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 Some changes in the starting line up to cover for the injury of Monreal and Lichtsteiner coming in at what looks to be a 4 at the back starting line up. Our beach showing we are rather thin now on first team players… Arsenal starting with : Leno, Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Koscielny, Kolasinac, …
Read More “Final score and live match report Brighton H&A – Arsenal: 1-1”
By Bulldog Drummond Looking at Arsenal, as we have noted throughout this season, the away form is key to taking us up the league (not least on the grounds that it would be hard to improve on last season’s home form). If we can beat Brighton, that will take us to five away wins – …
Read More “Brighton v Arsenal, the teams, the possibilities, Koscielny”
By Bulldog Drummond Brighton’s season has been somewhat erratic not helped by having three players sent off in seven days of playing football. This might well be having an impact on them – the manager telling the players to reign in some of the aggro. Looking at their performances through the season we find these …
by Andrew Crawshaw Covering the first half of the season here is a list of the games done by each referee and the top of the table for the Assistant Referees. A total of 18 different referees have been used so far but with vastly different workloads. Referee Games Assistants Games Anthony Taylor 17 Simon …
Read More “First Half of the Season – Referee Analysis – who’s been where and how often”
by Andrew Crawshaw This week marks the halfway point of the season. Maybe we aren’t quite where we would have liked to be but, in all honesty, I don’t think that many of us could reasonably have expected us to be any higher than fifth, given our form from last year. Here, courtesy of premierleague.com …
By Bulldog Drummond If it is Arsenal it must be an injury crisis, so let’s take a peek…. and yes this time they are right we are second in the injury league behind Watford. Crisis, crisis, crisis. But is anyone calling for the head of the Watford manager because of their injury crisis? I can’t …
Read More “Brighton v Arsenal: the injury crisis (part 94), kettles of fish and runs.”
By Tony Attwood This time it is Keith Hackett who does it, but it could have been any of the commentators who tell us that refereeing is really ok and jolly good and everything is fine and there is nothing sinister about having an organisation so secretive that it makes the masonic lodges look like …
Read More “The great referee con, played on us poor punters over and over again”
By Tony Attwood The prime objective of this season for many supporters was, I think, to see Arsenal get back into the Champions League, where Mr Wenger had kept the club for so many years (a run, as I have mentioned before, which has only ever been exceeded by Real Madrid). I made the comment …
Read More “How likely are Arsenal to get into the top four by the end of the season?”
by Tony Attwood Sean Dyche made a number of serious accusations against Arsenal players in particular, the Arsenal team in general, after the match yesterday and complained about the behaviour of the referee in this match and referees in general through commenting on the fact that (he claims) Burnley do not get given penalties. The …
Read More “Official reactions to Dyche will show us how the authorities are thinking”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes as could be expected with the busy schedule we are looking at and some returns in the team. Özil started and also Kolasinac in the starting line up. Up front Lacazette and Aubameyang both starting. Torreira getting some rest and on the bench with Elneny taking his place. A back …
Read More “Final score live match report Arsenal – Burnley : 3-1”
By Bulldog Drummond The last time we did lose to a bottom three club at home was with a 1-0 loss to West Ham way way way back in April 2007. And to make this sound even better we have won the last 27 home league matches against sides in the drop zone since a …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: the teams now and the last time we lost to Burnley”
by Bulldog Drummond. We have beaten Burnley 51 times throughout history, and lost 33 times, with 21 games being draws, and the last ten give no cause for concern. But that problem of recovering from the first defeat in a while is always lurking around. Here are the recent Burnlian results… Date Game Res Score …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley recent games, and the holiday season run in”
By Bulldog Drummond Physioroom now has us on six injuries – equal with Man City, Tottenham and Southampton and two behind West Ham. Burnley are on five. The latest news is Bellerin: a major doubt for now but probably back by Boxing Day Mkhitaryan: ankle injury – no return date set Kolasinac: a doubt for …
Read More “Arsenal v Burnley: injuries, Burnley recently, the problem of the end of a run”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here are the PL Fixtures and the appointed officials courtesy of premierleague.com :- Kick-offs are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise. Friday 21 December 20:00 Wolves v Liverpool Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Lee Betts, Richard West Fourth official: Michael Oliver Wolverhampton v Liverpool: the predictions Saturday 22 December 12:30 Arsenal v Burnley Referee: Kevin Friend Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, Derek Eaton …
Read More “Matchweek 18 – All the Games, All the Officials; and the predictions”
By Tony Attwood You might recall that I have often passed comment on the way that Football.London – the Daily Mirror’s website, churns out an Arsenal story every 10 minutes. I meant that as a warning, but sadly some have now taken it as a blueprint. This is the log this morning from the bloggetta …
Read More “There might be a clue here as to why we shouldn’t trust the media”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal: Cech, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Xhaka, Monreal, Torreira, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, Aubameyang On the beach : Martinez, Lichtsteiner, Koscielny, Elneny, Willock, Lacazette, Nketiah A first corner for Arsenal and Mkhiaryan flicks it on but Monreal can’t get on the end of the ball as he was pulled back but Moss didn’t see …
By Tony Attwood The rules are quite simple: anyone with a season ticket at Arsenal can apply for and get a ticket for League Cup games. The price is £10 to sit downstairs, £20 to sit upstairs, with a 50% discount for the over 65s. But despite the low price and the fact it is …
Read More “On not going to Arsenal v Tottenham, and do we really need journalists at matches?”
By Bulldog Drummond At the time of the third round draw for the FA Cup, there were still a couple second round ties unresolved – including of course the one to resolve who Arsenal would play. Now we know, as Blackpool have finally beaten Solihull Moors, and so we will play Blackpool for the second …
Read More “Arsenal get Blackpool (again) but first here’s the team against Tottenham”
By Bulldog Drummond Apparentlhy some of Arsenal’s squad posted selfies after their 4-2 extermination of Tottenham and the Tiny Totts manager said such activity as this should be saved for winning trophies. That must mean that they have only have two occasions for doing that in the past 25 years, although of course camera phones haven’t …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham: the problem with selfies and the injury news”
By Tony Attwood José Mourinho became manager of Manchester United in May 2016. In five transfer windows he spent around £400m on 11 players. The media men on the inside say that in each case the choice of player was his. The Guardian is saying that not only are the results poor from the first team but that …
Read More “What’s £400m between friends? How some clubs have upped the game.”
By Bulldog Drummond And so the world of football rambles on. “How can a sport be worth billions and spend just a pittance on fighting racism?” asks the Guardian while “Police investigate allegation of historical racist abuse in youth team” at Chelsea. The Telegraph meanwhile has an exclusive telling us the Mourinho and the Man …
Read More “Criticising the clubs while whipping up a storm. Arsenal v Tottenham”
By Bulldog Drummond Apparently we have an injury crisis – in defence. Which seems to be the story we were running before the Southampton match – and wouldn’t you know, it is still with us. No one is out of action because of too many yellow cards but we are told that Shkodran Mustafi has …
Read More “Have you heard the one about the Arsenal team to face Tottenham?”
By Tony Attwood Well, that draw wasn’t too painful was it? We toddle off to Belarus to play Bate where our old chum Alex Hleb still plays I think. The first leg is away on 14 February and the second is on 21 February at Arsenal Stadium. The last time we played them we won …
Read More “It’s BATE again. Remembering the last time, and comparing with past seasons”
By Bulldog Drummond Here’s another stat about Unai Emery and his style of tackling football matches that we haven’t seen before: he has made 14 substitutions before the start of the second half this season, which is more than has happened at any other club. And it is working not only in terms of the …
By Bulldog Drummond Despite Arsenal being the dominant force when compared with Southampton, Southampton have nonetheless beaten Arsenal 20 times in all the meetings between the two clubs. There have been 26 draws and we have beaten them 49 times. Our recent problems against them started in September 2014 when we lost a home league …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: “Do it quickly with patience””
