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 Andrew Crawshaw In the last round of matches the following stands out Watford were called for 21 fouls in their game against Everton but only had two yellow cards awarded against them. Here is a table showing who committed the fouls and when. Andre Gray should consider himself lucky not to have picked up …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal with a few changes compared to last match. Özil in the starting line up and also Lichtsteiner starting the match. Remember Arsenal must win with a 2 goal advantage. Be it 2-0, 3-1, 4-2, 17-15, whatever. Arsenal team: Cech, Lichtsteiner, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Özil, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, Aubameyang. On the …
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By Bulldog Drummond OK – three possible outcomes tonight… 1: We win easily and go through without any worries This implies a couple of early goals and then a third which means that even if an away goal emerged, it would be of no immediate significance. The reaction from the media would be Arsenal scrape …
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By Tony Attwood There is an article in the Daily Star which basically says that if Arsenal do not get off to a good start next season, supporters will be calling for the manager to be sacked. I don’t know if that is true at any level. A terrific run this season, after the …
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Sir Hardly Anyone takes a look at the latest gibberings from the media. Steve Sidwell says he is shocked at how events have unfolded at Arsenal since he left the club, with the expected progress having never materialised. That is interesting since after he left the club, Arsenal had an unbeaten season while winning the …
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by Bulldog Drummond Since the run of unbeaten games ended at Southampton on 16 December Arsenal have played 14 games. Seven have been lost, six have been won and just one has been a draw. Date Game Res Score Competition 16 Dec 2018 Southampton v Arsenal L 3-2 Premier League 19 Dec 2018 Arsenal v …
by Tony Attwood We have a national curriculum in schools in England which sets out the subjects all students have to study up to the age of 16. In that list of subjects is “science.” Now if you were taught science reasonably well, you might recall that included in that subject is something called “the …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone One of the key things to remember with football blogs is that a number of correspondents who, well, not to put too fine a point on it “correspond” with the blog, don’t actually read the series of articles on which they are commenting (nor even all of the most recent) as …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve been looking at different aspects of the new reign of Mr Emery at Arsenal and trying to see where it leads. Articles thus far include How to kill a player: the issues of Ozil So should we be supporting Emery, given the way things are going? Is Mr Emery getting …
by Tony Attwood I suspect that anyone who was present when Patrick Vieira came on as a substitute for his first appearance for Arsenal at Highbury, will never forget the moment. Young and inexperienced though he was, and with his manager on the other side of the world still working in Japan, and with a …
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by Tony Attwood Yesterday Walter in his article How to kill a player raised the issue of how the club is treating Ozil, which itself raises the question, how does the issue of Ozil fit with our long-running banner headline “supporting the club the manager and the team.” It’s something I have been becoming increasingly uncomfortable …
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by Blacksheep Hello everybody, I doubt you’ve missed me but it has been a very long time since I wrote anything for Untold. This is mostly because I’ve been busy writing non-football stuff but also because I’ve not really had anything to say. Like Tony I was initially quite encouraged by the recruitment of Unai …
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By Walter Broeckx After the world cup in Russia in 2018 Özil was the scapegoat of the German media and the fans. He was blamed for all that went wrong. And we know how the media report things is how the more ignorant football supporter will look at the game and will look at …
By Walter Broeckx Some changes compared to last weekend. Cech as expected in goal in the Europa League. Xhaka also returned from injury and starts in the place of Torreira who drops to the bench. Aubameyang was on the beach. Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Kolasinac, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan, …
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by Bulldog Drummond Arsenal’s commentary on the injured shows us Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang In full training. Mesut Ozil In full training. Sokratis In full training ahead of schedule. Granit Xhaka In full training. Aaron Ramsey Right knee. Being assessed ahead of BATE Borisov (a). Whether they will all play or not is another matter of course, …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It is rarely difficult to distinguish between a football journalist with a grievance and a ray of sunshine, and that is certainly the case in the aftermath of the latest wild ranting and raving from Jamie Carragher. Take for example the Daily Express’ approach with its headline “Chelsea news: Jamie Carragher …
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by Andrew Crawshaw This match was played on Thursday evening 7 February at Borehamwood against newly formed Championship side Manchester United. Whilst a newly formed team, Manchester United are genuinely of WSL quality, although they play in the second tier of the women’s game it is only a matter of when they will gain promotion …
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By Tony Attwood There have, for many years, been certain clubs that are apart from the rest, because of their crowds and their historic results. The exact list of such clubs has changed over time, but it has, since the end of the first world war, included Manchester United and Arsenal, because of the consistently …
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by Tony Attwood Arsenal have now finally improved on last season’s awful away record. Here’s the current table for away games only Pos Team P W D L F GA GD Pts 1 Tottenham Hotspur 13 11 0 2 30 13 17 33 2 Liverpool 13 9 3 1 24 8 16 30 3 Manchester …
Read More “Arsenal beat the away barrier, but it is still not enough”
By Walter Broeckx Mkhitaryan and Maitland-Niles return to the starting line up. A few absentees with Auba and Ozil missing out because of illness. According to Arsenal.com we also miss Ramsey wiht a knee injury and Xhaka who still has trouble with his groin. Arsenal: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Koscielny, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Torreira, Guendouzi, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, …
Read More “Final score and live match report Huddersfield – Arsenal : 1-2”
by Bulldog Drummond Unai Emery has put forward the view that the poor away form of Arsenal is a psychological issue, and of course there may be something in that. But the interpretation put on the remarks by journalists has as always been very short term, rather than looking back over this season and last …
Read More “Huddersfield v Arsenal and the issue of away form”
by Bulldog Drummond Huddersfield must know that they are going down – it would be one of the all time escapes if they didn’t, and there is no sign of a turn around in recent games… Here is their league record since 1 December. Date Game Res Score 01 Dec 2018 Huddersfield Town v Brighton …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Here, courtesy of premierleague.com, are this weekends fixtures and appointed match officials. Please note that kickoff times are 15:00 (UK time) unless otherwise noted :- Saturday 9 February 12:30 Fulham v Man Utd Referee: Paul Tierney Assistants: Eddie Smart, Mick McDonough Fourth official: Graham Scott Crystal Palace v West Ham Referee: Craig Pawson Assistants: Lee Betts, Ian Hussin Fourth official: …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone You need a certain type of mind these days to be a football journalist. A mind not cluttered with issues of reality or the detail of mere fact. A mind that is allowed to run free hither and thither, gambolling across great swathes of fantasy unhindered by any notion of reality, …
Read More “Mindless twaddle: Sir Hardly Anyone’s roundup of Arsenal media inventions”
By Tony Attwood With Arsenal sitting in sixth position, where they were at this moment last season, and with just the one loan signing in January, many of the pundits have given up on the club as a source for news or indeed a source of knocking copy. Instead they are looking around for …
