Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. BAYERN MUNICH COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 3 DATE: 20th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey) 1st LINESMAN: Bahattin Duran (Turkey) 2nd LINESMAN: Tarik Ongun (Turkey) 4th OFFICIAL: Cem Satman (Turkey) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
By Tony Attwood Two things I learned from last night’s game. One is that I can never guess what Walter is going to say in a review and the other is that Arsene Wenger is changing his style of commenting on his players. I thought Ozil’s goal was ok. Now I am not a …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made two changes to the team compared to last weekend match against Swansea. Debuchy came in the place of the injured Bellerin and not exptected but Gabriel came in the place of Koscielny who sat on the bench. Acccording to the German commentator Kos had a hip problem. Well this sure …
By Tony Attwood One new injury – but hopefully just for this match: Héctor Bellerín. He has been replaced in the squad by Jeff Reine-Adelaide – which doesn’t mean that Jeff is going to play, but does tell us quite a lot about how the young man is seen and valued by the club. Just …
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By Tony Attwood A reader recently raised the point that he didn’t particularly want Arsenal to buy more players but buy better players. So I wondered just how good Arsenal players actually are. I’ve taken two measures. One a list of the top 20 from today’s Daily Telegraph, which runs its own listing, I think …
They have tried blaming the pitch, the grass, and above all they have tried blaming Arsène Wenger. They are the press and their blogetta camp followers. They seize on comments such that “Arsenal have held a comprehensive internal analysis of the club’s preparation and training” when in fact all sensible Premier League clubs do exactly …
Read More “The desperation of the journalists who try to blame Mr Wenger for the injuries”
By Walter Broeckx With Arsenal not doing too shabbily in the PL so far this season it must be a hard time for those wishing us to do rather badly in order to get rid of Mr Wenger. One of the phrases that then is used is ‘there is no trophy to be won for …
Read More “Let’s spare a thought for those unhappy souls who would like Mr Wenger to leave”
Arsenal Ladies v Notts County Ladies Continental Tyres Cup Final Sunday 01 November 2015 The Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup has been in existence for five years and is essentially the replacement for the Ladies League Cup. The competition is in two phases, the first being a group phase comprising all …
We have had significant technical difficulties in the last couple of days which have all the hallmarks of a concerted attack on the site There has been no effect save that sometimes we are unable to publish on occasion, and you might well at times not be able to read the site from time to …
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Is this an injury crisis? By Tim Charlesworth Based on the choices that Wenger has made over the last twelve months or so, his five top players for the right wing/right midfield position appear to be (in no particular order): Aaron Ramsey The Ox Jack Wilshere Danny Welbeck Theo Walcott All of these players are …
Read More “Is this really an injury crisis or just a figment of a journalist’s imagination?”
ARSENAL FC IN SHOCK DEAL TO BUY LE GROVE AND OTHER ANTI ARSENAL BLOGS !!!!! From – The Brickfields Gunners Blog In a swift take over move that has shocked millions of Arsenal fans , the club has agreed in ‘principle’ to buy up/out almost all of the negative anti-Arsenal blogs in the Arsenal Sphere …
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By Tony Attwood If you run a business, its one of the first things you have to learn: to manage the expectations your customers have. If you don’t manage expectations and you allow your customers to expect far more than you can actually deliver for the price, you get complaints, demands for refunds, and legal …
Read More “Managing expectations: what football never does, and seemingly can’t ever do”
Jordan Nobbs scored two as Arsenal Ladies beat Notts County Ladies 3-0 to win their fourth Continental Cup title in five years. Notts County Laura Bassett was sent off before half time, but Arsenal were already in the lead by then. It was the first Arsenal ladies trophy for Pedro Martinez Losa. Arsenal Ladies have now …
Read More “Arsenal Ladies 3 Notts County Ladies 0: Arsenal keep up their winning run.”
By Tony Attwood Rudeness is part of human behaviour. It is part of life, although since the invention of the Internet it seems to have become more prevalent. Football fans have always been rude about other teams’ players, their own teams’ players, their manager, everyone else’s manager, the supporters of other clubs and so on. …
Read More “The strangeness of the abusive behaviour of football fans on the internet”
By Tony Attwood It’s been a bad season for the media – and the aaa, their hopeless allies on the phone ins and blogettas. Arsenal are useless, Wenger is useless, we should have signed 20 more players, including that one who wanted to come from Real Madrid and didn’t actually score more goals that Giroud, …
By Walter Broeckx Compared to the team that started against Everton we had a few changes. Per Mertesacker took back his place in the cente of the defence. It was Joel Campbell to make his first PL start in this match in the absence of Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott. The team that started: Cech, …
Read More “Swansea – Arsenal : 0-3 Another great win after a difficult first half”
By Bulldog Drummond Oh how the media have loved it. Arsenal Crisis!!! How much they have missed being able to say this as Arsenal have rushed up the table, beaten the Greatest Team in Germany (official) and then had a couple of injuries. So is it CRISIS. Or even CRISIS or … well you get …
Read More “Swansea Arsenal: all the facts you need and some you don’t”
Swansea v Arsenal 31 October 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The updated ‘Table of Shame’ following Usama and Walter’s Ref Review : Watford – Arsenal Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 7 Penalties 0 8 Goals 0 3 Total 0 29 Possible …
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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 …
Read More “2015-16 Season – First quarter review: from refs to the under 18s, how did they do?”
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 …
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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 …
Read More “How to turn a disadvantage in a possible advantage: is Hector the answer?”
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. …
