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
Sorry for the delay but finally we can resume our referee reviews and we continue with Arsenal – Manchester United. Referee : Mike Dean Apart from Arsenal missing too many chances the big talking points in the first half was firstly the not given penalty for a foul on Wilshere. Shaw blocked his run and …
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By Walter Broeckx The first thing we must check when we look at this draw is : what did Wenger do on Sunday? He jokingly said this last Saturday in his post match press conference: “on the Champions League draw… We have been well served in the recent years. Maybe I will go to church …
By Walter Broeckx I will admit it from the start of this article so that there is no misunderstanding about it. One of the things I love most in football is to see a young player making his way in to the first team. Of course bringing in Alexis and seeing him flourish is great. …
By Walter Broeckx A match against Newcastle who had just done us a big favour by beating Chelsea. Newcastle also a team that had the same numbers of points as Arsenal at kick off. So not an easy match it seemed. And ref Mason at the whistle…. Arsenal team that started against Newcastle: Szczesny, Bellerin, …
By Walter Broeckx Today is the day that our beloved club becomes 128 years old. Not that becoming 128 years old is a special date compared to becoming 100 or 125. But still it is in human terms a very long time. And I don’t know how human beings will evolve in the future but …
By Walter Broeckx We started with the strongest team we had available with some 11 players out for various reasons like injuries, carrying knocks around, feeling a little pain left or right. So the starting line up was: Szczesny, Debuchy, Chambers, Mertesacker, Bellerin, Flamini, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Podolski, Sanogo. And on the Turkish beach we …
By B. Linded, your exclusive man from within the PGMO People on Untold have been asking what happened to Woward Hebb the former top referee from our dear PGMO. It was said that he would explain referee decisions in the future for the media. What nobody knew was that Woward Hebb was going to do …
By Walter Broeckx In this article we have put links to several video clips. I hope they work. If your internet connection isn’t the fastest you can click on the link and then download them on your computer and then play them with a media player. They are .avi clips so should work with windows …
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By Walter Broeckx I usually do my match report in a chronological way. But this time I will start with a message for those who will come on here to talk about how the manager should have put up his team and how tactical inept he is. And to do that I will go back …
By Walter Broeckx I think every person who follows football and who as a normal brain function will agree that the calender for football players is overfilled. Too much is too much. If you look at how many players have suffered injuries that have played on the world cup it is clear to see. The …
By Walter Broeckx A few words have been spoken lately about the Borussia Dortmund supporters. Come to think of that… we have mentioned them over the last years on numerous occasions. And most of the time as far as I can remember we only had nice and good words to say. For those like me …
By Walter Broeckx Southampton had a great start of the season. And if my memory is still a bit what it was I remember that was also the case last season. Wenger pointing out that they lost a lot of players but kept the core of their team in midfield being important to keeping the …
By Walter Broeckx After one of our earlier articles a new person commented for the first time and asked a question that got me wondering. For the sake of making it clear I will reprint his comment in full: “When did this mass anti Arsenal start? I understand the Tiny Tots but the rest? I …
By Walter Broeckx The weekend after European football is always a difficult weekend. And certainly when you have the honour of being chosen for the early kick off on Saturday after having played on Wednesday evening. A match that we had to play against one of the top teams in Europe. Well it was before …
By Walter Broeckx So there we have it… just as I predicted. I know it is getting a bit boring. But it is a fact that I predicted it would happen. And it happened again. Another player injured because of the PGMO referees not doing their job. And as the media always tells that it …
By Walter Broeckx So who can we meet… and who not if the CL groups as they now stand were to be the final tables in each group? If that is the case Arsenal would be second in our group so we have to see at the other top teams in the group to see …
By Walter Broeckx I will not deny that we had a poor start to the season. I will not deny that the matches since Anderlecht were not idea in terms of the results if nothing else. Because I thought that we played rather impressively against Manchester United but we were wasteful with the chances that …
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By Walter Broeckx Well, well well. This must be a dark night for the dark siders. How on earth did the impossible just became possible. The setting before this match was: Wenger is clueless. Klopp is a master tactician who would bring Arsenal to another level. Possible but not really their current Bundesliga level if …
By Walter Broeckx In their haste to blame Wenger for: 1. Welbeck missing a first chance (AWshould have bought Falcao instead of Welbeck 2. Welbeck missing another header seconds later (see it’s AW his fault should have bought…. 3. Welbeck shooting to weak (see AW should have….) 4. Jack Wilshere missing the easiest of chances …
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By Walter Broeckx Let me start by saying that I would love it if the ticket prices at Arsenal would drop. I would be very happy with that. As for most people it is expensive. And as most of Europe is in not the best economical conditions (certainly my country is doing badly we are …
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By Walter Broeckx As I had other obligations this evening to which I had committed myself I had to stop watching the match at half time. We had booked tickets for a stand up comedian who not just was telling jokes but who also talked about some not so happy things in her life. And …
By Bootoomee I have not written any article for a while now because I have had no issue that I feel strongly about enough to spur me into writing one….well, until I received this from a friend in London. This is attention-seeking stunt from a group of individuals about some nefarious act that a PRIVATE …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Before I go into this weeks officials, here is the table of wrong Important Decisions extracted from Walter’s referee reviews. Three wrong Important decisions from the Swansea game, matching not given penalties and a not given red card to Ashley Williams at the start of the second half, a game changer if …
By Walter Broeckx On the website arsenal.com on Thursday we could find some good news. The first good news wasn’t mentioned at all and that I think is good news. Some have said that Welbeck got a knock against Scotland in the international match and hobbled before coming off. Hodgson said afterwards that there shouldn’t …
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by Don McMahon Inspired by an article that Tony recently penned and as a follow-on to my recent articles dealing with the ins and outs of refereeing, I felt it was apropos to present a brief overview of more of the tricky and difficult path an aspiring referee has to travel to get to the …
