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"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 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 …
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By Walter Broeckx Changing the tune is something that is happening a lot of course. No better place to see it happening than in the football environment. And certainly with Arsenal. Not on Untold one could say. Since Tony started this blog all those years ago we have been celebrating each win, have swallowed each …
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday Arsenal honoured our former chairman Peter Hill-Wood with the unveiling of a bust. Peter Hill-Wood retired last summer because of health problems and since then Sir Chips Keswick is our new chairman. Be it that this function is more a ceremonial function these days as we know that the real powerful …
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 2nd yellow cards decisions a closer look”
By Walter Broeckx Where to start this article? Maybe with the events before the match. Wenger has said he would rotate a little bit. So expected some changes. But half a team? And some surprises also. The one not surprising change was Jenkinson for Sagna as the latter is a bit injured. Monreal for Gibbs …
Read More “Arsenal – Hull 2-0, may I present to you : the machine”
By Walter Broeckx Some people now claim the fact that it was their pressure that made Wenger buy Özil. Now I don’t know if there are any people out there to pressure Wenger in to anything at all. It doesn’t seem that Wenger is a person who is easily put under pressure to do something …
Read More “The last 38 matches in the PL: which team is the best?”
How the top teams compare with last season By Walter Broeckx Games are coming fast for the moment so I will type a bit faster to make sure we get this ready before the next Arsenal match. Let us have a look at the results of the weekend and what they mean for Arsenal. I’ve …
Read More “The Untold Review: One year ago, and today. Arsenal top of all leagues”
By Walter Broeckx After the last European game we had two different views on how attending a game at the Emirates is being experienced. Drew who sits down is in fact standing up most of the time. And I do admit on the rare occasions when I have gone to see my own local team over here …
By Walter Broeckx Oh sometimes you can’t wait to write your article about the match and then you find other things on your path so you have to wait a bit. A bit too long. Certainly after a match like this. A match that even before the game was started was all about Aaron Ramsey. …
By Walter Broeckx Most of the times writing articles for Untold is fun. I also have found much joy in the referee revciews we have done. I can say it is something that I once started all those years ago and that has grown in to what you can see over here on this site …
By Walter Broeckx I know in Belgium they make a lot of fuss about the fact that Vermaelen isn’t able to get in to the Arsenal team this season. And they say it might ruin his chances for the Belgium national team. Now to be honest I don’t give a fuck about that national team. …
Read More “Monreal – Gibbs, the best left back pairing in the PL”
By Walter Broeckx What a start of the game that was. We got the ball tried to do a spud start by almost losing the ball too easy, then slapped ourselves in the face, shouted: wake up and that is exactly what we did. Within seconds Sagna released Wilshere on the right flank and after …
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By Walter Broeckx What might happen in the Group of death. Standing now after 4 matches: Arsenal 9 Napoli 9 Dortmund 6 Marseille 0 Let us first look at the Arsenal win scenarios: Arsenal win + Napoli wins Arsenal 12 Napoli 12 Dortmund 6 Marseille 0 Arsenal and Napoli are qualified but have to decide …
Read More “The Champions League group of death, possible scenarios, all the outcomes.”
By Walter Broeckx We are at this moment in time around about 1/3 of the season. I know that if you look at the maths thing it isn’t correct but if you do your maths then you will also know that next week we will be over 1/3 of the season. It is difficult to …
Read More “A round up of the weekend; the joy, the utter disgrace”
By Walter Broeckx Our win against Southampton yesterday was not just a win. We were playing a team that could come level with us on top of the PL. Now I do wonder how many pundits would have predicted this scenario at the start of the season? Do I see any fingers raised? …
By Walter Broeckx We are under way after a delay of some 15 minutes because of some underground disturbance. This will have its affect on this article as you will be invited to update it in the comment section once it is published. This is because of the delay I cannot see the final minutes …
Read More “Arsenal – Southampton, the now completed incomplete match report”
By Walter Broeckx Look who’s talking. Joseph Blatter the big boss of the organisation that is out there in order to make as much money as possible out of football, uses all means including overloading players as much as possible with meaningless games on every occasion, (also known as Fifa) has spoken. He has said …
By Walter Broeckx For years I have been wondering what it takes to become a pundit. Now maybe I am myself not the smartest person around but I think that I have finally found the answer to it. What makes you suited to become a person is to have the most simple world image possible. …
Read More “Pundits and their simple world image; Per Mertesacker and his total brilliance.”
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
By Walter Broeckx Earlier this week the news came out. Bad news. Well for Tony probably. Because from now on he will be certain that he will be called a racist whenever he doesn’t spell the name correctly of what seems will be our goalkeeper for the next few years and beyond. Wojciech Szczesny has …
Read More “Szczesny: signs new contract, spelling checkers go crazy, Tony becomes desperate…”
By Walter Broeckx A quick round up of the fortunes and misfortunes of Arsenal players when taken away from our club to their respective countries. We are half way through the international games and so far no real disaster has happened to an Arsenal player, when we look at it from an Arsenal point of …
Read More “Internationals: Nail biting times for Arsenal supporters, plus a visit to Venus”
By Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 I looked at which referees delivered unbiased refereeing based on a series of criteria I defined. I noted that nearly 1 game in five met the criteria for unbiased refereeing or to put it the other way 4 out of 5 games didn’t – which is not a very …
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
By Walter Broeckx While doing my round of the internet I stumbled in to an interesting table. It was a table that was showing how many players that were more or less raised at the club on average play for that club. They called it club trained players. And a club trained player was a …
Read More “Arsenal top of the league: project youth at work”
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
