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 Tony Attwood There is an advert in the Daily Express for jobs in the Department of Media Culture and Sport. That is the government department that controls the Football Association. The department’s position in supporting moderation and equality is somewhat undermined as it appears alongside the headline “MIGRATION WARNING: 50 million Muslims are …
By Walter Broeckx On the Arsenal.com website we could find this from the post match press conference and I must say Arsène Wenger hit the nail on the head there: on the first goal seeming to be a handball… Honestly, I don’t know. I’m responsible for many things, but not for the referee’s decisions. I …
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw head of Certain Things, Arsenal FC I was recently able to lay my hands on the following confidential memo circulated to members of the board and senior executives at Arsenal. It reveals the difficulties the club are facing in finding a new manger. Introduction: Recent changes to the …
Read More “How Arsenal are being forced to advertise for a new manager”
By Walter Broeckx What seemed impossible and what was laughed away by some when I first wrote about it on Untold is coming closer. Yes video refereeing is more and more likely to become a reality in a few seasons. To be honest it should have been here already but I accept that this takes …
Read More “There is maybe an even bigger problem than referee errors in football – part 1”
By Don McMahon Once again a defeat has left me questioning the sanity and rationality of some of our supporters. Most mature Gooners take the latest result with a shrug and the healthy realization that this happens to every team, but there are far too many who see every defeat or draw as the foreshadowing …
by Tony Attwood (observing it all from Australia) For all the years of the Wenger regime the media have been pumping out their anti-Arsenal stories, from shadowy fake news references about the manager’s sordid past when he first came to England, through disparaging remarks about him not being English and so “not understanding” English football, …
Read More “We need some failure for a while in order to make the good times feel good.”
By Walter Broeckx One change in the team compared to our last match. Gibbs starting at left back and Monreal dropped to the bench Bellerin had recoverd from his concussion and could start again. On the bench we had Elneny back after his trip to the Africa Cup. Also Welbeck, Lucas and Giroud on the …
by Bulldog Drummond. Hull have a poor away record as this table shows: one win, one draw, and the rest defeats. Overall Away Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD 24 5 5 14 22 47 −25 20 1 1 9 6 26 −20 This is reminiscent of …
Read More “Arsenal v Hull – the home/away analysis and the teams”
by Andrew Crawshaw If you thought that the PGMO would relax a bit now that we are 12 points behind Chelsea then think again. Our Officials for Saturday are :- Referee – Mark Clattenburg 41 years old from Durham FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Jake Collin FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Adrian Holmes …
Read More “Arsenal v Hull – Saturday 11 February 2017 – The Match Officials”
By Bulldog Drummond As the pundits punder on and tell us what to think and what to do (ESPN I see are telling Arsenal supporters that they should rise up against the club and that they – the supporters – are weak for not doing so), so the world turns and those of us not …
Read More “Arsenal v Hull: the preview, and a comparison of Gabriel with Héctor Bellerín”
by Tony Attwood. At the start of the year Untold ran the story Could football learn a thing of two from the way games are refereed in rugby? It was a highly speculative piece which arose from discussions with some friends on the topic of just how football might be improved, and how we might …
Read More “Rule changes escalate as sin bins are to be discussed by international rule committee”
by The Brickfields Gunners Having been a very devout reader of UA almost from its inception , I have observed the various characters that come on here to either share observations and/or contribute in a positive and informative way , or just come here in an attempt to ridicule us and dampened our spirits . …
Read More “A COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF ‘them’”
by Andrew Crawshaw I have been looking at the TransferMarket squad values in the European Leagues and how the various teams are performing against their positions (ranked in terms of their squad values). I last did this a couple of years ago and found that, by and large, there was a reasonably good correlation between …
Read More “A Ramble through Europe – Which Managers should we keep an eye on?”
By Tony Attwood Being in Australia as I am now, and slowly feeling the benefits of being here (the jet lag is going, and what appeared on day one to be an 8 mile hike along the road to my breakfast bar of choice turns out in reality to be a pleasant 15 minute stroll) …
This article is based on the numbers that has been given by Vince. So credit must go to him for researching this. Some of the text has been edited by the Untold team to make this an article as it has been taken from the comment section but this deserved more than just a comment. …
Borehamwood FC Sunday 19 February 14:00 by Andrew Crawshaw At the end of last season Kelly Smith MBE announced that she was retiring from playing professional football. She was however taking up a permanent coaching position with Arsenal Ladies so the club will continue to be able to call on her experience and expertise. Kelly …
By Tony Attwood “The worst Cameroon team in living memory.” I suspect there are people somewhere who are talking about this being worst Arsenal team in living memory. I only mention Cameroon because they have just won the Africa Cup and I have seen them so called. Mohamed Elneny scored to put Egypt ahead in …
Read More “Exactly who could be brought in to end Arsenal’s misery?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As Tony reported in his article What the top teams did in the transfer window and how deep fake news has seeped. there have been a large number of loan moves for some of the players who we would expect to see in the U23 squad. There have also been a number …
Read More “The U23 Team – Who’s left and who is joining the Academy for next Season?”
By Walter Broeckx I have to come back to the first goal from Chelsea. A lof of things have been said about the Alonso-Bellerin assault that went unpunished by the ref. And a lot of rubbish has been said. Now before I come to the point of this article I will start with a few …
Read More “Pundit talk: Intention and only eye for the ball. What say the laws of the game?”
By Tony Attwood in Australia I have seen Arsenal on TV in all sorts of somewhat unusual places – including I recall watching the 1971 Cup Final in Algiers – but I don’t think I ever anticipated watching a live Arsenal game eight miles above ground level. But that is what happened with the Chelsea …
By Walter Broeckx In trying to ignore the Atkinson antics people said it didn’t matter because we were played off the pitch. Now I must say that I had the impression that it was a more balanced match. But hey, what do I know I could be wrong. I thought it started as a more …
By Bulldog Drummond Chelsea, as we will all remember, were thumped by Arsenal 3-0 at the Ems, and although that was good news for us it was pretty bad news for the rest of football as they then went on a whirlwind of winning. Date Venue Opposition Score (h-t) Result 24/09/2016 A Arsenal 0:3 (0:3) …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal part 1: the build up and the preview.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson 45 years old from West Yorkshire FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stuart Burt Northamptonshire FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Stephen Child Kent FIFA Accredited Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell 33 years old from Warwickshire Well it’s finally happened Martin Atkinson appointed as referee for his first …
Read More “Atkinson (and Chelsea) v Arsenal Saturday Feb 4 2017 – the Match Officials”
by Tony Attwood I seem of late to have annoyed more people than usual with my occasional ramblings on this site, so I guess there might be a little bit of pleasure dished into the lives of one or two people when I report that tomorrow (Friday) I am toddling off to foreign parts; to …
By Tony Attwood There is something delightful about watching the nation’s media writers making total idiots of themselves as they respond to an Arsenal defeat – and something inevitable about the way the anti-Wengerian camp followers will pick up on the theme. But the way in which they overtly seek to mislead the public is …
Read More “Senior member of Arsenal’s medical team subject to outrageous attack by journalist”
