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 As I mentioned before I do my own personal world cup boycott. My plan is to not look at the matches. And now after some 2 weeks of the tournament I can say that I haven’t watched a complete match. And I survived! My wife is much happier with that also. The …
By Walter Broeckx Clean it up, clean it up, clean up the ghetto. That was a song from the seventies I think, that came to my mind when I saw Suarez going out for dinner to the Italian restaurant of Chiellini. Alas Chiellini is not an Italian restaurant but an Italian football player so how …
By Walter Broeckx With the world cup under way and with England out and Belgium in maybe it is time to have another look at an article that appeared a few weeks ago in The Guardian. They tried to go a bit deeper in the reason why the Belgium national team was more successful than …
By Walter Broeckx This is the final article in our series is about the centre forward. The number one man to hold this position is of course Olivier Giroud. Giroud is one of the favourite targets of the AAA. In his first season he scored 13 goals and had 7 assists in total so a …
Read More “The Season’s Impressions: attacking 5. A word from the chairman”
By Walter Broeckx How strange things can go in life. A few weeks ago I was counting how long I have been an Arsenal supporter for. And the first time I noticed the name Arsenal and felt something for them was in 1970. The day that Arsenal beat Anderlecht. Anderlecht, the biggest club in Belgium …
Read More “Mr Chairman it is, but you can still call me Walter”
By Walter Broeckx If we look at the right attacking spot in our team I think we all will agree more or less that this is the best place for Theo Walcott and that in him we have one of the best players for that position. A look at his numbers in the last seasons …
Read More “The Season’s impressions: attacking the right flank”
By Walter Broeckx Next in our series about last season we move on to the left flank. A bit of a difficult flank last season. At the start of the season one would have thought that this was the spot of Podolski. But in the first match of the season Wenger started with Oxlade-Chamberlain on …
Read More “The Season’s impressions: attacking the left flank 3”
By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it sure would be funny. We all know about Fifa and about how rotten and corrupt some of their members are. This is not invented by Untold; we only see how other people who have examined Fifa and their top dogs came to this conclusion. It is …
Read More “Fifa see North Korea not as a warning but as a blueprint”
By Walter Broeckx After having spoken about Santi Cazorla and Özil I now will try to say anything that hasn’t been said already about Ramsey. I mean where do you stop saying how great he was for us last season. And from when on it gets boring? Well his Arsenal career surely hasn’t been boring …
Read More “The Season’s Impressions: midfield wizards 2. RAMSEY!!!!”
By Walter Broeckx Moving slowly due to a lack of time in this off-season (how silly that might sound) we continue our review of last season and we continue in midfield. And the main person I will talk about in this article has somehow got a big lift in the last few days. More on …
Read More “The Season’s impressions: midfield wizards part 1”
By Walter Broeckx In the first article I wrote about the ECA I made it clear that the FFP rules are not an invention of Arsenal’s that we are forcing upon the oiler teams. Arsenal have supported the new rules but the idea was carried by the majority of clubs in Europe. The majority of …
Read More “The plans of the ECA for football – part 3. Third Party Ownership, Agents etc”
By Walter Broeckx In my article about how FFP rules came along I pointed at the ECA or the European Club Association. They have their own website http://www.ecaeurope.com where you can find a lot of details. And some details are rather interesting. They have different subcommittees and one of them is the Finances committee. Where …
Read More “The ECA and FFP punishments -2. “Doing an Arsenal””
By Walter Broeckx Whenever Untold Arsenal writes an article about FFP rules we have a few supporters of other clubs who try to shine their light on the subject from their point of view. We have a few of them who give their point of view in a well educated way and I think nobody …
Read More “FFP rules: is Arsenal responsible for them? part 1”
By Walter Broeckx The first 6 positions I talked about were rather simple in terms of personnel. Keeper, right back, 2 central defenders, left back; even a defensive orientated midfielder. The only other position that is easy to talk about apart from that is that of the central striker. So we have a few other …
Read More “The season’s impression: Midfielders everywhere, the little one”
By Walter Broeckx I think it was in the days of Song that I wrote an article about that illustrious position: the defensive midfielder. I then wrote that well Arsenal don’t really play with a defensive midfielder. Certainly not Song. Song was more a box to box midfielder. He might have been destined to become …
Read More “The season’s impressions: the non-existent defensive midfielder”
By Walter Broeckx In this review series of the season where we have talked first about the goalkeeper, then we moved to right back and after a perfect change of wing we went to the left back. Who passed it on to the usually right placed central defender and now we go to the one …
By Walter Broeckx When I started this series I didn’t know the result of the player of the season poll amongst Arsenal supporters. As I came to the part of the central defenders I just found out that you (that is if you are a Gooner and voted on arsenal.com) have seen what I have …
By Walter Broeckx Continuing our series where we give our impression on the different positions and the players linked to this position we move over to the left. And there we find one player who played most of the matches and that was Kieran Gibbs and his back up was Nacho Monreal. Let us start …
By Walter Broeckx After having looked at Szczesny in goal we now move on to the right back position. A position that seems vacant for the moment. But this article is about the past but I will probably come back to the future later. If you are still with me in the present. I think …
Read More “The seasons impression: right back but probably not bac(k)”
By Walter Broeckx During the silly transfer period rumours that are spouted at a tempo that even would make Usain Bolt look like a turtle we can always try to look a bit further and look at the prospect that awaits us next season. Talking about silly transfer rumours. I went on twitter and within …
Read More “CL qualifying rounds talk or transfer talk, the choice is simple”
By Walter Broeckx Get out the champagne, fill the pints, get out the soft drinks for those like me who don’t drink alcohol. Some 14 days after winning the FA cup it has been made official by Arsenal: Arsène Wenger has signed a new contract. We will have our longest serving and most successful manager …
Read More “He signs when he wants, Arsène Wenger, he signs when he wants”
By Walter Broeckx After a hard days work and having to type every line again in the columns as it otherwise wouldn’t work the referee review is finally done. Referee of the FA cup Final was Lee Probert. We predicted what and how he would do it before the match. Did he lived up to …
Read More “Good old fashioned refereeing from Probert. Ref review of FA CUP FINAL”
There have been some technical issues with this article, so I am publishing it again. Tony By Walter Broeckx A free society is a society in which one can speak out in a free way without having to fear to lose your head in all meanings. In a free society you have a free press …
Read More “Business as usual: reporters lying about Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx With the long hot (one can but hope) summer in front of us and with the long boring transfer rumour period upon us I thought this was the right moment to have a look back at the positions and players we have employed during the last season. My take on their performances. …
By Walter Broeckx In one of his recent articles Tony talked about the different subjects we have been touching in the past and about how some of them are still being looked at. As they probably will need coverage as long as football exists. And a lot of people have asked me after the cup …
