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 Slowly but surely, the wattage of support (if support can be measured in wattage) has risen. Before the game the club now often plays with the lights flashing them on and off in fancy sequences, the sound levels are up and there is a really positive feel about the place. No …
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By Walter Broeckx When Arsenal win a top match like they did against Manchester City the feelings of happiness are a bit higher than when you win against let us say Sunderland. In a way this is not based on facts as a win against Sunderland gives the same number of points as a win …
By Walter Broeckx No changes were made by Arsenal for this match against Manchester City. So Wenger went again for Giroud and Walcott together in the starting line up. The name we were all looking for wasn’t included even on the bench: Alexis. So Iwobi and Jeff Reine-Adelaide were also on the bench. The team …
By Bulldog Drummond Part one of the preview is here. Now onto what we might (in a state of revolutionary fervour) call “part two”. It seems only yesterday that every match against one of the so-called big teams in the League was preluded by a run-down of a big defeat of Arsenal. Defeats at Man …
By Bulldog Drummond We have taken just 11 points out of the last 18 in the league. That doesn’t sound so good. Although we’ve won the last two games. That sounds better. But Man City are having greater trouble. They’ve actually got ten points out of the last 18, including being beaten by Liverpool! Put …
By Tony Attwood Speaking with their regular authority on such matters on September 15 the Daily Express announced the “Liverpool owners will not sack Brendan Rodgers”. And no they didn’t do it then – they did it on 4 October, and immediately the Daily Star said, “Replacing Brendan Rodgers with Jurgen Klopp will not solve …
Read More “Klopp is not making much of an impression at Liverpool, and financially it looks tight.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter and Usama’s review of the Norwich Game Ref Review : Norwich – Arsenal – these acts of thuggery must be stopped Here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Although it is not a topic normally covered on Untold Arsenal I thought I would mention that almost one-third of Republican primary voters believe the US should bomb the kingdom of Agrabah, according to a report released in the US by Public Policy Polling on Friday. This is bad news for …
By Tony Attwood You’ll know by now that it’s my view that the notion that you have to buy players to make a success of a club is thoroughly misleading. But still the bloggettas and their friends in the media love to hype up purchasing as the route to success. How much evidence they …
By Tony Attwood I know Untold doesn’t normally do pre-match stuff until the day of the game, but these snippets from the media suggest one or two old timers have been having a bit of a jolly before rushing back to the company computer to put up their latest thoughts. And I don’t mean the …
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By Tim Charlesworth Proudkev recently wrote an interesting article highlighting that a disproportionate number of referees are from the Manchester area. I think this article touches on a much wider point. It is not just refereeing that is biased, but the whole of football in England. I’m not sure that there is a conspiracy here …
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By Walter Broeckx With the sacking of Mourinho and as one of our readers linked to an article on the BBC below a previous article I thought it would be interesting to have a look at what some of their experts said at the start of the season. Somewhere at the start of the season …
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By Tony Attwood The latest word on Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini is that they are likely to receive suspensions of at least seven years from football related activity in the hearings happening Thursday (Blatter) and Friday (Platini). The specific issue that will cause the ban is the £1.3m payment made to Platini by Fifa in …
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By Walter Broeckx I must say that everyone likes to be right most of the time. I am no exception to that rule. Writing on a blog of course brings the risk that what you have written at some point in time can come back to haunt you. Now I must say that when the …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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