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." A Wenger
By Walter Broeckx What has been whispered for a while now has become official now. Lukas Podolski is joining Arsenal from next season. The official website from FC Köln has made it public on their website. For those who can understand German you can read it here. http://www.fc-koeln.de/news/detailansicht/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4813&cHash=798324b1a22697bd2852832f171c8384 And after writing it down and going …
Help us develop a database of Arsenal Anniversaries. ——————————- By Tony Attwood The Scottish Football Association has revealed police are investigating threats made towards members of the judicial panel that imposed a 12 month transfer ban on Rangers (who were found guilty of bringing Scottish football into disrepute). The Rangers manager, Ally McCoist, had previously …
————————————– We’re building a list of anniversaries of the club. Please send your suggestions to Tony.Attwood@aisa.org —————————- Why does AST talk of failure in the future? By: Anne I came to write this article in an extremely roundabout way. It all began when I was looking at the twitter account of Tim Payton of the …
The FSF Writers Awards 2012 The FSF’s Football Writers Awards 2012 reward the best football coverage by professional and amateur writers across a number of categories – two of which in particular interest us. You can vote for Untold (or another site, if you are here by mistake) by email. Details are below, but first …
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By Billy the Dog McGraw. A little while ago, while celebrating Robin Van Persie’s Double Player of the Year success, the idea came up that we should have our Untold Awards. These were duly set out, and now we are running through the results. We have already announced that Francis Coquelin wins the award for …
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By Walter Broeckx Well it didn’t look that way at first but it was a very good day for Arsenal. The game started well for Arsenal. Apart from the usual trouble with some high punts from Stoke it was Arsenal who had the first two clear chanses of the game. But we didn’t take them. …
Read More “With a little bit of luck…. (and some comments from Mr Wenger on Stoke/Arsenal)”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: John Flynn Assistant 2: Darran Cann 4th Official: Andre Marriner Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… There are some interesting appointments for this weekend’s and midweek fixtures. We, of course, have Chris Foy for this match (more about that in a minute) …
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New update on Woolwich Arsenal’s definitive history Transform your life: Become a professional writer We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————- By Phil Gregory Arsenal travel up to the lovely Britannia Stadium to play Stoke on Saturday, a ground that has produced fewer points than controversies for Arsenal in recent years. With Chelsea reaching the Champions League …
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Woolwich Arsenal’s definitive history Transform your life:Become a professional writer We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————— By Walter Broeckx As you will probably know there are other people around who do something similar to what we do. One of the most visited (I think) is the website debatable decisions that can be found here. There …
New update on Woolwich Arsenal’s definitive history Transform your life: Become a professional writer We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————— By Tony Attwood Just one thing before I begin – I am going to confess I am confused over this player’s first name. I have seen both Jules and Olivier written down in reports – so …
————————————————————– New update on Woolwich Arsenal’s definitive history Transform your life: Become a professional writer We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————- By Walter Broeckx When looking on the internet I stumbled upon an interesting research from the Dutch exercise physiologist (never heard of that job before but it does seems to exist) Raymond Verheijen. …
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—————————— New update on Woolwich Arsenal’s definitive history Transform your life: Become a professional football writer We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————— By Tony Attwood The idea of our doing our own Awards arose as Robin won the first of his two awards this season, and we discussed not only that award of player of the …
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——————— New update on Woolwich Arsenal’s definitive history Transform your life: Become a professional writer We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————— By Tony Attwood Since 1960/61 the Football League’s top division has been won twice at White Hart Lane. Unfortunately for Tottenham, both times the league was won by Arsenal. As a result last season Tottenham …
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This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
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This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Swansea City 0 – 2 Newcastle United”
By Walter Broeckx There was a question Anne asked in the comment section of one of her great articles about the way the PGMOL is acting in the media. “Would the EPL really be such a loss?” I understood this as : Would losing the EPL really be such a loss. If I misunderstood …
Read More “20 years of the EPL. Was it good or bad for English football?”
—————— While it would take a journalist of such utterly blinkered proportions to ignore the sensational achievements of Robin van Persie this season, there is always an opportunity in every great story for journalists to cast doubt. So it is with our Double Player of the Year man. He’s won the awards, but immediately some …
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Untold Arsenal See us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx With United players falling down like apples from an apple tree in the harvest season and most of all refs very willingly to blow the penalties even before the players hit the ground I thought it would be interesting to have a closer look at …
By Billy The Dog McGraw Our man in the swamp There is a general feeling among the great and good that the current series of articles on Arsenal’s signings this summer has been a bit lacking in, well, what’s the word. Rabies? No. Razzamataz? No. Ridiculousness. That’s the word. So I am here to add …
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Today’s referee is Mike Dean – MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Mike Dean (2012-04-21) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment Weight 3 OTHER Rosicky Torres C Trip, advantage played 1 3 OTHER Song Torres NC Song nipped ball away, wrong call 1 7 PENALTY C Kalou skipped over Sagna challenge, lost rhythm, …
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For the last few years the Untold team, when it has felt like a drink and a social prior to the match, has settled on the Auld Triangle – not for any love of the joint (and “joint” is just about the right word for this appalling establishment) but really out of habit – for …
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By Tony Attwood A billion congrats to Robin on winning the PFA Player of the Year Award – and it made me think we ought to award our own awards too – so here they are. The award Robin has got is one of several handed out around this time of year. There’s the Football …
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By Billy the Dog McGraw. Our man in the Depths of Despair Way way back in the dim and distant past – well in 19969 to be exact – Swindon Town beat Arsenal in the league cup final on a ploughed field. The Arsenal team contained famous names like Wilson, Storey, McLintock, Radford, Graham, Gould …
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Today’s referee is Andre Marriner – MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Andre Marriner (2012-04-16) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment Weight 2 OTHER McArthur Rosicky C 1 3 OTHER RVP Di Santo C RVP could have been cautioned here, it was late 1 6 GOAL Di Santo C Hurt as much second and …
By Walter Broeckx If we would follow the logic of some supporters who came on this site in the last days we had no chance whatsoever to win against Chelsea. Their logic was if a team with the 4th highest wage bill cannot win against a team with a lower wage bill there is something …
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