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 Investors are being urged to put money into building networks of football coaching academies across the country. That opening sentence may have taken you by surprise. Unfortunately this is not in England, where investment in grassroots football is now in total terminal decline due to FA bankruptcy and government starvation of …
Read More “How football could be part of the solution of a nation’s ills.”
By Tony Attwood At 1653 GMT yesterday Jason Burt, the Deputy Football Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (an English newspaper) published a story on the paper’s web site with the headline How did Arsenal escape with a draw at Tottenham and does Arsene Wenger have a discipline problem? It was a totally pro-Tottenham piece of …
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you are a regular Untolder, Walter normally does a post match report, generally within about 15 seconds of the match ending. But Walter is today becoming a TV star, being called upon to work for Belgium TV, so what with me not being at the game in …
Read More “The Tiny Totts v Arsenal. As it happened, and indeed as it didn’t. And stuff like that.”
By Walter Broeckx Tony recently posted an article celebrating 6000 Untold Arsenal pieces on this web site. 6000…. six thousand….That really is an amazing number. Let us keep it factual first… 6000 articles in more or less 8 years or in some 2928 days is an average of just over 2 articles a day. As …
Read More “Up to the next milestone; the continuing growth of Untold.”
The following is a press release from Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association, of which I am a member, and which I am happy to pass on. Tony. ———— Ahead of the coming weekend’s North London Derby, organisations representing supporters of both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal are making an unprecedented move to speak with one voice …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham supporters share a rare moment of unity”
by Andrew Crawshaw No referee reviews so an unchanged Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 Wall of Shame (also unchanged) Ref Game Weighted Score Bias against (h/a) …
By Tony Attwood The Sun ran it first. The Big Clubs around Europe are planning to break away. A new Euro League. Shock horror. Evil money grabbing swine. Etc etc, you know how it goes. Or maybe they were just talking about the International Champions Cup series, the pre-season competition in which clubs fly to …
By Walter Broeckx Today I saw an Arsenal supporter saying this: “Arsenal after 28 games this season – 51pts Arsenal after 28 games last season – 54pts Arsenal after 28 games two seasons ago – 59pts..even with a better team..thats how we do..thats the progress we made..” Now this supporter will still have been full …
Read More “Arsenal going backwards, but are we alone in this?”
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw OBE. Senior psychiatrist at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. I left Arsenal Stadium yesterday deeply, deeply concerned, worried that unless urgent action is taken we will soon see bloodshed. For it is quite clear to me that at yesterday’s game neither the players nor the …
Read More “Arsenal in need of urgent reform; without it there is disaster ahead”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal has made a couple of changes for this match. Per Mertesacker comes back in the team but Koscielny has a slight calf injury and is out for this match. So Per partners Gabriel in the centre of defence. Up front we see Giroud come in the place of Welbeck of whom …
Read More “Arsenal Swansea 1-2: When refs & woodwork conspire things can go horribly wrong.”
by Blacksheep Pressure drop – we’re feeling it One of my favourite genres of music is Jamaican ska and reggae and one of the best exponents of this I’ve had the privilege to see live are Toots and Maytals. Arguably their breakthrough song was Pressure Drop, recorded in 1969. The Clash have covered this, and …
By Tony Attwood Earlier today Untold received a comment which began, “This site is pathetic, the moment someone dares to have an opinion that is different from yours you jump on them like spoilt little children!” There was nothing special about this comment – we get a few of them a day, with a range …
Read More “So here we are at Article 6000 on Untold Arsenal. What have we learned so far?”
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the Table of shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 Here is the current Wall of Shame (unchanged since the Leicester Referee Review) Ref Game …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea 2 Mar 2016 – The Match Officials. Into the unknown.”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know about my interest in the way that football is portrayed in the media. While of course like every other supporter of Arsenal I wanted a stunning victory on Sunday and was disappointed, there is one tiny crumb of comfort from the …
Read More “Why the next Arsenal manager has to be the best the club has ever had.”
By Walter Broeckx [Please note this article is written in italics for reasons that may or may not become clear later. Please do not adjust your computer.] Saturday 24 February 1979. The day that changed my life. The day I really started supporting Arsenal. And to make myself aware that it would be a tough …
By Walter Broeckx Form is temporary, class is permanent. I think we all have seen these words being used about football teams. And it seems that these words are truer than ever. It is clear to see that for the moment the form isn’t there with far too many players. There is with many players …
Jilted John, the lightbulb moment, & the football risk assessment (Part1) By Proud Kev I recently replaced a lightbulb in my office. The one I fitted was round old fashioned bayonet fitting type which gave off a lovely, bright 100 watt glow. I found it in an unopened box in my garage at home. It was …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made a few changes. Some forced other not. Theo Walcott comes on for the injured Oxlade-Chamberlain. At the back Gabriel comes in for Mertesacker who sat in the bench. Up front we had Welbeck who came on and Giroud dropped to the bench. Also on the bench we had Iwobi and …
. By Bulldog Drummond It’s been a few days of the media falling over themselves in an attempt to examine Arsenal’s accounts. Typical was the statement in the Telegraph that “Despite the large reserves [£159m], the club did make a relatively small loss of £3.4 million for the six month financial period until Nov …
by Andrew Crawshaw At the end of January, the U18s needed six points from nine to ensure that they featured in the top division for the second half of the season, four points or fewer would see them in the second division – still an improvement on last season but disappointing. Sat 6 Feb saw …
Read More “The February Under 18 Report plus a Youth Cup update.”
by Andrew Crawshaw First the up to date Table of Shame following the Leicester review Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 To be honest the final performance figure from Mr …
Read More “Welcome to the Pawson-Dean Disaster. Man U v Arsenal, 28 Feb 2016 – The Match Officials.”
By Tony Attwood Gianni Infantino has moved from being the General Secretary of Uefa, a position he has held since October 2009, to being President of the most corrupt sports organisation that the world has ever seen: Fifa. He was associated with Financial Fair Play, and has seen the expansion of Euro 2016 to 24 teams …
Read More “Fifa survives, Infantino wins. Arsenal make a loss.”
By Tony Attwood As people interested in football, we have a choice. We can Support our club no matter what Support the club but grumble about the way things are currently going Get angry and say I’m not supporting this club if they don’t change their ways Get angry and go and support another club …
By Tony Attwood Go back a couple of years and, while everyone who wanted to understand, fully understood the corruption that existed in Fifa, Uefa and world football, virtually no one wanted to do much about it. The height of such rebellion as there was, came with the English FA gallantly saying that they would …
Read More “We could look back in the future and see that today was the day Fifa was destroyed.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things about the very, very, very, very (repeat 200 times) rich is that they get surrounded by employees who benefit from their largesse. As a result, people tend to say yes a lot, and as the excruciatingly rich person starts doing bonkers things, the yes men say yes. And …
Read More “The strange cases of Lord Copper, Dr Carneiro, Mr Abranomvich, and the high court judge.”
