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 starting line up: Cech, Mustafi, Monreal, Kolasinac, Bellerin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Özil, Welbeck, Lacazette On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Coquelin, Elneny, Iwobi, Walcott, Giroud A first chance for Stoke when they break but Cech rushes off his line to smother the effort. Meanwhile it is clear that Bellerin plays on the …
Read More “Stoke – Arsenal : 1-0 the PGMO back to normal already”
by Bulldog Drummond. Now this is something I did not know: “Stoke City’s recruitment of Jesé Rodríguez on a season-long loan from Paris Saint-Germain means Mark Hughes now has five Champions League winners in his squad, more than any other Premier League club.” Goodness me, that puts the Champions League in a new light. Anyway, I had …
Read More “Which squad has the most Champs Lge winners? Yep – the thugs are playing Arsenal.”
By Bulldog Drummond According to today’s media Sea Kolasinac is the strongest player Arsene Wenger has in his squad, and perhaps the strongest player he has ever worked with. Which must make him good at playing wugger or whatever that game is called that they play in the Potteries. So they immediately dig up the …
By Bulldog Drummond First off, Ladbrokes are sponsoring Arsenal Fan TV. If you have any thoughts that perhaps Arsenal Fan TV is not something that you like, and you fancy a bet, you might care to avoid Ladbrokes. Totally up to you of course, but just a thought. Moving on Untold Arsenal confirmed this …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal: team news, just how awful is our defence and some historic videos”
by Andrew Crawshaw Well last week’s game was a fairly pleasant surprise – a game with Mike Dean in charge and at the end of the match we weren’t all fuming about him having totally screwed us over. Of course some of the pundits were incensed about what they saw as a handball by Özil, …
Read More “Stoke v Arsenal Saturday 19 August – The Match Officials: will the improvement continue?”
By Tony Attwood Let me admit from the off that in answer to that question, I don’t know. But I think I ought to be able to find out. And I ought to be able to find out when the families who suffered as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire got their money. Not …
Read More “What happened to the Grenfell Tower money collected from the Community Shield match?”
Facts by Andrew Crawshaw Wild speculation by Tony Attwood First, Andrew’s section: As I write this (lunchtime on Thursday) we currently have 34 players over the age of 21 who are vying for inclusion in our 25 man senior squad which has to be named on 1st September. All but four are currently listed as …
Read More “The Arsenal 25 man Senior Squad – where are we now?”
By Tony Attwood “Why are so many Premier League teams so bad in defence?” You’ll know, if you have read my meanderings across the years, that I rather like evidence. Not “The evidence of my own eyes” but actual numbers. So when someone rages in a bloggetta that “Xhaka is clearly not up to …
Read More “Are Premier League teams really so bad in defence as the media suggest?”
By Tony Attwood There is no doubt things have stalled. The number of new players and new rumours in the last week has been virtually nothing – all we have had is the rehashing of the same old same old. It is by and large a pretty poor show. We’re only on 89 and …
Read More “The 89 players now tipped to be joining Arsenal this summer. The Index vol 9.”
By Don McMahon Once I had digested the entirety of the Arsenal Leicester game, I decided to write a review based on wearing two hats; a referee’s viewpoint and a certified coaches’ viewpoint, so here goes. I will describe or break down the key elements of the game as follows: Team lineup, Fitness levels, Tactical …
Read More “Arsenal’s Opener: The good, the bad and the unpredictable.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is really important to stay in touch with the bloggettas these days so that we know exactly where we are. Football London for example today tells us that The end of August is edging ever closer – You can just imagine the panic in and around the training grounds …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal under 23s went two down to Derby County, and then came back to win 3-2. That’s rather gratifying but the basic fact hides a few other interesting details. For a start, Nelson scored two – carrying on where he left off last season when he scored in the home draw …
Read More “Arsenal Under 23s win and make the season’s team options a little clearer”
By Tony Attwood FC Barcelona’s former defender, Rafael Márquez – the man known as “Emperor of Michoacán” is a national hero in Mexico. And a pretty big hero to Barcelona. But now the US authorities are investigating him. And they are doing this for one simple reason: Márquez is said to have been involved …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Just as I think I can have a few days off on a Kroneke hunt across the wild plains of Lower Rutland and along comes the Daily Express telling us that all hell is going to break loose on the transfer front. Consider this for example: “Chelsea are keen on signing …
By Tony Attwood The theme is that Arsenal do everything wrong. We buy our players far too late in the transfer window because Wenger can’t make up his mind and so dithers. Except maybe Chelsea are dithering a bit more and Tottenham have dithered so much they haven’t bought anyone. And here’s another: …
Read More “Why are Arsenal so wasteful in front of goal, and really, does it matter?”
By Tony Attwood We won the opening game – which is all you can ask – although we also did it with a very exciting match which is a nice bonus. But watching the Chelsea defeat to Burnley I began to wonder as the game went on, whether the result would have been possible a …
Read More “Would Arsenal have won, Chelsea have lost and Liverpool only drawn a year ago?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone I have been wondering if we ought not to have a “Laugh of the Week” slot, although as others then point out, what makes people laugh in my country mansion in Rutland might not be the same as in the Toppled Bollard, the Corby pub which the rest of the Untold …
by Sir Hardly Anyone (divorced) They were talking about something being wrong at Chelsea on Sky before the games this afternoon and the chair (Geoff) asked what it (the situation at Chelsea) was about, and they all sat their shaking their heads. And that was before today’s match. Oh dear. Let me explain. The chairman …
Read More “Funny moment on Sky Sport debating Chelsea takes the media spotlight off us for once”
By Tony Attwood One of the great things about the start of each season is the doing of it all over again. The journey in the car with my pal from the Midlands on a Friday night (did anyone actually consider what the traffic is like on the M1 on a Friday night when deciding …
Read More “How sad are the commentators, utterly unable to understand the sheer joy of last night”
By Walter Broeckx Per Mertesacker not fully recovered or risked with maybe the possibility to see his cut go open again so a change at the back. Monreal being the central defender and Kolasinac slotting in at the left central defence position. Özil also back in the starting line up. On the bench we had …
By Bulldog Drummond Moving on from the first part of the preview of the Leicester game we might note that Craig Shakespeare said in July, “I’m not a fan of saying we have to get to the 40-point target – I think we have to aim higher than that.” So maybe they will try and take …
Read More “Arsenal v Leicester: the injuries, the line ups, Leicester tactics, and more videos.”
by Bulldog Drummond. OK before we begin, Leicester at home can only mean one thing – the greatest ever match to have been at, which those of us who were there will never ever forget Ah, the good ol’ days. More video footage anon, but first yes Arsenal are being tipped to end the season …
By Walter Broeckx With Andrew not being around for the moment to write his pre-match referee preview I have taken the task to write about the man we all hate to see appear on an Arsenal pitch. Yes it is not only PL starting time. It is also…. Dean time. Over the years I have …
Arsenal are supposedly in the midst of a summer overhaul after manager Arsene Wenger penned his new two-year deal off the back of one of his worst seasons in the job. After the controversial new deal was announced, signings and change were both promised. Sead Kolasinac and Alexandre Lacazette have since arrived and look …
Read More “Selling Oxlade-Chamberlain could well be the biggest mistake Arsenal make”
The 37 Players leaving Arsenal in this transfer window By Sir Hardly Anyone It is perhaps a little hard for journalists to remember (given that on average they have a mindspan similar to that of your garden pond goldfish), that throughout June and July the leading story of players who were leaving Arsenal was Hector …
Read More “The 37 Players being tipped to leave Arsenal in this transfer window”
