Manna for conspiracy theorists

  —————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s decline and rebirth  Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal   —————————————– MANNA FOR CONSPIRACY THEORISTS By Don McMahon   I recently and most regrettably came upon an article in the FootballTalk website entitled; ¨ Arsène Wenger Is Disrespectful To The Fans ¨ basing itself on the ¨testimony¨ …

Uproar at silent protest at Marseille, as manager is called a Japanese chicken.

—————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s decline and rebirth  Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal   by Billy le chien I do like to keep the occasional eye on French football, particularly our loan player, ex-player and indeed the surrogate Man City that Paris St Germain has become.   But of course now there …

Untold Ref Review: Chelsea 3 – Arsenal 5

The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Ref Reviewer 03 A crazy game at the Bridge.  How was the ref doing or was he joining in the madness?  In some way he was….   Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight …

REF SHOCKER: Penalties far less likely to be given properly in Arsenal games than elsewhere.

—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– By Walter Broeckx This is part 2 of a early season review. The first article can be found here LET’S COMPARE ARSENAL GAMES WITH THE OTHER TEAM MATCHES Last year some of our readers said …

REF SHOCKER: 32% of all decisions in Arsenal matches are wrong! Ref Stats part 1

—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————–   By Walter Broeckx Our hard working team of ref reviewers have finished the season at this moment already. Although we’ve only worked on 9 matchdays we managed to do 38 games which we have reviewed until now. So the same number as I …

I like my fighting Gunners; Chel$ea 3 the amazing Arsenal 5

—————————————– With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– By Walter Broeckx How many times  in the past 6 years (an obviously random generated number) have we played a great game in a top game only to end up with empty hands at the …

Refwatch – Chelsea Vs. Arsenal (29/10/2011 – 12:45)

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Andre Marriner Assistant 1: Scott Ledger Assistant 2: Adam Watts 4th Official: Howard Webb Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… apologies for the lack of RefWatch last EPL match day – we woz being repressed – but I did do one and not only was it …

Untold preview: Chelsea versus the Arsenal

By Phil Gregory After a bit of an absence, you will probably be totally ambivalent to the fact that the Untold match preview is back (though I’d like to hope otherwise!). Like the site after the vagaries of technical issues, we are here and hopefully for good this season. The soul-crushing tedium of applying for …

How the BBC and Guardian love to mislead the public over Arsenal

—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– By Tony Attwood A simple and short post, but one that rather makes a point. Radio Times, page 53.  Chelsea v Arsenal.  Ashley Cole will get an earful from the home fans on his return to Arsenal. Radio Times, page 61.  The Blues have …

Untold at the AGM; what Mr Wenger really said

—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————–   Arsene’s Speech at the AGM   After hearing Arsene’s speech at the AGM in full, I decided that it should be transcribed and submitted (slightly edited) as a full article. Overall, Arsene touched on many relevant issues that are discussed regularly on this …

UNTOLD at the AGM. What the reports don’t say: Silent Stan’s great joke.

The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Tony Attwood The AGM of Arsenal Holdings plc lasts an hour – several hundred people and a bunch of journalists turn up, there’s tea and biscuits before and after, and this year it was held in the Woolwich section of Club Level, which was nice …

The Arsenal bias: How the reviewers work

The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Walter Broeckx One of our reader asked a few questions (before the site went down) which deserved a proper answer I thought. So this is what he said (and sorry for the late reply): For this to be accepted by others you need to clarify who is …

If Arsenal go from being a ‘club in crisis’ to ‘a one man team,’ is that a promotion of sorts?

“If Arsenal go from being a ‘club in crisis’ to ‘a one man team,’ is that a promotion of sorts?” By Anne *Much thanks to Shard and bjtgooner for their contributions to this article. ————- First and foremost, before I even get into the substance of this media watch report, I want to make the …

Untold Ref Review: MU 1 – MC 6 – Historical in many ways

By Ref Reviewer 04 For the Manchester derby at Old Trafford we had Ref Clattenburg in charge. Was his contribution as historical as the score line? Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 3 OTHER Richards Young C Cought the man on the leg 1 1 4 OTHER Young Silva NC Silva tries …

Untold ref review: Liverpool 1 – ManU 1; Man U get the most wrong calls!

By Ref Reviewer 02 The biggest game in world football my arse, the quality was appalling, the first half was dire, bad passing, poor technique, I cannot ever remember Arsenal passing the ball as badly as these two did in the first half,  an advert for the EPL`s passion, but certainly not its quality. The …

The players are rubbish, the web site is down. Misplaced Misery.

Misplaced Misery by Don McMahon Just how profound and deeply ingrained is the pessimism, negativism and miserable affiliation to the dark side of the Arsenal( and total disregard for the facts) some gunners seem to thrive on? After recent excellent displays and cohesive team efforts, the net was brimming over with praise for RVP and …

Untold Ref Review: Arsenal 2 – Bolton 1; Arsenal get more wrong calls (of course)

By Ref Reviewer 04 For the Carling Cup game between Arsenal and Bolton we had ref Taylor as the ref. Not an established PL ref yet, so did he do enough to earn himself a place in the PL? Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 2 OTHER Arshavin Steinsson C Trip 1 …

Untold Ref review: Arsenal 3 – Stoke 1

By Ref Reviewer 04 For the game between Arsenal and Stoke we had ref Mason in the Emirates. Because of some computer problems we didn’t get the Ref Watch online so it will be interesting to see if what we found will be in agreement with what Dogface thought it would be. Min Type Foul …

Arsenal/Bolton; a quick review while the site is up!

By Tony Attwood If you have been following us this past week you will know that the various sites we run have been going up and down like the proverbial.   So, I won’t take too long writing this, in case we lose service again, but here’s the quickie from last night. If you want to …

I think we should add Untold to the injured list. Here’s Untold Injuries again.

Because of the attacks on our site we put up a temporary web site for much of 25 October, and one of the articles published there was the Untold Injury Index.  When we finally got the main site back and running, everything on the temp site vanished, so here it is again… Untold Injury Index …

Arsenal v Bolton – another attempt at a match preview

By Tony What with our sites going up and down like things that go up and down a lot, we have published one preview of the game on the temporary site, but now lost that again. Anyway I made a mistake on that preview by including Rosicky who is not in the squad, so not …

Updates and explanations – Untold Arsenal site restored.

By Tony Attwood If you have been following the bizarre comings and goings you will know that we have been, gone, disappeared, returned, gone, etc etc. All of the web sites operated by Hamilton House went down last Thursday, and we have been struggling to get everything sorted and back up since then.   We’ve been …

Who’s the number one amongst the refs?

With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Do you want to know how the refs have done so far this season? Well I will try to give you some details including another graphic of the score each ref has got so far. So we must remember that unlike in school …

Changes in the academy system benefit Arsenal and our young players

—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– By Tony Attwood For years and years talented children and teenagers in England have been hindered if their talent is in the world of football.  While talented youngsters who express their genius in terms of music, mathematics, the theatre, dance, visual art, literature or …