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 I just read an interesting article about the injury that Theo Walcott sustained in the North London Derby last weekend. And as it was mentioned in the comment section earlier by one of our readers I think it would be interesting to have a closer look at this. Now I must warn …
Read More “Is there still hope for Theo to make the world cup?”
By Walter Broeckx I think it will be somewhere around the start of next season when we will be able to start our Theo, Theo, Theo chants again. The bad news that filtered through yesterday was like a punch in the face. When I first saw the incident the first thing that struck me was …
Read More “Losing Theo: Tottenham celebrate, AAA smile, humanity cries.”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “REf Review 2012/13: bias per team home and away games”
By Don McMahon Despite the unceasing and apparently increasing criticism of officials doing Arsenal (and other Club’s) games, based on Walter and his elves’ excellent match reviews and some live observations from those at these games, I felt that we also needed a balancing perspective to understand what officiating a professional game can be like. …
By Walter Broeckx Even in the darkest hours we have faced in the last years as Arsenal supporters, on Untold we have never stopped supporting the club, the manager and the players. All of them. Many a article has been written asking the fans to do the same. Support them at the games and in …
By Walter Broeckx Let us start with the thing I didn’t like at all. That was only one thing in fact. But a moment that could haunt us for a few week if not months. I mean the injury from Theo with some 10 minutes to go. What is the matter with our central strikers …
Read More “FA cup Arsenal – Tottenham: That’s the way I like it but not all…”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “REf Review 2012/13 : The bias that teams can get playing at home”
By Walter Broeckx In this period of the season we all like the odd present like we got last season when we beat Newcastle 7-3 at the Emirates. That was a great and entertaining match. But to have such a match you need two teams who want to play for it. I don’t think Cardiff …
Read More “Super, super Nick… never write a player off before he really is gone”
By Walter Broeckx The kicking of Arsenal players that we have seen happening over the last weeks is starting to show some results. If we look at the injury league table we now have 11 players out. Now one of them is Diaby so I will not count him as I will not count Oxlade-Chamberlain …
Read More “Kick them them till they bleed: the refs new approach shows results”
By Walter Broeckx Are we seeing the French Ligue 2011-2012 being redone in the PL this season? When I looked in to the stats of Olivier Giroud I asked myself this question. I have written about the career of Giroud when he came to Arsenal before. And I then pointed at the fact that in …
By Walter Broeckx As this is the end of the calendar year this is the best moment to have a look back at the year that is almost over. And what better way to do this than to look at the results that we have seen from the teams at the top in the PL. …
By Walter Broeckx This was May 19th all over. A tight game between two teams that look tired at times. Is this Christmas period congestion of fixtures really a good way to produce good football? I don’t think. By the way players have to be replaced after injuries it sure isn’t a healthy situation to …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: The bias that teams get from the refs by playing at home”
By Walter Broeckx After 46 minutes you started to get the feeling: it was one of those days. We didn’t play super football. But we were much better than West Ham for most of the game. And we had enough chances in the first half to put us in front. More than enough in fact. …
Read More “It was almost one of those days till Poldi came along”
By Walter Broeckx Just before the game started I saw a comment after the match preview article from a Chelsea supporter and he said: “What have you been smoking, the comments are worse than the article, Dean will let Chelsea players go out to injure? Its a game between two good teams why can’t you …
Read More “Dean useless as usual, Mourinho still the master in killing football pleasure”
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood (Note: the gathering of data and interpretation of it is by Walter. The commentary on sampling techniques is by Tony) This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: extrapolating Important decisions”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked more closely …
Read More “Does it “all even out in the end”? At last the answer!”
By Walter Broeckx Jack Wilshere has been a naughty boy. And the people from the FA want to punish naughty Jack. Jack has shown his finger towards the City crowd and well…that is something you cannot do. So the fact that they will probably ban Jack for one or two matches is down to him …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013 : Wrong GOAL decisions a closer look”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closer at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013: Wrong PENALTY decisions, a closer look.”
By Walter Broeckx Despite me saying that I would no longer do reviews the events of the Manchester City match forced me to have a go at this match with the old format we used two seasons ago. For those who are not familiar with the rules: in case of doubt we give the ref …
Read More “A referee review Martin City – Arsenal. An utterly unacceptable referee”
By Walter Broeckx At the end of the match it seemed that Mertesacker had an argument with Özil. Apparently Özil didn’t went over to the fans to thank them for their support and this angered Mertesacker big time. No I really wouldn’t want to face an angry Mertesacker. I’m not really that much of a …
Read More “Thanking the fans – the Germans will sort it out.”
By Walter Broeckx Individual errors and not taking our chances. That was the difference between the two teams today. For the first goal Koscielny was asleep and he didn’t realise Aguero was behind him. Just before that we got the first real chance of the game but missed it. A sentence I am going to …
Read More “Individual errors, giving it away and not taking our chances”
By Walter Broeckx Somehow 11 December is our unlucky date the last years. I will not remind you of what happened last year on this day but I still feel the kick in the **** from that day. A day that celebrates the birth of Arsenal (and not just Arsenal in my personal circle) so …
By Walter Broeckx (Additional material on the referee by Tony) Tonight our referee will be Viktor Kassai. And this is bad. Bad? NO, VERY BAD! It was he who refused to give us a penalty for a foul on Vela when we played at Braga a few seasons ago when it was still 0-0. We …
