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
A very good day to you all! I’ll keep it short, as there are better things to be doing on a beautiful day in the merry-month-of-May. I slept in my Arsenal shirt last night – my only Arsenal shirt I hasten to add. I knew full well I’d have to wear it today, but I …
Mourinho wasted 180 minutes of our lives and got called a genius for it. Newcastle Lately, Newcastle have displayed about as much motivation as a depressed sloth – which is understandable considering they hit the 40 point mark sometime back in January. Incidentally, around the time Cabaye left and Pardieu started fighting people. Since …
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It’s Cup final season, so in the spiritual sense every game is a cup final. This one is no different, aside from it being a little different from your classic cup final. What it is though, is a nice chance to size each other up before Wembley. Hull City are one of the few struggling …
Right, my Internet is still down so I am writing this freestyle, feeling like a Google-shaped section of my brain was removed when I wasn’t looking. (Tony, how’d you do this in the olden days?!) Playing West ham at the Emirates should never be a cause for concern, should it? Their resurgence came at just …
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D-Sanchez-Cabello I’ll begin with the good news. Ramsey is back, with a chance of featuring today. It would seem slightly premature to start him, but you never know. Ramsey’s importance is hard to overstate. To my mind we haven’t had a more complete midfielder since Vieira. His early season form was magnificent and as a …
D-Sanchez-Cabello Earlier in the season, these match previews were written with a small amount of logic. They might adhere to something along the lines of: said team has weakness, which compliments certain strength of ours. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t, but there was at least a certain amount of reasoning behind a wild …
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D-Sanchez-Cabello The weather has an uncanny knack for mirroring footballing moods, especially in western England where the land pushes further into the Atlantic. Hailstorms are punctuated by sunny skies, wind is a constant and thunder/lightning are never too far away. Last week the weather was positive, as was the football. Chelsea’s lapse was encouraging and …
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By Tony Attwood We screwed up today, and I have a team from GCHQ looking into it. Dominic’s preview was written and ready to go, and it didn’t go. But since Untold always goes where others don’t it is published below. Sorry dom. But, here’s the thing. After four episodes of the new major series …
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D-Sanchez-Cabello Bayern Munich are a behemoth and behemoths are rarely attractive. They are the leading club in the largest market in Europe. Ally that to the distinct national feeling in Bavaria and you start to see why Bayern are able to bludgeon their competitors each year. I’m torn on the Bundesliga, there are bits of …
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An early Kick Off today between two teams in a bad pocket of form. Indeed the form table has it down as a clash between 11th and 14th. For whatever reasons, lunchtime matches haven’t been a strong point – the results in Liverpool and Manchester springing to mind. Last time we played Everton they seized …
D-Sanchez-Cabello So today we travel to Stoke, a place where it seems we are destined to be embroiled in some narrative or other. From the moment this northern club with a reverence of physical courage and graft came to the Premier League, I guess it was obvious that it would be played-off against this southern …
I’ll keep it brief today; as I’ve just heard I have an 11 a side game in a few hours. Apparently the rain hasn’t made the pitch unplayable – legally unplayable that is, it will of course be impossible to play football on. But that never bothered anyone. It bothers me though, as I walk …
D-Sanchez-Cabello Apparently Harry Redknapp has allowed Bayern to use QPR’s facilities. Not an exceptional story, as apparently many teams visiting London have used Loftus Road over the years. It did strike me as amusing though. You can just imagine Harry loitering around, ready to sell a few ‘bargains’. ‘Accidentally’ he might bump-into Arjen Robben: “Ello …
D.S. Cabello The only positive I can take from Saturday’s game is that we’ve now played each other twice. City and Chelsea still have to visit Anfield. So, fingers crossed. Football is hugely psychological and no defender is nervous when they are two ahead inside 8 minutes. Even Senderos would feel like Maldini with a …
D. Sanchez-Cabello I am confident that we will beat Liverpool, though that could be because in recent times Anfield has been a cheerful place. Not since the Crouch hat trick of 2007 have we lost there. How relevant that is, who knows? But it is comforting going to a place I don’t associate with angst …
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It was once sung that “Tony Pulis is a wanker, he wears a wanker’s hat…’, which needless to say isn’t your textbook piece of lyricism, even if it’s descriptive. A clumsy blow made heavily, if you will. In its heaviness it stumbles upon a profundity that is rarely acknowledged. Tony Pulis is indeed a wanker, …
D-Sanchez-Cabello A couple of months ago, this might have been a more daunting fixture. Since a remarkable start, their form has faltered, an influential chairman has departed and the players have begun head-butting each other. If I were part of an ambitious lower league club, I’d be studying the Southampton model intently – to the …
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DSC – Your man in the car park. This evening we meet Coventry in a game that I expect to be highly forgettable. In a way that might not be a bad thing as it’ll give us a rest – a nice emotionally detached Friday night, some beers, and hopefully a watchable game. I say …
D-Sanchez-Cabello Today is our 3rd London derby in a month that has consisted of straightforward London derbies. Seems an odd sentence that one, as though it ascends a perfectly symmetrical hill to immediately fall down the other side. Anyway. Little has changed for Fulham since they appointed Muelenstein, or at least that seems to be …
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D-Sanchez-Cabello (Comments about dustbins added by the Untold editorial team who seemingly have a fixation about them) The last time we met Villa – scandalous officiating aside – we lacked the sharpness our game needed. The rustiness that comes from a period of non-competitive football, affects a precise team more than it does a rough …
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Dominic Sanchez-Cabello A pub quiz one for you all: “Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?” was the question asked by Blackburn owner Jack Walker back in 1992. Lets hope that in time, Levy comes to ask: “why do you want this Klopp bloke, when we have Tim Sherwood? Tottenham …
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Sorry its late.. I awoke this morning to find out that it was January – something that displeased me greatly. Christmas had come and gone, the weather had taken a turn for the worse and I had acquired a mysterious headache. It was also 11am, the red /sometimes blue ‘Birds’ were visiting Arsenal and I …
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One year to the day after Arsenal 7 Newcastle 3 we meet them again. There’s a link to last year’s fun and games at the end. Matters Everyone’s Favourite Pundit Some say that listening to Michael Owen is similar to watching paint dry. I was one of these until quite recently, where awkwardly I …
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D-Sanchez-Cabello My dear friends, Merry Boxing Day and all that… Now I hope, that unlike myself your enjoyment of the festive season does not hinge entirely on Arsenal’s success. Which, of course is a truly absurd way to live… a bit like clinging to a leisurely morphine addiction. Sometimes you enjoy it, but other times …
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I thought a while ago that Mourinho’s return to Chelsea hinged on him changing his style. An Oligarch reemploying a man he’d spent 20 million to get rid of seemed odd, and suggested that something had changed. In an interview the other day, Mourinho alluded to an inability (for whatever reason) to resort to his …
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