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 With the European chair throwing championship entering the last line for the elimination rounds time to make a roundup of what has happened on the field so far. For me I couldn’t really give a sh*t about who will win this championship. But as I look at it from my Arsenal point of …
By Walter Broeckx Today the new fixture list was made public. And believe it or not… we will have to play each team twice. Once away and once at home. Have you ever seen anything like this before? Of course you did as this is how it always goes. Well not for each team all …
By Walter Broeckx I know I can sometimes be a dreamer. I sometimes dream of all people living together in harmony. Where all people can live in peace. Not afraid of being put in prison or being killed for having another but “wrong” religion or for having no religion at all. As John Lennon used …
ARSENAL vs. ASTON VILLA COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 38 DATE: 15th May 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: John Brooks 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 4th OFFICIAL: Roger East First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 07:10 …
By Walter Broeckx, Untold writer, TV show celebrety, TV series actor, president of Arsenal Belgium In an article to pass the time of the boring interlul between two seasons Blacksheep told about his own job and how it related to Arsenal. So I thought it might be a nice thing to tell how I spend my …
MANCHESTER CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 37 DATE: 8th May 2016 VENUE: Etihad Stadium (Manchester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Anthony Taylor 1st LINESMAN: Lee Betts 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Jones First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:09 Sergio …
Read More “Ref Review: Man City – Arsenal: A tale of Jekyll and Hyde”
ARSENAL vs. NORWICH CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 36 DATE: 30th April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Jones 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Mark Scholes 4th OFFICIAL: Kevin Friend First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 01:48 Cameron …
Read More “REF REVIEW ARSENAL – NORWICH: interesting observations or just coincidence”
By Walter Broeckx With the signing of Xhaka we have a new face in our team. Certainly he is a bit of a special person the more I look at it. And he also is rather funny at times. He seems like a young confident lad who knows what he is doing. And who can …
Read More “Xhaka speaks; he’s a leader, he’s humble, and he came here because of Wenger.”
SUNDERLAND vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 35 DATE: 24th April 2016 VENUE: Stadium of Light (Sunderland, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Dean 1st LINESMAN: Simon Long 2nd LINESMAN: Michael Salisbury 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Jones First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 01:18 Nacho …
By Walter Broeckx I think the people who do the arsenal.com website and certainly those who run the facebook page have a good sense of humour. I couldn’t help but grin when I read the words on the Arsenal facebook page that accompanied the news that Swiss international Granit Xhaka has signed for Arsenal. As …
Read More “Okay, okay, you’ve waited long enough… we can confirm Granit Xhaka is an Arsenal player!”
By Walter Broeckx I know in some circles it is a bit the flavour of the day to talk about our ref reviews in a patronizing way. In a tone like: “those deluded fools at Untold with their ref conspiracy theories, oh what they will not do to not blame Wenger.” You can read it …
Read More “Whoever does the analysing of referee decisions the result is: Arsenal is screwed”
By Walter Broeckx The five last second memory of football fans is something I have mentioned before in my articles. It is about judging a manager or a player on their last match result, their last pass, their last missed chance or their last goal. If the striker scores he is god. If he missed, …
Read More “Does Arsenal still need Klopp or Pochettino to make the final breakthrough?”
ARSENAL vs. WEST BROMWICH ALBION COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 34 DATE: 21st April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss 1st LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 4th OFFICIAL: Lee Mason First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:40 …
By Walter Broeckx Whenever I come over to the Emirates to see Arsenal play I find it almost always a pleasant adventure. Last times our supporters club travelled we ran in to all kinds of troubles with the boat, the train, the traffic… leading to us even being late and missing kick off. We stood …
Read More “The catering report (specially for Nicky) and the kindness of people in England.”
By Walter Broeckx There was no live match report for the final game of the season against Villa as this time as I was sitting next to my wife in the Clock End for this match. And what an event it turned out to be in the end. I am usually a very optimistic person. …
Read More “Celebrating St. Totteringhamsday in the Clock End”
By Walter Broeckx So we are nearing the end of another season. A season that if you only used what is being said on social media as your source of new, sees us finishing in the bottom three. The worst, most disastrous season ever. And if that really were to have been the case (finishing …
Read More “They maybe didn’t want change… preparing for the Villa game.”
By Walter Broeckx As you have probably seen the special on request ref review of the match between Chelsea and Tottenham was published earlier today. Looking back at this all some questions can be asked. Questions about the standard of the PGMO refereeing in the PL but also about being consistent. This really is a …
By Usama & Walter If you are a regular reader you will know that we normally only undertake reviews of Arsenal games – although for one season we did have referees who supported other teams across England undertake reviews of numerous non-Arsenal matches, in order to get some comparisons with our figures. Those reviews remain …
By Walter Broeckx Many seasons we have been told that Arsenal couldn’t win the top matches against the other top 4 teams and thus was never going to win anything. This despite there being a few years when Arsenal did in fact got good results against other teams in the top 4. But it was …
By Walter Broeckx One big surprise when the team sheet came out as Mesut Özil didn’t play as he got a slight hip problem. So a few changes compared to the starting line up from last week. Welbeck came in the place of Özil but I think he will not play in his position. And …
Read More “Match report : Man City – Arsenal 2-2, one point away from 3rd place”
By Mike I shall start by making it clear that I’m 99% behind Usama , Walter et al in their referee analyses (well nobody’s perfect) and the article on the Crystal Palace game triggered me into doing a little more research. In that article, the question was asked, “But still has there ever been a …
Read More “The shocking figures revealed when fouls, penalties and cards are compared.”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 33 DATE: 17th April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Roger East 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Mark Scholes 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Dean First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “Ref Review: Arsenal – Crystal Palace: again no penalty for Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx What we mustn’t forget is that when Tony started his blog in 2008 he did so in reaction to the Wenger out brigade who hardly four years after the invincible season was already demanding the head of Wenger on a silver plate. So it is safe to say that the Wenger-out brigade …
Read More “Wenger is a better supporter than some who pretend to be supporters”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started with the same XI as in the last match. But the most important change was on the bench where Santi Cazorla was present for the first time since getting injured in the first match against Norwich in Novembre last year. Welcome back Santi. Starting team: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, …
By Walter Broeckx As I am the president of an official Arsenal supporters club I have to deal with lots of different fans. Now I must say that I feel blessed to be the chairman of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. Why? Well because in general we do have a big number of supporters who …
