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By Walter Broeckx For those who don’t like me to say : ‘we told you so’, please stop now because in this article we will say: we told you so. So after this warning you can read further but don’t complain about it. When the game started we knew that a draw would keep us …
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Michael Oliver. Ref Oliver is still only 28 years old so we might be seeing him …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Michael Oliver. This doesn’t look too clever.”
By Walter Broeckx Ever since the day I started the referee reviewing system on Untold a few seasons ago the one thing that came out of most numbers was that we could see a bias in favour of Manchester United. For years we have been suggesting this was the case, and got it confirmed by …
Read More “How Manchester United influenced referees, year after year after year”
By Walter Broeckx That we have bought a bit of class with Özil is saying that the sun comes up each morning in the East. That Özil is one of the best (if not the best) player for the Nr. 10 position in the world is like saying that the sun goes down in the …
Read More “Class on and off the field, and it’s only just begun.”
By Walter Broeckx How do you highlight the best man on the pitch from a game like the one against Naples? Well in fact you can’t. I think the saying that it is a team sport never has been truer than on what must become known as “that famous Tuesday evening”. A team sport where …
By Walter Broeckx So the last word that was out was that Arsenal only played little teams so far and thus our league position was flattering. Now in a way this is rather disrespectful towards that former Middlesex team but who are we to count them as a better team in the PL if the …
By Walter Broeckx Sometimes it is difficult to not get involved in creating a hype. I think Serge Gnabry might just be one of those players who we have known to be there for a while and then suddenly they seem to burst on to the big stage and just perform as if they were …
By Walter Broeckx Sometimes you think surely my luck will stop at some moment in time. It started rather well with the game between the lot down the road and the lot with the lots of money. The best result for Arsenal in my opinion would have been a draw. And that is what we …
By Walter Broeckx Sometimes you couldn’t make it up. One of my favourite comical series of all time was the ‘Allo, allo’ And one of the most funny characters for me was Herr Flick, the leader of the Gestapo in Nouvion. People who know the series will know who I mean and as it was …
By Walter Broeckx I don’t have to remind you all of the fact that we are top of the league. Just imagine with a serious ref in the first game we might have been 3 points clear. But that is the way the PGMOL goes so we cannot do anything about that but remember it …
Read More “Top of two leagues at once (but one is not wanted)”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Michael Jones. Out of favour ref for the moment one could say as until now he …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Michael Jones. Poor discipline.”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Martin Atkinson. Another one of those 42 years old refs we have in the PL. And …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Martin Atkinson. This is not a Fifa ref.”
By Walter Broeckx Of course the articles on Untold Arsenal are what keeps this site interesting. Various articles about all aspects of football. And we always have been supportive for our players and of course for our manager. We don’t abuse our own players and certainly not our manager. We just wish them well and …
By Walter Broeckx We’re top of the league, say we are top of the league. I could stop right here and maybe most of you will but there is rather a lot to say about this match. And all some very strange things in fact. We seemed to have entered a reverse world in this …
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Mark Halsey. Now retired ref Halsey has been in the PL for many years and stopped …
By Walter Broeckx Tinfoil hats they said. We were idiots. We were mad. Crazy, deluded. The usual bunch of nice words you get when you dare to challenge the ‘authorities’ in football. Now it seems that Mark Halsey has opened the box (dare I say Pandora’s box?) and it will be interesting to see how …
Read More “Ref corruption: it is time to start questioning Manchester United”
By Walter Broeckx Last year we had the Nextgen series and Arsenal got to the semi finals to lose against Chelsea with 4-3 in extra time. That was rather an interesting match to see. We then also lost the last game so Arsenal finished in 4th place. But as Nextgen was not organized by Uefa …
By Walter Broeckx The part of fans that is never satisfied with Arsenal is rather silent for the moment. But they are waiting out there for the next dropped point to come out in full force. The first dropped point in Europe will result in the usual abuse and of course to throw all and …
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Mark Clattenburg. Ref Clattenburg has been in the PL since 2004 and is a FIFA …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Mark Clattenburg – good on red poor on yellow”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Lee Probert. Ref Probert has been in the PL for a few years now (since 2007 …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Lee Probert. This is not acceptable.”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Kevin Friend. Kevin Friend came in to the PL in 2009 and has now a few …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Kevin Friend. Over 90% right, but a red card disaster.”
By Walter Broeckx A win on a bad stream on the internet usually looks bad. But on this occasion it made it difficult to talk about a few key incidents at the moment because I really could not see it properly. But now that I have seen it on a good TV screen I can …
If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know we’ve already had one referee preview for the Sunderland game. But Walter has just come up with some late breaking news on the ref. The match preview follows shortly. ———————- I was just taking my own personal look at the referee we will see doing the game in …
Read More “Sunderland – Arsenal: is Atkinson truly fit to referee this game?”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Lee Mason. Ref Mason has been in the PL for a few years now (since 2006 …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Lee Mason. The ref with penalty area fever and Arsenal phobia”
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Jonathan Moss. Ref Moss came in to the PL I think two seasons ago. Not the …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Jonathon Moss. Over 90% right.”
