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
EVERYTHING IS BORROWED……..Don McMahon Being in a rather philosophical mood after the Monaco game, I felt the urge to consider and ruminate on Arsenal’s rather repetitive and even predictable performance year after year in the CL, the EPL and other competitions, with the exception of the FA Cup. One thing that stands out for me …
By Tony Attwood I recently saw an article in the national press in which this sentence took me by surprise. Among English clubs only Chelsea would refuse to swap places with them right now. Not surprise because I don’t think it is true, but rather surprise because someone in the media actually wrote it. …
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By Tony Attwood Put simply, I’m worried about what the press in England are up to. . Not the ordinary everyday biased stuff that we see all the time. Not the fact that today the press will be full of the number of years in a row Arsenal has gone out at the last 16 …
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By Tony Attwood Before the last game between Arsenal and Monaco we did a bit of a review of Monaco’s inglorious past, and their very limited number of goals. So they promptly went and scored three. Since then they’ve had a 0-0 draw at home with PSG, a 0-2 defeat in the French Cup quarter …
Read More “Santi C apologises to fans, Monaco bores everyone”
By Tony Attwood The FA is a dangerous organisation, totally unfit for purpose, run by people utterly out of touch with the fans who end of paying the mortgage on the FA’s most ludicrous enterprise: Wembley. OK we knew that. Tickets for the FA Cup semi-final and final are fairly hard to come by. OK …
By Tony Attwood You know that great thing that Arsenal do with the league cup – charging just £10 and £20 for tickets. It never gets coverage in the press, no one points out what a great deal it is… Now compare and contrast with the much wealthier Manchester United. They insist that season ticket …
Read More “Sometimes it is worth comparing Arsenal’s approach with those of others.”
By Bulldog Drummond And so we march onwards. The results this year in domestic league and cup have been rather fine… Working backwards from last monday we see. Man U 1 Arsenal 2 QPR 1 Arsenal 2 Arsenal 2 Everton 0 Palace 1 Arsenal 2 Arsenal 2 Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 2 Leicester 1 Tottenham …
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By Tony Attwood. Poor Man U. For so many years the darling of the media. A media so bewitched by what they are and what they might be, that not a word could be said against them. And now those naughty fellows in the newspapers can write such things as, “Referees are not the only …
Read More “The virus of the media turns on Man U with a vengeance”
. By Tony Attwood . A little while ago I experienced Arsenal’s facilities for the disabled first hand, and I must say I was amazed. Amazed because one only ever hears negative things about Arsenal, and everything I found was good. Good in the sense of the way carers go in for free, …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve covered the story about Tottenham’s new stadium a number of times, about the uncertainties and delays, and indeed the changes of plans. Of course there have been some sniggering from the Arsenal end at the club’s delays and misfortunes, and outrage at their having a compliant local authority (which Arsenal most …
By Tony Attwood Getting older is a bit of a pain, especially when bits of you start going wrong. With me of late it is the eyes – but fortunately all can be fixed with cataract surgery. Thank goodness I live in the 21st century. Except, there is a period after the operation is done, …
Blacksheep and I were lucky enough to go to both the semi final and final at Wembley, so we are back there this year. And we are playing… Bradford or Reading It will be our 28th semi final. and thus far have won 18 and lost 9. 28 is more than any other team. Oh …
By Tony Attwood Paul Scholes has now set himself up as a spokesperson for the “Arsenal is in decline” movement claiming that “Over the years, the big players who were really ambitious – Vieira, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fàbregas, Robin van Persie – have all left, “They left for the simple reason that Arsenal are not in …
Read More “Scholes joins the no-evidence “its true cos I say so” gang.”
THE FA Cup Weekend – Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Taking the games in the order in which they are to be played Bradford City FC v Reading FC 12:45 Saturday 6 March – Live BT Sport Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – Michael Mullarkey and Marc Perry Fourth Official – Michael Jones Lee has …
By.Don McMahon The recent mini-crisis, otherwise known as the media tempest in a teapot or the aaa meltdown or the night of the brain-dead(the aaa national holiday), allowed me and most of humanity to appreciate how dramatic the media and our fickle aaa plastic fanboys can be. The Wenger out chants once again rang through …
By Bootoomee I chuckled as I read Tony’s epiphany giving up on engaging the AAA in debates about the running of our beloved Arsenal Football Club. I have always gone with the less conciliatory approach of mocking when necessary because as an avid Internet comments reader and poster, I know for a fact that people who …
Read More “The Lies the Media Fabricate and The Gullible Fans Who Spread Them”
By Bulldog Drummond So here we are, nine points behind Chelsea with 11 games to play. On the same date in 1998 we were 11 points behind with 12 to play. And just like now, still in the FA Cup. In 1998 we’d had a fairly awful late autumn, winning two and drawing two league …
Read More “All tonight’s results before they happen and QPR v Arsenal.”
QPR v Arsenal 4th March 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw With this game so soon after the weekend, I have not been able to update the table of shame so it remains the same as for Sunday. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 15 Red Cards …
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By Tony Attwood Is it all over for Alexis Sanchez? He scored 12 goals in 24 Premier League games – but none in the last six. Why’s that? It is worth looking at because there are early signs in the pubs outside the offices of our national daily papers that Sanchez has had it, he’s …
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By Tony Attwood “That facts that nowadays the manager clearly hasn’t got a clue about how to set up a team tactically, that his ability to motivate his players is conspicuously lacking and that his Midas touch has gone into reverse, when it comes to developing talent, count for nothing when you consider his stellar …
Read More “Beware this story about Arsenal support is boring and you’ve probably heard it before.”
Arsenal fans at home and away.by pararealist. . Arsenal fans are a strange bunch. . First there are the away fans. . They sing their hearts out for the team and give vocal support whatever is happening on the field. . Then there are the home fans. . Now, the home fans expect to be entertained …
By Tony Attwood One of the things the children who run the mass media and lead their little camp of followers never quite understand is the essence of support. It is emotional, tied to one’s tribe. But us fans also tend to know our statistics. And some of us have actually read a book or …
Read More “Arsenal’s win ratio, two assists from Ozil, and the trick of body language”
By Bulldog Drummond And so it goes. The world as two groups of people. Those who understand the notions of context and history, and those who think that the only thing that matters is what has just happened. I’m reminded of a few acquaintances who I had earlier in my life, who on hearing some …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Teams and recent stats compared. (And Chelsea)”
By Tony Attwood I must confess at once that I didn’t write that headline – although I wish I had. It came from News biscuit – a wonderful satirical site, and one I’d recommend to anyone with an off centre sense of humour. The point of their piece is that Representatives of Europe’s biggest …
By Tony Attwood So what are the children chattering about today? Well, the Telegraph, having run the story a day or two back that the Arsenal board were fed up with Mr Wenger have now dropped that one and instead gone with the fact that the transfer budget for this summer will be £50 million. …
Read More “More Arsenal purchases this summer, and how Chelsea are getting such high transfer fees”
