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 This week we had a bit of fun with a lot of Manchester City fans coming over to Untold after Tony published an article about the FFP rules and how things were standing at the moment. As usual some of them blame it all on Arsenal that there are any FFP rules …
Read More “Working for wins, not buying the wins. Football the Arsenal way.”
By Walter Broeckx In another article the other day I touched the notion of some fans of other clubs giving the impression that it is Arsenal and Wenger who invented and pushed through FFP in football. Now of course I like to think of Arsenal as being a great club and an important club but …
Read More “Was it Arsenal that implemented FFP laws in Europe?”
By Walter Broeckx with additional material by Tony Attwood We’ve already published an article on the squad for the Asia Trophy, so I will not go in to the names of the already known players but will stick to some of the more unknown players that will join the big boys on this trip. …
Read More “Asia Trophy squad: further reflections, further info on the youngsters”
By Walter Broeckx I don’t follow up all the rumours of the transfer window. On second thoughts I do follow them by the funny way Sir Hardly Anyone presents them at Untold and I find them very amusing to be honest. But when I look around on facebook and on twitter there is no escaping …
By Walter Broeckx With not much Arsenal football on these days one has to take what one can get. So I decided to have a look at the final of the Copa America. Chile versus Argentina. Alexis versus Messi. Well I sure didn’t regret staying up late for this. Chile started the best and had …
By Walter Broeckx From the moment Petr Cech signed for us I was interested to see the reaction of Chelsea supporters. Now we have our own private Chelsea supporter over here but unless I have missed it he didn’t comment too much on Cech coming to Arsenal. He did when the rumour was spread and …
Read More “The abuse of Petr Cech and our feelings about van Persie. Same difference?”
By Walter Broeckx Today the news came out in Belgium that Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz has been saved and bought by a foreign owner. This club is the more or less follow up team of Royal Excelsior Mouscron a team that has gone bankrupt in 2010 and that was playing in the top division in Belgium at …
By Walter Broeckx Welcome Petr and goodbye…. whoever will leave us this summer from our goalkeepers. Let us start with the latter. I don’t think having 3 top quality keepers hanging around will be the ideal scenario so I think one of Szczesny and Ospina will leave us. Either one leaving us will be a …
Read More “Petr Cech signs for Arsenal. A welcome, and what happens now.”
By Walter Broeckx Tomorrow it will be one month since we played our last match and won our last trophy. A second consecutive FA cup win has shut up the more fickle part of our fans. On Untold we always believed we would win things again if Wenger was given the time. Others weren’t that patient and still …
Read More “For Arsenal supporters there is almost light at the end of the tunnel”
By Walter Broeckx More and more it is looking very likely that Cech will become an Arsenal player one of these days. Now of course the sky may fall on our heads and it all could go wrong in the last minute but I think even Mourinho has decided that he cannot stop the Cech …
Read More “A tale of 3 keepers: will Cech actually be an improvement? You might be surprised.”
By Walter Broeckx Today the first draw was made for the European competitions for the season 2015-2016. With this draw one could say that the new run for the big trophy has started. And as Untold is running a bit ahead most of the time why not this time. So we have already filled the …
By Walter Broeckx To finish this season’s review we will do this with the finishers. The man out there to put the ball in the net. Not that it is their only task of course. Now I could have gone for the left – central – right approach but those who look beyond the ball …
By Walter Broeckx Next in our series where we look back at last season we move on to the right back. A whole lot of data about the main players in that position. At the start of the season all eyes were at Debuchy to step in the footsteps of Sagna. I was one of …
By Walter Broeckx Next in our series we will look at the central defenders. I will most of all focus on our two main central defenders Per and Kos but also will throw in a few Gabriel stats. Of course Gabriel only came halfway the season and thus played only a handful of matches. Debuchy …
By Walter Broeckx Next in our series where we look back at last season we move on to the left back. We had two players playing in that position: Gibbs and Monreal. Bellerin did play there once in the CL but in this series we keep it to the PL only. When you look at …
By Walter Broeckx How can we pass the time in those boring weeks that Arsenal doesn’t play ? Why don’t we try to compare the different players a bit and see how they have done in the last season. I will try to work my way through the various positions on the field and see …
By Walter Broeckx The season is over; time to have a look back. I will go in to individual players later on in this most silly of silly seasons, but now I first want to take a look at some numbers. Numbers like winning, drawing and losing matches in the different competitions and then mix them …
Read More “Arsenal’s win percentages; why we need Theo next season”
By Walter Broeckx Allow me for once not to do the usual match report I write. As in order to publish the report I write it while the match is going on. I found myself missing goals at times doing that when I was typing things from a big chance and from the following corner …
Read More “Hey look, we won the Cup. Finally the match report”
By Walter Broeckx As getting tickets for Wembley was not possible for most of the local Untold Arsenal writers and for me from far away places it was completely out of the question. So with a bunch of 4 other Arsenal Belgium members we went for the screening in the Emirates. On each side of …
Read More “Being in the Emirates for the screening: the great, the good but also….”
By Walter Broeckx Finally back home after an amazing weekend in London. I will write a complete match report later on of course but first let me give you a few short thoughts that passed my mind before, during and after the match. I was in the Emirates with some friends from Arsenal Belgium so …
Read More “A historic day for Arsenal and their great manager”
By Walter Broeckx When I write this I know that in some 24 hours time I will be in my car close to Calais. And when you read this you might well be making your plans perhaps in your car or other means of transport you use on your way to Wembley or to the …
Ref in this match was Anthony Taylor A first 30 minutes that were rather un-Taylor. As he made no mistakes. The only mistake was from an assistant who judged a Liverpool player offside but Koscielny was still behind him. The first error from Taylor was then again a typical one. Sakho came in leading with …
By Walter Broeckx We had 3 changes in the final leauge match of the season. Gabriel came in the place of Koscielny in the centre of the defence. Aaron Ramsey was given a rest and Coquelin came in his place in midfield. Up front Walcott came in the place and Giroud was on the bench. …
Read More “Arsenal – WBA, 4-1 a Theo hattrick and a great Jack strike”
by pararealist. Is it becoming like the packaged entertainment conceived to sit in a slot on TV and “entertain” the masses? I hope not. For these “packages” are, to me, nothing more than carriers of a certain thought, a certain ideal a certain projection that manifestes itself into the minds of the viewers. Day in, …
Read More “Is football just a “packaged” timeslot for TV and media? A utopian paradigm”
By Walter Broeckx As you know we on Untold have been on Fufa their back on many occasions. Today I want to continue but I admit that I didn’t have much time and I thought that maybe for once it would be better to let someone speak about Fufa and what he found out in …
Read More “The greatest indictment of their crimes: Luis Figo speaks about Fifa”
