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 Tony Attwood. Last year it was Chelsea 2 Bradford City 4. It could have been the biggest headline of the century, but the media were not ready to put the boot in at that time, as the identification of underlying problems or accurately predicting problems to come is not exactly their thing. It is …
By Walter Broeckx Regular readers of Untold Arsenal know that on this site on more than one occasion we have defended Oliver Giroud. In fact when Tony compared his early days with those of Henry he was called some names. But the fact was that Giroud’s numbers were not that bad compared to the early …
You can never quite count Arsenal out. The team overcame its struggles in the Champions League to play one of its best games of the year against a tough Olympiacos side and keep its dreams of European silverware alive. Olivier Giroud put in a terrific performance, notching his first hat-trick as a Gunner while continuing …
By Sir Hardly Anyone I’ve been covering the ravings of the bloggettas since the end of the last transfer window, and I thought I had seen it all. But now the dailyfootballblog.com has come up with this Deal Agreed : Club To Announce Signing Of £25m La Liga Star On January 1 – Fans …
Read More “The screamingest stupidest craziest football transfer story of the year”
By Tony Attwood It is all getting a bit desperate at the Independent this morning as it uses up a whole article on the fact that someone running Arsenal’s official Twitter account pressed the send button three times over the same tweet – making out of that mistake (the sort of cock up that happens …
Read More “Where will the current top teams in the Premier League finish at the end of the season?”
By Walter Broeckx Deep inside I wouldn’t have minded Chelsea having a draw at Leicester. Let that sink in. Even I don’t mind Chelsea not losing…that is something new I must admit. Now after they lost I didn’t mind them losing again. It was just that I was hoping for Leicester to make their first …
Read More “Mourinho’s downfall shows Wenger’s worth and the pundits awfulness”
By Danny Karbassiyoon. Danny Karbassiyoon is a former professional footballer 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. Despite his short-lived …
Read More “Guns and bullets, carjackings and football: scouting for Arsenal.”
So the draw is Arsenal v Barcelona Gent v Wolfsburg Roma v Real Madrid Paris St-Germain v Chelsea Juventus v Bayern Munich PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid Benfica v Zenit St Petersburg Dynamo Kiev v Manchester City Our games will be on February 23 and March 16 played at the same time as Juventus against …
Read More “The Champions League: it’s us against them, again”
By Tony Attwood From “nicking a living” in the Daily Mail to the “complete player” on the BBC today; that is the story of Mesut Özil. As you may well have read or seen on Sky, the recently sacked David Moyes said of Mesut, “I still think the jury’s out on him a bit.” Cue the …
By Walter Broeckx No changes in the team before the start of this match. So both Giroud and Walcott in the starting line up. Iwobi was named on the bench. Team that started: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Ramsey, Ozil, Campbell, Walcott, Giroud. On the beach: Ospina, Debuchy, Chambers, Gabriel, Gibbs, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Iwobi …
Read More “Aston Villa – Arsenal: 0-2 a not that difficult win after a CL midweek match”
By Bulldog Drummond. Shock headline of the day… “Premier League injuries: Neither Arsenal or Manchester United are missing the most players.” Tony has put a limit on the number of times we are allowed to say “We did that” in terms of what Untold has achieved, but since that limit is 8,354 times per article …
Read More “Rémi v Arsène: the battle of the accents, the meeting of old chums”
Aston Villa v Arsenal 13 December 2015 – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start on discussing referees or the upcoming game I want to pay my own brief tribute to an Arsenal legend who died last Saturday on his way to watch the Sunderland game. Ernie Crouch was 90, supported Arsenal for …
Read More “Aston Villa v Arsenal 13 December 2015 – the Match Officials, and a tribute to Ernie”
By Tony Attwood In the end it comes down to a simple thought: if Arsenal had bought lots more players in the summer instead of just one first teamer and some junior players, would our position today be better? POS CLUB P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Leicester City 15 9 5 …
Read More “Why Arsenal are not going to buy anyone in January”
What a week! By Tim Charlesworth Well wow! That is as close to a perfect week as you will get as an Arsenal supporter. We all tend to get carried away with wild optimism after a victory, and doom and gloom following a defeat. So let’s step back a bit and have a look at …
Read More “What a week: we CAN go on from here to higher things”
By Tony Attwood With the Daily Telegraph you know what you get. A right wing paper written for retired colonels living in Surrey with a wry sense of humour when it comes to obituaries. That it covers football (as opposed to rugby union) has always been bemusing but it does, usually from a pedestal which …
Read More “Daily Telegraph apologises unreservedly to Mr Wenger!!!!!!!!!”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Now you will know, if you have read my erudite enunciations in the past that I have one or two slight issues with the bloggette “goonersden” whose reportage it is my solemn duty to cover. So at this point I treat carefully in case any of it sticks to my …
By Usama & Walter An act of violent conduct that brought danger of a serious injury to a player. There is only one punishment for this: a red card. NORWICH CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 14 DATE: 29th November 2015 VENUE: Carrow Road (Norwich, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss …
Read More “Ref Review : Norwich – Arsenal – these acts of thuggery must be stopped”
By Walter Broeckx Following up on the excellent article from Proudkev I want to show you how things are done in a country that has a real divide in it and how they do take notice of spreading referees on a fair way for everyone. As you may know I come from the country known …
Read More “Discrimination among referees: it does not have to be done this way”
By Tony Attwood May I start with the Untold prediction. I mean I don’t want to make a big big thing about it, and I know that much of the time if we do a prediction we get it wrong, but in the face of an anti-Arsenal media onslaught the likes of which I …
Read More “Corruption, appalling media perception, and a perfect Untold prediction”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made one change in the starting line up. Walcott came in the place of Oxlade-Chamberlain. For the rest an unchanged team so an attack with Giroud, Walcott and Campbell. The team that started: : Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Ramsey, Walcott, Ozil, Campbell, Giroud Near the Greek beach: Ospina, Debuchy, …
Read More “CL Olympiacos – Arsenal 0-3: putting the dots on the i’s”
By Tony Attwood Olympiakos are top of the Greek league. They have played 13 and won 13. Their owner and president is accused of being involved in and directing a criminal organization, aiding and abetting blackmailing, aiding and abetting the creating of explosions, aiding and abetting bribery and fraud. He is currently out …
Read More “Wholesale corruption, 20 charged by police, Uefa nepotism. Yep it’s the Champions League”
By Tony Attwood According to the general view, what is happening at Chelsea is a quirk, an oddity, a one-off. Normal service resumes soon. Chelsea have spent over £700,000,000 on transfer fees and had undoubted success both in Europe and at home, including of course being the current champions of England. And …
Read More “Does the rise of Leicester and collapse of Chelsea really represent a seismic shift?”
. They don’t accord us the basic rights that even a murderer gets. By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you will know that part of our view is that a lot of information about football that should be discussed and made public isn’t. Hence the name “Untold”. By discussing …
Read More “This is what happens when the media are left alone and allowed to define football”
By Walter Broeckx I must say that the PL this season is very strange indeed. There is not a weekend without surprise results. And sometimes big surprises. What can we say about the title race so far this season? Let us start with the biggest surprise team: Leicester. Top of the league now and I …
Read More “A very strange season – losing points to the refs, showing up the anti-Arsenal mob.”
Exposed! How Northern bias affects match results, injury tables and the National team. By Proud Kev Okay, it’s a sensational headline. The sort of thing you see on a daily basis by those employed to make up stories. Except this isn’t a made up story. This is based on something Untold often refer to …
Read More “Exposed! How Northern bias affects match results, injury tables and the National team.”
