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 Walter Broeckx No changes to the starting line up compared to the team that won at Burnley. Mesut Özil celebrating his birthday today so let’s hope he can make a very happy day of it. Also Cech celebrating his 50th appearance for Arsenal. On the bench a few changes. Coquelin back on the bench …
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By Walter Broeckx I think we have over the years written a fair number of articles about Fifa and the way the association is very close to a criminal organisation that is standing above laws that other companies and people have to obey. If you allow Fifa to organise a worldcup in your country you …
Read More “Taking on Fifa: How the Dutch FA has become the first to tell Fifa it has had enough”
By Walter Broeckx In a recently published article Tony spoke about how the aaa remembered the past with rose tinted glasses. They tell us that we always have out rose tinted glasses on. Well to be honest I rather prefer to look at the present and the future with rose tinted glasses. Because that way …
By Walter Broeckx With the late winner from Koscielny against Burnley a whole lot of people felt the need to give their comments on the goal. There was the question of the offside that was a non-question as it was Koscielny who struck the ball and not Oxlade-Chamberlain. So that could be ignored. But the …
By Usama and Walter IMPORTANT NOTE!! If you hover over the wrong decisions on this page there a few links which take you to videos where you can see the incidents. They should open in a new tab and you can even slow them down in order to watch them. BURNLEY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier …
Read More “Ref Review Burnley – Arsenal: at least he got that one right”
By Walter Broeckx As you may have read I was not able to do my usual life match report. The reason was that we had a supporters club meeting straight after the match. And as I am the president of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club I had to be there of course. But I must say that it …
Read More “Burnley – Arsenal 0-1, The Paradox Curse has been broken”
By Walter Broeckx It is known by every Arsenal supporter in the world by now I guess. Arsène Wenger has been Arsenal manager for 20 years manager. An amazing long time in the current football climate. People expect us to write an article to celebrate this milestone in his and Arsenal’s history. But to be …
By Walter Broeckx If we would believe the moaners, our club is run by a bunch of nogoods who know nothing about football. And who have appointed and kept a manager that knows nothing, is outdated, a dinosaur, a dictator and a ditherer when it comes to transfers and spending money. The last thing might …
Read More “Luckily our manager doesn’t listen to the twitter-experts and TV-moaners”
By Walter Broeckx Two changes in the team with Ospina coming the place of Cech and Xhaka taking up the place of the injured Coquelin. On the bench we had Reine-Adelaide and Gabriel. A rather unexpected name the first. Arsenal team: Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Cazorla, Xhaka, Walcott, Ozil, Iwobi, Alexis On the beach: …
By Walter Broeckx As you may have heard I have been in the TV studios again. And it was a far more relaxing experience this time than last season. You might recall I then was invited on my own to sit next to the super pundits in Flanders and one “famous” Tottenham supporter. I then …
Read More “Arsenal Belgium in the TV studios and Arsenal getting all the praise in the world”
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. CHELSEA COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 6 DATE: 24th September 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Michael Oliver 1st LINESMAN: Gary Beswick 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
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By Walter Broeckx A bright start from Arsenal who immediately took the game in hand and went in search for the attack. Chelsea sitting deep as expected and defending numbers from the start. A new manager but nothing changed at first sight. Alexis winning the ball in the Chelsea half and Arsenal pressing Chelsea and …
Read More “Arsenal – Chelsea: 3-0 for a team without a centre forward”
By Walter Broeckx I have been talking about the video ref for many years now. Tony has given me the chance to talk about it for many years and on many occasions. I have written articles and showed video clips about the tests that have happened under the guidance of the Dutch football federation KNVB. …
Read More “Like it or not, the video ref is alive and kicking : no stopping it now (I hope)”
By Usama and Walter HULL CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 5 DATE: 17th September 2016 VENUE: KCOM Stadium (Hull, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Roger East 1st LINESMAN: Darren Cann 2nd LINESMAN: Matthew Wilkes 4th OFFICIAL: Paul Tierney First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “Ref Review: Hull – Arsenal. An extraordinary performance by the referee.”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team to start: Martinez, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Lucas On the beach: Macey, Bielik, Sheaf, Dasilva, Zelalem, Willock, Mavididi A very mixed team at the start from Arsenal. And with only kids on the bench. A few experienced players like Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Xhaka, The Ox …
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. SOUTHAMPTON COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 4 DATE: 10th September 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Robert Madley 1st LINESMAN: Marc Perry 2nd LINESMAN: Edward Smart 4th OFFICIAL: Simon Hooper First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
By Walter Broeckx and Usama As in the Southampton match the keeper of Southampton was booked for time wasting Usama took the trouble to have a look at how the time wasting was going on when Forster had to take goal kicks. We didn’t examine the time wasted on throw ins as that would take …
By Walter Broeckx Only a few changes to the starting XI for this match after the midweek match against PSG. One of them being Cech back in goal and in attack we had Theo taking the place from The Ox who dropped to the bench. No place for Giroud who had a little problem that …
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By Walter Broeckx Ah that lovely sound of the window that slams shut. I love it. Because then finally we can be sure that we will get rid of all those silly rumours that are being spouted 25 hours a day. Well… for a week or so because as I will go on a holiday …
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WATFORD vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 3 DATE: 27th August 2016 VENUE: Vicarage Road Stadium (Watford, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Kevin Friend 1st LINESMAN: Ian Hussin 2nd LINESMAN: Mick McDonough 4th OFFICIAL: Simon Hooper First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:48 Granit …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team that started: Cech, Bellerin, Holding, Koscielny, Monreal, Cazorla, Xhaka, Walcott, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis. On the beach: Ospina, Chambers, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Wilshere, Giroud So a first start for Özil this season after the euro’s. A midfield combination of Xhaka, Santi and Özil for the first time. Giroud on the …
By Walter Broeckx The Champions League draw. This time the CL draw is upon us without much noise. After all we didn’t have to play any matches to qualify as we were runners up in the PL last season. With all the players coming back late I think we were lucky to not being involved …
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By Walter Broeckx I remember a few years ago that I wrote an article after Arsenal lost a match. It was an article on how luck can decide the outcome of a match. As it was after Arsenal had lost a match in an unlucky way I got called some names by the usual suspects. …
LEICESTER CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 2 DATE: 20th August 2016 VENUE: King Power Stadium (Leicester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Jake Collin 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 4th OFFICIAL: Andre Marriner First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:45 …
By Walter Broeckx First of all a big sorry for the fact I couldn’t get my article on line. Murphy’s law was at work. As I opened my laptop just when the match started (had to do my theoretical and physical exam as a ref this afternoon and got home just in time – Oh …
