This daily blog was started in January 2008, and as the name is intended to suggest we try to cover issues that do not get fulsome coverage in other blogs or publications, and where we are covering the same ground as others, try to do so from a different perspective.

4 hours ago · So now we know: Arsenal sailed through last night as the third-best team in Europe. Not bad considering the “fact” that in the run-up to the game we were told “Mikel Arteta battles injury crisis amid Arsenal’s crammed January schedule”, …

Jan 13, 2025 · The Lows That Left Us Reeling. Bukayo Saka’s Hamstring Heartache. Just when everything seemed to click, Arsenal lost their golden boy. Bukayo Saka’s hamstring injury sidelined him for two months, leaving a gaping hole in the attack. His absence was like a missing puzzle piece – the team still functioned, but it lacked that spark he always brings.

Please note: many of our previous series investigating what is wrong with football are now detailed on the Untold Investigates page.. Excusing reputations. How gaslighting excuses Burnley’s tactics, and knocks Arsenal’s reputation

Nov 12, 2024 · Now only two of those opening games last season away from home could be considered against the bigger sides, as opposed to this season. And interestingly the two away games against the bigger sides last season at the start gave exactly the same results as this season – an away draw with Chelsea and an away defeat to Newcastle.

Jan 5, 2025 · But this sort of odd decision is what you can get if a club keeps seeing the game referee in charge of its games. In his mind can be thoughts that, “I saw you do that last time, and you got away with it, this time you won’t” But indeed with the newspapers ignoring any issues with PGMO and with supporters of other clubs claiming that …

Jan 16, 2025 · And perhaps we might be permitted to say “poised indeed.” Meanwhile in the Guardian there is the article, “ What’s the reality of this Tottenham team, supremely unlucky or unforgivably naive?” and one might be tempted to replace the phrase “this Tottenham team” with “the words “these journalists”. How can they get it so wrong so often?

Jan 6, 2025 · Can Arsenal catch Liverpool? The away games will be crucial; Arsenal are being tested to the limit; By Tony Attwood. The pain of the Arsenal draw this weekend was perhaps lessened a fraction by the draw between those teams from somewhere in the northwestern part of the country. “I wouldn’t worry about it too much,” said my pal (who when he heard I was writing about our conversation ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Over the last to and a half seasons these are the statistics: Arsenal have played 95, scored 217, goal difference 128, point 212; Manchester City have played 95, scored 222, goal difference129, points 211

Dec 28, 2024 · Arsenal v Ipswich. The choice in the line up and the question of yellow cards