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 For as long as I can remember we have been saying that it is vital for a team (any team in fact) to feel support from their supporters. In a way this seems natural of course but with a part of our supporters not really being supportive for anything the club does it …
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By Goonermikey So we just had our annual bashing by the media for having the “most expensive tickets”. But how about we actually take a look at the real facts rather than the selective data we find the media using. For starters, the statistics are less than adequate since the media takes no account …
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By Walter Broeckx Of course I know that it is just a coincidence that in the last two matches we got the same final score. These things happen and in the long run they happen a few times but it isn’t written in stone now that each time we will win with this scoreline. Would …
Read More “Keeping clean sheets, scoring 3 goals what more do you want”
By Walter Broeckx A spokesman of the Austrian football federation said last Thursday against the press agency Reuter that Michel Platini can count on the full support of the whole Uefa. This was said after a meeting held in Nyon. An emergency meeting it was about the position of Uefa-president Michel Platini. As we all …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made one change compared to the team that started our last PL match against Manchester United. Koscielny started in the place of Gabriel. Gabriel wasn’t even on the bench so probably he is injured. For the rest the team was unchanged. Arsenal team that started: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Cazorla, …
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By Walter Broeckx As it seems that the rest of the Untold Arsenal staff is out on holidays, finding a way home after having been to the Arsenal AGM and probably having drunk too much, it is up to me to do the stuff we do before the match: trying to say something sensible (or …
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Watford v Arsenal 17 October 2015 – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The Table of Shame – now up to date for all eight games played Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 7 Goals 0 3 Total 0 27 …
by Andrew Crawshaw The AGM is a shareholder’s meeting required by law to be held each year so that the Board of Directors can be seen to be accountable to the company shareholders. OK so who are the shareholders and how many shares do they each have? To answer this question I …
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By Walter Broeckx In the last years we have done a lot of studying and investigating on referees and referee behaviour. And the strange referee behaviour we have sometimes seen. Based on our numbers and having looked around we could come to the conclusion that there is/was some kind of similar system at work like …
Why are some of our players so dramatically improved By Tim Charlesworth My last article (yesterday) observed that a number of our players were showing some surprising improvements over the last twelve months. Why? There are a lot of things that, as supporters, we don’t see at a football club. Most of the real action …
Read More “What is happening to our players? Part 2: The answer?”
By Walter Broeckx The more news that comes out in the open about Fifa and Uefa the more I hate the internationals. I have never been a liker of these matches anyway but the way we are proven right about how corrupt these organisations seem to be the more I hate them. Of course anyone …
What is happening to our players? By Tim Charlesworth Walter has recently written a couple of interesting articles about Nacho and Coquelin, and the extraordinary improvement that they have shown over the last twelve months. These are the two most noteworthy examples, but actually they are not the only players to improve in the last …
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By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. MANCHESTER UNITED COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 8 DATE: 4th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Anthony Taylor 1st LINESMAN: John Brooks 2nd LINESMAN: Lee Betts 4th OFFICIAL: Roger East First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description …
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By Walter Broeckx With the boredom of the interlul upon us time to check the internet and see if there are interesting things to find. And yes there are. Not just Untold is writing interesting things. I found a few interesting tables that have been put together by some people. And I wanted to check …
Read More “Arsenal since New year. Time to stop the moaning and start the supporting!”
By Walter Broeckx As I talked about Francis Coquelin the other day a few of our readers said that for them Monreal was one of the absolute revelations of the last year too. I urge you to not do this, as in a way it takes away the surprise about the new articles I already …
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. OLYMPIACOS COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 2 DATE: 29th September 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands) 1st LINESMAN: Rob van de Ven (Netherlands) 2nd LINESMAN: Charles Schaap (Netherlands) 4th OFFICIAL: Mario Diks (Netherlands) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul …
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By Walter Broeckx Of course the headlines were about Alexis and Özil and they were well earned and deserved. Alexis with two amazing goals and Özil with a goal and an assist and some amazing touches and vision. Yes they were the main stars of the show, at the end-point of some great attacks from Arsenal. …
By Walter Broeckx For years we had to hear the same old story: Arsenal cannot win the top matches so they are no good. And each time we drop points this gets repeated by the media and the 5-second brigade. And even Neville came out with the wrong preparation for top matches last week. I …
By Usama and Walter LEICESTER CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 7 DATE: 26th September 2015 VENUE: King Power Stadium (Leicester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Craig Pawson 1st LINESMAN: Michael Salisbury 2nd LINESMAN: Gary Beswick 4th OFFICIAL: Robert Madley First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made four changes to the side that started against Olympiacos in the Champions League. Cech came in goal in the place of Ospina. Per Mertesacker played in the place of the injured Koscielny. And Ramsey and Monreal started again. The Arsenal team that started was Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ozil, Ramsey, …
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By Walter Broeckx Every year, every f*cking year, season after season after season after season Untold Arsenal has been banging the drum about the gross incompetence of the PGMO the organisation that is responsible for delivering the referees for the PL and of course as he is their main man Mike Riley. Mike Riley who …
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By Walter Broeckx We all remember the story of Fabianski from the last years. The Polish keeper now plays for Swansea. And for the Polish national team. But in his Arsenal days his career got some bad moments. Now bad moments happen to each keeper. His match against Porto where he made a mistake and …
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By Walter Broeckx As in most things in life there are two ways in how you can react to bad things like a defeat of Arsenal that come your way. One way is to take it on the chin, swallow what needs to be swallowed and then get up and move on. The other way is to …
By Walter Broeckx As you all know Mike Dean is just like the other Mike we love to write about on Untold: Mike Dean. Maybe Untold wouldn’t be the same place if Mike and Mike wouldn’t be around. Because it is the fact that Mike Riley got the job of becoming head of the PGMO …
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By Usama and Walter TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: League Cup THIRD ROUND DATE: 23th September 2015 VENUE: White Hart Lane (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Lee Betts 2nd LINESMAN: David Bryan 4th OFFICIAL: Andy Woolmer First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
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