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 Bulldog Drummond Despite the feeling around that Manchester City are a bit of a difficult team for Arsenal, recent results show this is far from universally so…. Date Game Result Score Competition 8 Apr 2012 Arsenal v Manchester City W 1-0 Premier League 23 Sep 2012 Manchester City v Arsenal D 1-1 Premier League …
Read More “Man City v Arsenal the teams, the recent history, the sequences, and some stuff.”
By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a thought: Manchester Airport’s problems come because their ceaselessly praised manager has bought the players he likes rather than the players they need, and he keeps making changes to the team. Here’s another thought: Arsenal’s problems come because a much derided manager has not bought enough players and refuses to make …
Read More “Guardiola doesn’t do tackles, doesn’t know who to buy, and dithers. Or is that Wenger?”
by Andrew Crawshaw This weekend we have Referee – Martin Atkinson. Age 45 from West Yorkshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant 1 – Gary Beswick. From Durham and FIFA Accredited Assistant 2 – Adam Nunn. From Wiltshire Fourth Official – Robert Madley. Age 30 from West Yorkshire and FIFA Accredited Second time this year for both …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger finally told the assembled football media what we have been saying for years – they are tedious, repetitive and unimaginative. OK he didn’t use those words exactly but he did say they lacked creativity, and how utterly, utterly right he was about that. They agree a theme between them, and …
Read More “Man City’s problem is that they are no longer able to steal players from Arsenal”
by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek 13 Burnley vs. Manchester City [1-2] Referee – Andre Marriner 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Beck 2nd Assistant Referee – Andy Garratt Fourth Official – Jon Moss Swansea City vs. Crystal Palace [5-4] Referee – Kevin Friend 1st Assistant Referee – Jake Collin 2nd …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #13 complete with video evidence”
by Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal enter the third round of this competition tonight with a match against BlackburnRovers at Meadow Park Borehamwood with a 19:00 kickoff. The Borehamwood web site say that there will be no charge, the Arsenal website says there will be a ticket price of £5 at the turnstiles. Either way it is …
Read More “FA Youth Cup 2016/17 – Arsenal v Blackburn Rovers 16/12/2016: Match Preview”
By Tony Attwood As predicted after the Everton game, the aaa are back. uMaxit – a website I’d not come across before although I am sure it has been there for a long time, has a huge audience and the fault in not seeing it is entirely mine – having told us after the Stoke …
Read More “Man City v Arsenal: a change of tactics is predicted, and the psychological game”
By Tony Attwood Now here is a twist and a half. It is being reported in some of the stranger quarters in the footballing world that our Mesut is saying that for him to sign a new contract Arsenal will have to sign Julian Draxler of Wolfsburg. Of course it might be the case that …
Read More “Özil asks Arsenal to sign Draxler as part of contract deal and other tales”
WEST HAM UNITED vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 14 DATE: 3rd December 2016 VENUE: London Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Craig Pawson 1st LINESMAN: Harry Lennard 2nd LINESMAN: Ian Hussin 4th OFFICIAL: Lee Mason First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 03:38 …
Read More “Ref Review: West Ham – Arsenal: an even bias score, miracles do happen”
By Tony Attwood Imagine that you go out of your front door tomorrow morning and find armed police and the military patrolling the streets where previously there was no such activity. Carefully you drive to work, noting the army digging bunkers and erecting barricades, patrols at every junction. You slow down to look for …
Read More “Football journalism has become a walled wonderland inherently incompatible with reality”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is often said that Einstein commented that the definition of madness is doing something, finding it fails, and then doing it again. Einstein never said any such thing, but that doesn’t stop people claiming that he did over and over without checking the validity of their claim. It is in …
Read More “All the Arsenal transfers you might have missed and some that may yet happen”
By Walter Broeckx The future is the video ref. As we have been saying for many many years now. And in the FIFA Club World Cup they are busy testing the system. And from images I have seen I think it is a great way of getting rid of the bad behaviour we see on …
Read More “The video ref in action: a practical example of video refereeing in the Club World Cup”
By Tony Attwood All it took at the start of the season was a defeat by one goal at home to Liverpool and a goalless draw away to the champions (at that point yet to fall from their perch) for the aaa to orchestrate their “Wenger out” chants at Leicester. Which means despite all …
Read More “It’s not the defeat that counts, it’s what happens next”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal with an almost unchanged team from the one that beat Stoke last Saturday. The only new player from the start was Hector Bellerin who started at right back. Gabriel who started at right back last weekend moved to the middle to replace Mustafi just as he did when Mustafi went off …
by Tony Attwood Mr Wenger has been in upbeat mood of late, saying, for example, “When you look at the teams around us, you can see that the margin of difference between the teams has shrunk a lot. So the way you respond in every single game is absolutely vital. “What is for sure is at …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: the teams, the psychology, and Wenger copying Chapman”
By Tony Attwood Last month every media outlet this side of Proxima Centuri told us at least 15 times that November was Arsenal’s worst month. Only one outlet (this one) gave the reason why November was Arsenal’s worst month. The reason is that whereas in the olden days, the fixture list was drawn at random …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal: a case study of changing managers”
by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Mark Clattenburg. Age 41 from Durham and FIFA Accredited Assistant 1 – Simon Bennett. From Staffordshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant 2 – Richard West. From East Yorkshire Fourth Official – Mike Dean. Age 48 from Mersyside This will be our third time this year we have had the ‘pleasure’ of …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal Tuesday 13 December 2016. The Match Officials”
Wenger May Not Be Special But He’s Definitely Something More … By Tai Emeka Obasi. Arsene Wenger is a man many get away with insulting, cajoling, taunting, etc… just because he’s too modest to dwell on unnecessary inanities. Few seasons ago, one man who hates the Arsenal manager with so much passion to promise …
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By Walter Broeckx. Test. Checking the cables. Is the internet working properly? CAN YOU READ ME? TEST 1 2 3 ? Okay. We read you over here on our side. Loud and clear. Cut the capitals will you. Welcome dear readers for our live match, er…, draw report of the CL draw today in Nyon, …
By Tony Attwood Topping the group in the pre-Christmas Champions League is something that a lot of fuss was made about, until Arsenal did it this year, when the story suddenly changed to one in which it was pointed out that we could be drawn against opposition that was just as tough as if we …
Read More “What are the actual benefits of topping the Champions League group this season?”
By Tony Attwood Over the last couple of days I have been asking my colleagues on Untold who work on the referee reports whether overall referee decisions have been improving during the course of the season. I had hoped that with our exposure of referee ineptitude and with the news that there might soon be …
Read More “Over half the important decisions made by Premier League referees are wrong.”
By Tony Attwood First, sorry I am late this morning. After the match yesterday, the underground system was in total chaos, with the gates closed against the crowds at both Arsenal and Finsbury Park stations. No one knew what was going on, no one bothered with announcements. And why should the authorities bother? We …
Read More “The most grotesque appalling display by a referee; the most disgraceful awful fans.”
By Walter Broeckx Again a lot of changes compared to our last match in the CL. But no changes compared to our last PL match. So we started with the same team that won at West Ham United. A change on the bench though as Bellerin took place on the bench after being out for …
Read More “Arsenal – Stoke 3-1: Theo, Özil and Iwobi cancell out Lee’s opener”
By Bulldog Drummond Arsène Wenger perhaps mindful of the contract negotiations with Alexis decided to make Alexis the key part to his interviews yesterday – particularly speaking about converting Alexis from a winger to a forward and how long it has taken. “I think he has found a good mixture,” Mr Wenger said. “He knows …
Read More “Arsenal v team whose supporters think it is cool to boo a player their man crippled”
by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason. Age 44 from Lancashire Assistant 1 – Simon Beck. From Bedfordshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant 2 – Mick McDonnough. From Tyne and Wear Fourth Official – P Tierney. Age 35 from Lancashire This will be the first time this year that Lee Mason has been in charge of …
Read More “Arsenal v Stoke Sat 10 December 2016 – The Match Officials”
