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 With the signing of Xhaka we have a new face in our team. Certainly he is a bit of a special person the more I look at it. And he also is rather funny at times. He seems like a young confident lad who knows what he is doing. And who can …
Read More “Xhaka speaks; he’s a leader, he’s humble, and he came here because of Wenger.”
SUNDERLAND vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 35 DATE: 24th April 2016 VENUE: Stadium of Light (Sunderland, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Dean 1st LINESMAN: Simon Long 2nd LINESMAN: Michael Salisbury 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Jones First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 01:18 Nacho …
. By Sir Hardly Anyone. . First I bring you serious and grave news. . For those wretched fake links are back on the bloggettas, the one that persuades you to click a link onto an advert (thus earning the site money) when you think you’ve clicked to get the site’s stories, are back. …
By Tony Attwood The web site Footstats has recently produced some very interesting league tables of its own, and through their kind permission, I am able to bring you one or two of these, starting with the Premier League Table of fouls. You may remember (if you were paying attention) that in the early days …
By Walter Broeckx I think the people who do the arsenal.com website and certainly those who run the facebook page have a good sense of humour. I couldn’t help but grin when I read the words on the Arsenal facebook page that accompanied the news that Swiss international Granit Xhaka has signed for Arsenal. As …
Read More “Okay, okay, you’ve waited long enough… we can confirm Granit Xhaka is an Arsenal player!”
By Tony Attwood “The Gunners should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly.” To confirm from the off, that is not a quote from Untold, but from a national UK newspaper – the Sun. OK not my favourite paper, but actually one that I would have said a …
By Walter Broeckx I know in some circles it is a bit the flavour of the day to talk about our ref reviews in a patronizing way. In a tone like: “those deluded fools at Untold with their ref conspiracy theories, oh what they will not do to not blame Wenger.” You can read it …
Read More “Whoever does the analysing of referee decisions the result is: Arsenal is screwed”
by Andrew Crawshaw The Arsenal Junior Teams cover ages 8 to U21. For the purpose of this review I am ignoring all age group matches below U18 level. I am therefore looking at four separate competitions :- U18 League FA Youth Cup (open to players U18 at 01 Jan 2015) UEFA Youth League (open to …
Read More “The Junior Teams Season End review – Part 1 Overview and Summary”
. By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw Senior mental process analyst at the University of the North Circular Road. . On 3 March 2016 Jamie Sanderson the “sport editor” of the Metro “newspaper” published the article Another year, another failed Arsenal title bid in which the writer spoke of “serious question marks over Arsene Wenger and his future. …
By Menace The League in England & Wales was always a Saturday 3.00 pm match. There was the occasional deviation to a weekday for cup matches but most schedules allowed for the young to accompany their parents to a game without disruption to their education. The TV impact on Football has been the worst for …
Read More “How the Premier League is spoiling family life and the education of young supporters)”
. By Tim Charlesworth A season of gambles All managers have to take risks with the way that they put their squad together. It is not possible to have two or three world class players for every position. As well as being prohibitively expensive, world class players will not tolerate long periods on the bench. …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Well, it has been another amazingly over-the-top week for what we are now learning to call the Early Stage Concrete Hacks, the gentlemen of the press whose arrested intellectual development allows them to develop a whole range of extraordinary tales about who is coming to Arsenal this summer and who is …
Read More “Seven new players coming in, one more leaving as Arsenal’s transfers hot up.”
By Tony Attwood This summer and into next season there will quite a bit of talk about stadia and stadia extensions, particularly in relation to State Aid Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham. State Aid have their stadium and the British tax payer has paid for it. They have also qualified for the Europa League via …
Read More “What will happen to the three Premier League clubs with their new grounds.”
By Tony Attwood The article Can possible reasons for unsupported opinions be understood, explained and contribute anything to Untold Arsenal? gained considerable praise on Untold, and quite rightly so in my view, because it opened up an issue that has long puzzled quite a few people who are kind enough to spend time on Untold. And that …
By Sir Hardly Anyone We were hoping to publish part three of the series of articles on the way journalists and fans see football, and how they are fixed in “concrete thinking”, (See Can possible reasons for unsupported opinions be understood, and following that Does Arsenal still need Klopp or Pochettino to make the final breakthrough? if …
By Walter Broeckx The five last second memory of football fans is something I have mentioned before in my articles. It is about judging a manager or a player on their last match result, their last pass, their last missed chance or their last goal. If the striker scores he is god. If he missed, …
Read More “Does Arsenal still need Klopp or Pochettino to make the final breakthrough?”
An observation by AKH Untold Arsenal is a website which uses the important notion of evidence based research and argument to outline a position, viewpoint or idea. For this current season I have been observing that a number of opinions have been given on the website, some even overtly aggressive, without reference to …
ARSENAL vs. WEST BROMWICH ALBION COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 34 DATE: 21st April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss 1st LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 4th OFFICIAL: Lee Mason First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:40 …
By Tony Attwood You might remember that there was a lot of fuss last September when the transfer window closed and the idea was written down and then copied over and over that Arsenal was the only major club in Europe not to sign an outfielder in the summer. Following that Untold started to run …
By Tony Attwood It is central to the agenda of the media that Fifa should be seen to be reformed, so that they can support England in the next round of World Cup matches. For there to be continuing outright corruption, means that the FA is implicated ever more fully in supporting a totally corrupt …
Read More “Media in hiding as Fifa undoes all its reforms and returns to total corruption”
By Walter Broeckx Whenever I come over to the Emirates to see Arsenal play I find it almost always a pleasant adventure. Last times our supporters club travelled we ran in to all kinds of troubles with the boat, the train, the traffic… leading to us even being late and missing kick off. We stood …
Read More “The catering report (specially for Nicky) and the kindness of people in England.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone And so, and thus, and forsooth, after a couple of months of pre-phony transfer news, we have at last made it into the phony transfer news era, which leads to the window banging open and then two months later, slamming shut again, with huge amounts of glass tinkling on the ground …
Read More “Arsenal have chosen, and the £50m player (or £51m players) is/are almost at the airport”
Its Happened Again! by Tim Charlesworth What a day. The joy, the sunshine, the happiness, a fond farewell to loyal players, it was almost perfect. Nobody will put this season down as a great success, but at least it has given us one very happy memory. This season will always have a little place in …
Read More “It’s Happened Again! (And now, let’s remember we are all Arsenal fans).”
By our special correspondent i/c colour co-ordination. Arsenal’s 2005/6 Season was Quite a Purple Patch Looking back on the heady days of 05/06, Arsenal look like the team that almost won it all but kept falling just short. Runners-up in the Champions League. Fourth in the Premiership. Out of the League Cup in the semis …
Read More “Why changing Arsenal’s shirt in 2005/6 was not such a terrible idea. Maybe.”
By Tony Attwood I was very pleased to receive Fishpie’s article “Arsenal 2015/16: A Faltering Season with a Flattering Finish,” and to have the chance to publish it on Untold. Not because I agree with what is said (I don’t in full, as I will explain below) but because it was a well argued piece …
Read More “A step back or a great leap forwards? What exactly happened in 2015/16.”
