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 Tony Attwood On a day when yet more illegal activity swirls around Barcelona (even more than I managed to cover last night in what I thought would be a full review of their activity – as Gord pointed out in comments on yesterday’s article), and on a day when we play a club whose …
Read More “FOOTBALL should be an ART. The Untold Banner is unveiled tonight at the Emirates Stadium”
By Tony Attwood Catalonia didn’t actually hold a referendum on independence recently; it held elections to the regional assembly. As a result the main separatist alliance and a smaller nationalist party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament. So they won most of the seats, although they didn’t get half the vote. Such …
Read More “Barcelona to be excluded from Spanish League; Neymar assets frozen, Messi injured”
By Tony Attwood “A willingness to attack, a high velocity, and sophistication.” That is by and large what today’s Guardian report on on Arsenal says. But I am going to highlight a handful of other things that can out of yesterday’s game. First the number of shots. Arsenal have more shots than anyone else per game. …
Read More “The exact reasons why Arsenal came good – so very good at Leicester”
By Tony Attwood Yes we sure did our bit. As of saturday morning over 102,000 people had signed the petition demanding that Dean never again can do an Arsenal game. Now we shall see what PGMO does. If you still haven’t signed the petition is still there. Follow the link from the home page. The …
Read More “The lovely Tinkerman against the Arsenal as Dean petition passes 100,000!”
By Tony Attwood As expected the Swiss authorities have started criminal proceedings against Sepp Blatter. Just as expected Platini has been asked to provide information. Here’s the statement… “On the one hand, the OAG suspects that on 12 September 2005 Mr. Joseph Blatter has signed a contract with the Caribbean Football Union; this contract was …
Read More “Slowly the finger points at England over Fifa corruption”
Leicester v Arsenal 26 September – the Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is the updated Table of Shame following the review of the Stoke game refereed by Jonathan Moss. Two wrong Important decisions right at the end of the game with the not given penalty and sending off of Pieters for wrestling Giroud …
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By Tony Attwood It had to happen sometime: Barcelona currently banned from making transfers are begging Fifa to allow them to play Arda Turan, now. Turan was signed in the last transfer window as Barcelona found a loophole in their banning order realising they could sign the player, but simply not play him. Now they argue …
By Tony Attwood In a recent article Blacksheep asked, What is wrong with football. I was re-reading this and found myself asking “what is wrong with football supporters?” I found myself asking why commentators on this site sometimes find it necessary to write, “if you think x you are an idiot,” where x is fairly obviously, …
By Tony Attwood 1: Kane isn’t scoring Apparently on Tottenham’s tour of Australia, so many fans buzzed around Kane while he was shopping he had to be rescued by minibus. And so highly esteemed is he in tot-land this season in plays in Adebayor’s old shirt which he told the Telegraph he had adopted in …
Read More “Ten things we learned at the ground of the tiny totts”
By Bulldog Drummond. First the afternoon result: Arsenal under 18s 5 Tiny Tottenhams 3. Our goals from Fortune, Nelson, Robinson (2), Nketiah. And so here we are again, at the soon to be closed for repairs White Hart Lane. And here we are with a team in the League Cup which is probably not going …
Read More “Arsenal 5 Tiny Totts 3. And now its the teeny weeny cup”
Let’s see the funny side Tim Charlesworth I’m really going to stick my neck out here, and post a defence of public enemy number one, Jose Mourinho. Everything I have ever read about this highly successful manager suggests that he is a perfectly reasonable chap, who spends time with his family, and has a sense …
— The petition “Prevent Mike Dean from refereeing another Arsenal game” now has almost 90,000 signatures. Please sign up if you agree. —- Watching newspapers jump left and right as they try to work out which way the bandwagon is rolling is never an edifying site, but it can on occasion be amusing – in …
Mahdain Ignoring facts and turning a blind eye to further an agenda Let it be known that I am writing this while I am still seething from the extreme injustice that we faced yesterday. It has happened far too often for my liking and still nothing has being done about it. You would have thought …
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By Tony Attwood Once upon a time the mainstream media was there to tell us some news. In football terms that meant giving the football results and having a factual run-down of the match. Now we don’t need that because we have the internet, so instead the mainstream aims to hold its position by telling …
By Tony Attwood The season before last I watched a Chelsea shot going away from the goal, and then be handballed. The referee sent a player off, which is the wrong punishment because the punishment for deliberate handball which does not prevent a goal is a yellow card. But worse, his lack of vision of …
Read More “PGMO 2 Arsenal 0: why on earth should we even bother to play the matches?”
by Bulldog Drummond Jose Mourinho, hero of the aaa, said recently,”Normally when bad results happen the first thing that comes into your laptops, iPads and pens is to find a dramatic story: ‘Somebody punch somebody in the dressing room’, ‘The manager doesn’t want to speak with this guy’. “‘Diego Costa fought with John Terry and …
By Tony Attwood The Untold Banner is now on display at the Clock End. I must immediately thank Mark Brindle of Arsenal who encouraged and supported our efforts to bring this to fruition, and of course Blacksheep, who travels with me to Arsenal games, and whose idea this was. One day, in a desperate move …
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Chelsea v Arsenal 19 September – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No referee reviews to report this week so straight into the business for the weekend Referee – Mike Dean Assistants – S Long & S Burt Fourth Official – M Oliver All well known to us. Here is the table of last year’s …
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By Tony Attwood England close to losing Champions League spot screamed the Telegraph Why the Premier League is on the brink of losing the fourth Champions League spot – the Daily Mirror added helpfully. England in danger of losing a Champions League place as UEFA co-efficient continues to slide and Italy catch up said the Mail …
Read More “We’re gonna lose places in Europe, and it’s all Arsenal’s fault”
A disappointing night by Tim Charlesworth Two days ago, I eyed a tricky looking set of upcoming features and wrote an article for Untold about it. My article tried to focus on the really important things to look out for, other than the obvious ones of whether we scored goals, and whether the opposition did. …
Read More “A disappointing night, but plenty more to play for.”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal won the under 19s game against Dinamo Zagreb 2-0. The team was Keto Moore Bola Pleguezuelo (C) Bielik Willock Nelson Iwobi Sheaf Hinds Mavididi Chris Willock and Ben Sheaf scored the goals, to win the under 19s first Uefa Youth League game this season. Arsenal.com report the first goal thus: “Willock collected …
Read More “Dinamo Zagreb vs Arsenal: under 19s report and full preview of the evening match”
By Tony Attwood Getting information the Uefa Youth League match that kicks off at 3pm is tough, but I’ll offer what I can. If you have more please do let me know. Arsenal.com is making much of the inclusion in the squad of Tolaji Bola who played for the under 18s last season, and is …
Read More “Dinamo Zagreb v Arsenal: the under 19s game and prelims about the big boys.”
What can we learn in the next three weeks? Tim Charlesworth As we head into a tricky looking run of fixtures, us Gooners are torn between optimism and fatalism. On the one had Walcott is coming good, the team looks solid, three clean sheets, and the form of the second half of last season looks …
Read More “Four away games in succession pose Arsenal some problems.”
Exclusive, read all about it – Arsenal in crisis By Proudkev Media reporting has always been short on facts and agenda driven but since the advent of the Internet it has gone from bad to worse. It seems anyone can write an online article; all you have to do is have something negative to …
