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 Usama and Walter Broeckx Here we are again. Running ahead in the football world. Bringing you more and more and more and more…. Untold proudly presents it new series where we not just take a look at the referee decisions in Arsenal matches. Now as you may have seen we are going to go one …
By Walter Broeckx In a world where people expect everything to be done now and get everything immediately the transfer window is a long frustrating period. Or at least for many people it is. Not really for me as I don’t refresh arsenal.com every 5 minutes to see who Arsenal has bought. But for many …
Read More “Arsenal never spend anything much on transfers. Or do they?”
By Walter Broeckx Tony started his article yesterday with this sentence : “For the predictors of doom, always circling on the first day of the season, it was a godsend.” Someone commented on this phrase saying that this wasn’t the case as even the critical fans want the club to be successful. As I was …
Read More “Fear and loathing at the Emirates; supporting the club or foul mouting it”
ARSENAL vs. LIVERPOOL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 1 DATE: 14th August 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Michael Oliver 1st LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 2nd LINESMAN: Edward Smart 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:07 Alberto Moreno …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting with: Cech, Bellerin, Chambers, Holding, Monreal, Coquelin, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Alexis. On the beach: Ospina, Gibbs, Cazorla, Wilshere, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Akpom. The first shot on goal came from Arsenal when Alexis laid the ball off to Ramsey but his left footed shot was straight at Mignolet. Both teams starting …
By Walter Broeckx There are trophies and there are non-trophies. And the difference is rather easy to see. When Arsenal win something it is a non-trophy. When other teams win something it is a trophy. Just look at how the media reports different trophies. BBC Sport on 10/08/2014 at 16:52: FT Arsenal 3 – 0 …
Read More “When is a trophy a trophy, and when is it not? (Clue: when Arsenal win it).”
By Walter Broekx The Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Bellerin, Holding, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Xhaka, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Iwobi. The subs Debuchy, Gibbs, Ospina, Walcott, Cazorla, Chambers, Martinez, Campbell, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Elneny, Bielik, Zelalem, Willock. A first match for Alexis and Ramsey this season after their 5 and 4 weeks holiday after the …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal to start this match against Viking: Ospina, Debuchy, Bielik, Gabriel, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Cazorla, Walcott, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain. Subs: Cech, Martinez, Holding, Iwobi, Monreal, Bellerin, Adelaide, Akpom, Zelalem, Willock. Despite Walcott saying he sees his future on the flank he starts in the centre of the attack in the first half. …
Read More “Viking – Arsenal 0-8: OOOOOOOOhhhhh Santi Cazorlaaaaaaa”
By Walter Broeckx At the start of last season we had a fairly good run of results. Arsenal was creating most chances in the PL and converted them very readily and to win some matches. But then came the moment we lost both Coquelin and Santi in two weeks and both were out for a …
Read More “Scoring more goals by buying a defensive midfielder…”
By Walter Broeckx Hi Florian, hope you are enjoying yourself in The StubHub Center in California. The starting eleven for Arsenal in this match against Chivas were Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Holding, Monreal, Xhaka, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Iwobi, Walcott. Santi and Xhaka making their first start for Arsenal. The match started at high pace from both …
Read More “Chivas – Arsenal 1-3: Holding scores his first goal for Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx When we look outside then we see a dark world. War everywhere. Killing of people going on everywhere. Terrorists using and misusing every word in any book to justify their evil acts. Pointing at they began to make sure that it will never stop. I know that as we grow up we …
Read More “Let us just enjoy things a bit more instead of moaning and wishing the worst on others”
By Walter Broeckx The Arsenal team that started this match was Cech, Debuchy, Holding, Bielik, Gibbs, Elneny, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wilshere, Campbell, Walcott. A first start for our new signing Holding and pairing him with Bielik was a bit surprising to me to be honest. Wilshere starting for the first time this season. Campbell and …
Read More “MLS – Arsenal 1-2: Campbell and Akpom on the score sheet”
By Walter Broeckx In order to check the pulse of the Arsenal supporters I have been on twitter and facebook the last days. Now I must say that it sure seems that some people feel unhappy. But that is part of their general condition I think. As I have known them as sad whenever I …
Read More “Crisis already: all central defenders out, nobody to play anmore… or do we?”
By Walter Broeckx When looking up on the internet we decided to go first to Lille and then to Lens as Lens looked a city with not much to offer. A nice friendly little town but with no real history apart from having a football stadium that can hold more people than they have habitants …
Read More “The food and match report from within the invisible away end. Lens v Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday I was in the away end at Lens for the match Lens – Arsenal. I even have a picture to proof it thanks to Usama who was alert to make a screen shot. Walter going down to get some (much needed) refreshments I have been to a few away grounds in …
By Walter Broeckx Almost every day we get someone in the comment section who can point at all Wengers faults, errors and mistakes and then offer simple solutions. That solution is mostly down to two words: buy X. Buy X and the world will be fine. Some will go further and say buy X and …
By Walter Broeckx It looked as if it never would come to an end but the long wait without football is slowly coming to an end. This Friday Arsenal will step up the preparation for the new season and will play a real match. And if the post companies are willing to do their job …
By Walter Broeckx I am busy on social media like Facebook and Twitter. Well as for Facebook I have to be busy as I am the chairman of the official supporters club in Belgium and we do a lot of our communication with our members using it. Twitter is something special. It sometimes is (was) fun …
By Walter Broeckx If we look at the last finals from international tournaments from Uefa or Fifa (or similar organisations) we get this as the final scores of the matches after 90 minutes: WC 2010: Spain – Holland 0-0 EC 2012: Spain – Italy 4-0 WC 2014: Germany – Argentina 0-0 EC 2016: France – …
Read More “Football is being murdered in front of our own eyes.”
By Walter Broeckx With the transfer window being open again we get the usual : “Arsenal must buy ….. (fill in)” to win the PL. Let me spell it out once again: I am not against buying a player at all and I will welcome any player that we buy and support him. But in …
Read More “How Arsenal could buy the next Messi or the next Ronaldo”
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday this came out on arsenal.com: Arsenal have agreed a deal in principle to sign young Japanese forward Takuma Asano from Sanfrecce Hiroshim The transfer of the 21-year-old Japan international is subject to the completion of a medical and regulatory processes. A number of clubs were after Takuma’s signature and Arsène Wenger …
By Walter Broeckx Yes we and certainly I hate international football. Not just for FIFA or Uefa but for the fact that over the last 12 years or so it has cost Arsenal a few trophies. Time and time again we see our players being taken away to play for their country and more than …
Read More “Sanchez, why we hate international football (complete with horrific pictures)”
By Walter Broeckx As you will know Untold never has been a big fan of the tournaments organised by the crooks of Uefa and Fifa. As I completely dislike these organisations I don’t want to be involved in anything they organise. I will also not attend a party organised by the Napolitan Mafia, so why …
Read More “The Euro’s: final stage for some Gunners? And how the Iceland team was selected.”
By Walter Broeckx Today we might have two Gunners in action at the European championship. One of them is Jack. That is if Jack Wilshere is selected to play and if not if he will come on later in the match. So not certain he will play and get injured. The other is young Hector …
Read More “Alexis once again the best! A review of Arsenal players and injuries in the summer games”
By Walter Broeckx This really is the most frustrating part of the season. No I’m not talking about the Brexit. Not even the transfer rumours that I don’t follow in fact so I haven’t got any clue about who we are after (supposedly) and who has snubbed us (supposedly) and who will snub us (supposedly) …
