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 Blacksheep This year Tony and I (plus assorted others) embarked upon a fairly random tour of English (and Channel Island) football grounds. It was largely unplanned (past the ‘do you fancy a game this Saturday?’ level of planning) but I have managed to see games at a variety of levels of the football league …
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By Walter Broeckx Before the match when talking with Marcel, Andrew and Drew we agreed that with the results going our way the day before we should rest a few players. The general feeling was also that with nothing really to play for this could go both ways. We could play without pressure at all …
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By Walter Broeckx First of all sorry for us not being able to post anything immediately after the match. But with Tony away on holiday and myself away in London it was just impossible. Unless I would have typed an article on my phone… My god it would have taken me a few hours to …
By Walter Broeckx At the end of one of the most hectic weeks of my life with one of my sons leaving the house to start a new life with his girlfriend, a wedding on Saturday I will visit Arsenal. So this means another early out of bed time for me on Sunday. Well before …
by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Michael Jones Assistants – G Beswick & M Mullarkey Fourth Official – P Dowd Second time this year for Mr Jones and Arsenal – one home and one away as it should be. In terms of bias, on the basis of last season’s reviews, he was firmly at the …
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By Bootoomee Anyone who has read any my previous rants on Untold Arsenal may know how much I hate common wisdom and clichés, especially illogical ones. But boy, football pundits and fans love clichés. They can’t have enough of them. Somebody, usually somebody (considered to be but not necessarily) important, says something about the game …
By Walter Broeckx As a non local Londoner I am different from local Gooners. Not in my support for Arsenal but in the way I look at the rivalry with the fans in white. I do admit that when talking with other fans from other clubs you get a general feeling about the club in …
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By Walter Broeckx With only one win needed in our last two games and even that is not really necessary if Manchester City win at Everton next Saturday we might say that the teams in the top 4 will be those that are there now. The order between the first 3 is not yet set …
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By Walter Broeckx First thing first: Happy St. Totteringhamsday to all you Gooners out there! We will be back to comment on this fact in later articles of course. But now we will start with the match and the natural order in that. Apart from one time in the second half when Goufran could escape …
By Walter Broeckx A few weeks ago I wrote that the FA/PL/PGMOL would do all they could to make it a 3 horse race as long as possible. I think even Steven Gerrard fell for this scenario yesterday. We are not going to let this slip he said a few games ago I have been …
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By Walter Broeckx Daydreams…. Usually Untold is not the place to find the daily big transfer rumours that are posted around the internet. And when we do it we usually get it wrong completely. That might be one reason to stay clear of it as much as possible. Even though it would invite clicks and …
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By Walter Broeckx Note: Because of serious cyberattacks on our site we have been off line for a few days. Slowly we are back on track and we will publish articles again. This one is slightly out of date but still very interesting to see what will happen in the future. ———————————– Dean in …
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By Walter Broeckx While typing this with hesitating fingers it looks as if the site is back in our hands. Finally. I hope it will continue for a longer period this time. In short what happened to us over the last weeks was that we suddenly got under a major attack. Attacks flying in from …
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By Walter Broeckx As Untold Arsenal is a site that talks about football in general and not only about Arsenal I would like to talk about the cup final in Holland. And there are a few links with Arsenal in this. And with articles written on Untold in the last months. And the Hull – …
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By Walter Broeckx When looking at the way Arsenal filled up Wembley for a very big part I really couldn’t understand the decision from the FA to only give some 25.000 ticket to Arsenal. I don’t know how many tickets will be given to Hull but I can imagine that this will be the same …
By Walter Broeckx The starting line up had a few changes compared to the West Ham United match. Vermaelen had to be withdrawn as he got a hamstring injury shortly before the match. Monreal came in at left back. And as he has been criticized a lot lately I just want to say he had …
Read More “Hull, advertising boards, Poldi brace, Özil back, and some nice football”
By Walter Broeckx Despite me not being the tactical wizard that will give you all the pro’s and the con’s of a 4-4-2 compared to a 3-5-2 or a 4-5-1 formation I do like to throw a stone in the water from time to time and give you something to think about. I want to …
By Walter Broeckx After having played a long semi final on Saturday evening the main question would be how the legs would react to the fatigue. So it was no real surprise to see a lot of changes in the team. Half the team to be exact. Gibbs wasn’t even on the bench after having …
By Walter Broeckx As I wrote in my article that you might have read a few days ago if you have been able to enter the site as it has been going on and off line at an amazing rhythm…. Even I don’t know when I will be able to read something, and as for …
If you’ve been trying to access Untold since last saturday you will know that the site has been down more than up. We’ve had a team working on the problems and we’re back – at least for now. But if we vanish again, do keep an eye on us on Twitter, and on the history …
By Walter Broeckx One day to go. One day to go before I will be in London again. One day to go before I lose another virginity. This time it will be about watching a match at Wembley. The second time I lose some kind of virginity this season. The other was just a few …
By Walter Broeckx This Saturday as you know we will play the semi final of the FA cup. As it is a while ago we went that far in this competition I think we must make our minds up. Will we support the club from now on till the end of the game completely. Or …
By Walter Broeckx In a way it is strange that in the season that has seen us being top of the league more than any other team that so many fans suddenly have turned desperate. I have no problem in admitting that things haven’t gone well the last weeks. But this is how things go. …
By Walter Broeckx Apart from when it comes to refereeing matters I don’t have a really in-depth knowledge about football. If you read my articles I rarely go in to things like formation and tactics. Because as I have said a few days ago even in my playing days I never took notice of them. …
By Walter Broeckx We will see some happy faces trying to come around at Untold in the next days. Those who want us to do bad. So they can say told you so. Well it wasn’t the best performance of the season. That is for sure. But I will take a few talking points that …
