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 Billy the Dog McGraw. Our man in the car park. Thus it was. I know the Guardian said it was 25 passes, but that’s tripe. They were quite clearly drunk at the time. I could see them in their little press boxy type thing, below us executive types in club level with me old …
Read More “Arsenal v the Arsenalistas of Arsenal do Minho (aka Braga) (and a car park)”
By Billy The Dog McGraw. Allow me to explain. 02 are doing this thing with Arsenal in which they provide entertainment and hand out some free beer, free tickets, free beer, free fun and games, free beer, free beer, and free beer. One of these free things takes place in a tent (or “bubble” to …
by Billy “The Dog” McGraw. As Arsenal prepare to play Bolton, or as they are called locally, Blacheborne (a name which, as I mentioned ahead of the fixture last year, is taken from the Old English name for bleach) Untold Arsenal have had the privilege of an interview with Magnus Samo a notorious northern gangster …
By Bogus Cheese, our man with an argument Mes cheery cheries. Bonjour, hello and what’s new? A happy Limburger to you all. Our dearest old chums of chance, the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal are up to it again! You’d have thought they might climb back down a bit having taking such a hammering over the question of …
Read More “Bogus Cheese takes on the anti-Arsenal brigade and tells them what for!”
By Roxy Beaujolais, our correspondent in foreign parts. Well, my little Tour Eiffels, my little je ne sais quoi. Tony advertised for a foreign correspondent, I replied, got the job, and he sent me off to… Manchester. I know it is a foreign country et al, but realmente, I mean. It’s not even in Europe. …
Read More “Exclusive: Untold Arsenal interview with the owner of Manchester City.”
Arsenal welcome The Creature from the Black Lagoon By Billy The Dog McGraw, Landlord of the Toppled Bollard, Islington. At the heart of the matter there are three creatures. Oysten the Greater, Oysten the Lesser, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. All three have a significant part to play in the world of Blackpudlian …
Read More “Billy the Dog’s match preview – Arsenal welcome The Creature from The Black Lagoon.”
By Tony Attwood So with two weeks to go, what do we know? As usual I have no idea, but here’s some of my own thoughts from the last couple of days… 1: We have bought a centre forward and a central defender and both look fairly nifty. 2: Arshavin is playing like he plays …
Read More “What we have learned so far, and why it is vital not to have a sense of humour”
This is overseas week on Untold Arsenal. Walter Broeckx is in Spain covering “Cesc Week” and here is Billy’s piece on tonight’s game in Austria. . Unfortunately transmission lines across the ocean are not what they might be and Walter’s article wasn’t listed yesterday on Goonernews, so if you rely on that august publication, you …
Read More “Rising lake levels and vampires put Arsenal’s friendly in doubt”
By Walter Broeckx Two months we have been waiting That long hot summer did not seem to pass Very slowly the hours and the days went along But finally here it is: we are back playing football again. The days were long The papers full off rumours Will he go or not, will he stay …
By Billy The Dog McGraw, landlord of the Toppled Bollard and Rampager of the Northern Hordes. Continuing the unique and specialised services offered to you by Untold, and having indulged in a bottle of apple and mango juice to celebrate the new season, I present my first column of the 2010/11: to wit and viz, …
By Emperor Tony Attwood It’s now coming up to three years since Untold started its message of peace, joy, economic sanity and devotion to the philosophy and methodology of Arsène Wenger. During that same time one or two people living in that dark and evil backwater of London known as Grub Street have gathered occasionally …
Read More “Why Le Grub should follow the lead of the Earl of Sidcup”
by billy the dog mcgraw, our man without capitals A crowd of about 25,000 angry football fans stormed the FA’s multi-million pound luxury residence in Cape Town last night in a spontaneous expression of frustration and drunkenness. Once entry was gained to the complex doors were ripped off hinges and files were opened. The resulting …
Read More “Fans attack England HQ and reveal details of sex and money dilemma”
———————— Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid ——————————— Blackburn Rovers will forever be known in football as the inventors of that most pernicious evil, Rotational Fouling. They later adopted the Rotational Timewasting approach that Bolton Wanderers developed soon after, and worked with other clubs to combine this philosophy with the “park the …
Read More “Blackburn Rovers. The source of much of the evil that inflicts football today”
———————— Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid ——————————— THE ZEN OF ARSENAL Paul Collins I want to talk about delusion. Delusion is a word with a variety of connotations. Some people would visualize a crazy looking person walking down the street with a funny walk and mumbling to themselves as delusional. Can …
A blue moon arises when a full moon appears twice in one month. It is rather dull really. There are just about 13 full moons in a year and only 12 months, so logically one month is going to get a second one in one month if one sees what one is saying. Calling it …
Today’s Sponsor: Goonernews Betting Guide Back to the End of the Universe Peter Hawkins Like most of you supporters of real football, I was feeling really pissed off by last Sunday tea-time. “Bugger this!” I thought to myself (nobody else was listening), “I’m going out to see if I can tell those who support the …
The Romans built a fort at Wigan. Thus begin all official and unofficial histories of one of England’s least known shanty towns. The problem for Wigan was that having got there the pesky Romans took a look and immediately buggered off, leaving the village to the even peskier Northumbrians. After 800 years they built a …
Read More “Where is Wigan, how do I get there, what’s this pier thing and who is Eddie Waring?”
Inside informants at Tottie-Train, the Temporary Tottenham Training Turf have revealed that the Tinies have spent lots of time looking at Arsenal and the way they have consistentlyended up several hundred light years ahead of the Totts year after year. Of course the Tots have had some success – their secret underwater research centre in …
Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com —————- Last week we had April Fools Day with all the usual stuff going up on the web sites. Red Action announced that Arsenal were going …
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. A resume by Billy the Dog McGraw, Landlord of the Toppled Bollard Islington and head of the Republic of Abyssinia. “The stuffed heads of West Brom supporters on pikes that adorn the walkways of Wolverhampton are bad enough, but what makes it worse is that many still have dark glasses and …
Read More “Within this review is a joke about Wolverhampton. (It’s not very funny)”
Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com Today’s sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. They even sell “Making the Arsenal”. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com —————————- Welcome to the land of the Pig’s Head. A Billy the Dog McGraw special. In the …
. Billy the Dog explores the happy by-ways of East London Thames Ironworks, whom we play this weekend under their new name of West Porno (the club also known as Wham), have done well over the years, winning the West Ham Charity Cup in 1895 and then becoming Western League Division 1B Champions to the …
Read More “Arsenal prepare to welcome our friendly friends from the east end”
Text of Billy The Dog’s interview with Ino Nothing on BBC Radio 5 previewing the Big Match. Preliminaires Sunderland is a small village to the north of Hatfield (actually one geography book has it north of Bradford but I don’t think that is possible). The village was invaded by the Vikings in 1227 (just before …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland: Davy Lamp, Sir Hardly Anyone and a man with one leg”
I have been interested of late at the way the Anti-Arsenal brigade has been developing its tactics. In the olden days (ie last year) they would mostly spend their time saying that our players were all leaving just like Flamini and Hleb before them. Cesc was going to Barca and the world would end. Now …
Read More “How Wenger Used the Doom and Gloomers to his advantage”
Today’s game is in the FA Cup, or Facup as it is known in the Latin tongue which still dominates the region where Stoke play. As with all nouns in Latin the word “facup” can be conjugated and it is vital to be able to do this properly if wishing to discourse with the locals …
Read More “Stoke is not in Stoke (and the first ever football blog to try a joke in Latin)”
