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 Don McMahon There is no mystery to our ¨sudden¨ solidity and cohesive team spirit which, in my humble opinion, dates from last January and therefore isn’t so novel: 1)Our Germans have a long tradition of loyalty and sacrifice for their comrades. The Wehrmacht’s slogan during the war, despite their horrible reputation, was …
By Walter Broeckx Amazing things happening in the world of football these days. Of course we at Untold have been writing for years about strange things in football. Strange things in referee land. About gambling. About match fixing. About money laundering. About dodgy transfer dealings that could be connected with money laundering. We have …
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 When reading arsenal.com today I found this article to be very interesting. http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-team-spirit-is-massive-now I will quote parts of it in the article for those who don’t want to click on the link (and if you do make sure you return) and give my thoughts on what Jack has said. …
Read More “Wilshere explaines the most important reason of our good results this calender year”
By Walter Broeckx Of course we cannot really blame the countries that have to play for a place in the Fick Fufa world cup for having to play the games they have to play. This will mean that the 3 French Arsenal players will have two big games to play in the next …
Read More “All Arsenal players injured and out or will be soon”
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 Andrew Crawshaw What constitutes unbiased refereeing? A simple question, the answer depends to a large degree on one’s viewpoint. To me the answer comes in three parts. 1- Games where the referee made no mistakes – and yes there were some last year. 2 – Games where there were so few referee mistakes that …
Read More “Unbiased refereeing in 2012/13 – Part 1 the Referees”
By Walter Broeckx Last week I went to see the match between the U19 from Dortmund and Arsenal played a few hours before the real CL match between both teams. Now I’m not going to pretend to have more knowledge about the youth players than anyone else for this. I was lucky to had …
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 As we are facing another dull period in the season when our players might get injured when playing for their respective countries I thought it would be a nice moment to have a look at the season and compare this with the last season. So I took the league table based on …
By Arvind I’m slowly getting through all the games that we’ve played. Hopefully sooner rather than later, I will get through them all and be able to write about the recent league games instead of older ones. Until then, bear with me and I do think all these games offer some interesting insight into how …
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 The last person I wanted to see ruled out for this fixture was Per Mertesacker. Alas he was sick and the same happened to Rosicky. Both out with a virus. I don’t know if it affected other players also but we looked a bit flat. Maybe there was another reason to it. …
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 Andrew Crawshaw The PGMOL have spun the dice and our officials for the week are :- Referee – Michael Oliver Assistants – S Burt and S Long 4th Official – Andre Marriner So it’s not Dean, Taylor or any of the other obvious villains, however his figures for us last year …
Read More “Manchester United v Arsenal 10 November 2013 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx As this game was played in Germany and those of us living in Belgium have the major German TV stations in our basic media package it was very interesting to have the view of German football pundits concerning Arsenal, the game and of course Mr Wenger. First of all the club. I …
Read More “Dortmund – Arsenal: the German view on Arsenal and Wenger”
By Walter Broeckx I mentioned before that I also did have a few not so nice experiences at the Dortmund game. Having reviewed the two matches it is time to turn to the negatives… First of all a general feeling about Germany. I must say that it is all going downhill. German efficiency they said… …
By Walter Broeckx The Uefa youth league is a competition between the youth teams from the teams that play the Champions League. The groups are based on the same groups in the real champions league and so Arsenal U19 had to travel to Dortmund to play their German opponents on the same day as the …
Read More “The youth league: Dortmund – Arsenal a game of missed chances”
Untold likes to send its correspondents off to overseas matches. Unfortunately things happen to them. Phil went to the Marseilles game and it took him five days to recover and file his report. Walter made it to Dortmund – and filed his copy 20 hours after the match ended. See – we’re getting better at …
Read More “An historic evening in Dortmund. Untold was there. (Warning: containts Bratwurst)”
By Walter Broeckx After Saturday’s great win over Liverpool most of us will still feel a bit high I guess. Well I do anyway. But even more excitement is creeping in. Since yesterday I am the lucky owner of my match ticket for our Champions League match at Dortmund. And once you get that ticket …
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. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Newcastle Utd. One ref utterly pro, one ref utterly against”
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. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : Norwich. It mostly balances.”
By Walter Broeckx Last week when we lost to Chelsea we had the usual people and a even a new one coming to tell us how rubbish we are in the big games. Now I do think that there is only one big game in the League cup and that is the final. All the …
By Walter Broeckx I can imagine that Tony at the moment I move my trembling fingers over the keyboard will be signing in full voice in the Emirates, that Arsenal are top of the league. After our loss earlier this week in the league cup I said that maybe we didn’t give our all in …
Read More “Arsenal – Liverpool 2-0, Who had predicted this league table in August?”
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. __________________________ Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: 10 QPR; a positive bias especially from one ref.”
