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[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/917576035" params="color=#ff233a&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] A Bergkamp Wonderland · ABW Live : 336 – Arsenal 0-1 Leicester City (Premier League) *An Arsenal Podcast With John & Danny There are 3 ways to watch our show : Click here to go to our ... read more

Sunday 25th October 2020 I opened my front door at half time as I thought, during half time, I’ll put the rubbish out. It was green bin week. For what its worth. And as the last thing I wanted to listen to was the half time debate, especially as ... read more

Awful Arsenal. It does get much crappier than this. We were awful awful awful. No ideas. No creativity. Arteta was awful. So were half the team. Ceballos barely touched the ball. Cigarette was awful. Bellerin was awful. And our midfield was awful. No-one created anything. There was no creativity. ... read more

By Tony Attwood This is the moment we have a little chance to fight back against the exploitation of fans both by the TV companies and by the clubs that bow down to them. The Untold team – little band that we are – are not paying £15 to watch ... read more

Arsenal vs Leicester City Date: 25/10/2020 K/O: 19:15 Venue: Referee: Craig Pawson TV: Sky Sports Arsenal and Leicester find themselves locked in an early battle for Champions League places this season, placing fifth and fourth respectively prior to the start of this weekend’s action, with both ... read more

After quite a long lay-off we are back on Twitter @UntoldArsenal and Facebook@UntoldArsenalToday. Please do follow us. Untold Arsenal is fully backing the campaign supported by AISA – the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association to protest as best we can against the charging of £14.95 for supporters to watch today’s game ... read more

I thinks it’s fair to say that Arsenal haven’t really got going so far this season with a mixture of encouraging, determined, laboured and blunt performances to date. The game against Rapid Vienna was an opportunity to rev the engine and bag some much needed goals. Thomas Partey got his ... read more

In the case of the ongoing exclusion and isolation of Mesut Ozil at Arsenal over the last 18 months, the majority of the text I’ve written in the past still applies. This has been an example of how not to handle a situation of this nature, with lessons for both parties ... read more

This is a big one It’s Leicester at the Emirates tonight and, to me at least, this feels like a big and important game. Most Arsenal supporters agree that Mikel Arteta has done a good ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond Last season we gained a major insight into the way football was being played in the Premier League by analysing three factors: the number of tackles, fouls and yellow cards. Leicester we found had really weird statistics in these areas in the first half of last season, ... read more

Over the summer criticism of Edu creeped in as the transfer window rolled on. The criticism was not unfounded, as Arsenal publicly struggled in their pursuit of Houssem Aouar and only completed the signing of Thomas Partey on the last day of the season. But praise actually needs to be ... read more

Good Morning one and all. This afternoon at 7.15 P.M. we take on Leicester at the home of football in a pay-per-view game. A blog could be written just on the rights and wrongs ... read more

Morning folks and happy match day. Well, it will be if we beat Leicester City tonight. If Jamie Vardy does what he always seems to do when we play them however, then it could be a very ‘unhappy’ match day. I have the nerves about this one tonight. ... read more

You can find the latest video each day on the home page of this site.   You can also find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column of this page under “Recent Posts” or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on ... read more

Morning all, hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep if you’re in this part of the world. Our game today against Leicester kicks off at 7.15pm, a really weird time for a match on a Sunday, and it’s kind of throwing my day of kilter a bit. It seems ... read more

Nachdem die Anwärter auf die CL Plätze gestern allesamt Punkte gelassen haben wird die Partie gegen die Foxes heute Abend …Weiterlesen → ... read more

by Bulldog Drummond Why are many of us boycotting this game? Quite simply because of the cost at £14.95. I still have a load of money in Arsenal FC, left over from the matches I couldn’t see last season and this season on my season ticket, so to ask me ... read more

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal charges look set to resume their Premier League campaign as Leicester City come to the Emirates today in the late Sunday match up. Both teams are fresh off of Europa League wins and will look to get one up over their opponent and in order back into ... read more

How time flies? It seems like only last month that I was writing a Leicester preview. In fact on checking I find that it was last month for a Carabao Cup tie that we won handily 2-0 at their place. This time of course it is a Premier ... read more

As a longtime Gooner, I have a serious concern. In recent years, and probably long before that, the Gunners have been deep at the goalkeeper position. As it stands right now, I’m not so sure we have the necessary depth at that position, and here’s why. The Gunners’ two ... read more

The Gunners return to the Emirates Stadium for a Premier League match v Leicester City on Sunday. Both sides have some question marks going into the match. Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers indicated yesterday that Jamie Vardy remains questionable match while recovering from a calf injury. On Arsenal’s side, Dani ... read more

By Tony Attwood As you will of course know, and indeed as is rather implied within the name, the “25 man squad” can be made up of 25 players. No surprises there. But Arsenal have only 22 players in the squad. And that’s after we left out Ozil. The reason ... read more

Pandora Hughes is back with another weekend multiple and she's backing Arsenal to get the better of Leciester City at the Emirates on Sunday. ... read more

Arsenal travelled to the Allianz Stadion to take on Rapid Vienna in their first game of the Europa League season. Mikel Arteta looked to make the perfect start and went with a strong squad. Arsenal ran out 2-1 victors, with Luiz and Aubameyang sharing the spoils after falling behind to ... read more

Morning all, a quick Saturday round-up for you. On the Arsecast Extra yesterday James and I discussed the notion of Arsenal being a more effective team from an attacking perspective. I think it’s an interesting subject, not least because Mikel Arteta has been in the job less than a year, ... read more

You can find the latest video each day on the home page of this site.   You can also find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column of this page under “Recent Posts” or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on ... read more

Both Arsenal and Leicester City win in the Europa League in midweek, and Kevin Hatchard believes the Gunners will take maximum points. ... read more

Morning folks and happy Saturday to you and yours. We’ve got a little bit of waiting to be done until we play again on Sunday night in a ridiculous pay-per-view game against Leicester but with both teams playing on Thursday evening this was always going to be a Sunday game ... read more

733 days ago, it felt like the dawn of a new era at Emirates Stadium. Just over two years ago, the Gunners put on a scintillating display to brush Leicester aside and climb into the top four. It was without doubt one of the most memorable matches in Unai Emery’s ... read more

Saturday 24th October 2020 Sometimes things are not quite as they seem. That’s true in life. And also in football. Only very very few know the facts. Yet so many seem to think they do. What do I mean by all that? Only time will tell. I’ve always referred ... read more

Congratulations to the BEACH CITY GOONERS of Long Beach, California for being named the Arsenal Supporters Club of the Week! Every match day this loyal group of Arsenal supporters gather at Auld Dubliner, 715 South Pine Avenue in Long Beach. So, if you are ever in the Long Beach area ... read more

Kickoff – Fans in the stands! Hey they are oohing and ahhing and cheering and singing. It’s real. This isn’t piped in, fake crowd noise. And it’s amazing. I miss it. In real life I would be going to games ... read more

By Tony Attwood As you will know if you are a regular reader of Untold, there is a major crisis facing Fifa through the trial happening in Switzerland which pitches Infantino, the head of Fifa against the Swiss state. Now we have had the court decisions in Trinidad and Tobago ... read more

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Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode we discuss the 2-1 Europa League win over Rapid Vienna. As well as discussing an impressive full debut from Thomas Partey, we delve into the issue of how we can start to become ... read more

Copyright Getty Images Ah the Europa league group stages. The quickening of the heart, the thrill of the occasion, the sheer glamour of being one of the elite. Well, maybe not. Spoiled by umpteen years in the Champions League, Arsenal fans tend to regard Europa League Group stages with ... read more

You can find the latest video each day on the home page of this site.   You can also find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column of this page under “Recent Posts” or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on ... read more

Rapid Wien (0) 1 Arsenal (0) 2 UEFA Europa League, Group B, Matchday 1 of 6 Allianz Stadion, Gerhard-Hanappi-Platz 1, 1140 Wien, Austria Thursday, 22nd October 2020. Kick-off time: 5.55pm (4-2-3-1) Bernd Leno; Cédric Soares, David Luiz, Gabriel Magalhães; Sead Kolašinac, Nicolas Pépé; Thomas Partey, Mohamed Elneny, Bukayo Saka; Alexandre Lacazette, ... read more

Attacking solution enclosed POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES “Do Rapid Vienna have a goalkeeper? I haven’t seen him yet and this is the 55th minute” “This looks like a massive game of keep away. Again.” “If we are going to score, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be from open ... read more

Morning folks and happy Friday! Hope yours goes off with a bang and you have plenty of enjoyable things happen during it. And at least you can celebrate an Arsenal victory in the Europa League last night, which was effectively confirmed away to Rapid Vienna, after some initial discomfort I ... read more

by Andrew Crawshaw Down the years as an Arsenal supporters we have been granted the privilege of being able to watch a number of truly great players at their very best. Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Denis Bergkamp, Tony Adams, Mesut Özil (once upon a time) are some who spring to ... read more

Am Ende standen drei Punkte und der gewünschte Auftakt in die Europa League. Dennoch konnte man, bis auf das Ergebnis, …Weiterlesen → ... read more

Match report – Player ratings – By the numbers – Video Arsenal kicked off the Europa League campaign with a 2-1 win over Rapid Vienna, which is obviously a good thing. Winning is good. Watching us play right now though, is a bit of a struggle. Nevertheless, there were some ... read more

The Gunners played a hard fought game against a very good Rapid Vienna side in Austria on Thursday. It was the Europa League opener for both clubs, and they gave both sides’ supporters plenty to enjoy during the 90 minutes. Rapid Vienna stuck first after halftime, however, successive goals by ... read more

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By Tony Attwood The point is that we have had a transfer window in which we have signed a fair number of players and spent a lot of money. These guys, along with some more of our youngsters, need to be introduced into the squad, and they need to get ... read more

Join us for live blog coverage of our Europa League clash with Rapid Vienna, kick-off 17.55. We’ve got up to the second live text commentary, updates, goal clips, observations and occasionally witty asides. If you want to join the chat, register an Arseblog Live account. To do that, go to ... read more

Arsenal kicks off their Europa League campaign, where they will have to travel to Austria to face Rapid Wien. This is the fourth consecutive season where Arsenal participate in the competition, after failing to enter the Champions League. Nobody is really interested in the competition from a fan’s point of ... read more

How about instead of a lot of arguing about a player who won’t play for Arsenal ever again, we get a little classic match-day preview? Arsenal open their Europa League account for this season today with a match in Austria ... read more

Arsenal are very consistent at home and can be backed at a big price against Leicester, says Dan Fitch as he uses Opta stats to pick ten Premier League bets for the weekend. ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond Arsenal are right up at the top of the injury table, and once again I must report that we have spied no articles explaining how Arsenal being top of the injury list (which they occasionally were) was always the fault of Mr Wenger, when here we are ... read more

Auba is Arteta’s man, not Ozil So much has been written already about the Mesut Ozil situation of late, much of it, agenda driven and most of ... read more

One of the most fascinating aspects of Mikel Arteta’s premiership is the total lack of a managerial back story. Broadly, we knew how Carlo Ancelotti would operate at Everton, that he would cock an eyebrow and try to cobble together the system and set of principles that most suit the ... read more

For far too long Özil and Arsenal have been intertwined in a sadly tragic affair. Both player and club are reminding me of the hit Lady Gaga song, Bad Romance. ... read more

You can find the latest video each day on the home page of this site.   You can also find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column of this page under “Recent Posts” or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on ... read more

Alex Keble picks out four key tactical battles from the weekend's action, including why Man Utd v Chelsea will be an entertaining game ... read more

Infogol's Jake Osgathorpe uses expected goals (xG) to predict the likely winners and scorelines of each match in Gameweek 6 ... read more

by Bulldog Drummond Tonight we are away to Rapid Wien, kick off at the singularly bizarre time of 1755 GMT. It is normal with these previews for newspapers and websites imperiously to headline that “All you need to know” and then tell you the date, time and TV channel. I ... read more

Guten morgen folks and welcome to Europa League matchday. Right, plenty to be talking about, so let’s get straight to it, starting briefly with Mesut Ozil and his statement I’m starting with this because if I’m honest it has been done to death and I don’t really want to dwell ... read more

European football starts for The Arsenal today as we face Rapid Wien away this evening – a 17:55 kick off. Earlier this week we had the leak that Manchester United and Liverpool, amongst others, were in talks with financers to discuss the possibility of a “European Premier League”. According to ... read more

courtesy of Getty Images, their copyright It remains a source of disappointment and no little anguish that for a club of our history, stature and success in English football our records in European competitions don’t do justice to the various wonderful teams we have had in our history. This ... read more

Arsenal’s Europa League campaign kicks off this evening as we face Rapid Vienna, in a game which will hopefully be a welcome distraction from some of the more soap opera elements that surround the club at the moment. In terms of team news, we go there without Rob Holding who ... read more

Mesut Ozil has spoken, and it’s loud and clear the German midfielder is not happy about not making Mikel Arteta’s 25-man Premier League squad for the rest of the season. Here’s Ozil statement released earlier on Wednesday… “This is a difficult message to write to Arsenal fans that I’ve played ... read more

Der Kampf um internationale Titel hat in dieser Woche wieder begonnen. Noch immer ein wenig irritierend in den derzeitigen Reiseumständen …Weiterlesen → ... read more

Arsenal are offering free vision tests to thousands of fans across the country. This is as a result of the negative comments of a handful of ‘Covidiots’ who claim Arsenal haven’t improved and who want Mikel Arteta sacked. I don’t mind constructive criticism or fans that are impatient for success, but what ... read more

News broke this morning that the top clubs in Europe’s top competitions have joined with FIFA and JP Morgan to float a proposal for an 18 team breakaway (from the Champions League) European Premier League. Here are some initial thoughts ... read more

By Iver Number This season there have been 48 games played in the Premier League. Of those 22 have been away wins, 17 have been home wins and 9 have been draws. In 2018/19 – the last season without any corona virus interruption, 128 games out of 380 ... read more

I guess I have to write this. Maybe I don’t? I don’t know. I know that I don’t want to write this. I know that I want to go back to sleep for a few hours. Arsenal left Ozil off ... read more

Honestly okay to question Mikel In the embryonic stages of my Arsenal related writing pastime, I chose Gunner Be Honest as my blogging pseudonym because I pride myself on my ... read more

You can find the latest video each day on the home page of this site.   You can also find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column of this page under “Recent Posts” or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on ... read more

Arsenal are one of the favourites to win the Europa League, and Kevin Hatchard believes they'll make a winning start at Rapid Vienna. ... read more

I’ve written on this subject on a number of occasions. However I feel so strongly about this I phoned the club to tell them exactly how I felt about ... read more

Morning folks. Hope you’re all gravy? Me? Well I’m fine thank you very much. Had a load of ol’ dodgy dreams about people being rude on ferries and offering to fight me when they wouldn’t listen to mine and my mates’ advice that they don’t sit next to our tiger ... read more

It seems there are an unlimited number of exciting youngsters at Arsenal at present. We all ... read more

Emi Martinez Some people are still going on about the former Arsenal goal keeper. He played a dozen good games for Arsenal and then left. One weirdo said he has been “heartbroken” since he left. We do not need to talk about him  anymore. Time to move on. Mesut Ozil ... read more

by Andrew Crawshaw Week 4 saw the following games Tottenham H v Manchester United Chelsea v Manchester City Reading v Birmingham City Bristol City v Aston Villa Everton v West Ham United Brighton and Hove v Arsenal The Saturday game saw Tottenham take on Manchester United, who if ... read more

Football … the beautiful game – at every level. The sound of a wet boot smacking a leather ball. Sliding tackles, caked mud. The surprisingly fit fat lad in central midfield who shouts ‘Johnny’s ball’ and wins it every time. The roar of a crowd at a big game. 60,000 ... read more

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/915043936" params="color=#ff233a&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] A Bergkamp Wonderland · 373 – Man City, Pepe, Wengers Book & Ozil *An Arsenal Podcast With Geoff, Simon, Josh & Danny There are 3 ways to watch our show : Click here to go to our ... read more

Sometimes the irony of a moment grabs you with memorable intensity. I had been interviewing over Zoom for a part-time warehouse manager for a food bank of which I am a trustee. We were discussing a minimum wage job and the applicants were outlining how sad it was that the ... read more

The infernal distraction of Mesut Ozil continues to overshadow all things at Arsenal and talkSPORT presenter Adrian Durham began his weekly Arsenal fan baiting by accusing Arteta of: “Failing to do his job properly.” Durham accused Arteta of not being able to manage Mesut Ozil: “Paying a player that much and ... read more

Arsenal fans are notoriously soppy about certain players that have worn the famous Red and White shirts. The majority are rational beings who will wish former players well when they move away from the Emirates. I was sad to learn that the contracts of Danny Welbeck (Watford) and Jack Wilshere (West ... read more

The Gunners open their 2020-2021 Europa League campaign at Rapid Vienna in Austria on Thursday. The Austrian Bundesliga club is currently second in their league with a 3-1-0 record. Here’s how I think Mikel Arteta will line-up on Thursday… [4-3-3] Saka, Nketiah, Pepe Elneny, Partey, Willock Maitland-Niles, Gabriel, Luiz, Cedric ... read more

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has not scored a goal since the Premier League opener at Fulham on September 12th, and that has some people alarmed. However, if you look at Arsenal’s schedule, that is only four games. (He didn’t play in the two Carabao Cup games) Former Premier League veteran striker ... read more

Here’s something to keep an eye on over the next few months. FIFA is backing a $6-billion dollar investment by Wall Street giant JP Morgan to form a European super league of 16 to 18 teams which would basically replace the Champions League. The report did not say if UEFA ... read more

by Tony Attwood As you may well know (at least if you have been paying attention) Untold has a certain interest in the evil doings of Fifa not to mention the work of the arch-demon Mr Infantino (currently engaged in legal proceedings in Switzerland, along with the now disgraced head ... read more

Pundits say that Jordan Pickford is 'not that kind of player' but they never are, something Abou Diaby knows too much about ... read more

Podcast: In this post-match review of Manchester City vs Arsenal the Arseblagger admits to making a mistake about Arteta. While he is a great coach with a history of greatly improving the players he works with, it is becoming clear he is not as great a manager. We have ... read more

You can find the latest video each day on the home page of this site.   You can also find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column of this page under “Recent Posts” or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on ... read more

After five games, three victories, and two defeats, it would not normally spell a particularly good start to a Premier League season. It is thus a reflection of the stuttering performances from other sides in the traditional top six that, despite this, Arsenal find themselves sitting in fifth place. Having ... read more

I know you don’t want to read another piece banging on about Mesut Ozil and I certainly don’t want to write a piece on it, so I won’t, but I do need to quickly pick up on the comments that have come from Big Per Mertesacker that emerged yesterday. I ... read more

By Tack Tishan Last season in the league we weren’t that good. We all know that. We came eighth. Other stats back that up. We had the seventh best attack in the league, and the eighth best defence. Over the last two summer transfer windows we have been right at ... read more

For the second time already since the return of women’s football in England, a North London derby has arrived and reminded everyone – as if anyone needed a refresher – that the capital city is emphatically red. Tottenham Hotspur arrived at Meadow Park looking to improve upon their 4-0 defeat ... read more

When the final whistle sounded at Etihad Stadium on Saturday evening, it felt like a missed opportunity for Mikel Arteta and Arsenal. A missed opportunity to secure a first away win against a ‘big six’ side since January 2015, when Arteta was still an Arsenal player. Manchester City were certainly ... read more

Morning all. Today is October 20th, and it’s the deadline for clubs to submit their 25 man Premier League squads. I’m sure you all know the rules, but just in case: Each squad contains no more than 17 players who do not fulfil the “Home Grown Player” (HGP) criteria. The ... read more

War die Niederlage bei City wirklich so tragisch wie sie vielerorts dargestellt worden ist oder befinden wir uns doch weiter …Weiterlesen → ... read more

By Bulldog Drummond So now how do we feel? Well, pretty miserable and fed up and all that stuff. No one is actually saying that we spent more than anyone else in the summer because well, the way to improve the team is to buy lots and lots of players, ... read more

I will be touching on why I disagree with the Guendouzi loan to Hertha Berlin. Other topics covered include a question for Arséne Wenger you haven’t seen being asked yet and various thoughts ... read more

Raheem Sterling scored the only goal of the game to put a resurgent Arsenal to the sword in a Saturday night thriller at The Etihad this weekend. De Bruyne and Jesus were missing for the game but as usual, Sergio Aguero who has been missing for four months obviously ... read more