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 It’s hard to remember, after all the hullabaloo of the league cup, but we are second in the league. That is both the Premier League by results and the Premier League by injuries (well, ok, equal 1st/2nd with Liverpool in terms of injuries). But this is Arsenal we are talking about so …
2015-16 Season – First quarter review by Andrew Crawshaw Following on from Fishpie – After a very good start, we need to do even better here are a few more thoughts about our first quarter of the season Referees – a bit of a rant I’m afraid but not only from my Arsenal viewpoint …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Well my dears, while Untold is speaking about reality, evidence based football reporting, and general whatnot, what is the rest of the football world discussing? Wild ravings and unsupported rants by and large. So what have we been fed of late? Well, the usual load of drivel. But the number of …
Read More “DEAL AGREED– £165,000-A-Week Arsenal target agrees to sign spoof and other stories”
By Pete Had a look at the squads on Arsenal.com and it seems we played players who are probably 4th or 5th team level. This is what I have: 1st Team Squad who Started Match (Total 9) Cech Debuchy Gibbs Mertesacker Chambers Flamini Oxlade-Chamberlain (injured during game) Giroud Campbell Academy Players who Started Match (2) …
By Walter Broeckx As I said in my match report being drawn against the tiny Totts in the first round was a bad present. I think we can put out an almost complete youth team in the league cup and lose without people making a big deal of it. But not against the totts. So …
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by Tony Attwood The Serious Fraud Office is an independent UK Government department that investigates and prosecutes serious or complex fraud, and corruption. And at long, long, long last it has announced that it is investigating money-laundering offences involving the bidding for the 2018 (Russia) and 2022 (Qatar) World Cups. It has announced this …
Background Arsenal has numerous regional supporters clubs across the UK, as well as an official supporters club in 62 countries worldwide, with another 20 countries currently in the process of submitting applications. You can see a full list of the clubs here. The UK regional clubs are listed at the top of the European section. …
By Tony Attwood The issue of what we can and can’t chant in a football ground has been lurking around for over a year now in Spain. Indeed last year when the Spanish Professional Football League’s announced that it would fine supporters who sing offensive songs, the fans started to re-write their chants, putting their …
Read More “Uefa and Fifa get excited over too much freedom of speech at football matches”
By Usama & Walter WATFORD vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 9 DATE: 17th October 2015 VENUE: Vicarage Road Stadium (Watford, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Jones 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Adrian Holmes 4th OFFICIAL: Kevin Friend First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood Last night was a pretty horrible occasion with injuries some very nasty tackles, and the infinitely more important issues like the Premier League and the possibility of a 3rd consecutive FA Cup on everyone’s mind. Clubs are not allowed to opt out of the League Cup, and the option of putting out …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made a lot changes for this match as could be expected. And even a few players making their debut in this match. Glen Kamara and Alex Iwobi made their first start for Arsenal in a match with something at stake. Cech, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Giroud are the only players to keep their …
Read More “League cup: Sheffield Wednesday – Arsenal 3-0: The kids still need a lot of bacon.”
. By Tony Attwood . Ah, the Wednesday. The team we beat twice in 1993 at Wembley to win the Cup, and then the Cup. The first ever team to do the Cup Double.As I recall it was a dire year of league football – we were the lowest scoring team in the Premier …
Read More “Sheffield Midweek v Arsenal: Welcome to the Arsenal irregulars”
Need for a Striker By Mashwar I have read so many articles this year but none of them ever mentioned or even came close to mentioning the fact that how fatal the combination of Arsenal can be with Sanchez and Walcott both in front and Ozil coming behind them. Well that’s one pacey and talented …
Read More “Does Arsenal need another striker? Not on these figures.”
By Walter Broeckx Even before my alarm clock was playing its first tune at 6.00 am I was well awake. A quick shower to be really fresh for the day. A sandwich with cheese and a fruit drink should be enough to get out of the door. Checking if I got all that I needed. …
Read More “The trip from Antwerp to Arsenal, to the top of the league (and back to Antwerp)”
Why are so many referees from Manchester? By Proudkev Having studied the Premier league Select group of referees, I decided to conduct some research. Not something the media are strong on but I wanted to show them how to write articles based on fact. At this point I want to make it clear that I …
Hold the front page, Wenger is talking about tactics By Tim Charlesworth Amidst all the joy and celebration following the Bayern result, you may be forgiven for missing something unusual: Wenger made a comment about tactics. This is remarkable because of its rarity. For some reason, Arsene doesn’t like to talk about tactics. Perhaps he …
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By Fishpie With this weekend’s 2-1 victory over Everton, we have officially completed the first quarter of the league season and entered into the second. Those long, hard, dark, cold Autumn and Winter months lie ahead. So I think its a good moment to pause, take stock of how its gone so far and …
Read More “After a very good start, we need to do even better”
By Walter Broeckx Our apologies for the slow and erratic running of Untold Arsenal today – we had some technical problems. Tony. Not my usual place on the couch for this match but a nice place in the upper tier block 122 this time. Arsenal made some changes compared to the last match against Bayern. …
Read More “Arsenal – Everton 2-1: The match report from the Clock End”
By Tony Attwood My intention having got home in time to make a bacon sandwich and watch Match of the Day was to then write a report on the game highlighting the total ineptitude and lunacy of the referee. But then the best laid plans… the computer went onto another planet and short …
Read More “It was fun, it was nervy, and even the bloody computer got over excited. But we made it.”
By Bulldog Drummond Continuing from the earlier piece, previewing today’s game, the biggest threat we can see is that Everton are unbeaten away this season. Against that we have won five of the last six in all competitions, scoring 17 goals along the way. Not bad considering that the last six included Man U and …
By Bulldog Drummond As I suspect everyone has worked out, we’ll be top if we win, although quite possibly only for a day. But even so it’s not a bad feeling. Indeed looking at the table built just from the last six league games we are indeed top: Pos Team P W D L F …
By Walter Broeckx Match fixing is something for Italy and other countries around the Mediterranean like Greece and Turkey. Impossible in England. As England is clean in all ways of life. Nobody in England breaks the laws, does on tax evasion. Or do some? I know this is not true of course because as in …
Read More “Matchfixing in Spain? So it seems, but of course impossible in England. Isn’t it?”
Arsenal v Everton Saturday 24 October – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No new Referee Reviews from Usama and Walter so no update to this season’s table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 7 Goals 0 3 Total 0 27 …
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By Walter Broeckx Very soon now I will be singing my own version of an old song. I think it was from Willy Nelson and for those who know it, they will probably sing along very quickly. It goes like this: On the road again Just can’t wait to get on the road again The life …
Read More “On the road again: the 23 hours round trip to see Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx Every now and then I get some interesting things sent to me from other Arsenal supporters. So with the death of Howard Kendall I got send a copy of a letter that someone sent to a newspaper. It was an Everton fan who expressed his gratitude towards Howard Kendall and thanked him …
