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 Arsenal team: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, Gabriel, Coquelin, Elneny, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck Sunderland trying to press high but the first shot was from Alexis but well over the goal. Alexis has a shot from distance that is diverted by the arm …
By Bulldog Drummond Quite how Sunderland mutates into Wonderloaf and what Wonderloaf was and what it had to do with north London was revealed in our last Sunderland piece in October last year. Anyway, there is not too much news around about this evening’s game, but there were two stories away from our match I …
By Bulldog Drummond It is interesting to note just how balanced Sunderland’s home and away form has been this season – three wins at home and three away. They have however performed slightly better at home picking up five draws there, against just one away. They have also scored four more goals at home …
by Bulldog Drummond It seems to be injuries all round at the moment. Here’s the physioroom latest with Sunderland top # TEAM Total men down Whose down last What’s up 1 Sunderland 8 V Anichebe Hamstring Injury 2 West Ham United 8 M Noble Hernia 3 Hull City 7 H Maguire Ankle Injury 4 Manchester …
by Going Going Gooner 5th Can’t say that it thrills me much. Certainly watching football on Thursdays doesn’t do anything for me, either. And, I am not looking forward to hearing all the rubbish from Spurs fans or the Wenger Out Brigade… although there is not much we can do about it… Well, actually, …
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal beat Chelsea 3-0 this season I didn’t see a quite how Chelsea were going to turn matters around. But as Mr Wenger said this past weekend, “in the last two seasons the team that won the league hasn’t played in Europe,” and I started to wonder if that could possibly …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal are, of course, only as good as their last match. That’s not what I think but it certainly is a view that is very strongly held by many people who like to put their viewpoint across. But even then, the need with Arsenal is always to dampen down matters just in …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Mustafi, Koscielny, Holding, Bellerin, Coquelin, Xhaka, Monreal, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, Gabriel, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck A long ball from Mustafi finds Alexis but he was offside and wasted the chance anyway. Arsenal monopolizing the ball in the opening stages and Stoke defending in numbers. …
By Bulldog Drummond By and large when a manager says, “We are looking to dent Arsenal’s top-four hopes” one can take “dent” as a metaphor, but when Stoke City manager Mark Hughes says it you know he means “dent” literally. It will be all out war, with very little to do with football. And with …
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By Bulldog Drummond Although it was largely missed due to the mass hysteria of Chelsea winning the league, there was another match last night: Everton beat Watford 1-0. Rather amusingly Statto has made a mistake in its calculations and have Everton above Arsenal in the league, but just in case that is where you started …
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By Bulldog Drummond. . “Arsenal injury blow as key duo missing from training ahead of Stoke clash” screams the Excess. And yes they must have a story because they go on with “ARSENAL are likely to be without two key stars for their clash with Stoke City at the bet365 Stadium on Saturday.”But who …
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By Tony Attwood Unfortunately Andrew is away on holiday and can’t do his normal referee preview, and I certainly don’t feel qualified to stand in his shoes. So all I can do is pick a highlight or two from the fact that the referee is Mike Dean. As you will probably know the Untold team …
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By Bulldog Drummond. As one or two people began to realise just around the time of the Southampton match, Arsenal have gone across to wing backs, and started winning. OK, all the media attention was on Tottenham finishing above us for the first time since the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066 but rather the …
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By Tony Attwood The league table according to goals scored is a funny little thing especially as it shows Bournemouth above Man U Pos P W D L F A GD Pt 1 Chelsea 35 27 3 5 75 29 +46 84 2 Liverpool 36 20 10 6 71 42 +29 70 3 Tottenham Hotspur …
By Tony Attwood Way, way back, before the dawn of time (well, March 2015 actually) Untold published its article Football for the fans: the visions of three Arsenal supporters Within days the Guardian rushed out its article Reclaiming football for all: presenting the manifesto for a better game by David Goldblatt. From the length of the recommendations, …
By Tony Attwood Have you heard the one about Fifa reforming itself? It’s a story that is much liked in the English media as it encourages the thought that the world cup in Russia is going to be a jolly good thing, with no violence, no corruption, and beautiful football throughout. Which makes it rather …
By Walter Broeckx Koscielny didn’t make it in the end and so we had one change as Mustafi took his place. Arsenal starting line up: Cech, Holding, Mustafi, Monreal, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Alexis, Welbeck On the beach: : Ospina, Bellerin, Gabriel, Coquelin, Iwobi, Walcott, Giroud. Southampton with the brightest start in the match …
By Bulldog Drummond It has proven interesting in recent weeks to consider the league table as it was last season and as it is now. Last year at this moment, with 33 played, here it is. Last since in the last six at this point we had won 2, drawn 3, lost 1. 9 points. …
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By Bulldog Drummond . And so as we approach the game lets have a quick look at a few stats that tend to get lost amidst the generalised chit chat and three line bloggettas. These first sets of figures are derived from stats on WhoScored.com . These figures are for Arsenal away games, with p/g …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly an apology – I am on holiday for a week from the 10th to the 17th inclusive and so won’t be able to prepare a referee preview for either the Stoke or Sunderland games. I’ll be in Switzerland sightseeing by railway – should be glorious if the sun comes out. Anyway …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsene Wenger has revealed that Laurent Koscielny and Granit Xhaka could miss the game with Southampton on Wednesday night. But even so, and even with the newspapers now in desperation to hold onto their fantasies by printing claims that Arsenal have had the most men injured in the last 10 years (they …
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There are clips included in the report for every wrong decision and every major decision in red bold text ARSENAL vs. MANCHESTER CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 28 DATE: 2nd April 2017 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Richard West 4th OFFICIAL: Craig …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. The Director of Football story is back on the agenda after at least a week without it coming up. And so are the stories about the new manager. This time it is Borussia Dortmund man Michael Zorc who has been approached about taking a job in London – and the usual …
By Tony Attwood It is interesting that when the level of corruption within Fifa became clear at the highest all the English newspapers rush in to condemn the Association, all claiming to have been keeping a close eye on the situation. But the rest of time, when Fifa just becomes embroiled in normal run of …
There are clips included in the report for every wrong decision and every major decision in red bold text ARSENAL vs. WEST HAM UNITED COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 28 DATE: 5th April 2017 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Martin Atkinson 1st LINESMAN: Stephen Child 2nd LINESMAN: Adam Nunn 4th OFFICIAL: …
