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Untold Injury Analysis part 4. By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 of the series on injuries in the Premier League we now are going to dig a bit deeper in the numbers we found in that part 3. We now are going to try to show how …
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By Walter Broeckx After the introduction to our survey of Arsenal injuries and the next part where we looked at the total number of injuries per club we now are going to try to find out if Arsenal suffered more contact injuries than the other teams. To find out we tried to look at each …
By Walter Broeckx After my introduction that can be found here we now go in to the injury database itself. Again I would like to thank Steve Kelly and Pete for giving us this database. The first thing we are going to do is to have a look at the general numbers. How many injuries …
Read More “The Untold Injury records – Part 2. Arsenal top of the league”
By Walter Broeckx I think the fact that Arsenal has a lot of injuries is something that has various effects. And these effects not only include the obvious hampering Arsenal in a way that the club might end up short of players, and thus might be forced to overplay players to the extent that they …
Read More “The Untold Injury records: every Premier League injury since 2002 analysed.”
By Walter Broeckx The laws of the game and the interpretation of the laws of the game are two totally different things. And certainly the interpretation given by the pundits. Anyone who thinks that pundits know the rules are people who believe in Santa Claus, the fairy tooth even when they have gotten to an …
By Walter Broeckx The phrase “Arsène knows” has been used at Untold a few times. Both by writers and readers. As most of us believe he really knows a bit about football. But after picking the match Arsenal-Sunderland to unveil the Dennis Bergkamp statue as I was there I had the pleasure of another nice …
By Walter Broeckx What a regret we have now. During the first half hour we should have gone well ahead in the first leg but failed to convert our chances. Then the injury from Gibbs made us lose our concentration a bit and Bayern then got a penalty and most importantly we lost a player …
By Walter Broeckx, also known as the 4 to 1 Gooner Well it was another fine experience for me as a Gooner from outside England. It all started off rather early for me. At 5.00 in the morning local time. That is 4.00 English time. As it was a rather early kick off and we …
Read More “Arsenal – Everton, the good luck man had a nice trip”
By Walter Broeckx As I follow Per Mertesacker on the social media a bit I had the pleasure of reading this post (below) on his time line. Now I must say that following the German players on the social media is rather interesting. They talk about the charity work and are rather active in general …
Read More “This is why you have to be careful when you abuse your own players”
By Walter Broeckx or the ‘4 to 1’ man as will be known from now one. My second visit for a home game this season. The other one only 14 days ago…great for me and this time another nice win. On to the game seen from the clock end. Or the smoke end. Certainly at …
By Walter Broeckx I have never been a member of the AA. And with AA I really mean the worldwide organisation Alcoholics Anonymous. An organisation that helps or tries to help people who are addicted to alcohol to stay sober. As I don’t drink alcohol at all I have no problem in staying sober of …
Read More “Losing my addiction: a confession of a former maniac”
By Walter Broeckx Only some 14 days ago I wrote an article in which I said that some supporters were shifting their way of looking at things. I said that some of the non-existing part of our fans firmly said that they were not trophy hunters at all. That they just wanted us to be …
Read More “Trophy hunting or supporting a club – the choice is yours”
An Absolute Scandal: Penalties awarded to/conceded by Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Tottenham during recent seasons. By Pete After Stoke’s ludicrous penalty on Saturday (has anyone seen a penalty given this season for a handball at similar or closer range?) I decided to research the ratio of penalties given for and against …
Read More “An Absolute Scandal: When Arsenal’s penalty fortunes suddenly changed”
By Walter Broeckx With the spring in the air it was time for some good news must have been the thought of Arsenal. Well it is an early spring where I live and already the first flowers are making themselves visible. This really is early. Temperatures rising to even 15°C in the weekend is the …
Read More “Per and Tomas sign new deals and memories of past games”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of a series where we look at the impact injuries might have on the league table. When we look at the season 2012/2013 we see this table below. It is ordered in the injury league position. We then have the number of injured weeks lost and then the …
Read More “Injuries and league position is there a link? – Part 3”
By Walter Broeckx After a few days off I still hadn’t found the time to write any further about the Stoke – Arsenal match. And this morning when back at work I found the perfect angle to start with. [OK Walter, so what’s it worth not to tell your employer about this misuse of work …
Read More “FA charges Adam, Riley phones Wenger… or did he?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series about looking at the injuries teams get and the impact it has on the league table. Here’s the first part in case you missed it. Injuries and league position is there a link? – Part 1 When we look at the season 2011/2012 we see …
Read More “Injuries and league position is there a link? – Part 2”
By Walter Broeckx Funny how things sometimes go. You start with one article about the injury record we have this season and then you see the link with the ref reviews and then you can show that being kicked unpunished a lot results in more injuries. This is what I have shown in those articles. …
Read More “Injuries and league position is there a link? – Part 1”
By Walter Broeckx What do you get when the a football team plays a not that footballing team? You usually get a dire match of football. And that is what happened in the first half hour to say the least. In a way it was as if Arsenal had prepared too much for the battle …
Read More “Home referee as predicted, bad day at the office not as predicted”
By Don McMahon I recently read Walter’s excellent post about player injuries and the link to officials’ failure to apply the Laws properly. The gist of this message is very clear, even to the AAA 3 blind mice squad members: 1)Allowing serious foul play from one team to go unpunished while punishing their …
Read More “WHY PERMITTING SERIOUS FOULING IS THE SIGN OF A COWARD”
By Walter Broeckx In my previous articles where I looked at injuries in general and then linked it up with the referee reviews I promised to have a further look at the possible link between what we could call being fouled a lot and injuries and making lots of fouls and injuries. Now …
Read More “Does getting kicked unpunished results in more injuries? Untold shows the numbers”
By Walter Broeckx That is one of the questions that suddenly arose when I visited Arsenal last weekend. Pat Rice is one of those people who’s name will always be fondly remembered by all who love Arsenal. Well not all. As I hate to bring it up but the non-existing part of our fans have …
Referee – Mike Jones Assistants – M Scholes and A Holmes Fourth Official – A Taylor Well here’s a surprise, Mike Jones as referee, his seventh game of the season at this level and a first timer for Arsenal this year. Not completely new to Arsenal though as we had him at the Emirates …
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By Walter Broeckx In an earlier article I pointed at the insane injury league table. I included the most important teams and to make things easier for you I will put the little table up so you can have a look at it without having to leave this page. Here it is again Position Team …
Read More “Injuries and referee reviews and where they come together”
By Sammy The Snake and Walter Broeckx We all know the saga behind the transfer of RVP from Arsenal to ManU. One moment we were cheering for him and saying “Who needs Batman when we have Robin?” (I always thought that was really clever!). He was our “Get Out Of Jail” card, he …
