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
. I don’t think anyone who supports Arsenal – no matter how recent their conversion to the cause – can not know about our goal keeping legend Bob Wilson. And today I’m knocked out beyond belief to say that Bob has written an article for Untold Arsenal. Bob started out by training as a teacher …
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By Tony Attwood Just a week ago – on 21 January – I wrote a little piece about the rules surrounding the transfer of children to football clubs. But what are the rules? Like most of the articles on Untold that look at the rules and regulations it didn’t get a huge readership, but …
Read More “It appears to be Chelsea that Real Mad have been gunning for on illegal transfers”
What links Northampton Town, Napoli and Milan? Seems like they have today all been linked to rumours about naughty things going on with money. To start with Northampton, in 2005 David Cardoza had a wheeze that Sixfields Stadium could be doubled in size, although quite why was never clear. It was rarely if ever full …
Read More “It’s time to start arresting people in the big wide world of football.”
By the Untold Team Imagine a game of football between two fairly balanced, evenly matched teams. Each team commits some fouls, but neither team is much worse than the other. We’ll call the teams the Reds and the Blues And let’s imagine (since this is all quite imaginary) that this game between these two teams …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone You have to be sorry for the bloggetta writers, day after day after whatnot pumping out the same dross telling us that player after player has already been signed, is on his way, has been seen in the estate agents with his mother etc etc. Only to find none of it …
Read More “Six days to go and the Arsenal transfer machine is about to explode into life.”
By Tony Attwood Over the years I have become very interested in the way that the media do and don’t report certain issues in football. Perhaps the most famous was the Rangers tax case in which one web site constantly hacked away at the story while the Scottish media ignored it totally and the …
By Tony Attwood I am as appalled as anyone over the way Sky has had the power to change the timing of the Leicester game, not least because I know how much difficulty this has meant for Walter and the members of Arsenal Belgium. And not just because I count these guys as my friends, …
By Tony Attwood I recall during my student days when I was an active member of the students’ union, taking part in one of our regular political debates when one fellow student rose up and commented that what I had just said was in contradiction to something I had said at another meeting a couple …
Read More “Death by ankle tap: A most curious moment in the history of Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx One change at the start and that was Mesut Özil back in the team and Oxlade-Chamberlain went back to the bench. At that bench we saw for the first time after a few months Alexis next to Mohamed Elneny. Team at the start: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Ramsey, Flamini, Campbell, Ozil, …
Read More “Arsenal – Chelsea 0-1: 10 man Arsenal can’t turn it around.”
Bulldog Drummond continues his review of the Arsenal v Chelsea game The most important thing of course is that we score against Chelsea. Because if we don’t it will six league games without scoring against them – equalling our worst record ever in the PL, which is six games without a goal between 1997 …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea the teams. Arsenal are bottom of the league (for indiscipline)”
by Bulldog Drummond The Specialist in Failure League A win for Arsenal would leave Arsenal top of the league A defeat for Arsenal could leave us as low as third… two points behind the leaders. A win for Chelsea would leave them 13th or 14th. A defeat for Chelsea would leave them 14th, 15th or …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the Table of Shame updated following the Liverpool game. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 24 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 2 16 Goals 0 8 Total 4 58 Possible Cost in Points 0 13 I count the not given penalty to Arsenal in Min …
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Tim Charlesworth I must confess, I am a little over-excited at the news that Coquelin is ‘back in training’. Of course, it is never quite clear what is meant by this sort of thing. Wenger can be a bit of tease, and it may well be that he is not ready to play for a …
By Walter Broeckx Recently Tony has written a few articles about who is running football. Today I will be writing who is ruining football. As you may know I am the president of Arsenal Belgium, the official supporters club of Arsenal in Belgium. And when we had a look at the fixture list a few …
Read More “It’s the bloody TV companies that run and ruin football”
By Usama & Walter STOKE CTIY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 22 DATE: 17th January 2016 VENUE: Britannia Stadium (Stoke-on-Trent, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Craig Pawson 1st LINESMAN: David Bryan 2nd LINESMAN: Simon Long 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Dean First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “Ref Review: Stoke – Arsenal: who is that voice whispering in my ear….?”
By Tony Attwood and Sir Hardly Anyone The Telegraph has just published a poll of readers on the issue of how many players Arsenal need to buy in the next 10 days. The answers None (The squad is fine as it is) 6% (that includes your two humble writers of this piece) 1-3 (Minor …
Read More “The one Arsenal transfer story that refuses to go away”
. By Tony Attwood In two recent articles on who controls football in England I came up with a list of ten suggestions… first article in this little series on who controls football in England I came up with my top five entities that actually run football in England and then followed that up with …
. By Tony Attwood Back in September 2009 the headline ran, “FIFA and UEFA plan to ban transfers on players under 18 after Chelsea’s punishment over Gael Kakuta” “Players under the age of 18 could soon be banned from switching clubs,” shouted another headline. Then Chelsea were suspended from signing any new players until 2011 after …
By Usama & Walter LIVERPOOL vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 21 DATE: 13th January 2016 VENUE: Anfield (Liverpool, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Jones 1st LINESMAN: Gary Beswick 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Garratt 4th OFFICIAL: Robert Madley First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
Read More “Ref Review : Liverpool – Arsenal and the push in the back”
By Tony Attwood It was the fact that between the Invincibles Season and the 2014 FA Cup victory Arsenal didn’t win any of the major trophies, which became the central rallying call for the aaa. Their argument was very much that this was not good enough for Arsenal, and that a different manager with different …
Read More “Chelsea and Tottenham and the stadium saga. Will they do better than Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood There is a somewhat strange article on Football365 today under the headline “Sign him: If Adebayor cares, Adebayor scores” by Sarah Winterburn who I think used to work for Sky Sports and now seems to have moved. She does that thing of listing all the stuff she says everyone else is talking about, but in …
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Please note: if you find this or any of the ref reviews spreads over into the right hand column, and is hidden by the data there, on most computers you can click Ctrl – (ie Control minus) and the zoom will reduce by 10%. The reverse process is Ctrl + ARSENAL vs. NEWCASTLE UNITED COMPETITION: …
By Tony Attwood North Korea is apparently a fairly awful place where the populace is reduced to near starvation as the family that runs the show spends money on itself, its army, its propaganda and nuclear weapons. How do I know this? Because I read it in the papers and I saw it on TV. …
By Tony Attwood The big issues concerning transfers don’t just relate to getting the player to transfer, doing the deal with the agent, doing the deal with the other club etc etc, but also what happens thereafter. You don’t see many articles that discuss issues like a) Will the player settle into the team? b) …
By Walter Broeckx Sorry for not being able to do my usual match report for the match at Stoke. But I couldn’t have bettered the excellent report Tony put on line after the match. I usually watch my matches with the sound as low as possible. Not completely muted but in such a way so …
Read More “Stoke – Arsenal: not losing and keeping your best players fit was the task”
