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 Whenever we publish an article about referees and we tell it as we see it, we get called paranoid. Or get called other ‘nice names’ by people who put it all down to honest mistakes. Refs are holier than Jesus Christ, Mohammed the prophet, Buddha, God, the Dalai Lama, and whoever else …
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By Walter Broeckx Hush, hush, whisper it softly. But there might be some good news from the injury front. Let’s not jinx it by shouting it out loud but the news filtering through about some players sounds like music to my ears. We know that Kallstrom has been fit for 2 weeks and has played …
Read More “Don’t say it out loud, but we might have some good news”
By Walter Broeckx Just over a year ago I had the good fortune to be able to talk with one of the most important people at our club. And just before you get too carried away with thinking who, let me say at once that it wasn’t Wenger. The meeting happened in December 2012. And …
Read More “Keeping the faith: the view from inside the club.”
By Walter Broeckx In my first article about the words spoken by the head of the PL I pointed how all was in place to set up some kind of calciopoli in the PL. A head of the most powerful and important club in the PL defending his own legacy and interests, a head of …
By Walter Broeckx At Untold we have done a lot of work in dismantling the old expressions that are used such like: it evens out at the end. We have proven that it didn’t even out at the end for most clubs. Our referee reviews have brought enough evidence of this. And it has given …
Read More “How the fall of Man U helped us understand how refereeing works. Part 1”
By Walter Broeckx Regular readers will know by now that from time to time when there is no Arsenal football around the regular writers will go to the end of the world to see some local football and report about it. This time my travel didn’t take me to the end of the …
By Walter Broeckx NOTE: As Untold Arsenal is again under some kind of cyber attack we might experience some troubles with posting articles. Or you might have troubles entering the site or posting comments. We hope that the IT people can sort this out as soon as possible. When we look at the league table …
By Walter Broeckx After 12 articles about injuries it is time to add another parameter to the numbers we have had. Links to these articles can be found here the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 and part 8 …
Read More “The Untold injury records – Part 12 Including the number of games”
By Walter Broeckx Last week was a bit of a hectic week. Our defeat at Chelsea was the chance for the moaners to come out in full force again. So let us try to do a little analysing of this first. We know the simple analyzing that is usually done by the non-existing part of …
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 and part 8 and part 9 and part 10 we continue to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based …
Read More “The Untold injury records 11: what shoulders and thighs reveal”
By Walter Broeckx City started the best in the opening 10 minutes. A few good runs behind the Arsenal defence but the defenders managed to get the ball away before City could have a shot on goal. Dean starting to show a bit of himself by letting a foul on Cazorla (push in the back …
Read More “Arsenal – Man City the difference between home and away”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 and part 8 and part 9 we continue to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries …
Read More “The Untold injury records – 10. We’re not yet down on our knees”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 and part 8 we continue to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. 8. …
Read More “The Untold injury records – part 9, from groin strains to hamstrings”
By Walter Broeckx I know the title is a bit mystifying for Untold Arsenal. Has Walter lost the plot and will he start the blame game. Rest assured dear regular readers. You will understand what I mean at the end of this article. And for those who really want to blame Wenger for all what …
By Walter Broeckx For a few seasons now it has become a normal sight that we see referees with mics wired up with each other to communicate with each other. It is only there for the top leagues of course. Usually lower league referees don’t use it or have it because of the obvious costs …
Read More “What good is it when they still can’t get it right?”
By Walter Broeckx In our article about the broken legs some people doubted our numbers. First they said that the Fabregas broken leg happened against Barcelona. I would advise you to have a look at the match that just preceded the Barcelona match. On March 27, 2010 Arsenal played Birmingham. And in that match Fabregas …
Read More “The Untold Injury records: broken legs, the appalling shocking truth”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 we continue to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Now we come to …
Read More “The Untold Injury Records 8: how to hurt a player and not get a card”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6, we now are going to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Next we will have a …
Read More “The Untold Injury records – 7. When legs are broken.”
By Walter Broeckx If we have ever done some shooting in our own foot it must have happened in the first 10 minutes in this match. After a first chance for Giroud that was stopped by Cech we suddenly gave it away and you can take that literally. The first goal was a gift from …
Read More “Errors and mistakes for free by players and referees”
By Walter Broeckx Of course Untold Arsenal is more than happy with the fact that Arsène Wenger will putting his team on the field for the 1000th time in his Arsenal career. I think nobody who knows Untold Arsenal will have any doubt about that. And we have already published a few articles about this …
Read More “Wenger 1000 matches: about support and hypocrites”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 we now are going to have a look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Now as I have said before we have some …
By Walter Broeckx This part of the injury series could be written from the injury view but also is standing in a very strong relation with the constant anti-Arsenal bashing and anti-Wenger bashing from the media. In the light of the hamstring injury that Mesut Özil suffered early in the match against Bayern the media …
Read More “The Untold Injury records – Part 5.2: Bashing Özil Bashing Wenger”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 we now are going to have a look at the non contact injuries. Now the interesting thing is that this could shed some light on the way Arsenal do with injury management. As for the contact injuries …
Read More “Non-contact injuries at Arsenal; we are not top of that league.”
By Walter Broeckx The day after the North London derby can be a great day. As it is today. But we all have to look back just over more than one year to know how miserable it can be. I must say that I was a bit baffled by the fact that it was our …
By Walter Broeckx If Wenger said before the match: ‘catch them cold’ it worked. What a wonderful way to start the North London derby. Hardly one minute played and Rosicky played the ball in to the path of Oxlade-Chamberlain who controlled it half and then the ball came back to Rosicky who did this time …
Read More “Arsenal score hattrick over the Totts : One nil to the Arsenal”
