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 Walter Broeckx It has been some 11 years ago I started the referee reviews. And in those days I was a lone voice in saying that football needed some system to help the referees in their difficult job. From what I found in my reviews and in the reviews we did with non-Arsenal supporting …
Read More “How VAR is used will be the most important matter for the future of VAR”
By Tony Attwood Following Arsenal from the far side of the world (Sydney, Australia to be precise) is something of an odd affair. The games don’t appear to be shown live (at least not in the bars that I can find) and anyway does one really want to follow football in the middle of the …
Read More “Arsenal and Napoli: it is going to be very close in the Europa League”
By Walter Broeckx As we knew no Sokratis of course because of his double yellow card last week. Arsenal playing with 3 at the back. And with Lacazette in the team after we won our appeal against the high punishment of 3 matches. Xhaka is the only player that has to be carefull if we …
Read More “Full time Europa League live match report Arsenal – Rennes : 3-0”
by Andrew Crawshaw Whilst the most that our Men’s team can achieve is third place in the Premier League, our Women and U18s are in with a real shot of winning their leagues, sadly our U23s are not going to retain the title they won last year. Arsenal Women Current League table :- Team P …
by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know our match on Sunday against United was our last this season against the other ‘top six’ clubs. All of the others have two matches to play against each other. Here is the current mini-league table P W D L +/- Pts Man City 8 6 1 1 12 …
Read More “The top 6 head to head and the run in to the PL title”
By Tony Attwood If you have been with us for a year or more you may recall that each spring I take a break from UK and head to the other side of the world wherein lives one of my daughters. Depending on all sorts of complexities which I won’t bore you it can be …
By Tony Attwood I am about to toddle off to the other side of the world so I may not be able to clear all the comments that come in – more on that in the next post. But first here is a little thought that popped into my head. Mr Emery is mostly very …
Read More “The curious issue of what managers say about their players”
By Tony Attwood “This topsy-turvy season continues to confound,” says the Guardian in an article today in relation to Arsenal. Which I’d say isnt really totally accurate. For the last couple of years we’ve been focussing on the difference between Arsenal’s home and away form, and for quite a few games making predictions of matches …
Read More “Arsenal continue to confound: it is not Arsenal that is in chaos.”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to the last two matches. Some because of suspension other just an attempt to pick the best team. Arsenal playing with 3 central defenders a tactic that didn’t Always work so far this season. Up front we have the combination of Aubameyang and Lacazette with Özil also starting. …
Read More “Final score and live report Arsenal – Manchester United : 2-0”
By Bulldog Drummond I’m having to write this some way in advance of the match, because of my convoluted travel arrangements to the game, but even though there will have been a result on saturday evening after my writing of these notes the general point still applies. While Arsenal and Manchester United remain one point …
Read More “Arsenal v Manchester United the teams and the home v away form”
By Tony Attwood The headlines revealed in the aftermath of the Arsenal defeat in the Europa league tell a story of their own. They include… Arsenal are out of Europa League because of one player – fan theory Daily Star Arsenal flops abused at airport by their own fans after Rennes defeat Metro.co.uk Ben Arfa: …
Read More “Arsenal lose, and thus we are back to the land of abuse.”
By Bulldog Drummond Previously we had a look at the recent form of the two clubs involved in this game in Rennes v Arsenal: the predictions Now here’s the update on what the journalists report as the issues – and the teams. There has been quite an attempt to get Mr Emery to suggest that …
By Tony Attwood There was a general feeling of disappointment following the draw with Tottenham last weekend, obviously so given the nature of the Tottenham goal and the missed penalty at the end. But if we look at Arsenal’s recent record in the league, things are not too bad Date Game Res Score 19 Jan …
Read More “Arsenal’s form: we’re closer to the top four than you might think”
Here’s a quick run down of how Rennes are doing in recent matches Date Competition Home Score Away 14/02/19 Europa Rennes 3 – 3 Real Betis 17/02/19 League Reims 2 – 0 Rennes 21/02/19 Europa Real Betis 1 – 3 Rennes 24/02/19 League Rennes 1 – 1 Olympique Mars… 27/02/19 Cup Rennes 2 – 0 …
By Sir Hardly Anyone As a rule, the football journalist doesn’t do anything which might be considered by the general population to be related to the concept widely known as “thinking” during the hours of daylight. Upon waking he or she will stroll to his or her favourite public house, order up a few short …
Read More “Pub talk: Stoke imitate Arsenal, the summer window shuts, Petit lashes out.”
By Tony Attwood The Daily Mirror is today publishing a story about Denis Suarez which makes particularly interesting reading. I am most grateful to my pal Steve who sits next to me at Arsenal Stadium for picking up on this story and alerting me to it today. The story attempts to get to grips with …
Read More “Is Manchester City’s Suarez contract is hindering the player’s development?”
By Tony Attwood There is an interesting paragraph in a report on the Tottenham v Arsenal match in the Daily Telegraph website that says “There were a number of contentious incidents with replays showing Harry Kane was offside in the moments before Skhodran Mustafi barged him over for Spurs’ second half penalty. The referee Taylor …
Read More “We get every statistic imaginable about players, but why no stats about referees?”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to our last midweek match. No Özil but in his place Ramsey at the start. Mustafi starting at right back with Monreal at his normal left back position. One could say we still have a few options on the bench if things wouldn’t go according to plan. Arsenal …
Read More “Final score and live match report Tottenham – Arsenal : 1-1 Poor PGMO… poor PGMO”
By Bulldog Drummond On 8 February Arsenal were ten points behind Tottenham. A win in this game would leave us just one point behind them. In terms of injuries both Koscielny and Lichsteiner are thought to have a chance of being available for selection for the Tottenham match. Otherwise it is just our three long …
Read More “Tottenham v Arsenal; the injuries, the media picks the team and recent runs.”
By Bulldog Drummond The key issue we have been debating of late, of course, is the home / away difference, and it is particularly interesting in relation to this game. Here’s the home league table… Home games only Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Manchester City 15 14 0 1 50 …
Read More “Tottenham Nomads v Arsenal; what the statistics tell us.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here, Courtesy of premierleague.com are this weekend’s matches and officials. NB kickoff times 15:00 unless stated. Saturday 2 March 12:30 Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn Fourth official: Jonathan Moss AFC Bournemouth v Man City Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Adrian Holmes Fourth official: David Coote Brighton v Huddersfield …
Read More “Matchweek 29 – the games, officials, and the ref who never books a Spurs player”
By Tony Attwood The fact that there is nothing wrong with Arsenal as a team is not something that you will read in many publications. What you will see over and over again is that there is something wrong with Arsenal as the main theme, and things need to be changed. But, let me take …
Read More “The dramatic decline in Arsenal’s away form and what we can do about it”
By Walter Broeckx A big surprise at right back with Jenkinson making his first start in the PL in a long, long time. Welcome back you Gunner/Gooner. A few absentees like Xhaka and Maitland-Niles who were more or les expected to be involved. I don’t know if this is down to an injury or illness. …
Read More “Final score and live match report Arsenal – Bournemouth : 5-1”
By Bulldog Drummond The key thinking ahead of this game as far as the media is concerned – or at least the media that bother to look at such things – is that Bournemouth have a host of injuries and Arsenal don’t. There’s not too much on exactly how this is going to help Arsenal, …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: team selections from around the media and the form guide”
by Bulldog Drummond The good news is that this is a home game – not just so that we can go and see it, but also because we can go into the game with a really good track record at home… Home games only Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: the home and away form, and the injuries”
