contract, and the fact that Barca are nowhere near as financially sound as the world makes out.

We sent out intrepid report Walter Broeckx to Spain, to keep us up to date on how football [...]

Sky reveal exclusively Arsenal will sign at least six more first team players

According to Sky with its story, “Wenger steps up preparations” Arsenal are going to have to sell players to make space in the squad, because of the 25 player rule.

They say,

Meanwhile, Wenger has hinted that he may look to move a few players on this summer, with new Premier League regulations stipulating that [...]