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 In my previous articles where I looked at injuries in general and then linked it up with the referee reviews I promised to have a further look at the possible link between what we could call being fouled a lot and injuries and making lots of fouls and injuries. Now …
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By Walter Broeckx That is one of the questions that suddenly arose when I visited Arsenal last weekend. Pat Rice is one of those people who’s name will always be fondly remembered by all who love Arsenal. Well not all. As I hate to bring it up but the non-existing part of our fans have …
Referee – Mike Jones Assistants – M Scholes and A Holmes Fourth Official – A Taylor Well here’s a surprise, Mike Jones as referee, his seventh game of the season at this level and a first timer for Arsenal this year. Not completely new to Arsenal though as we had him at the Emirates …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal 01 March 2014 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx In an earlier article I pointed at the insane injury league table. I included the most important teams and to make things easier for you I will put the little table up so you can have a look at it without having to leave this page. Here it is again Position Team …
Read More “Injuries and referee reviews and where they come together”
By Sammy The Snake and Walter Broeckx We all know the saga behind the transfer of RVP from Arsenal to ManU. One moment we were cheering for him and saying “Who needs Batman when we have Robin?” (I always thought that was really clever!). He was our “Get Out Of Jail” card, he …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal sitting one point behind the league leaders at this time of the season is somewhat what no pundit really expected. They have been waiting for weeks and months for the moment we would drop away. But here we are with 11 games to and the league table is what it is. …
Read More “Fighting adversity: this group of players is just amazing”
By Tony Attwood I am not sure if it is just my perception that is changing, but it seems to me that of late the media has lost a bit of interest in endlessly knocking Arsenal. I guess the idea started to develop on reading the Daily Mail piece which I reported yesterday – it …
Read More “Hello Joel, as media turn on the Man U and Chelsea”
By Tony Attwood Sometimes newspapers publish articles just to get an audience. Sometimes just to annoy. Sometimes to fill up a bit of space. There’s a typical “get an audience” piece from today’s Daily Mail (a right wing, English “get Britain out of the EU” newspaper that recently led the attack on the father of …
By Tony Attwood Everyone knows the Arsenal money stories. How the club did everything to reduce its stadium debt – from building houses on the Highbury pitch through to front loading sponsorship deals and using the money to reduce the borrowings. If you know your Arsenal history you’ll know that when Lt Col Sir Henry …
Read More “In the end football is always a question of money. Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, Rangers”
SIMPLICITY By Don Since the Bayern game there has been a deluge of shite media hypocrites and AAA morons screaming out for Mesut Ozil’s head and begging all and sundry to bench the sod, whose value, in their eyes is a big zero…..based on what concrete evidence I cannot fathom. Their favourite definer is the …
By Walter Broeckx As someone said in the comment section under my pre trip musings he hoped for a safe journey and that I wouldn’t have any troubles as he remembered some things not going to plan in the past. Someone with a good memory I must say as he recalled the bird against the …
Read More “Trips to the Emirates always full of unexpected things”
By Walter Broeckx I’m stating the obvious here, but a match in the stadium is completely different from watching a match on TV. In the stadium you can see the whole pitch and you can see at a different thing than where the ball is because some interesting move is happening far from the ball …
Read More “Arsenal – Sunderland, a view from the North Bank”
Who Lifted Arsenal More in Their First Season: Ozil or Cazorla? By Bootoomee This is a very polarising topic and one that I have really struggled to write. This is particularly difficult for me because I am against pitting Arsenal players against each other. I am a socialistic supporter: the team wins because all …
Read More “Who Lifted Arsenal More in Their First Season: Ozil or Cazorla?”
By Walter Broeckx As I had written in my pre-match article I was extra thrilled to be able to get to the Emirates for this match as the unveiling of the statue of Dennis Bergkamp would take place in my present. The first thing I did when I got to the Emirates was to check …
By Tony Attwood (standing in for Walter, who is on a train under the water). I remember a time in 1987 when, having won nothing for 8 years, Arsenal got to the League Cup final by beating Tottenham in the semis on March 4. (You may recall the era – the time of “1-0 down, …
Read More “AFC v Sunderland raises the question: Giroud or Henry?”
I’ll keep it brief today; as I’ve just heard I have an 11 a side game in a few hours. Apparently the rain hasn’t made the pitch unplayable – legally unplayable that is, it will of course be impossible to play football on. But that never bothered anyone. It bothers me though, as I walk …
By Walter Broeckx A few days Tony wrote an article about some pundit who was passing on his negativity and didn’t realise how he was hurting the fans of a club. And he said that the pundits apparently don’t understand how much some things matter for us, the supporters. Wise words as usual from Tony …
Read More “Because it matters: the excitement of a matchday”
KUNLE SOBODE I was never fooled for once that Jose Mourinho actually believed Arsene Wenger is a specialist in failure. The self-acclaimed Special One is a master of mind games and is a specialist in going over the top to destabilise his opponents. Wenger’s response too was apt, and Jose then did not favour a …
Arsenal v Sunderland 22 February 2014 – The Match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – M Perry, P Bankes Fourth Official – P Dowd Second time this year for Mr Marriner, he was in charge of our home game v Hull on 4th December which we won two nil. Mr Perry is …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland 22/2/14 – The Match Officials. Expect 70% accuracy and no home bias”
By Walter Broeckx The scapegoat after our defeat on Wednesday will probably be Özil. He missed a penalty. And yes it was an appalling penalty. I think Özil is a great player but I think he lacks the finishing cool a good penalty taker has. In fact many good penalty takers over the years weren’t …
By Tony Attwood I must admit that when I wrote my piece about the danger of flares and smoke bombs in football matches, I didn’t expect much interest. But we did get an above average number of readers. I did however hope that my final paragraph would suggest to anyone who did read the article …
Read More “Everton object to reduced ticket allocation for FA Cup match”
By Walter Broeckx One of our readers came up with a nice summary of the possible matches a team could have to play till the end of the season. Because from this moment on going further in many competitions might cause for more fatigue to creep in on a team. Or more injuries. And as …
By Tony Attwood Manuel Pellegrini said a load of stuff about Jonas Eriksson the referee of the Man City match wherein they were defeated by Barce. Now the almighty Uefa is looking into the situation, and there is a fair chance that there will be a charge brought against him. If there is and he …
Read More “How Uefa officials get a buzz out of punishing managers”
By Walter Broeckx How cruel football can be at times. When you play what is described to be the best team in the world you need to take your chances and you need some luck. Both things were lacking today. Arsenal came out strong and apart from a shot from Kroos well saved by Szczesny …
Read More “10 men Arsenal forced to repeat history in a few weeks”
D-Sanchez-Cabello Apparently Harry Redknapp has allowed Bayern to use QPR’s facilities. Not an exceptional story, as apparently many teams visiting London have used Loftus Road over the years. It did strike me as amusing though. You can just imagine Harry loitering around, ready to sell a few ‘bargains’. ‘Accidentally’ he might bump-into Arjen Robben: “Ello …
