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 It seems that every season we are discovering or seeing a player joining the first team from within the youth teams. Of course in some cases we see new talents that have been in the mix of the first team before like Oxlade-Chamberlain. Last season one could say was his first one …
By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Michael Oliver Assistants – S Burt and G Beswick Fourth Official – R Madley As an aside, I notice that Manure v Fulham have R West as Assistant and R East as fourth official, just thought it interesting (just need a North and South for a full set). …
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By Walter Broeckx Earlier on this site appeared an article from Pete where he gave a very well written summary of things that might influence refs. In case you didn’t read it, you should and it can be found here One of his points, in fact the first point he made was the point about …
By Walter Broeckx We all remember the days that Koscielny came to Arsenal. Well I do. It was in 2010 and he was bought one year after Wenger had bought Vermaelen. The moaners were up in arms. Another unknown French guy. Only one year top flight experience in France. Another example on how Wenger had …
By Pete The refereeing analysis pioneered by Walter and his colleagues over the last few years continues to provoke discussion. From the analysis undertaken, it is very clear to me that the biases demonstrated can not conceivably have arisen by chance fluctuation – and that is leaving aside the really poor decision accuracy which, as …
By Walter Broeckx When I woke up last Sunday I had a feeling that this was maybe one of the most important days in our season. Not that the opposition was of the standard of Manchester City or Chelsea. After all it was only Crystal Palace (with all respect) we were facing later that day. …
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By Walter Broeckx In our earlier articles we have already talked about some proposals to improve refereeing and football. Things to make football fairer for all. Part 1 can be found here and part two can be found here So on we go with the proposals and again the proposal is written like this and …
By Walter Broeckx Ah this is what it is all about: the green pitch and two teams of 11 players who try to win the match. Forget all the transfer boring moments on who we should buy, surely should not buy and who has lost it, who is too stubborn, who doesn’t want to spend. …
by Walter Broeckx As in the earlier article which you can read here we will continue with analysing some proposals to improve refereeing and football in general. As these proposals were made in the comment section in an earlier article I have taken the liberty to give my opinion on them. The proposal itself is …
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By Walter Broeckx A few weeks ago someone in the comment section had a few proposals that could improve football. As can happen in comment sections the great comment gets lost amongst other comments and the idea doesn’t get the attention it deserved. So after weeks not having the time I found the time to …
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By Walter Broeckx With the announcement that Puma will be our new kit dealer for the next five years it is clear that some 10 years after having started to build the Emirates stadium the club is entering the final phase of the transition of the club. A transition period that has been long and …
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By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood After the short distraction of the FA cup we were back last night with PL football. But the FA cup will have a big impact on the PL it seems. And this will be the same for all teams currently in the top 4. Because, as you will have …
By Walter Broeckx There is no excuse for starting as slow as we did. Southampton did a great job. They were all over us all over the pitch. We didn’t get the chance to start our passing and at the end the players ran and ran with the ball until they lost it and Southampton …
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By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood It is no secret that this side has always supported our manager. Of course we didn’t make much of a fuss about it in the easy days when we won things and didn’t have the stadium debt hanging round our neck. At such a moment supporting Wenger was easy. …
By Walter Broeckx Where are the days that Arsenal won the world cup. At least that was the title in one paper when France beat Brazil in the final of the world cup and they used a few Arsenal players to achieve that. But times have changed since then and now more and more we …
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By Walter Broeckx Today is just another day in history. Not a day that people will look back at in 10 or 15 years time and say: remember 22/01/2014? That day …the earth stood still, the 3rd world war started, an atomic bomb exploded, a nuclear plant exploded, a tsunami washed away all live somewhere, …
By Walter Broeckx In this article I want to have a closer look at some numbers we can find if we look at all the different tables you can find on the internet. The first thing is the league table position we have found ourselves this season. And that is rather impressive I think. Anyone …
By Walter Broeckx Speculation is around that Wenger has agreed to sign another extension to his contract for another 3 years. Now it is needless to say that if this would be the case, Untold Arsenal would be a place where a wild celebration might take place. I heard Tony has ordered a lot of …
By Walter Broeckx With getting rid of the former moaner we had to endure at Arsenal Player we have made a major improvement. I must say that the new person they hired is much more to my liking. Adrian Clarke is the co-commentator now on Arsenal matches and he also does the analysis after the …
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By Walter Broeckx From the first minutes you could see that the only thing Fulham had in mind was to prevent a defeat and if anything with an acceptable scoreline. The game could have opened up early on when a nice combination between Wilshere and Özil put the latter through on goal. His shot with …
By Walter Broeckx We are over the half way point of January and I notice some people getting nervous. And yes they are getting nervous about Arsenal not having signed anyone yet. I see again phrases coming up like: spend the f*cking money. And each name we get linked with and as usual there are …
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By Walter Broeckx As you may know we have been making comparisons between last season and this season. So here is the next time we do it and now it is done after 21 matches. First we start with the league table of last season when all teams had played 21 games. 2012/2013 after 21 …
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By Walter Broeckx This past weekend saw again another debatable/hilarious/angry making decision from a referee. A decision that helped Manchester City to the top of the league table. So of course a decision we do not like to see. Now on to the decision itself: it was the wrong decision. The laws have changed a …
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By Walter Broeckx The first moments of the game I thought that Swarbrick was out to prove us wrong. The first poor challenge coming in leading with the forearm against the head of Wilshere and immediately he gave the deserved yellow card. Wow I thought this is how it should be done. Letting you know …
By Walter Broeckx The injury to Walcott has been the start of some people freaking out. The cries to buy no matter what cost has been seen back. Probably at the first not win result people will hold up signs saying to buy, buy, buy. People will scream to sack the manager and rubbish all …
