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
Arsenal Ladies smashed Chelsea Ladies 4-0 away in the FA Cup semi-final and will play their old rivals Everton in May’s FA Women’s Cup final. Three goals in the last 11 minutes of the first got matters sorted. This will now be Arsenal’s 11th Final. What’s more Kim Little scored a goal which means she …
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The story doing the rounds is that Manchester IOU will see a significant drop in revenue over the next two years, now that they have decided not to put up the cost of season tickets again. Figures of around 11% decline a year are being talked about. The figures come from a JP Morgan paper …
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“The childish whimpering of car thieves like Domenech represent the pathetic winging of football’s dodos entering the last chance saloon.” I think that is a fair and reasoned statement. The idiot Domenech, whose main job is to steal footballers who are carefully trained, developed and nurtured by their clubs, not to mention paid by their …
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. A resume by Billy the Dog McGraw, Landlord of the Toppled Bollard Islington and head of the Republic of Abyssinia. “The stuffed heads of West Brom supporters on pikes that adorn the walkways of Wolverhampton are bad enough, but what makes it worse is that many still have dark glasses and …
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As expected Arsenal Ladies have secured their place in the Super League which will replace the Premier League next year. The Super League will run through the summer in 2011 and will be made up of Arsenal Everton Chelsea Doncaster Rovers Bristol Academy Birmingham City OOH Lincoln Liverpool The top six names come from the …
This was quite a survey, done all proper and exact like. None of your fiddling of results and mucking about. We went through three stages. Part One:the first gathering of names I asked for suggestions of names as to who might make it from the ranks of the reserves and the youth team into the …
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—————————— Today’s Sponsor: Your Untold Arsenal Betting Guide The Untold Arsenal / Goonernews Betting Guide Like everything else on this site, it has to be seen to be believed. Life, the Universe, the champions league… By Walter Broeckx In life we should learn things and yesterday was a night where we could learn a lot. …
. Today’s meanderings are… …Sponsored by the Untold Arsenal / Goonernews Betting Guide Like everything else on this site, it has to be seen to be believed. ——————– We have never been so stunned. We got back to the car, and just looked at each other. Ian, despite the fact that we’ve been doing the …
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Is it all over ? By Walter Broeckx If you look at what some people say, it is all over . Even worse because we dropped points against Birmingham in the last minutes we are doomed for the rest of the season. We will be out of the CL on wednesday, in fact why even …
Tony’s confession I made an absolute howler in the original headline of this piece with a grammatical error the size of Real Mad’s overdraft. It has been pointed out in correspondence, quite rightly. Normally I don’t go back and change a site once published, but this error was so bad I just couldn’t live with …
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Is Internet Streaming Killing Sport? By Simon Bailey. This week I watched the Arsenal match on my PC courtesy of a stream provided by an unknown person in an unknown location in the world. The Optimum Internet. reason for this is twofold; Firstly it was a 3pm kick off and no UK TV channel is …
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Stat of the Week: The Glen Hoddle Clinical Finishing Index By J B Harwood A few weeks ago one of the Sky Sports favourite pundits was waxing lyrical about Arsenal. How pleasing on the eye they are, the quality of their play, everyone’s second favourite team… the usual diatribe. You could feel a “but” coming …
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By Walter Broeckx This week Howard Webb has taken away the last doubts. He will be the English ref that will go to the World cup in South Africa. This week he has done everything to deserve this but before I go to details I will tell you how FAs over the world hand the …
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After six straight wins a draw feels like a defeat, especially with the invented club from across London beating a very poor Villa side. But, remember. Six straight wins, and then one draw. That’s not a desparate situation – that is a terrific run. And all done without Van Persie, who is beyond doubt our …
Read More “You can be miserable and say we were all deluded, or celebrate a great run”
By Phil Gregory Next up is Birmingham away, a match with more than enough plotlines for a football game, but more on that later. I was talking to a mate about the league run-in (a United fan, unfortunately) and we agreed that it is rapidly resembling a knockout competition. The old cliché of “every game …
By Walter Broeckx of the Arsenal Benelux Supporters’ Club After what seemed to be ages the return of Robin Van Persie comes nearer. This week the manager revealed that our striker could be two weeks at the best away from real involvement in games. Last weekend Robin Van Persie was on Dutch TV and he …
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Billy the Dog McGraw, landlord of the Toppled Bollard, Islington, looks forward to another exciting encounter. Interview by Dennis Bergkamp Translation by Iva Goodidea of Whatsgoingon Birmingham City FC are the official team of Satan, the Devil, the Horned Beast, Beelzebub. They were founded as Small Heath Alliance and Leicester Building Society in 1875 and …
By Cape Gooner Give yourself a 10 if you strongly agree, a zero if you strongly disagree or any integer in between. 1. I would not replace RvP with Torres, Drogba or Rooney 2. I would not replace Cesc with Gerrard or Lampard 3. I would not replace Song with Essien 4. I would not …
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Arshavin is the Arsenal hitman who celebrates scoring goals by putting his finger over his lips, indicating for people to be quiet. So we found ourselves entering the start of one of the best football hoaxes of the last few years. I’ve been charting football hoaxes on Untold almost since we started, and we’ve had …
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Is Wenger doing the trick once again? By Walter Broeckx .We all know that if Wenger wants to buy a player who shows great prospect he is willing to do something special. The story on how Wenger beat SAF when he signed Aaron Ramsey right under his nose is well known. Ramsey who had been …
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I started this list the other day, just because I wanted to try and get my head around all the names of young players that crop up. There was some laughter and criticism of my efforts – laughter because I managed to get people in twice, and criticism because it was said that younggunsblog.co.uk/ and …
Read More “Arsenal’s Golden 30: an update on our list of brilliant young players”
By Walter Broeckx I remember the day that Belgium had it’s greatest tragedy in football history very well. I know it was a very bright and sunny day. As I worked in the office of an industrial laundry at that time and we had a lot of hotels in Brussels as clients we had a …
. Untold recently published some thoughts on the players who are part of the club and could be on the edge of breaking through. I asked for gaps in the list to be completed and for the details of loans, along with thoughts on the future to be added. Below is a simple compilation of …
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