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 The other day I found this interview that was published in Sports Illustrated. It was an interview and some interesting words that Gazidis has said. The full interview can be found here and there are other interesting things you can get from it. But I want to highlight just one part of …
By Walter Broeckx As has been a public secret for a few days now, and has been confirmed by arsenal.com yesterday, David Ospina will join Arsenal and will fight with Szczesny for the number one spot in goal this season. So who is he? An attempt to fill in the gaps that nobody really fills …
By Walter Broeckx Good evening dear readers welcome to our live blog where we will bring you in an Untold way some live thoughts about the match between NYRB against Arsenal. The Arsenal starting line up will be : Szczesny, Jenkinson, Hayden, Monreal, Gibbs, Ramsey, Arteta, Wilshere, Zelalem, Rosicky, Cazorla And on the beach as …
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday there was a story doing the rounds about a practical joke that was perpetrated while Arsenal were travelling in the USA. The story was that Flamini, Gibbs and Szczesny replaced the cup of coffee that Wenger was going to drink and put a cup of gravy in the place. The story …
By Walter Broeckx There hasn’t been made a big fuss about it but Arsenal have signed another youngster from the famous Barcelona academy. Georgios Spanoudakis is his name and in Barcelona his is known as Giorgio. His name sounds Greek and that is natural as his father comes from Greece but the boy was born …
By Walter Broeckx So on board the team will go today heading for New York. A few more players started training this week. The players from teams from the world cup that went home after the group phase. Santi Cazorla posted a picture of himself seemingly in a very happy mood when going back to …
By Walter Broeckx Don’t worry I will not declare myself an ITK (‘In The Know’) person and tell you the big or smaller transfer targets from Arsenal and Wenger. No, I will try to go over the team we have and then see where we could or should add something. Let us start with the …
By Walter Broeckx So Mathieu Debuchy it is who will fill the space left by Bacary Sagna. Born on 28 July 1985 and will turn 29 this summer. He was born in Fretin and that is rather nice for me as it gives me the opportunity to tell you a bit about that part of …
Read More “Untold Debuchy, the complete guide about our new signing and more”
By Walter Broeckx Of course it had to be Debuchy. Just because of Ludivine. When Sagna decided to leave us a lot of Arsenal supporters were sad. Sagna has been a loyal servant of the club and it is always sad to see such a player go and doubly so when they leave for another …
Read More “Why it had to be Debuchy (and you won’t read this anywhere else)”
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday Arsène Wenger returned to the training ground at Arsenal. And by the looks of it he really was in a great mood. A smile as big as the sun above the sky could be seen on a few pictures. And he looked sharp in his new Puma kit which I am …
Read More “The man is back. Now the season can really begin for Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx When returning to my computer after lunch I saw this message coming on line from the best nr. 10 of the world Mesut Özil. “dear fans, prior to the #WorldCup I supported the surgery of eleven sick children. Since the victory of the #WorldCup is not only due to eleven players but …
Read More “This is awesome: the charity of Arsenal’s German players”
By Walter Broeckx And so suddenly with the world cup over we find ourselves in more familiar and certainly more accustomed territory. Arsenal territory. 2 months and 2 days after winning the FA cup we can have a first look at real Arsenal players in real Arsenal shirts playing for Arsenal. Of course we have …
By Walter Broeckx When last summer on transfer deadline day Arsenal signed Mesut Özil it was the start of something new. New for Arsenal and their supporters because after years having had to sell their best players because they wanted out for all kinds of reasons like DNA and money we now bought one of …
By Walter Broeckx Well we could open a can full of clichés about Germany and winning. One of them on top of this article and you will have filled in the rest automatically. With a few Gunners possible winning a world cup medal I had to have a look at the match. And so I …
By Walter Broeckx For many years Untold stood on the barricades when it came to defending the way Arsenal was doing their business. We understood the problems that building the new magnificent stadium had brought to our club. We understood the need for that stadium so we would be able to compete with Manchester United …
Read More “Patience is a virtue, so is seeing further than this second”
By Walter Broeckx It’s official http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140710/alexis-sanchez-agrees-to-join-arsenal Great news just when I got home from work. Will update later after having had a copious meal with that will taste even better now. More on this later on but I think after having signed Özil last summer this is another player from a giant La Liga team …
By Walter Broeckx Despite my personal boycott of the world cup I did watch the semi finals. Not that I intended to do so from the start. But I did record the Brazil-Germany match on my hard disk just in case that we might see strange referee decisions. But instead of watching from the first …
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By Walter Broeckx The players that didn’t take part in any world cup action are back in training at Arsenal. We have the likes of Arteta, Monreal, Flamini, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Szczesny and of course Ramsey. But that shouldn’t be so obvious that Ramsey is in training. Remember a few weeks ago one reporter who probably …
Oh gosh, is it that late already? By Walter Broeckx Some things in life will always come back. Like the seasons. We know summer will come. The only thing is that we don’t know when it will come in our part of the world. And I think that for both England and Belgium the same …
Read More “Arsenal must not be allowed to repeat the mistakes they made with M’Vila.”
By Walter Broeckx A few times in the last few weeks I have seen the question coming up in the comment section: “I wonder what Walter has to say about that decision in the world cup?” But because of my one man embargo on Fifa and all what is connected to them I haven’t seen …
Was Untold right on Suarez again? By Walter Broeckx So we have to bring Suarez up again, but, well, Suarez is still a PL player and as we look at football in total this is rather important. Because well…just read on A few days ago I wrote an article “Will Fifa stand firm in the …
Read More “Suarez: the awful truth emerges. And wouldn’t you know, we were right”
By Walter Broeckx Everyone familiar in European football knows the word: Uefalona. This is an indication of how Uefa treated Barcelona in the past years. It went from blatant help from referees not only in the match against Arsenal where Busacca let the Barcelona players free when they were manhandling Arsenal players and then sending …
Read More “Will Fifa stand firm in the Suarez saga or will their bite loosen?”
By Walter Broeckx When I surfed to the Arsenal website this afternoon I noticed that a few new articles had gone on line about the new kit manufacturer Puma. One of them was a little film where the designer explained the concepts behind the new collection. You might have seen the film already. Now I …
Read More “Untold Arsenal: part of the new kit designer team.”
By Walter Broeckx Despite my own personal world cup boycott I do keep an eye on it of course. The reason why I do this is because a world cup can have a big impact on the next season. Just ask Liverpool… But of course when clubs are going to miss players from playing Fufa …
Read More “Who is still alive, who is already injured and who can still get injured?”
By Walter Broeckx If ever there is one Arsenal player and one team that we didn’t expect to find in the World Cup quarter finals, bribed by Fufa, oops sorry should have been organised by Fifa, it is Costa Rica and Joel Campbell. Los Ticos as their nickname is were in the group of England, …
Read More “So what can we make of Joel Campbell based on his world cup appearances?”
