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By Walter Broeckx An amazing trip to London once again for the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. When we look at the fixture list at the start of the season we (the board) of our supporters club always take a look at where we could get as many tickets as possible. It is all nice to …
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by Andrew Crawshaw I have had a request from one of our readers to add a ‘WALL OF SHAME’ to my referee previews showing exactly how bad it gets sometimes. The referee reviews analyse all of the decisions made (or not made) by the referee and his team of assistants during the course of the …
By Walter Broeckx We normally publish the match report within an hour of the conclusion of the game. However last Sunday, Walter and a number of other utterly dedicated fans from Belgium left their homes at 2am local time to be at the match – the match you’ll recall, which courtesy of Sky was suddenly …
Read More “Arsenal – Leicester 2-1, the delayed match report”
From The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasdy Football Series . The Asian lunar year of 2016 began on February 8 and will end on January 27, 2017. Known as The Year of the Fire Monkey, it is supposed to be filled with mischief, clashes and success in the workplace and at home. “The monkey always …
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By Proud Kev . So West Ham fan and Daily Mail sports journalist Martin Samuel has continued his love affair with Arsenal. His target this time is not Arsene Wenger but Matthieu Flamini. Apparently his two footed tackle against Bournemouth was one of the most heinous crimes in football. Martin Samuel seems oblivious to the …
If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that over the weekend there was nothing published after the ref preview. Things went wrong, and it being the weekend I didn’t have the technical resources to sort matters out. Obviously we try hard not to have this happen, but if you value Untold …
Read More “Untold returns – here’s what you missed while we were under attack.”
By Usama & Walter AFC BOURNEMOUTH vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 25 DATE: 7th February 2016 VENUE: Vitality Stadium (Bournemouth, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Kevin Friend 1st LINESMAN: David Bryan 2nd LINESMAN: Peter Kirkup 4th OFFICIAL: Neil Swarbrick First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood On 28 December 2015, Crystal Palace were talked up on the radio and TV as being serious challengers for a Champions League place. Not Europa mark you, Champions League. On that evening they were fifth, above Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool etc. Today I have just read an article about them being dragged …
By Tony Attwood Yes, yer actual football revolution has started. I know this because the press are shouting it out. “Liverpool fans’ successful walkout protest over ticket prices is a “game-changer”, according to the Football Supporters’ Federation.” The Daily Mail. Wow. “Power to the people: Liverpool fans’ ticket price victory may be just the start”, …
Read More “How the removal of a price increase at Liverpool actually means nothing at all.”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. SOUTHAMPTON COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 24 DATE: 2nd February 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Lee Mason 1st LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 2nd LINESMAN: Matthew Wilkes 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
By Andrew Crawshaw Travel was by Eurostar which was trouble free. I had booked about three weeks in advance via the Eurostar website and got my tickets for £29.00 each way. Walter was impressed as he said he could never get them for anything like that. The only delay I had was on my local …
Read More “Anderlecht – The Travel and Catering Report; and all you need to know about Brussels”
by Tony Attwood There is not too much talk of it on TV, for the simple reason that when TV discusses football it is never neutral. TV buys in football, and anything that threatens its position as the dominant distributor of football is an absolute no-go area. Thus discussion of something being wrong with …
By Tony Attwood There’s an article by Ed Aarons, Guardian Sport’s deputy news editor, in which he says that “Even Lineker, who describes himself as “a proper boyhood fan” who went home and away to watch his hometown team from the age of seven, could not have dreamed what has happened to Leicester over the last few …
By Walter Broeckx For the first time in more than 35 years I went to Brussels and to the Anderlecht stadium. An American politician called Brussels a place in hell a few weeks ago. I wouldn’t call it hell but it sure has some very depressing neighbourhoods and I seemed to pass through them the …
Read More “Uefa Youth League : Anderlecht – Arsenal 2-0, the match report”
By Sir Hardly Anyone During the last transfer window approximately 450 different players were touted to be coming to Arsenal in January. Since only 25 could be registered in the team – and that only if the current 23 were all shunted out – it seemed a little unlikely. And interestingly, until the move …
Read More “Arsenal in shock as mass exodus of disgruntled players now predicted”
By Walter Broeckx As you will know if you read Andrew’s post a little while ago, Arsenal are coming to town. Well not the real Arsenal of course but the youth version of Arsenal will come to Brussels to play Anderlecht in the knock out phase of the Uefa Youth League. Arsenal and Anderlecht played …
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by Andrew Crawshaw After a great start in the UEFA Youth League, a stuttering end to the group phase saw us in second place in our group and with an extra game to play to try and gain a place in the last 16. The Youth League started with two entry streams, the first of …
Read More “UEFA Youth League – Anderlecht v Arsenal U19s – Tuesday 9 Feb 2016 Match Preview”
By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former professional footballer with Arsenal who was forced to retire at 22 due to recurring knee injuries. Soon after hanging up his boots, he was hired as a scout for Arsenal and spent 7 years scouting the Americas full time before recently moving back to London. I’m venturing …
Read More “Finalising a transfer and transitioning to life at a new club. How does it work?”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that a little while ago I got rather excited when we announced that Bob Wilson had agreed to write the foreword to our book Arsenal: The Long Sleep 1953-1970. That book, as you may know, has now been published, and we’re moving ahead …
Read More “Arsène Wenger to write the Foreword for the next Untold Arsenal book”
By Tai Emeka Obasi In Frederick Forsyth’s book, The Fourth Protocol, the lead character, John Preston was the operations head of MI5 in London. He was saddled with the huge task of closing in on a topnotch KGB illegal agent deep in Central London and prevent the Russian from setting off a nuke that would detonate …
. By Tim Charlesworth There was much gnashing of teeth at the Ems last Tuesday. Of course general disappointment and frustration were the cause of much of it. But some unhappiness emerged even before the kick-off. Some gooners were both surprised and disappointed to see Flamini start ahead of Coquelin and Elneny*. I wasn’t surprised. …
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw In an attempt to be more inclusive Untold and to meet the new government equality of coverage opportunities, as the blog’s resident psychologist I have been asked to offer a review of the Bournemouth game written for card carrying members of the aaa and other perpetual negativists. For the …
Read More “Bournemouth v Arsenal. The match review for negativists and other members of the aaa.”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made on change in the starting line up for this match. Oxlade-Chamberlain started in the place of Campbell who dropped to the bench. In the centre of defence we still had the Gabriel-Koscielny partnership and Per found himself a place on the bench. Team at the start: Cech, Bellerin,Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, …
Read More “Bournemouth – Arsenal 0-2: Özil and The Ox on the score sheet”
by Bulldog Drummond. . “What is for sure is that the effect is not neutral,” Arsène Wenger said. He was talking about the news that Man City will have a new manager next season. “It will either go very positive or very negative. And that is very difficult to predict. We have seen that at …
By Tony Attwood Premier League clubs have lots of money. Premier League clubs need good PR. Premier League clubs have consultancy groups representing mainstream fans and minority groups. And yet they get their PR wrong. Utterly, totally, hopelessly wrong. Arsenal, as has been well-reported, has applied its rules about Cup Credits for season ticket holders, …
