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.

6 天之前 · Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team "I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art."

2 天之前 · One of the things that virtually never ever delivers anything positive in football is when supporters of a club start attacking the owners or directors of that club. What does happen is that the directors and/or owners hunker down, and start …

4 天之前 · Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north we suddenly find ManU are on the edge of bankruptcy and need a hundred job cuts to help the club avoid going bust. This is all pretty weird but even odder is the fact that the “Premier League has asked its clubs for expanded investigatory powers,” including free access into the clubs’ offices so …

5 天之前 · “Daniel Levy targeted with Tottenham fans to protest at Man Utd match” That headline comes from the Telegraph, and it is followed by an article in which we are told that supporters “are planning pre-game march followed by sit-in after Sunday’s fixture to voice their disapproval of Spurs chairman.” The message as ever will be “Get out of our club”.

2025年2月9日 · The first thing to say is that most journalists will not admit that they particularly like or dislike Arsenal, because beyond everything else they and their editors wish to be seen by the mass of readers as being neutral rather than prejudiced. This leads to the fundamental position of the media in ...

2024年11月16日 · But just how many injuries do different clubs get and how long are players out for? We often cite the Premier Injuries table which currently shows Arsenal with six men out: White, Tomiyasu, Calafiori, Tierney, Rice and Saka. The only clubs with more players unable to play are Brentford (8), Everton (8), Brighton (9), Crystal Palace (9), and Manchester City (10).

2025年1月31日 · Following some recent comments by me I have been sent this research and data from Michael Pearson, and set it out below with his kind permission. The table shows the last six games at this point this season, against the same period last season. Arsenal are in fact at this moment doing slightly ...

2024年12月21日 · Arsenal are currently four points better off than in 2021, but six points worse off than 2023 and a whopping 13 points worse off than 2022. The reasons are simple: a far worse set of injuries this season than in either of the last two seasons, and a very difficult set of away fixtures in the first half of this season, which didn’t happen in the last two seasons.

2024年11月12日 · 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.