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
Referee : Craig Pawson A new ref, a new opponent so for our referee previewer it was new territory as it was for me as a reviewer. So what can we say about the ref his performance. Let us go over the match in a chronological order. Only 2 small fouls in the first 15 …
by Don McMahon Following Arsenal’s rather late capitulation to Anderlecht and in anticipation of the negative bloggers bound to assault UA with their gloom and doom scenarios I felt it salient to provide some upbeat and encouraging observations about being positive in all things Arsenal. Now some will surely argue that wearing rose-coloured glasses won’t …
By Walter Broeckx As I wasn’t at home for the match and had other obligations right after the match I couldn’t get to write this earlier. And when I came on to the site I had to get rid of the usual rubbish posted by people who had been waiting for a few weeks to …
By Walter Broeckx Last Saturday with our first group trip to London with the Arsenal Belgium supporters club we had an amazing day. Arsenal winning 3-0 helped of course. But apart from that it was fun. We had a nice group of supporters and for a handful of them it was their first match in …
As Tony and I made our way back from the Emirates last night we made our usual dissection of the game, our players, the officials and the opposition. I think we came to the general conclusion that Burnley were well organized but never posed a threat, the win was welcome, and Alexis is awesome. It …
By Walter Broeckx After last weekend publishing the fastest match report in history I now will be the writer of the slowest match report. As most of you know I was in the Emirates this time in person and with coming home only very late at night and having to do a match as a …
By Walter Broeckx There is something in the air. Don’t you smell it? Well I do. All the way from where I sit writing this article. I sure smell it. It is the smell of anticipation in the air. The smell of: finally! Yes! It is the smell of the green, green grass of home. …
By Walter Broeckx with many thanks to Mike one of our readers I might sound a bit pretentious to say that our articles are really worth reading. As a regular writer myself I think they do of course. But in my country praising yourself is not really something you do. So apart from my articles …
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Referee : Kevin Friend The full commentary follows the chart below. Someone before the match predicted we would drop points (wrong prediction) and then would moan about the referee (yes we will moan a bit) but the two together: not. We won and even in the match report that came online minutes after kick off …
By Walter Broeckx My boss was right. Ah, aren’t they always right you might say. Well let us leave that in the middle. Because my boss has made some mistakes in his life. Like when he decided to support a team like Barcelona. That surely can only be seen as a big mistake. But apart …
By Walter Broeckx The starting team was Szczesny, Chambers, Per, Monreal, Gibbs, Arteta, Flamini, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Welbeck. On the bench we had Mrtinez, Bellerin, Ramsey, Rosicky, Walcott and Podolski. For those who expected an easy match I can just point at the time we lost heavy in recent seasons. The matches after that we …
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By Walter Broeckx I think I might have mentioned it before that being drawn in the same group with a team from Belgium was a dream scenario for the Arsenal Belgium supporters club of which I am chairman. But then came the nightmare scenario of Arsenal getting only a small allocation of tickets. And we …
Read More “Emotions, going from hell (frozen AHA) to heaven”
By Walter Broeckx Anderlecht. If there is one team that can be called the best team in Belgium it is Anderlecht. I say this with gritted teeth. Not because I support one of their rivals. But because my local team lost their biggest talent I had ever seen play to them. And some other stories …
Referee : Roger East Match: Arsenal – Hull The detailed commentary on the referee in this game, follows the chart. Let me start by saying that in the opening 15 minutes Hull didn’t start to kick us as other teams have done this season. No they were rather clean even in their fouls. Some pushing …
Read More “Referee review : Arsenal – Hull : East, West not the best”
By Walter Broeckx So we have a match coming up this week that was looked upon with great anticipation from our supporters club in Belgium when it was announced: Anderlecht. So here is our Untold take on all and everything involved in this match. Let us start with some geography. Anderlecht is one of the …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started really well in the opening 10 minutes. It was one way stuff from the start. Attack after attack went in the direction of the Hull goal. As my stream was very blurry in the opening minutes I couldn’t see them all but I did think I saw some pretty good …
Read More “Referee cost us again. Well Mike how long till you do something about it?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is based on an article that you can find when you click on the link a bit further. “We need to replace the quality and to do so we may need to look elsewhere,” says Keith Hackett. That was the header of an article that you could find if you …
Read More “Does Keith Hackett read Untold? How many refs, refs and Wenger, the after-match…”
By Walter Broeckx “We need to replace the quality and to do so we may need to look elsewhere,” says Keith Hackett. That is the header of an article that you can find if you click on this link. Sorry for leading you to an outside website if you want to click on the link. …
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Referee : Martin Atkinson Match : Chelsea – Arsenal This surely is one of the most bizarre performances I have seen from a ref. It brings back memories of the days when Riley was doing matches at Old Trafford and one game in particular. And I don’t know if I have to follow …
Read More “Untold’s Unacceptable Referee Review: Chelsea – Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx I remember when we talked about the book Animal Farm from George Orwell there was this great quote: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. I was wondering if this also applied to players in the PL. Are all players in the PL treated equally by the …
By Walter Broeckx So far it hasn’t really been a good international break for Arsenal. With the news coming out of the German training camp about the injury that Özil has suffered in the match against Chelsea being the worst of course. Of course this is not an injury he got from playing for Germany, …
By Walter Broeckx I think that apart from the more brainless football supporters not many take pundits seriously. But as the more brainless are also more active in sending emails the opinion of a pundit usually makes its way through their ranks and then we can also see some of them coming to Untold to …
By Walter Broeckx First let me say I am not a doctor. But I am a person who likes to know how things come about. And so whenever I got an injury myself from doing sports I wanted to know from my doctors the how, why, what, where from it. And kept it in mind. …
Read More “The search to see exactly how Özil was injured and who was responsible.”
By Walter Broeckx If you look at the number of points and the position in the league table I can understand that some people are not completely happy. But as in most things in life it is about perspective. And not just about the now moment. The season still has a long way to go. …
Read More “Which team had the toughest start to the season?”
By Walter Broeckx Just as the leaves will fall off the trees each autumn you can be assured that every start of a new season Arsenal players are like rabbits in the woods in the hunting season. When the hunting season starts the hunters can go in the woods and kill rabbits or whatever they shoot …
