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 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. …
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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 …
Referee : Michael Oliver First let me say that this together with Everton – Liverpool and Sunderland-Newcastle is one of the difficult games to do. Final score overall was 72% which isn’t completely bad but certainly not great at all. When we put weight on the decisions it drops to 65% and then we …
By Walter Broeckx As I couldn’t see the match live as I was doing my own match as a referee I saw the match with no tension in my body. It was very much what everyone could predict. But not all. They said that our full backs would run forward at any opportunity and we …
Read More “A few things as predicted, now to get going after the break”
Chelsea v Arsenal 05 October 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson Assistants – M Mullarkey and S Child Fourth Official – J Moss Martin Atkinson is another useless FIFA Accredited twat of a referee, at least as far as his beloved Chelsea and hated Arsenal are concerned. We have …
By Walter Broeckx I thought the flares issue had been extinguished on the night but now I see a rather strange thing happening. I base this article on what I read in the Belgian newspapers so if they have spread wrong information I can only apologise. But for now I still trust them more than …
Read More “Flares: same offence, different rules once more?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know Arsenal dominated the game and ran out winners by five goals to one. The scoreline fully reflected the way that a youthful Arsenal team dominated the game and was a true reflection of the performances of the two teams on the day. For a full report on the …
Read More “UEFA Youth League Arsenal v Galatasaray Wednesday 1 October 2014”
By Walter Broeckx I think Untold Arsenal has in its life time always been one of the front runners when it comes to fighting corruption. Visible corruption and invisible corruption. Be it assumed corruption in the referee world, or real like when we talked and pointed at the scandals in Italy, Belgium, Germany and many …
By Walter Broeckx With my training finished just 15 minutes before kick off, a quick shower, a drive home on the speed limits (never crossed them as far as I know) I came in with the match just a few minutes under way. Oh damned I forgot to leave my computer on so I had …
Read More “Arsenal – Galatatarata* **: The 75 minute report”
By Walter Broeckx It seems that some so called and according to some non existing part of Arsenal fans have launched another kind of attack on our website. As I was involved in other things and had other things to take care off I admit we may have been a bit careless on allowing comments. …
Read More “Sometimes the notion of freedom of speech seems only to work one way.”
By Walter Broeckx On Untold we have been strong pleaders for more help to referees. We find it unacceptable that in such an important sport decisions are made that are wrong. In an ideal world no decision on a football field should be wrong. But we realise that this will be a kind of utopia. …
By Walter Broeckx The start of the match was very one sided. The totts installed a kind of bus and their only thought was about defending. Just Adebayor up front and every now and then on a few rare occasions he got a bit of support from Chadli and Eriksen. But it was Arsenal that …
Read More “Arsenal – Tottenham: one costly mistake but what a fighting spirit”
Referee : Mike Jones Match: Aston Villa – Arsenal 20/09/2014 In a way this was a walk in the park for the ref. The two teams started with fair intentions and so we only got the first foul after some 10 minutes! Amazing and even then he could have let it go. Then things got …
By Walter Broeckx First let me start with saying that I don’t like it when Arsenal lose a match. I always want us to win each and every match. From the first meaningless pre season match against FC Nobody to the last match of the season the CL final. And when we lose a match …
By Walter Broeckx In the past 5 years that I have been a regular writer for Untold I think I have written a lot of articles in which I called for support for our players. I could and still can get extremely angry when I read the attacks on our own players from our own …
Read More “Helping or destroying players, the choice is yours”
By Walter Broeckx I think for those people who understand German and who know a bit of German geography the title is somewhat double in their meaning. People who know the German geography will say: now wait a minute Essen is a city in Germany just as Dortmund. And despite Essen and Dortmund both being …
By Walter Broeckx As you will now by now I am chairman of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. And as with any other official supporters club we have to hold regular board meetings. Check the finances, look at where we can improve and on where we are doing a good job. Now I must say …
Referee: Mark Clattenburg Week 4 13/09/2014 A somewhat confusing match from Clattenburg to be honest. Looking at the numbers his first half was rather poor. A score of only 70% and a weighted score of only 63% are very low for his standards. His score on the important decisions with a result of only 37,50% …
Referee review Leicester – Arsenal Referee : Anthony Taylor Date 31/08/2014 A referee we feared and he lived up to the expectations. The good thing is he didn’t turn up to the extreme bias he showed in the Aston Villa match last season. But he sure didn’t give us anything at all. Not even the …
By Walter Broeckx Note: this was written down just when I came back from Dortmund in the middle of the night (3.00 am). I haven’t seen any images on Tv, heard no talks from media, pundits or whoever feels free to say what I ought to think. Because of this I could have missed 3 …
Dear Tony and Untolders, It has been a while since you heard from me. Tony wrote a nice summary of our match against City and published it on the site. I really liked it. As Tony said I was on the beach. Not the Arsenal beach where the subs are placed as we do like …
By Walter Broeckx This article is the second of me walking around in the virtual world of Arsenal fans and supporters on transfer deadline day. Part 1, if you missed it, is here. All the moaning fans were for 100% sure we would sign “Fa Kin No Wan”. Again. Again! AGAIN!!!! Anyone daring to suggest …
By Walter Broeckx As I had stayed clear almost the whole transfer window of the madness that surrounds these things I thought it would be nice to have a look at how fans reacted to it on the last day before the window slamed shut or whatever the expression is that people like to use. …
