Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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by Andrew Crawshaw The statistics – all in one place In the first half of the season the PGMO have used 19 referees in the Premier League. There have been 190 games in total so, if all referees had been given an equal workload, one would expect the an average of about 10 games per …
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By Walter Broeckx (written before the latest injury update just published on arsenal.com) If we take a look at the current injury situation as we can find it on the website injury league we can see that Arsenal for the moment have 6 players out with injuries. The full table with their expected return date …
By Tai Emeka Obasi. Wenger, Mourinho Drama – Good Usually Triumphs. As a man who earns his living authoring books of fiction and scripting movies, I may say I’m quite schooled in the protagonist and antagonist world of make-believe. Writers love to play God and if you happen to live within this most-times-alluring fantasy world …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Here are 19 current headlines from bloggettas concerning Arsenal transfers which are causing a bit of a stir today. Each one is followed by a note of the source. All you have to do is guess what each one relates to… Below the list of 19 headlines are those headlines again, …
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By Tony Attwood It was in August 2012 that I wrote an introduction to the craft of the Vapour Transfer, having in previous articles explored the way that the transfer market was being manipulated by clubs. In that piece I drew a comparison with the activities of companies like Microsoft and Apple, with their pre-announcements of …
Read More “How a phantom transfer got Daniel Levy and the press all in a tizz.”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. BOURNEMOUTH COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 19 DATE: 28th December 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Roger East 1st LINESMAN: Lee Betts 2nd LINESMAN: Darren Cann 4th OFFICIAL: Darren Deadman First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
By Billy the Dog McGraw According to reports in some of the wackier parts or the media. Jack Wilshere has been to the estate agents, and so is undoubtedly leaving Arsenal this summer. Now most of us sell our houses after we’ve got an offer of a new job, but apparently the wild and wobbly media …
by Andrew Crawshaw Despite the Ladies Football season not starting competitive football until March, the Club have made three announcements this week, not least because the transfer window in now open and will close before the season starts in March. Katie McCabe has joined the club from Shelbourne FC in Dublin. Katie is 20 and already …
By Usama & Walter SOUTHAMPTON vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 18 DATE: 26th December 2015 VENUE: St. Mary’s Stadium (Southampton, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss 1st LINESMAN: Michael Mullarkey 2nd LINESMAN: Stephen Child 4th OFFICIAL: Graham Scott First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood This season I’ve bored everyone to death with my thesis that transfers and managerial changes can cause as much havoc in a club as they can bring success. Indeed it is very possible to show that transfers and managerial change is actually more likely to bring a decline or stagnation, than it …
By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former Arsenal player 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’ve both written and …
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By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. MANCHESTER CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 17 DATE: 21st December 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: John Brooks 2nd LINESMAN: Mick McDonough 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Sir Hardly Anyone It’s called “Ramping up the lingo”, or “Finding a new twist”. Anyway to keep the excitement on the rise everything and anything is on the table. Or at least underneath it. And I have to admit the notion of Arsenal signing two £29m players in the January transfers did persuade …
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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A REFEREE……..Don McMahon Recent events have convinced many football supporters that too many officials in the EPL are at the least, incompetent and at worse corrupt and manipulated by a cabal of PGMOL managers intent on preventing their Club from winning. In this post I want to invite UA …
by Brickfields Gunners As Walter goes through his 12 part ‘ Looking back at 2015 ‘ series over the next few days (he’s at present on – part 3. Özil, Alexis, Bellerin, Coquelin,) [actually Brickfields – it was just a three part piece – do try and pay attention – the editor], I on the other hand …
By Tony Attwood Christmas – all done and dusted for another year. So what happened? The teams that did best over Christmas were both in north London – and indeed if Tottenham win or even draw their game in hand this afternoon they will be the most successful club this Christmas / New Year. Tottenham …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made 3 changes compared to the team that started the last match. Flamini came back in the team in the place of Chambers and Koscielny took back the place of Gabriel. At left back Monreal came in the team again in the place of Gibbs. The team that started: Cech, Bellerin, …
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By Bulldog Drummond May I begin by saying how much I like our “Insult of the Day” today. In case you missed it, we’re delivering a series of insults back to the aaa, after having to take all their rambling nonsense for seven years. But being Untold we do it with class, so every insult …
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Arsenal v Newcastle Saturday 2 January 2016 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Following Usama and Walter’s latest two Referee reviews here is the Table of Shame updated to matchweek 16 Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals 0 5 Total …
By Josif with additional bits culled from the nation’s newspapers Did you know: 1: That Arsene Wenger has won all three titles in even-numbered years (1998, 2002, 2004) 2. That Arsenal have beaten Manchester clubs four times in five attempts in 2015, with a draw that was essentially a victory in the 3rd place battle. …
By Blacksheep When I was a teenager I used to go to watch the Arsenal with a few mates from school (Christ’s College in Finchley). We’d meet up at the underground and take the northern line south, changing onto the Piccadilly to arrive at Arsenal about 30 minutes before the game. From about 1977-81 Adrian, …
Read More “Why “We support our local team” is such a silly song and why I’m coming home to football”
In the first part of Football Winners and Losers for 2015 I nominated Man U – Loser Jose Mourinho – Loser The Anti-Arsenal-Arsenal – Loser Arsene Wenger – Winner The Premier League – Winner So here’s some more. 6. Mesut Özil – WINNER He was a winner at Real Mad, but now he is up …
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By Walter Broeckx Apart from winning half of the major trophies available in England, apart from having the best record over the calendar year in 2015 of all the teams in the PL, apart from being top when we move in to 2016 there was another big joy for me when following The Arsenal in …
Read More “Looking back at 2015 – part 3. Özil, Alexis, Bellerin, Coquelin.”
This article continues from the first part of our review of 2015 which you can read here. By Walter Broeckx Looking back at 2015 we can’t get around the fact that Arsenal was the best club in England in the calendar year. I know you don’t get a trophy for that. But it should be …
By Walter Broeckx Another year over, a new one to begin… In these days many people look back at the year that has just gone by. So why not me. When I look back at 2015 from the Arsenal perspective I feel it has been a great year. Not a super year. But still a …
