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 The world looks an awful place these days with all the wars, violence and hatred to other human beings. If only every individual human being would make sure that he would bring no harm to any other human being then the world would look like a different place. It’s up to each …
By Usama & Walter SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: League Cup FOURTH ROUND DATE: 27th October 2015 VENUE: Hillsborough Stadium (Sheffield, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Graham Scott 1st LINESMAN: Jake Collin 2nd LINESMAN: Mick McDonough 4th OFFICIAL: Nigel Miller First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points …
By Usama & Walter Note: we have taken out the list with all the goal kicks, corners and throw ins to make the reviews better readable. From now on about these decisions we will only mention the wrong ones. SWANSEA CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 11 DATE: 31st October 2015 VENUE: Liberty …
By Walter Broeckx I have recently seen a very interesting stat on the internet about the presence/absence of Ramsey for Arsenal and what it means statistically if he is playing – or not. And the numbers are really amazing to be honest. I have been a big fan of Ramsey since he arrived and defended …
By Walter Broeckx When I was doing my match report of the match against the tiny totts something strange happened. Now I must explain a bit how I do my match reports. I start before the match with the teams and then just type things that I see or that I think are important to …
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. EVERTON COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 10 DATE: 24th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Lee Mason 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Garratt 4th OFFICIAL: Anthony Taylor First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
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By Walter Broekx The question that Tony asked this weekend was answerd by Wenger. Koscielny did start in the team for this Norh London Derby. For the rest no changes for this last math before the interlul. On the bench we saw Ospina back for the first time since his injury he got in the …
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By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. BAYERN MUNICH COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 3 DATE: 20th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey) 1st LINESMAN: Bahattin Duran (Turkey) 2nd LINESMAN: Tarik Ongun (Turkey) 4th OFFICIAL: Cem Satman (Turkey) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made two changes to the team compared to last weekend match against Swansea. Debuchy came in the place of the injured Bellerin and not exptected but Gabriel came in the place of Koscielny who sat on the bench. Acccording to the German commentator Kos had a hip problem. Well this sure …
By Walter Broeckx Compared to the team that started against Everton we had a few changes. Per Mertesacker took back his place in the cente of the defence. It was Joel Campbell to make his first PL start in this match in the absence of Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott. The team that started: Cech, …
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By Pete Had a look at the squads on Arsenal.com and it seems we played players who are probably 4th or 5th team level. This is what I have: 1st Team Squad who Started Match (Total 9) Cech Debuchy Gibbs Mertesacker Chambers Flamini Oxlade-Chamberlain (injured during game) Giroud Campbell Academy Players who Started Match (2) …
By Walter Broeckx As I said in my match report being drawn against the tiny Totts in the first round was a bad present. I think we can put out an almost complete youth team in the league cup and lose without people making a big deal of it. But not against the totts. So …
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Background Arsenal has numerous regional supporters clubs across the UK, as well as an official supporters club in 62 countries worldwide, with another 20 countries currently in the process of submitting applications. You can see a full list of the clubs here. The UK regional clubs are listed at the top of the European section. …
By Usama & Walter WATFORD vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 9 DATE: 17th October 2015 VENUE: Vicarage Road Stadium (Watford, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Jones 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Adrian Holmes 4th OFFICIAL: Kevin Friend First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made a lot changes for this match as could be expected. And even a few players making their debut in this match. Glen Kamara and Alex Iwobi made their first start for Arsenal in a match with something at stake. Cech, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Giroud are the only players to keep their …
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By Walter Broeckx Even before my alarm clock was playing its first tune at 6.00 am I was well awake. A quick shower to be really fresh for the day. A sandwich with cheese and a fruit drink should be enough to get out of the door. Checking if I got all that I needed. …
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By Walter Broeckx Our apologies for the slow and erratic running of Untold Arsenal today – we had some technical problems. Tony. Not my usual place on the couch for this match but a nice place in the upper tier block 122 this time. Arsenal made some changes compared to the last match against Bayern. …
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By Walter Broeckx Match fixing is something for Italy and other countries around the Mediterranean like Greece and Turkey. Impossible in England. As England is clean in all ways of life. Nobody in England breaks the laws, does on tax evasion. Or do some? I know this is not true of course because as in …
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By Walter Broeckx Very soon now I will be singing my own version of an old song. I think it was from Willy Nelson and for those who know it, they will probably sing along very quickly. It goes like this: On the road again Just can’t wait to get on the road again The life …
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By Walter Broeckx Every now and then I get some interesting things sent to me from other Arsenal supporters. So with the death of Howard Kendall I got send a copy of a letter that someone sent to a newspaper. It was an Everton fan who expressed his gratitude towards Howard Kendall and thanked him …
By Walter Broeckx I think we can say that over the last months a few myths have been busted. Of course myths that didn’t really were believed at Untold Arsenal. But the repeating of the myths by pundits and the moaning part of our fan base turned these myths in to FACTS! (correct way of …
Don McMahon Following on a few articles and posts on UA, I decided to put together a sort of crystal ball, forecast for the short and medium term future of the team. The idea is to see who is getting on in years and will need to be replaced sooner or later and who can …
By Walter Broeckx I usually sit in front of my laptop during the match to write my match report ‘as it happens’. As this time I was in the pub to see the match I couldn’t do it. I try to keep the same format though but I might be jumping through the match back and …
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By Walter Broeckx With the whole Untold team still out on hollidays, finding the way back home from the AGM, from Watford if anyone went, I still am the only one left in the building to do a match preview. A match preview about a match that can be seen as a must win or …
By Tim Charlesworth During the summer, I speculated on the Walcott v Giroud choice at number 9. Walcott seems to have got the upper hand in this selection battle, but Giroud is now scoring lots of goals, so it will be interesting to see who is selected against Bayern. In my summer article, I …
