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
. Please note we’ve change our approach to how we handle comments – details are at the end. Managerial farewells by Tony Attwood Pep Guardiola accuses dressing room mole of ‘damaging’ Bayern Munich At least that had the merit of being a different type of complaint about a club from a leaving manager – but …
by Tony Attwood When it is time to knock Arsenal in the media (which it is most of the time) then all the standard ploys are used – one of which of course is the fact that all the star players want to leave because they are so fed up with Arsène Wenger. So we …
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——————– THE BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS BLOG , PRESENTS RULES FOR ‘them’ ON UNTOLD ARSENAL . “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ― Nicolas Chamfort After posting this link about THE RULES FOR ALWAYS BEING A GENTLEMAN – on the comments section of Don’s fine article, ‘The Illusion of change,’ it struck me …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Roger East in the Palace game Here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 30 Goals 1 11 Total 7 101 Possible Cost in Points 0 29 Only one wrong Important …
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By Tony Attwood Much of the time the press work as one. They find an enemy and go for it. Or him. If this can be linked with a solid bit of doom mongering and some praise of Liverpool!!! so much the better. Thus Jonathan Liew of the Telegraph, always one for a good bit …
By Tony Attwood There is something going on that I really don’t understand. Most Arsenal supporters (not quite all, but most Arsenal supporters) want the same thing – for the club to win lots of trophies. And most Arsenal supporters want to achieve this result by changing things. The only difference between us is …
By Tony Attwood The FA, as we all know, has financial problems. In October 2011 it was revealed (through a study of the FA’s accounts) that England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup (for which they got two votes, one of those being their own) cost £21m – £6m more than they had previously, misleadingly, …
Read More “FA set to lose another £30m of state aid as they donate more money to Fifa.”
. By ………..Don McMahon Following recent comical attempts by a few hundred plastic fanboys (mostly kids) to agitate for an alternate reality at AFC, it became apparent to most true Gooners that change for the sake of Russian Roulette style improvements is comical at best and tragically shortsighted at worst! These fickle fairweather, moaning plastic fanboys want …
By Mike I shall start by making it clear that I’m 99% behind Usama , Walter et al in their referee analyses (well nobody’s perfect) and the article on the Crystal Palace game triggered me into doing a little more research. In that article, the question was asked, “But still has there ever been a …
Read More “The shocking figures revealed when fouls, penalties and cards are compared.”
By Josif We have been running an occasional series about the task facing the next manager of Arsenal, whenever he might take over. First we looked at the overall problem and presented the first group of candidates: Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Jose Mourinho and Roberto Mancini This was continued in the second article which continued …
By Andrew and Tony Arsenal beat Blackburn 2-1 to progress through to the Under 21 play off final in a game which saw Santi Cazorla make his comeback as Arsene Wenger, Ivan Gazidis and Petr Cech all looked on. Santi was indeed, by a distance, the best player on the pitch even though he was …
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By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 33 DATE: 17th April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Roger East 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Mark Scholes 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Dean First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
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By Walter Broeckx What we mustn’t forget is that when Tony started his blog in 2008 he did so in reaction to the Wenger out brigade who hardly four years after the invincible season was already demanding the head of Wenger on a silver plate. So it is safe to say that the Wenger-out brigade …
Read More “Wenger is a better supporter than some who pretend to be supporters”
by Andrew Crawshaw On Tuesday evening at 19:00 the Arsenal U21 team who promised so much at the beginning of the season have a final chance to secure promotion to the first division of football for that age level. A month ago we were looking good for winning the second division outright and gaining automatic …
Read More “Arsenal U21s v Blackburn U21s – The Last Chance Saloon”
By Tony Attwood On 20 October 1990 Arsenal beat Man U 1-0 at Old Trafford. In the second half, Anders Limpar (who scored the goal) tangled with Irwin. Winterburn then got embroiled with Irwin, and there was what the BBC used to call a bit of argy bargy but which now some call a melee …
By Tony Attwood The media never fails to surprise me. Just when I thought that the anti-Arsenal pro-Liverpool! hate/love in would last forever, suddenly voices arise to suggest a moment of change. Will it last? Could the media turn and knock the exclamation out of Liverpool’s self-perception? Could they actually admit that P. Morgan Esq …
. By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it is the ever growing Great Transfer Index – the absolute list of all the players already linked with Arsenal – which you can only read here. Or maybe somewhere else if they have nicked it. The one “done deal”, according to “reports” remains the same: Granit Xhaka. But …
Read More “One player in, three to leave, one coaching deal. All Arsenal’s summer transfers”
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the north bank always made me feel part of the action – being at the heart of Arsenal support. But this season being in the front row of the East Upper, facing the 18 yard line at the North Bank end, I get a panoramic view of what the North …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started with the same XI as in the last match. But the most important change was on the bench where Santi Cazorla was present for the first time since getting injured in the first match against Norwich in Novembre last year. Welcome back Santi. Starting team: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, …
By Bulldog Drummond I recall a time when (I think I must have been around 13) I learned about Matthew Hopkins. He was originally from Great Wenham in Suffolk, but moved on to Norfolk spending a fair amount of time in Norwich during the Civil War. He was responsible for the deaths of over 200 …
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By Walter Broeckx As I am the president of an official Arsenal supporters club I have to deal with lots of different fans. Now I must say that I feel blessed to be the chairman of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. Why? Well because in general we do have a big number of supporters who …
by Andrew Crawshaw As I write this on Wednesday there are no new published Referee reviews so both the Table of Shame and the Wall of Shame are unchanged from last week Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 29 Goals …
Read More “Arsenal v Norwich Saturday 30 April 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx So after the protest during the WBA match there will be another protest during the Norwich match. If this continues like this Arsenal fans will not be known as Arsenal supporters but Arsenal protesters. Now I am all for free speech and all for having the right to express ones opinion. But …
. By Tim Charlesworth The world of football is full of talk of, ‘the good of the game’ and other meaningless epithets. Football is mostly, however, what economists describe as a ‘zero sum game’. Every winner creates a loser. If you get together a group of Arsenal devotees and a group of Tottenham devotees and …
. From The Brickfields Gunners Blog . . I started writing this at work as a comment to Blacksheep’s fine “Don’t shoot the messenger but we’re in a funk” article, but it mutated and became this . And in the meantime Tony had posted his article on the same subject . So without further adieu …
