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 Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychologist, University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. I have long been fascinated by the anger and aggression that is expressed on Untold – not so much the anger that you will read in the comment columns, but the anger, aggression and threats that Untold chooses not …
By Tony Attwood Of course, we all know that what the media and the bloggettas say has nothing to do with reality when it comes to football, but interesting to note (returning, as I have, to England after 3 weeks in Australia) that the press have got a bit fed up with Arsenal bashing and …
Read More “The one gigantic question the football media refuse to ask, let alone answer”
By Walter Broeckx I must say that I am not quickly to feel down about football. I am a rather optimistich Arsenal supporter. Things will only get better in the future for me. Even after a defeat I just look forward to the next match and hope we will win that one. In fact I …
by Andrew Crawshaw On Sunday 19 February Arsenal Ladies held a special game at their Home Ground Borehamwood as a tribute to one of the finest players ever to pull on an Arsenal Shirt. She was shortlisted for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 The game featured the …
By Tony Attwood “Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet?” That opening line from one of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs (Visions of Johanna) seems in a way to sum up where things are with Arsenal at the moment. Dylan’s song is in many ways …
Read More “Arsenal in the future: it is just a sense of perspective”
The trip of a lifetime for the only Canadian who supports both Arsenal and Sutton by H Mark Bodwell I met a bloke at the train station after the Kelly Smith tribute match and we got to talking. He turned out to be one of the contributors to Untold Arsenal, and he was fascinated that I …
By Mike From time to time I’ve done the odd bit of research to find evidence to show whether AFC are as good or bad as the media circus claim. Clearly this doesn’t always convince some people and to be quite honest I don’t know how Tony, Walter and the more regular contributors put …
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By Walter Broeckx I must say that I did produce a big sigh of relief when the match Sutton – Arsenal ended. Not because it was a bad match. Not because I feared that we would go out. No, mostly because of no players getting injured apart from Elneny. He was tackled early in the …
Read More “The FA cup experience, not all was as it should be”
By Tony Attwood I write this having had my final swim in the Pacific (at least for this holiday) while preparing for my final meal out with my daughter this time around. I’ve had the most stunning, amazing time (thank you for asking) and I really would love to stay longer, but the tickets …
by Andrew Crawshaw The U18s have now played 19 of their 22 League games and sit in third place in the Southern Group table. Chelsea have already won the Group but second is still ‘up for grabs’ with Reading, Ourselves and West Ham in the fight. Pos Team P W D L +/- Pts 1 …
By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes as could be expected for the FA cup match against Sutton. Ospina kept his place in goal and Gabriel, Holding and Monreal came in next to Mustafi. In midfield we had the pairing of Elneny and Xhaka. Up front in the attacking positions we had Lucas, Reine-Adelaide and …
By Tony Attwood Being in Australia, as I still am for a few more days, I am fairly dependent on news from Untold and the newspapers on line to follow football. Today, I read in the Daily Mirror “After Lincoln and Millwall upset the odds in Saturday’s cup ties, the internet’s many comedians turned their …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal part 2: the teams, the gibberish, the snippets and injury news.”
By Tony Attwood Of course there was a time when Arsenal were regularly knocked out of the FA Cup by teams from lower leagues: Chapman’s league champions were knocked out by Wallsall, in 1933. Later the club was undone by Northampton Town in 1958, Sheffield Utd in 1959, Rotherham Utd in 1960, Sunderland in 1961, …
Read More “Sutton v Arsenal: greatest giant killers and a look at non-leaguers of the past and”
By Walter Broeckx Well this round of the FA Cup sure went off with a bang. The first match in this group of games and Burnley who played at home to Lincoln lost 0-1. A goal right at the end for Lincoln. And the first upset of the round. And not the last. A few …
By Tony Attwood Going away from everyday life for a few weeks gives one a chance to reflect, and given that Untold Arsenal is now over nine years old and by the time I get back from Australia will have published almost 7000 articles, on this subject alone I find I have a lot of …
Read More “Being upside down: seeing football from a completely different perspective”
Note: There are clips included in the report for every wrong decision and every major decision in red bold text ARSENAL vs. WATFORD COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 23 DATE: 31th January 2017 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Scott Ledger 2nd LINESMAN: Sian Massey 4th OFFICIAL: Kevin …
By Tony Attwood As we all know Mr Wenger has kept us in the Champions League every year. Arsenal (from 1998–99 to 2016–17) have participated in 19 consecutive campaigns which is second only to Real Mad. In essence we have been in the top four for 19 years, our lowest position by definition is of …
Read More “Who needs context when we have a right to win the league now?”
By Walter Broeckx What was a rumour for a few days now is looking to be real: Mark Clattenburg is quitting his job as a Premier League official to become Saudi Arabia’s new head of referees. He will be the new man after Howard Webb has resigned from this function some 11 days ago. I …
Read More “Clattenburg leaves the PL and the PGMO has almost no refs left now”
The astonishing depths to which the Premier League has sunk, And 10 things the next Arsenal manager must consider by Tony Attwood English – not to say European – football is at a very low ebb. Here we have a team that managed to win its Champions League group unbeaten and so qualify for the …
by Tony Attwood Remember Portsmouth. Cup winning team with a long proud history? Remember Leeds being torn to shreds? Or Cardiff? Or if you really keep your eyes on such things, and to prove it is not just Britain, remember Malaga? Or if you really, really follow football how about Chester City, Darlington, Hereford Utd., …
By Walter Broeckx Last night I was watching the match on the German TV channel ZDF. This is a channel that is a standard in the packet we get from our cable TV provider. On rare occasions when Germany play and with a few German players on our books over the last years I have …
By Walter Broeckx A few changes in this CL match. Ospina continues to be the keeper in the CL and so far he has done nothing wrong in his CL matches to not give him the starting place. A bit more unexpected maybe was the fact that Gibbs was chosen over Monreal. Maybe because to …
By Tony Attwood How are Bayern doing this year? They are of course top of the league as the constitution of the federal republic demands, but the feeling is that they are not the sophisticated team they used to be. They are seen this year as not stylish, not the Barcelona of the north, …
By Walter Broeckx If you have read the first part a few days ago but not sure about it anymore: Part 1 can be found here We continue: And that is where I think we might have a chance that the video ref will clean up football from its terrible behaviour of the players. In …
Read More “There is maybe an even bigger problem than referee errors in football – part 2”
By Tony Attwood, still upside down in the land of Oz… The issue that seems to be circulating is whether Mesut Özil should play given his apparent loss of form (so I am told). What the papers are currently saying is summed up in this comment, “Lose, and the season will end at the very …
Read More “Bayern v Arsenal match preview: should Özil play?”
