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 TommieGun I am writing this post in order to offer some of my thoughts about opinions being published here and in other media, regarding Arsenal, Arsene, what it means to be a fan (or a supporter), what is acceptable to say (or write), and what is not acceptable. I will lay out a few …
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Blacksheep63 Yes I know this is a football site, and an Arsenal football site at that, so what an earth am I doing writing about boxing? Well (tenuous link alert…) on Saturday, instead of finding somewhere to watch BT Sprot spoil another Arsenal away game with their cretinous commentary, I thought I’d avoid the match …
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Arsenal v Southampton 03 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated Wrong Important Decisions table following the United game (to be strictly honest it is updated from Walter’s post game report as I haven’t seen his full referee review so there may need to be further changes). One more …
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UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects by Andrew Crawshaw The UEFA Youth League is a tournament for players who were born on or after 1 January 1996 – i.e they must be younger than 19 on 1 January 2015. The tournament is played between the same 32 clubs that make up the group …
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By Tony Attwood Do you remember that thing the AAA and their media allies used to do? 30 years since Arsenal won a trophy, or whatever it was. And before that, “Arsenal get more red cards than all the rest of the league put together.” Well, they’ve stopped doing it – first because the …
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By Tony Attwood Every now and then I write about the Glasgow club Rangers – primarily because they represent to me the classic case of the failure of the media to ask why, and the failure to step out of line of the cosy bond they have in which each follows the other and none …
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By Tony Attwood Steve McManaman is hardly a person who would make my Xmas card list but I have to say that his dealing of the banner that half a dozen AAA had brought with them and snuck into the WBA game, was very good. He pointed out the sheer utter lunacy of what …
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Publisher’s Note There is an important campaign going on at the WBA match today, and the second half of this article deals with that. The first half contains the usual pre-match kick about but I would urge you to keep reading to appreciate exactly what the demonstration at the Hawthorns is about. Thanks Tony …
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By Tony Attwood Chris Bascombe writing in the Telegraph has said that, “We live in an age where the default position is to be offended by the continued employment of those we don’t consider to be as complete human beings as ourselves. There are now offices full of recent graduates dedicated to a daily web …
By Bulldog Drummond In the past we used to have specialists, like brain surgeons, bricklayers and baby minders. Now it seems everyone knows and can do everything. So after weeks of all those people who have never managed even a little team, knowing more about tactics than a man who has won eight major trophies …
Read More “Yesterday everyone was a tactician, today they are all psychologists”
