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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 Someone had to stick out their neck and well it seems that my country will be the first. And I have nothing to do with it. Well I think not. Or did they read what I have been saying all that time and agreed with me? What is this all about you …
Read More “Is football as we know it about to change dramatically?”
By Walter Broeckx Our third game in pre-season brought us to known territory for one man: Arsène Wenger. As you all know by now it was his last team he managed before coming to Arsenal all those years ago. So it was a nice hello with some old people he worked with in those days. …
Read More “Nagoya Grampus – Arsenal, again, again and again”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————— In this article we will continue to let you know how competent the referees have been in the games we could review in the season 2012-2013. In an earlier article we …
Read More “Only 28% of last season’s red card decisions were correct.”
By Walter Broeckx Just imagine you want to buy a new car. You look at the different options you have and you pick a few models that would suit you. And after checking petrol consumption, reliability and the amount of boot space you reach the conclusion that the best car out there for you is …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of a series pulling together the huge number of referee reviews we did last season. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————— In this article we reveal how competent the referees have been in the games we reviewed in the season …
Read More “Referee Review 2012-13: How competent were the refs?”
By Walter Broeckx Tony asked the question in his article about Arsenal beating Vietnam with 1-7 : what we learned? Well I will try to answer that. First of all I think the conditions in Vietnam were terrible to play a game of football. You could see even after a few minutes time that …
Read More “Let’s Ged-i(t)on! Oh come on. We can do a better headline than that! Can’t we?”
By Walter Broeckx This is the second article in our annual referee review. Links to the earlier articles can be found at the bottom of this article. ————————————————- So after revealing how many games we reviewed last season we now will try to see how competent the refs were in general in the games we …
Read More “Take 28,038 referee decisions during the course of one season. And what do you find?”
By Walter Broeckx So the Asia tour is well on their way and one thing is for sure : it is amazing to see how the supporters from over there react to the appearance of our team. After seeing the way the Indonesian fans were filling the sides of the road where the Arsenal bus …
Read More “The anticipation, the smiles, the fun, the laughter. Some of us have it all”
By Walter Broeckx The First game of Arsenal in the 2013-2014 season was a game against the Indonesia Dream team. For Arsenal we had the following starting line up: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Miguel, Gibbs, Arteta, Ramsey, The Ox, Theo, Apkom and Gnabry. So a mix of some older players and a few youngsters upfront. Arsenal …
Read More “Indonesian Nightmare Team 0 – 7 Arsenal, a nice work out”
By Walter Broeckx After having counted the games and the decisions we gradually are getting ready to start publishing the referee review of the season 2012-2013. The first thing is to show you how many games we did. And those who have been with us from the start will have known that the objective was …
Read More “Ref Review 2012 – 2013: What we did and what happens next.”
By Walter Broeckx And now for something completely different. Forget all the transfer talk. Forget all the rumours. Let us focus on the Asia tour 2013. And on who will travel. First of all the players who will not travel : Cazorla and Monreal. Because of the stupid *************** (self censoring) of Fifa who wanted …
Read More “Shock, horror: Untold Arsenal criticises Arsenal FC!”
By Walter Broeckx As you may know we have been doing referee reviews for a while now. And just in case you don’t know may I add that it all started through people asking questions on Untold Arsenal after I revealed that I was a referee. First there were questions about some incidents in some …
Read More “Referee review : The report of the season 2012-2013”
By Our Man In Black If you’ve been looking closely you may have noticed that in the past weeks we have published a few rumours that are doing the rounds amongst referees. If these rumours are true then this paints the PGMO and their big boys as a not really nice and reliable organisation. Of …
Read More “Referee Rumour: Who will pull the lid off the activities of PGMO?”
By Walter Broeckx In his articles that you could read on here in the last days Tony painted an accurate picture on the dealing that goes on behind the scenes. The secret things, the spreading of rumours and more importantly, and far more extensively, the spreading of false rumours. And as he said lots of …
By Walter Broeckx So what was already know a few weeks ago is now made official. Yaya Sanogo will be an Arsenal player. Of course the ones who are waiting for big names will be disappointed but surely even they must realise that we are only on the first day of the transfer market and …
Read More “Yaya Sanogo, the postman always scores twice (plus lyrics to his official song.)”
By Walter Broeckx Apparently there has been some kind of Fifa tournament going on or has just finished in Brazil. At first I thought I had slept for more than a year and that is was already 2014. But no it was 2013. Now I wonder when will it ever be enough for FIFA? When …
By Our Man In Black We don’t use names of referees when we publish our rumours. As has been said before we trust our sources but we will not expose them to the wrath of the highly secretive and shady PGMO. And so we haven’t been able to name the refs of the PGMO officials …
By Our Man In Black BULLYING in the changing room We have been told that at least 3 top officials have been bullied, received threats and have been intimidated by senior officials from the PGMO. We do have a few names but once again we cannot publish them, or will not publish them as we …
Read More “Referee Rumours: Bullying of referees by… referees”
By Walter Broeckx Some 10 days ago the Spanish justice department accused Lionel Messi and his father Jorge Horacia of tax fraud. On September 17, their case will be heard, as was said by a spokesman for justice, Senor Company: “The court has decided today to act on the complaint of the financial arm of …
Read More “Messi worlds best football player…. but also a tax fraud?”
By Our Man In Black FITNESS To do games in the PL you need absolutely fit referees. And each referee that does games in the PL most pass a few tests. Fifa refs also take a very strict eye test. This might sound normal but we can assure you that the tests are very strict. …
Read More “REFEREE RUMOURS: In the Country of lies, can this be the only truthful organisation?”
By Walter Broeckx This site has never made it a secret that we are part of the AKB-brigade. For those just arriving from Mars: the Arsène Knows Best-brigade. In fact it is the reason why Tony started this blog all those years ago. To counter the stream of negativity that was not only around Arsenal but …
Read More “Mr Usmanov’s dramatic change of direction, and the implications for Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Oh the transfer rumours. You hate them or you love them but surely some of them are really big fun that makes you laugh. Let us have a look at a few funny ones. Let us start with Andy Carroll who has been purchased by West Ham United. Probably after first having …
Read More “Silly, sillier, silliest – today’s rumours, and even Untold comes in for criticism!!!”
By Our Man In Black In our last Referee Rumours we reported the rumour that not all games are assessed by the PGMO despite this being one of their main tasks. As we said then, we can assess the rumour fully because the PGMO won’t pass on their assessments. Indeed this is why Untold started …
Read More “Referee Rumours – inside stories from the murky world of PL refereeing”
By Our Man In Black If the rumours can be believed it now seems that whereas PGMO should assess the referee in all games, not all games are actually assessed. Which is rather bizarre since it means that the only place where all games are assessed from a referee point of view is Referee Decisions. …
Read More “Referee Rumours: Is the promotion and demotion of referees fixed?”
By Our Man In Black ASSESSMENTS OF GAMES According to the way the PGMO should be working each game in the PL should be assessed by the PGMO. To put it bluntly, all PL matches are meant to be assessed by a panel of assessors every Monday. But rumour has it that this is not …
Read More “Who referees the referees? It’s a bigger problem than we imagined”
