Arsenal have won the Premier Academy League – the first team ever to retain the title. What’s more they have secured their position as the most successful youth team club of all time. What’s more, Arsenal won the title without using their main players from last year. Jay Emmanuel Thomas, for example, who could have …
This article was published at about 8am on 11 May but there were reports from readers that it was not visible, so I am trying it again. Tony There were 15 Arsenal players on loan by the end of the season. Here’s an analysis of them – the percentage figure at the end comes from …
TODAY’S SPONSOR… Gooner Gifts is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. ————————– There were 15 Arsenal players on loan by the end of the season. Here’s an analysis of them – the percentage figure at the end comes …
TODAY’S SPONSOR… Gooner Gifts is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. ———————– Arsenal Ladies and Arsenal Youth both win by Tony Attwood Arsenal Ladies have won the last ever Premier League – for the seventh year running. Although …
16-1, I should explain, was the number of shots for each side. And there isn’t too much point in doing any analysis of a match like this. We needed to win, and Fulham were thinking of the Europa League, and we did what was necessary. Most amusingly Tottenham didn’t. Djourou came back and had a …
By Tony Attwood Fulham is one of those teams that I rarely have animosity for. They don’t seem to play long ball stuff, and they don’t try to kick us to death. (Of course having written that a few hours before the match, they might well try to do that today, but my recollection is …
by Tony Attwood Just a little story that I noticed, in case it is of interest. There’s an interesting piece in the Guardian today which suggests that the team will change from 4-3-3- over to 4-4-2 for the game against Fulham. I have to admit when Eboue is in the team I do sometimes lose …
The Arsenal Exclusives After the great success of our exclusive interview with Vermaelen the editorial team in the Toppled Bollard public house, Islington, along with our friends at the Potters Bar Lido, have decided to expand this area of our work, introducing a series of discussions with some of the leading characters from the world of …
————————- Today’s Sponsor: Check out the latest Arsenal V Fulham premiership betting odds for the Gunners’ final game of the season ————————- Tucked away among all the excitement of the Tiny Totts finally managing to do what we’ve been doing every year for the past ten years was the curious tale of a transfer protection …
Check out the latest Arsenal V Fulham premiership betting odds for the Gunners’ final game of the season ——————————————– By Phil Gregory I was at the Blackburn game on Saturday, took my girlfriend to her first game on a bit of a whim after hearing on Saturday that tickets were available on the day of …
This week’s special activity: Go to your local public library this week and ask them to order a copy of “Making the Arsenal” by Tony Attwood. You don’t have to read it but I would like to get a few more sales as we are coming out with a new edition shortly. (And if you …
———————— Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid ——————————— Blackburn Rovers will forever be known in football as the inventors of that most pernicious evil, Rotational Fouling. They later adopted the Rotational Timewasting approach that Bolton Wanderers developed soon after, and worked with other clubs to combine this philosophy with the “park the …
This is the second part of the Thomas Vermaelen interview which was arranged by Walter Broeckx of the Official Arsenal Benelux supporters club, and a great friend of Untold Arsenal. If you missed the first part it is here. ————————- WB: Did you ever think of leaving Ajax after you were named captain? TV: When …
Gooner Gifts is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.goonergifts.com/ ————————- FC United of Manchester was formed in 2005 by supporters of the bankrupt Manchester United who were so opposed to the Glazer takeover, they wouldn’t even …
—————————– Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid —————————– Exclusive Vermaelen Interview on Untold Arsenal The interview will appear on Friday 30th April If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that we have been constantly assisted in the past year by Walter Broeckx, a referee from Belgium, and a leading …
—————————– Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid —————————– You may recall that a few days ago we started to debate the 25 player rule that is imposed on the EPL next season. I messed things up by getting it all wrong, and after that a number of correspondents wrote in correcting my …
———————— Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid ——————————— THE ZEN OF ARSENAL Paul Collins I want to talk about delusion. Delusion is a word with a variety of connotations. Some people would visualize a crazy looking person walking down the street with a funny walk and mumbling to themselves as delusional. Can …
One of the big problems with Britain is that we don’t really know how to do scandals. But we are really good at covering them up. We can have scandals, of course, from ministers having affairs with prostitutes, to a whole bunch of KGB officers working in the middle of our military intelligence services with …
A blue moon arises when a full moon appears twice in one month. It is rather dull really. There are just about 13 full moons in a year and only 12 months, so logically one month is going to get a second one in one month if one sees what one is saying. Calling it …
Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal” – the story of Arsenal in 1910, a time when women’s football was almost as popular as men’s. ————– At the last AGM of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association the proposal was made that Arsenal Ladies should have a chance to play occasionally at the Emirates, just as Arsenal Youth …
Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News And as today marks the 100th anniversary of the last day of Arsenal’s turbulent season when Norris first mentioned taking us over, today’s Sponsor is: Making the Arsenal ————————- At Arsenal there is an issue for some supporters (the black propaganda revisionists and catatrophists). They want us to follow the Charlton Athletic …
Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal – the greatest novel about Arsenal with over 300 pages of text. So there. Read extracts and reviews here. ——————- How missing your central back pairing handicaps the attack. By Walter Broeckx This may cause a few people raise their eyebrows. So let me explain. This season Arsenal had for …
This past week I have got a trifle cheesed off with correspondents on this site who have ignored the article written, and instead developed their own pieces declaring that Arsene Wenger should leave the club. If you’re a regular reader here you’ll know I only cut comments where- plagiarism, racism, antisemitism and anything …
Today’s Sponsor: Goonernews Betting Guide Back to the End of the Universe Peter Hawkins Like most of you supporters of real football, I was feeling really pissed off by last Sunday tea-time. “Bugger this!” I thought to myself (nobody else was listening), “I’m going out to see if I can tell those who support the …
