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Recently we shared the tragic news that Adam Brogden who had written a variety of informative and entertaining pieces for Untold, had passed away. Many of us expressed our sincere feelings for Adam and his family on this site, but I wonder if I might offer one final additional thought by suggesting that as a …
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It is with utterly overwhelming sadness that I have to report the death of one of Untold Arsenal’s most valued contributors, Adam Brogden. Lydia Cubinakova, Adam’s partner wrote to me earlier this week to tell me that Adam was taken away from us suddenly on Monday night at about 22:15 in a fatal tragic road accident. I have …
Read More “Adam Brogden: an Arsenal fan and Untold contributor”
By Tony Attwood Either all the editors were out of their heads or they knew the story was nonsense, but chose to run it anyway. “YOU CAN DAV IT ALL” said the Sun’s headline. Followed by, “David Luiz’s one year at Arsenal will have cost club £24MILLION as ex-Chelsea defender plots Benfica transfer exit.” Except… …
Read More “How the Sun’s story of Arsenal incompetence and money wasting unravelled”
This preview is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Adam Brogden by Joe Let’s start with a rather bizarre story about continuity. Or lack of it. You see, nobody knows for sure how old GNK (“GNK” stands for “Građanski nogometni klub” or “Bourgeois football club“) Dinamo Zagreb actually is. If you take the current official story …
Read More “Arsenal v Dinamo Zagreb; there are matters lurking beneath”
By Walter Broeckx The more news that comes out in the open about Fifa and Uefa the more I hate the internationals. I have never been a liker of these matches anyway but the way we are proven right about how corrupt these organisations seem to be the more I hate them. Of course anyone …
By Walter Broeckx Today the news came out in Belgium that Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz has been saved and bought by a foreign owner. This club is the more or less follow up team of Royal Excelsior Mouscron a team that has gone bankrupt in 2010 and that was playing in the top division in Belgium at …
By Walter Broeckx A few days ago Tony pointed at the (amazing) fact that Untold has published 5000 articles since it all started on 14 January 2008 with the first article. I must say that around the turn of the year I noticed that we were approaching this number. And I decided to write an article about it. …
Read More “Some late celebratory thoughts: long may it continue”
By Walter Broeckx I just got a message from Tony that he is sick in bed and asking me to publish an article on Untold. As you will have noticed our morning article didn’t come as usual. Because Tony being sick of course. So I stopped what I was doing, send him first of all …
Read More “Another year over, time to look back and forward”
By Walter Broeckx The barren years because of Arsenal building the best stadium in England coming together with the arrival of the new super rich clubs baked by outside money are over. Untold has been asking for calm and patience and said that the good times will come back. We have been ridiculed, abused, insulted, …
Read More “The start of a new era. A time for celebration and remembrance”
By Walter Broeckx Today is just another day in history. Not a day that people will look back at in 10 or 15 years time and say: remember 22/01/2014? That day …the earth stood still, the 3rd world war started, an atomic bomb exploded, a nuclear plant exploded, a tsunami washed away all live somewhere, …
By Walter Broeckx In another article Andrew has reported a few things about the ref who has been appointed by Mike Riley, head of the PGMOL for the Norwich Arsenal match. But there is more about this ref. The first time we had him on our radar was early in the season 2009-2010. Our away …
Lost in bureaucracy 3 Written by Adam Brogden. This article follows on from part 1 and part 2 To put everything thus far into perspective the actual agenda of the EC is to have a fair and balanced competition independent of financial means. Yet, they are aware that the very essence of a transfer market …
Lost in Bureaucracy Adam Brogden Most people still view football as a sport, I being one; however, I cannot deny that football is also an industry with background rules to adhere to, and possibly soon, more legislation to regulate the interested parties of this industry. Within the last month we have come to understand that …
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Are the Play-offs fair? Adam Brogden. We have had in place a system of achievement in football ever since the very first cavewomen drove her man to kick a rock in anger, and that system is referred to as the pyramid system. OK not from the very start of time, nor the very start of …
The big five, is it fair. Written by Adam Brogden. The 2013 demographic study into football will be published sometime in June, in case you are unfamiliar with these sorts of studies, I’ll explain. They are basically a look at world football as a whole, and they highlight the movements of individuals from one area …
Written by Adam Brogden Scout 7 is a company founded in 2001, set to gather information on football players worldwide, with the sole purpose of becoming an online scouting network, following a player’s progress. This closed network allows its clients to monitor players and even helps identify transfer targets. The company claims to have as …
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Adam Brogden An acquaintance of mine asked me a question some time ago, and this question has had me thinking for quite a while now, not only because of its possible ramifications on the footballing industry, but also because this person earns a living out of the game and has done for the last twenty …
Read More “Third party ownership: the way European football is manipulated”
Written by Adam Brogden. “A fair and balanced competition is a competition in which everyone that participates has an equal chance of winning and is treated in the same way without discrimination”. This is taken from the latest study to be released by the EU into the governance of sport, and actually raises more issues …
Read More “A fair and balanced competition. The EU is about to act.”
By Adam Brogden Arsenal loyalty through locality and history We seem to be taking a hammering from the media and more disappointingly from ex-players, also fans wanting “like for like” replacements bought in or rather our best players not allowed to leave in the first place. Most of the above has been covered on Untold …
Written by Adam Brogden Agents fees 2011/2012 Below we have the recently released fees paid by premier league clubs to football agents, I do not know if this includes exempt persons. Arsenal £5,580,873 Aston Villa £2,730,539 Chelsea £6,490,382 Everton £3,092,891 Fulham £2,581,208 Liverpool £8,600,444 Manchester City £10,537,982 Manchester United £3,681,580 Newcastle United £3,485,503 Norwich City …
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Third party ownership. FIFA Agents part 4 “No club should enter into a contract which enables any other part to that contract or any third party to acquire the ability to influence in employment and transfer-related matters its independence, its policies or the performance of its teams”. (FIFA) This seems a very simple rule to …
(TMS) The Transfer Matching System. Adam Brogden In 2009 a new system was introduced by FIFA to regulate the migratory movements of footballers from one country to another or rather from one association to another. All associations have received training on this new system and have implemented it, over 5’000 clubs and 208 associations. It …
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Editorial cock-up note: We recently started to publish a three part series on Fifa registered agents. It is a topic that takes us to the very heart of the transfer market and the way it is working. Unfortunately due to a clerical cock-up by someone (ie Tony) we published parts one and two, and then …
Read More “FIFA Agents – from considered development to the trafficking of children”
What do FIFA registered agents do? Part 3 Firstly let me start by stating that FIFA recognises that only 42% of registered agents work full time within the industry. The other 58% have yet or are unable to break in to this industry full time although FIFA qualified and registered to do so. As of …
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The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal ———————- What do FIFA registered agents do? Firstly let me start by stating that FIFA recognises that only 42% of registered agents work full time within the industry. The other 58% …
