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 In an article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday under the header: “Jack Wilshere: I want to play in holding role for Arsenal like I do for England, but Arsène Wenger will not let me”. Now that is what I call an interesting question. Could he? Would he? Can he? Will he? Playing …
By Bob MacDonald Van Gaal has followed on from Fergie and Moyes in playing quite a strict 4-4-2 formation, though he has changed slightly to a diamond midfield, not that you can actually notice. The basis in their system is that the wide MF actually play as wingers (here come the Dinasoars) attacking and defending …
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By Walter Broeckx As far as I could find out all the Arsenal players have played their matches for their national teams and weren’t injured! An unseen achievement for Arsenal. Probably Wenger’s fault…. And when looking back at their performances one can say that in general they did rather well. Jack Wilshere was again voted …
By Walter Broeckx We all have probably seen the headlines in the media that provoked a firm reaction. Headlines saying: Wenger will offer Diaby a new contract. One of them said: Abou Diaby will be offered new Arsenal deal if he regains full fitness, confirms Arsène Wenger. With an accent of course but I …
Read More “Offering Diaby a new contract or not, what Wenger really said”
By Walter Broeckx I think it was halfway September that I for the first time predicted that we would have Dean for our match against Manchester United. And who did Mike Riley appointed for this match this Monday? Yes, the Untold prediction on referees once again was spot on. Mike Dean it will be. In …
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By Walter Broeckx I think we can say that we have survived the first round of international matches. And the best thing is that all you out there crossing your fingers, praying, hoping, wishing for no injuries to Arsenal players have done a good job so far. Because as far as I could find I …
By Walter Broeckx Thanks to a good wind we have the end of season report from the PGMO over the season 2011-2012. A season Untold Arsenal also covered in their ref review history for a big part. In the first article we looked at the way the PGMO rates their referees and who it would …
By Walter Broeckx When I got my hands on the end of season 2011-2012 report from the PGMO (the secret organisation that runs the referees in the PL) I compared this with the numbers we gathered over the same season. I talked about this in a first article that you can find here and then …
Read More “We all live in a PGMO dreamland…more strange numbers”
by Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal is a positive blog. We always look at things in a positive way. We don’t believe that moaning about the players and managers 25 hours a day is first of all making any difference and secondly will change anything. So why moan and make yourself and the rest of the …
By Walter Broeckx In my first article I said that I had an end of year report from the PGMOL still with the L in those days in which they said that they only have noticed 43 wrong key decisions in the whole season 2011-2012. Of course if you think about that number for more …
By Walter Broeckx After our loss at Swansea I have seen a few comments blaming Wenger for not having interfered enough by letting Chambers play on right back after it was clear that he had a difficult match against Montero. The reasoning was: we had Bellerin on the bench so he should have brought Bellerin …
By Walter Broeckx We have been doing reviews for several years now on Untold Arsenal. So I have a lot of data from the seasons that are behind us and from the current season. But I also have at my disposal some internal documents from the PGMO. One could say that a good wind blew …
Don McMahon in my never-ending eagerness to anticipate potential improvements to the Beautiful Game and at the same time explore what other sports have experimented with or are considering doing, the urge to write a definitive compendium of such ideas and changes has overwhelmed me. So I did an internet search and a bit of …
By Jack Bottle, examination officer and connoisseur of all good things like whisky, woman and money Cheers. aaaggghhh The first sip is always the worst. But once you have done that the next sip tastes all the better. But as you are not here for my whisky but for my report on that wonderful organisation …
By Walter Broeckx It might sound pretentious such a title but once again we can say that we have been talking about things in the world of football that we were heavily ridiculed for at times (till today still by some) that are now slowly filtering through to the serious media. Untold Arsenal setting the …
By Bob MacDonald As an introduction to this article I wish to mention briefly my credentials, hopefully this will not be misinterpreted as arrogance. Since the early 70’s I have held the UEFA ‘A’ Coaching Qualification, having used it in various coaching and managing posts over the years including work at a former Football League …
Referee : Phil Dowd So we had our old friend Phil Dowd in an Arsenal match. Main talking points in the first half: A possible penalty for Swansea. I know that only a handful of refs will give it against Arsenal and never in favour of Arsenal but when a defender jumps in the …
By Walter Broeckx The media smell blood and want Arsenal supporters to revolt against Arsène Wenger. So they open all registers to open up the attack on our manager. We have never made it a secret that we support our manager because we think that he deserves our support. Even more in difficult times. Because …
By Walter Broeckx Strong words for Untold one might say. A call for the mythical beast also known as defensive midfielder? Let us try to bring in some facts. A quick reminder of the results so far this season. CS a 3-0 win over Manchester City. Arteta starts and around the hour mark we bring …
By Walter Broeckx When we published the referee review from the Arsenal – Burnley match it was obvious that the non decision for the handball from Burnley player Boyd in his own penalty area was the most important item. To make it clear I will try to link to a vine where you can see …
By Walter Broeckx This was a match between two teams who try to play the same style of football. And when you get two teams who play a similar style you get or a great open match or two teams cancelling each other out for most of the time. The latter was surely what happened …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter’s referee review of the Burnley Game, I have included a Second Yellow Card and a Penalty for the not given deliberate handball at Min 20. No other wrong Important Decisions. There is still no signs of these decisions evening out, now nearly 5 to 1 against Arsenal and nearly …
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By Insideright I thought Walter’s excellent analysis of Mike’s data table last month deserved a little more attention. Firstly the figures show that, across the EPL as a whole, it’s no good spending big, as did the likes of Spurs and Liverpool, when others like City, Man Utd. and Chelsea are spending very big. You …
By Walter Broeckx The downfall? Why? Against popular believe inspired by media propaganda we have shown that the PL has lost its glory in the last 5 season. You can read the numbers in the articles part 1 and part 2. But why did it came that far? Lets look at some possible explanations. Money? …
Read More “Premier League, still the best or are we being lied to? Part 3 – The downfall”
by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know by now I met Walter and the other Belgian Supporters at the North Greenwich Station on the London Underground Jubilee Line and accompanied them to the Emirates Stadium. This is an easy start for anyone coming from the near Continent, good road access from the Ferry or Eurostar …
