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 Billy “The Dog” McGraw “Footballers, like measles, should be caught young”, Sandro Rosell. It was one of the most amazing moments in football that the world has ever seen. Cesc Fábregas, champion of the universe, master of his destiny, prophet to the masses, and player of the year in the Sidereal Daily Mentioner, descended …
Read More “Barca announce the signing of Cesc. Five year contract agreed”
By Billy The Dog McGraw, landlord of the Toppled Bollard and Rampager of the Northern Hordes. Continuing the unique and specialised services offered to you by Untold, and having indulged in a bottle of apple and mango juice to celebrate the new season, I present my first column of the 2010/11: to wit and viz, …
One of the crazier sidelines of the failure of England to do very much in a world cup final has been the parade of has-beens (as opposed of course to people like me who have never been in the first place) saying that England needs to “clear the decks” and “wipe the slate clean” and …
Read More “Arsenal’s power in reserve football forces more teams out”
By Andre Kirby and Tony Attwood Andre wrote to Untold thus… I first came across Untold Arsenal in January and I have become a regular reader ever since. All the blogs are well written and well reserched, which I like. Because of this I am requesting that you write an Anti-Vuvuzela piece, as I have …
By Tony Attwood (on my birthday!) Arsenal have provisionally struck a deal, subject to the usual personal terms, a medical and a cup of tea, with FC Lorient for centre back Laurent Koscielny, according to our pals at Young Guns. (OK I know I keep mentioning that site, but as a source of accurate info …
Read More “Laurent Koscielny: Arsenal. Francis Coquelin: Lorient”
By Tony Attwood 1. My father was an Arsenal fan in the 1930s and he saw the greatest team the country had ever produced. I grew up supporting Arsenal during one of their lean spells when year after year we not only won nothing, we never once looked like winning anything. As a teenager I …
by billy the dog mcgraw, our man without capitals A crowd of about 25,000 angry football fans stormed the FA’s multi-million pound luxury residence in Cape Town last night in a spontaneous expression of frustration and drunkenness. Once entry was gained to the complex doors were ripped off hinges and files were opened. The resulting …
Read More “Fans attack England HQ and reveal details of sex and money dilemma”
Untold Arsenal runs a list of up and coming young players who we expect to break through into the first team at some time in the next year or four. It’s called the Golden 30, although for reasons that will not become apparent at this time, it has only 28 players on it at present. …
Read More “Wellington Silva (our new superstar signing) and the issue of balls”
By Billy the Dog McGraw, the Old Fish Shop, Hereford. Following the amazing revelations on the influential Le Grub web site to the effect that somewhere between 50% and 80% of Arsenal season ticket holders will not be renewing their tickets next year, Untold Arsenal can now exclusively reveal what will happen as a result …
Read More “No one will leave early from the Ems next season – official”
Until monday lunchtime (when I’m writing this) it has been an utterly wonderful world cup for Arsenal. First, while players from other teams were getting knocked about, or knocking themselves about, none of our players went down will anything much. Then, amazingly, the French team played, and although Sagna got assaulted and could have been …
Tony Attwood Michael Ballack and Joe Cole have left the KGB compound in Fulham on free transfers. There’s no doubt that both are great players, and that in earlier days would have been given new contracts by the world’s leading exponents of Prefabricated Football. You bring in already fully made talent, and exploit it for …
Read More “First signs of new Uefa financial rules having impact as clubs start shedding players”
By Tony Attwood The last post (the one from Walter on what you can and can’t say to a ref) was about football with attitude. So this is about football with altitude. Clever eh? Oh well… Anyway, as you would expect, the issue of playing 10 miles up in the air is one that FIFA …
Read More “Untold world cup: football with altitude. What the mainstream media never tell you.”
“If I met him in the street I would slap him.” By Tony Attwood Untold, from its earliest days, has carried the argument that FIFA is a bent organisation organising bent tournaments. The site has only reported a handful of the incidents that lead to that conclusion, but if you want more you only have …
Read More “The referee for the England game is “a crook, a scoundrel and a shameless bastard””
Go to football club and you will find people who complain. They complain about the price of beer, the quality of the food, the action of the stewards inside the ground, the attitude of the police, the incompetence of the box office… Over the years I have found football clubs to be among the most …
I laid my cards on the table, put myself on the line, laid my body on the tracks, and generally risked ridicule. After a lot of Untold readers had previously written in and said that the new UEFA regs on financial doping would hit the dust, they went through unmolested. UEFA Club Licensing and Financial …
Read More “New financial regs approved, so I don’t look a total prat”
By Leke Osmani -Last season we performed better than the media thought we would. We came 3rd and did quite well in the Champions League. The main positive we have from last season I believe is the fact that we have seen just how powerful our squad can be. Spending millions will break the unity …
Read More “Next season’s squad: who we’ve got and who we need”
The last time I wrote about the new Champions League anti-financial-doping regulations that are being voted on today, 27th May, a lot of people wrote in saying that they had already been watered down, and wouldn’t work because clubs would find a way round them. I know it is bizarre for me, a person who …
A week or so back Untold published an article which revealed how a tiny group of people had created the doom and gloom movement at Arsenal by undertaking multiple postings from different email addresses. In that article and others I’ve tried to point out what I think are the complex interrelated issues that need exploration …
Read More “Catastrophists and doom mongers fail to come up with a coherent plan”
By Terence McGovern BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW When I first thought of writing this article. it occurred to me that dozens of others would be doing the same and I decided to leave them to it. Days and weeks passed and not one scrap appeared on the subject matter. At that point I felt …
Read More “Better the Devil you know, than the owner you don’t.”
————— Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal” – just so you can realise what it was like in the really bad times. ————— By Tony Attwood The BBC and a lot of other commentators and news sources said, “Chelsea Football Club has said it is now “virtually debt-free”.” You’ll remember it well. 30 December last year …
Read More “Chelsea FC are not debt free at all – it was all a huge con (or a mistake)”
The Rise of the Catastrophist – finally explained If you came today to most Arsenal blogs for the first time, you would be excused from believing that doom and gloom is everywhere. In the last couple of days there has been talk of “mass protests” at the Emirates Cup games, defection of half the squad, …
Read More “How four guys with personality disorders created the doom and gloom movement”
The FA is fairly strong on the Tottenham supporting front. Or at least it was until naughty Lord Triesman was taped by a bimbo spilling the beans about the way the pesky Russians and the Spanish are bribing world cup refs. Tottenham-crazed Triesman is now yesterday’s news (a bit like the club he supports) – …
Read More “Tottenham Hotspur’s Triesman goes but other Tinies remain as FA crawls along the gutter”
Tony Adams, Mr Arsenal, won the league four times, the FA cup three times, the league cup twice, the Cup Winners’ Cup, and is only player in English football history to captain a title-winning side in three different decades. Tony Adams is in Gabala, three hours drive from the capital of Azerbaijan. Most British fans …
Today’s Sponsor: Historical Fiction on Acid. The strangest book on football in the history of books on football. ———————— Crisis, What Crisis? By Simon Bailey. Is the English game in crisis? Well if we compare it to FIFA or Trinidad and Tobagos FA our own situation doesn’t look too bad. But judged on it’s own …
Read More “Crisis what crisis? The rotten structure of English football.”
By Walter Broeckx Oh the joy of being an Arsenal fan when at 5 am on a Sunday morning the alarm clock next to my bed wakes me up. Pure delight is what runs in my blood when I realise I will be in the Emirates in some 12 hours from now. Instead of the …
