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 I have to come back to the first goal from Chelsea. A lof of things have been said about the Alonso-Bellerin assault that went unpunished by the ref. And a lot of rubbish has been said. Now before I come to the point of this article I will start with a few …
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By Tony Attwood in Australia I have seen Arsenal on TV in all sorts of somewhat unusual places – including I recall watching the 1971 Cup Final in Algiers – but I don’t think I ever anticipated watching a live Arsenal game eight miles above ground level. But that is what happened with the Chelsea …
By Walter Broeckx In trying to ignore the Atkinson antics people said it didn’t matter because we were played off the pitch. Now I must say that I had the impression that it was a more balanced match. But hey, what do I know I could be wrong. I thought it started as a more …
By Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has predicted it before. We have seen it all before. We knew it would happen if the chance would arise and lo and behold… Atkinson did it again. Arsenal started rather bright and got the first chance. Özil winning the ball high up field, gave it to Iwobi whose shot …
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By Bulldog Drummond One question that pops up with Chelsea matches is whether Arsenal did the right thing in buying in Cech. . Of course these things are always hard to measure, but Oulala.com have come up with a graphic that shows a comparison between Cech and Courtois, and it seems that (as you …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal: the review part 2 – the teams.”
By Bulldog Drummond Chelsea, as we will all remember, were thumped by Arsenal 3-0 at the Ems, and although that was good news for us it was pretty bad news for the rest of football as they then went on a whirlwind of winning. Date Venue Opposition Score (h-t) Result 24/09/2016 A Arsenal 0:3 (0:3) …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson 45 years old from West Yorkshire FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stuart Burt Northamptonshire FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Stephen Child Kent FIFA Accredited Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell 33 years old from Warwickshire Well it’s finally happened Martin Atkinson appointed as referee for his first …
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by Tony Attwood I seem of late to have annoyed more people than usual with my occasional ramblings on this site, so I guess there might be a little bit of pleasure dished into the lives of one or two people when I report that tomorrow (Friday) I am toddling off to foreign parts; to …
By Tony Attwood There is something delightful about watching the nation’s media writers making total idiots of themselves as they respond to an Arsenal defeat – and something inevitable about the way the anti-Wengerian camp followers will pick up on the theme. But the way in which they overtly seek to mislead the public is …
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by Tony Attwood In terms of what we did in the transfer window the answer was not a lot although given the general hysteria of who we were going to sign, that might come as a surprise. But jut to check you didn’t miss anything here’s the list… In Cohen Bramall (Hednesford Town) – …
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by the Referee review team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek 16 Bournemouth vs. Leicester City [1-0] Referee – Paul Tierney 1st Assistant Referee – Andy Garratt 2nd Assistant Referee – Scott Ledger Fourth Official – Andre Marriner Everton vs. Arsenal [2-1] Referee – Mark Clattenburg 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Bennett 2nd Assistant Referee …
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By Tony Attwood What to make of that? Well, block 110 front row had enough humour to keep us sane, and remove life-threatening situations from any cats that might be lurking at home. But maybe that was because a) none of us owns a cat and b) we had seen it before – just as …
