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
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– By Billy The Dog McGraw. Phil’s off to a job interview, so I’ve got the job of doing the game preview. And what a funny old game …
—————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s decline and rebirth Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– MANNA FOR CONSPIRACY THEORISTS By Don McMahon I recently and most regrettably came upon an article in the FootballTalk website entitled; ¨ Arsène Wenger Is Disrespectful To The Fans ¨ basing itself on the ¨testimony¨ …
—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– Arsene’s Speech at the AGM After hearing Arsene’s speech at the AGM in full, I decided that it should be transcribed and submitted (slightly edited) as a full article. Overall, Arsene touched on many relevant issues that are discussed regularly on this …
The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Tony Attwood The AGM of Arsenal Holdings plc lasts an hour – several hundred people and a bunch of journalists turn up, there’s tea and biscuits before and after, and this year it was held in the Woolwich section of Club Level, which was nice …
Read More “UNTOLD at the AGM. What the reports don’t say: Silent Stan’s great joke.”
16.5 Things We Learnt This Week By Sammy The Snake Hello Arsenal diehards, Untold readers, and even stat fans! Uncle Sammy is here to show you the positive side of life as an Arsenal supporter. What a difference a week makes! Last week this time, I was handing my resignation to Tony… This week, for …
By Billy the Dog McGraw. Borussia as you will know, being educated fellows and not like those hearty roughs from down the Seven Sisters Road, is Latin. It means Prussia, which is the ancient state which came out of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. These things are important, and not what you get on your ordinary …
Read More “Tonight’s team, cocaine, the most unpopular man in Borussia, and a priest down the pub”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Billy the Dog McGraw The last time I saw Swansea play Arsenal I seem to remember that the ground was overlooked by a prison, and that those spending time at the pleasure of Her Majesty would lean out between the bars and shout abuse at us alien visitors from …
Read More “Arsenal v Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Abertawe: history, who plays, drink prices…”
By Billy The Dog McGraw Tony and Walter are off playing in the Supporters Club tournament on the Emirates pitch today, and thus have asked me, their trusted colleague and devoted lacky, to take over for the day. In fact I am just off down the pub, but here’s a few thoughts to be going …
Read More “Barca beat Man U in the bankrupt final, but who will sink first in the financial mire?”
By Billy the Dog McGraw – our legal correspondent. By and large I don’t like censorship. But I find myself writing on a site that is now censoring comments and have to admit that I see the need sometimes. (At the moment we have the issue of people who come onto the site, look at …
Read More “Why I dont like Giggs and other musings about super injunctions”
By Billy Le Dog Today is World Vampire Day, and in celebration, we note that the Emirates is the only stadium in the western spiral arm of the galaxy in which a goal scored with a shot from outside the penalty area this season. And thus, therefore and so we come to Our Jack’s 50th …
Read More “Dennis Bergkamp talks to Billy the Dog about Aston Villa and other cabbages”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Billy the Dog McGraw runs his finger over Uefa’s financial fair play rules, gets it snagged on a sharp bit and scuttles off to the local A and E for a quick repair. There is a report on the BBC web site this morning that “Two …
Read More “Financial Fair Play equals nothing, but someone is going to go bust”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Billy El Dog Phil Gregory sends his compliments but he has got yet another French virus, and has retired to his bed. So the cleft stick has been used, the messagers have made their way through the jungle and here I am. …
Read More “Arsenal v Huddersfield; the Billy the Dog preview”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Ipswich vs Arsenal A preview by our man with a spot: Billy the Dog “The Gunners are firm favourites to progress to the Wembley showpiece after an impressive run through the competition so far.” I copied that from the Sky Sports web site. Gibberish isn’t it? …
Read More “Arsenal set to play their first off-shore match of the season”
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw Watching Stoke City is rather like dancing the night with a girl with no rhythm Only to wake up with a hangover and find She won the dance competition. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, Zen Tse Province, 537 BC It has been a matter of some debate among academics how Lao …
Read More “Arsenal Stoke: the Chinese perspective; the Swiss view”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Billy “The Dog” McGraw The Premier League has announced that it is to carry out what it calls a “major and significant” enquiry into match fixing at the Aston Villa vs Arsenal game today. “It is self-evident,” said Sir Hardly Anyone, president of the EPL, …
Read More “Prem League announce major enquiry into match fixing at Villa/Arsenal game”
By Billy the Dog McGraw. This weekend we shall see the new formation – at least that is my prediction. In a second and a half I shall give you the low-down and upside down on the Castle of Neu but first, look at this… Fabianski Sagna, Squillaci, Koscielny, Clichy Song, Wilshere Fabregas, Nasri Walcott, …
Read More “Arsenal 4-2-2-2 format takes on small kingdom from the northern outlands”
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw, (ably assisted once again by his nurse). —————- I speak, in my headline, of course, about the line up for the EPL game or “clash” as the media like to call it, Arsenal vs Western Pornography. I mean, what sort of shambles of a club gets into this situation? Two …
Read More “What a total bloody disaster, fiasco and utter cock-up”
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw, Professor of Post-Postprandial Philosophy, the University of Certain Things, Frinton on Sea. Arsenal travel this weekend to the Manchester Riviera for a game next to the sand dunes and beaches of the exotic ShipCanal on Sunday. It is a game of some significance for me, as I have been invited …
By Billy the Dog McGraw This weekend Arsenal play away to Sunderland – the smallest village to have a team in the Premier League. Beer is 1/3 a pint. The Sunderland web site currently carries an article called “Behind Enemy Lines” which features an illustration of barbed wire in what appears to be a prisoner …
Read More “The Sunderland pitch is tilted and gives an unfair advantage”
By Billy the Dog McGraw. Our man in the car park. Thus it was. I know the Guardian said it was 25 passes, but that’s tripe. They were quite clearly drunk at the time. I could see them in their little press boxy type thing, below us executive types in club level with me old …
Read More “Arsenal v the Arsenalistas of Arsenal do Minho (aka Braga) (and a car park)”
By Billy the Dog McGraw Oh yes indeed!!! It’s Arsenal vs Notlob Wanderers. (And by the way Tony has a spare ticket for the Wednesday European thing match. Call me on 07714 76 2250, or email Tony with your contact details (Tony.Attwood@aisa.org). Cost price obviously, but you have to sit next to Tony and I …
by Billy “The Dog” McGraw. As Arsenal prepare to play Bolton, or as they are called locally, Blacheborne (a name which, as I mentioned ahead of the fixture last year, is taken from the Old English name for bleach) Untold Arsenal have had the privilege of an interview with Magnus Samo a notorious northern gangster …
By Tony Attwood Running a football club is about two things: surviving and winning. Obviously if you can’t do the former, then the latter is out of the question. So far, only one club in the modern era has fallen from pretensions of greatness to a desperate attempt to survive: Leeds. Other supposedly big clubs …
For England, that was the Golden Generation. Actually the last two world cups and the euro thing in the middle were the tournaments of the Golden Generation. England were about to win everything. After it was all over in South Africa, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of football, made a statement. He comes across …
Read More “Will failed England turn to Arsenal’s golden generation? Of course not.”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Our man in a spot. Arsenal are sending a witchdoctor and exorcist to Wembley to help the three players picked for Wednesday’s game. It appears that Arsenal are worried both about the influence over young players of such malign forces as A Cole and Fabuloso Cappuccino and so will be …
Read More “Arsenal will send an exorcist and witchdoctor to Wembley.”
