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 I think I have said before that I am not a master tactician. One has to know one’s limitations and even in my playing days I never was one to listen to all the blah blah from managers. And even now I couldn’t care one bit if Arsenal play 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 …
Ref on the day was Martin Atkinson Well that was a match with lots of big decisions. And not really the +98% score the PGMO tells us that referees get in general. In the first half the ref awarded a penalty for a clear foul on Alexis. It proved to be his only correct penalty …
By Walter Broeckx The team to start this match was Ospina, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rosicky, Cazorla, Alexis, Giroud. The subs were Szczesny, Bellerin, Flamini, Ramsey, Ozil, Campbell, Walcott. So 4 changes since the last match with Ospina making his debut in the PL. Coquelin continuing as a defensive midfielder. Giroud taking his …
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By Walter Broeckx Only last week I found a comment on Untold that went like this: “The refs are not only unfair to Arsenal. If u check the record of refs in games of Chelsea, man city,lvpool, man utd and others this season , you wil find out that they are treated unfairly too. Everything …
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Ref for this match was Michael Oliver A match of two halves for the ref. The first half he was excellent. Just falling for a dive from Coutinho and not giving a foul in favour of Alexis when it was a foul. But for the rest spot on with his decisions. So an excellent score …
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By Walter Broeckx In the comment section the other day someone said that the oil money was responsible for Arsenal not winning as they did before. And one of our other readers wrote in with this remark about winning and oil money: “On the oil money subject, much oil money did Porto get, or Ajax …
By Walter Broeckx For the replay of the FA cup final of 2014 we saw the next team from Arsenal at the start Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Cazorla, Walcott, Campbell, Alexis. As substitutes we had Martinez, Debuchy, Koscielny, Zelalem, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Maitland-Niles, Akpom. So a lot of changes compared to the Southampton match. …
Ref on the day was Lee Mason Referee Mason surely got off with a bad start. Tiote deliberately putting his studs in the chest of Alexis and he completely ignored or missed it. If as some say he couldn’t see it, it was down to a technical error from the ref. Bad positioning it is …
Southampton v Arsenal 01 January 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated table of shame following Walter’s review of the Stoke game Untold ref Review: Stoke – Arsenal, the Anthony Taylor horror show. “Shockingly bad”. Twenty two wrong decisions in that game, eleven yellow card or worse and all against …
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By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the team who was level on points at the start of this match we had these players Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis. And on the beach we had Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom. Gibbs came in the place of …
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By Walter Broeckx I just got a message from Tony that he is sick in bed and asking me to publish an article on Untold. As you will have noticed our morning article didn’t come as usual. Because Tony being sick of course. So I stopped what I was doing, send him first of all …
Read More “Another year over, time to look back and forward”
By Walter Broeckx With the end of the year upon us and after having played our last match of this calendar year it might be a good moment to look back at this year. It was a typical Arsenal year one could say. Highs and lows. And a year in which the, ‘I know better …
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Ref (or whatever you want to call him) on the day was Anthony Taylor As most of you will never look back at the match in full and I can understand that but as a reviewer we have the hard task to do this. Mostly it is fun but not this time. As a referee …
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By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the home ground of the team that sat in front of us at the start of this match we had Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Welbeck. On the beach sat Ospina, Gibbs, Chambers, Campbell, Walcott, Podolski, Akpom. So Koscielny back in the …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Neil Swarbrick Assistants – S Ledger and M Wilkes Fourth Official – K Stroud Mr Swarbrick is Lancastrian and has been officiating in the Premier League since December 2010, along with Mr Moss he was officially promoted to the select group at the start of the 2011-12 season. He has …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal 28 December 2014 – the Match Officials”
Note: because of some misunderstandings and all that could go wrong going wrong we couldn’t publish the preview before the match this time. But it sure makes some interesting reading even now after the match. Arsenal v QPR 26 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is the PGMO table of …
By Walter Broeckx The starting team for the match was Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs, Flamini, Rosicky, Cazorla, Welbeck, Alexis, Giroud. And on the soaking wet beach we had Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Coquelin, Walcott, Podolski, Campbell. So for the first time Rosicky in the starting line up of the PL this season if my memory …
By Walter Broeckx One of the things people use against Wenger is the expression “he runs X in the ground”. He plays that player and then again and again and again till he gets injured. And the of course it is the fault of Wenger when this player then gets injured. That Wenger playing the …
by Don McMahon As you may already know (if you have been paying attention) that before I retired, I was a counseling psychologist for almost 41 years and so I have an ongoing interest and fascination with the endless monologues generated by the people Tony & Walter have dubbed the AAA or AAAA on Untold. …
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By Walter Broeckx When Arsenal bought Giroud a few seasons ago many people were not convinced that he would be a good player for us. And we all have seen the abuse whenever he didn’t score. Or scored enough. Because an Arsenal player that misses a chance is for some just not good enough. I …
Read More “Giroud, the goal a game man for all the top matches?”
By Walter Broeckx I must say that was one of the worst first 45 minutes of Arsenal this season. I don’t think we got more than 3 passes between Arsenal player in the whole half. Liverpool was pressing as they usually do from the start. And Arsenal clearly was determined to not allow a repeat …
Referee : Andre Marriner Please note this is one of a large series of ref reviews – a series that started some four years ago, with the reviews undertaken by numerous qualified referees. With ref Marinner we had one of the more experienced refs in the PL and one of the better. On paper. And …
By Walter Broeckx based on the research done by Goonermikey who should get the credit for this article A while ago Goonermikey came up with the stats about how Wenger has overachieved per £1m of net spend on transfers and how this compared with other EPL clubs over a decade. And now he has come up with …
Ref : Chris Foy Just look at that first half from referee Chris Foy! Only one wrong call in the entire first half. Brilliant one could say. If it wouldn’t have been for the fact that the only wrong call was a not given penalty when Mulumba kicked Giroud in the penalty area and no …
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By Marcel Bogaerts. Marcel is the (excellent) treasurer of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club from our co-writer Walter Broeckx. He has been an Arsenal supporter since many many years and is the oldest (board)member of the supporters club. A supporters club that since Walter and the new board took over has prospered like never before …
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