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 Andrew Crawshaw This semi-final is to be played over two legs, home and away. The first leg is at the Manchester City Academy Arena on Friday evening with a 19:00 kick off. The second leg is set for Monday 4 April 19:45 probably at the Emirates (this will be confirmed once it is determined …
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ARSENAL vs. SWANSEA CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 28 DATE: 2nd March 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Robert Madley 1st LINESMAN: Peter Kirkup 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Andy Woolmer First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:12 Stephen …
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By Tony Attwood It appears that Manchester United have either abandoned or put on hold any plans it might have had to build a small stadium for the club’s youth and academy teams. Apparently the top brass at Man U have reviewed whether to build a stadium now that Man C have at their City Football Academy …
Read More “Why it is so vital for a club not to take its youth programme for granted.”
by Ray Hobbs Thierry Henry has become a step closer to becoming a football manager after revealing that he has completed his Uefa A Coaching badges. The Gunners legend is now as a result able to take on a managerial role in any league below the Premier Division, or at any youth team in Europe. The …
By Walter Broeckx The aaa who are having a field day celebrating Arsenal losing their FA cup match has told us more than once that we support Wenger FC or Arsene FC and not Arsenal. Of course by showing their real colours and sending in (not published) celebration comments after our loss to Watford they …
Read More “Supporting Arsenal, Arsène FC or Wenger FC or all of them at the same time”
. Smash Them! – By Proud Kev As most of you know Manchester United are the biggest club in the World. We know this because we are reminded of it on a regular basis. This is a club that enjoyed domination of English football and the Premier League, using their financial wealth and their magnet-like …
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. By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychiatrist at the university hospital of the North Circular Road. . A number of changes are needed I think. First off, the number of club psychologists needs to be enhanced, as judging by commentaries on some blogs there are a number of people around who find it very …
By Walter Broeckx As we all know or should know by now, the aaa are not real Arsenal supporters. They pretend to be Arsenal supporters but they are not. And today I got great proof of this. Because below is the comment that was in moderation and the person thought it would not be …
Read More “They are not Arsenal supporters, I don’t know what but not supporters”
By Walter Broeckx Alexis and Özil starting again and also Coquelin back in the team after his one match suspension. Starting team: Ospina, Chambers, Mertesacker, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Coquelin, Campbell, Özil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Macey, Bellerin, Monreal, Flamini, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck. Arsenal with most of the ball in the opening minutes. Alexis to …
Read More “Arsenal – Watford : 1-2, the day the FA cup became a real trophy again…”
By Bulldog Drummond Per Mertesacker and Gabriel are fit, which is quite a relief. Aaron Ramsey is out with a thigh problem that will keep him out for maybe a month. Laurent Koscielny is not ready for this match, but might make Barcelona away, but failing that will be ready for Everton away. Watford …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford, the teams, the beach, the injuries, the fair play league. Etc.”
. #By Bulldog Drummond As we already know we are the best club ever in the FA Cup. The semi final table, excluding the smaller clubs that have not made the 20+ appearance level looks like this… Team Appearances Won Lost Arsenal 28 19 9 Aston Villa 21 11 10 Chelsea 21 11 10 …
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. By Jerry Premier League teams participating in the Champions League in the last few years appear to struggle during the knockout phase of the competition highlighted last year with no PL team surviving the Round of 16 (Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal). This year, Manchester United was knocked out in the groups, Chelsea have …
Read More “Why are the FA/PL sabotaging English teams in UCL?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As this is a cup weekend, I’m not going to update the Table of Shame or Hall of Shame till League games resume on 19 March. The Match Officials are :- Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – Simon Long, Matthew Wilkes Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell In order to prepare this preview …
Read More “FA Cup Quarter Final 2015-16 Arsenal v Watford – The Match Officials. He’s ok-ish.”
. By Tim Charlesworth Human beings talk a lot of nonsense. And nowhere is this more true than football (hello Robbie Savage). We are basically ‘pattern seeking-apes’. We are genetically programmed to look for causes and effects. This is actually our finest feature. It drives things like curiosity, reflection, imagination, and ambition. Basically, these are …
Read More “Nonsense, imagination, form, Theo, fragility and hope”
by Andrew Crawshaw Unlike the men, the Ladies season starts on Sunday 20 March and runs through summer to early November. There are thee competitions, the WSL (Womens Super League), the FA Women’s Cup,and the FA WSL Continental Cup. Our first game of the season is in the FA Women’s Cup where we are away …
By Usama & Walter Untold note: In case you have not seen this before, this is part of a series of referee reviews that goes back a number of years, which provides the data from which is used for the referee previews. Also, given that PGMO have stopped providing their own publicly available analysis of …
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By Tony Attwood Ten reasons why I remain sweet and serene in relation to Arsenal and don’t want Wenger to leave was published this morning. And so the other side of the coin. The ten things that make me really, really, totally flaming mad and red faced about football. 1: The personal view leading to the …
By Tony Attwood OK sweet and serene might be a bit much, but even so, I am fairly calm, I smile quite a lot and enjoy my life, including Arsenal. Here’s why. And to some degree how. 1: I didn’t come here to win things. As you might have realised I’m old. My dad took …
. By Fishpie Ok, gotta admit the third quarter of the 2015/16 season did not, in any way whatsoever, turn out like the script. Much anger, abuse and “told you so’s” have been hurled at our team, and mainly by us. And really Untolders, who can blame us? I know that every single one of …
by the Untold Team Before we start picking up again on all the crazy transfer rumours that the newspapers and bloggettas are starting to invent, in order to save them doing any reporting, here is our first stab (created by Andrew, who writes the ref previews and reports on under 21s and under 18s) at “what …
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By Tony Attwood One of the key points about Untold Arsenal is that we try and look at football by considering the evidence. Unfortunately we are rather on our own in doing that, and as a result when a dozen or so supporters make one of their banners and hold it up at the end …
Read More “It’s time for positive supporters to take on the clowns”
By Walter Broeckx No fewer than 6 changes in the starting line up for Arsenal. Giroud came in the place of Welbek and Iwobi also started in midfield with Flamini and Elneny. Chambers came in at right back. On the bench experience and young Gunners. Monreal, Ramsey, Özil and Alexis but also Reine-Adelaide and Willock. …
Read More “FA Cup Hull – Arsenal 0-4 : Olivier and Theo score two each”
By Bulldog Drummond In an interesting snub against Arsenal, the Guardian refused today to publish a match preview of the FA Cup game tonight, on its web site. At least there was nothing there at 1630GMT. Following their lead the Independent has done the same. The Telegraph however is running Is Arsene Wenger guilty …
To HULL and back By Proud Kev So tonight we are on the trail of our third FA Cup on the spin. A remarkable achievement, despite what those who seem to object to Arsenal winning games make out. The FA CUP win against Hull City in 2013/2014 broke the long spell without a trophy, a …
By Walter Broeckx There is something moving in the referees’ world other than the legs and arms of the referees. Finally! At Untold we have been asking for change since… well since I started writing for Untold. And now… As a referee myself my only and main concern has always been to make the correct …
