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 When Arsène Wenger arrived on his first day at work at Highbury, he found, somewhat to his surprise, that there was a large gathering of journalists on the steps of the Marble Halls. Enquiring within why they were there, he was told that no, this was not how press conferences were held …
Read More “At last, after years of our waiting, Arsène Wenger changes his approach.”
By Walter Broeckx As in most things in life there are two ways in how you can react to bad things like a defeat of Arsenal that come your way. One way is to take it on the chin, swallow what needs to be swallowed and then get up and move on. The other way is to …
By Tim Charlesworth So the Goonersphere is full of hysteria and disappointment again. Olympiacos was a horrible game and a horrible performance, however you look at it. We’re all full of blame and recriminations. The hysterical attacks on Wenger for picking Ospina are plain silly, as if to imply that it was predictable that …
Read More “Hysteria and disappointment: the defence of Piers Morgan”
By Walter Broeckx As you all know Mike Dean is just like the other Mike we love to write about on Untold: Mike Dean. Maybe Untold wouldn’t be the same place if Mike and Mike wouldn’t be around. Because it is the fact that Mike Riley got the job of becoming head of the PGMO …
Read More “Mike Dean and Arsenal something seriously wrong. More evidence and strange behaviour”
By Tony Attwood Platini is no revolutionary but a hindrance to true change at rotten Fifa That headline from the Daily Telegraph marked an interesting moment in the history of commentary on Uefa and Fifa, one of the first articles that turned against Platini in the English press, and which started to question Uefa. And …
Read More “It looks like Platini and the FA are made for each other.”
By Usama and Walter TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: League Cup THIRD ROUND DATE: 23th September 2015 VENUE: White Hart Lane (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Lee Betts 2nd LINESMAN: David Bryan 4th OFFICIAL: Andy Woolmer First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “Ref Review League Cup : Tottenham Hotspur – Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Theo Walcott has scored 12 goals in his last 13 Premier League starts. It is the sort of scoring that takes the mind back to someone like the incredible Jack Lambert who in Arsenal’s first ever league winning season scored 38 league goals in 34 games. That was in 1930/31, and I …
Read More “As the entity behind shouted “You’re useless Walcott” a dark despair overwhelmed me”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to our match against Leicester. Some forced and some by choice. Ospina comes in goal and Coquelin is declared fit and will start. Gabriel also comes in the side and Gibbs was also starting. And Oxlade-Chamberlain also in the starting line up. Per Mertesacker was given a birthday …
By Tony Attwood So for the second Champions League match running we are playing a club whose ownership is deeply involved in scandals and corruption allegations. Oh well, so it goes. Funny that the press in the UK don’t seem overly concerned. Why is that I wonder. But at least we have our banner …
Read More “Football Should Be An Art: Tonight’s match against the rather dubious Olympiakos”
By Tony Attwood On a day when yet more illegal activity swirls around Barcelona (even more than I managed to cover last night in what I thought would be a full review of their activity – as Gord pointed out in comments on yesterday’s article), and on a day when we play a club whose …
Read More “FOOTBALL should be an ART. The Untold Banner is unveiled tonight at the Emirates Stadium”
By Tony Attwood Catalonia didn’t actually hold a referendum on independence recently; it held elections to the regional assembly. As a result the main separatist alliance and a smaller nationalist party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament. So they won most of the seats, although they didn’t get half the vote. Such …
Read More “Barcelona to be excluded from Spanish League; Neymar assets frozen, Messi injured”
With most of us being out and about over the weekend we didn’t publish our normal post-match summary of the game. But it was such a fine and exciting match it would be a great shame for it not to be recorded on Untold. So here it is… just to remind you how breathless it …
By Usama and Walter CHELSEA vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 6 DATE: 19th September 2015 VENUE: Stamford Bridge (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Dean 1st LINESMAN: Simon Long 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Michael Oliver First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
Read More “Ref Review : Chelsea – Arsenal. How Mike Dean & Co screwed an entire game”
By Tony Attwood “A willingness to attack, a high velocity, and sophistication.” That is by and large what today’s Guardian report on on Arsenal says. But I am going to highlight a handful of other things that can out of yesterday’s game. First the number of shots. Arsenal have more shots than anyone else per game. …
Read More “The exact reasons why Arsenal came good – so very good at Leicester”
By Tony Attwood Yes we sure did our bit. As of saturday morning over 102,000 people had signed the petition demanding that Dean never again can do an Arsenal game. Now we shall see what PGMO does. If you still haven’t signed the petition is still there. Follow the link from the home page. The …
Read More “The lovely Tinkerman against the Arsenal as Dean petition passes 100,000!”
By Tony Attwood As expected the Swiss authorities have started criminal proceedings against Sepp Blatter. Just as expected Platini has been asked to provide information. Here’s the statement… “On the one hand, the OAG suspects that on 12 September 2005 Mr. Joseph Blatter has signed a contract with the Caribbean Football Union; this contract was …
Read More “Slowly the finger points at England over Fifa corruption”
Leicester v Arsenal 26 September – the Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is the updated Table of Shame following the review of the Stoke game refereed by Jonathan Moss. Two wrong Important decisions right at the end of the game with the not given penalty and sending off of Pieters for wrestling Giroud …
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By Tony Attwood It had to happen sometime: Barcelona currently banned from making transfers are begging Fifa to allow them to play Arda Turan, now. Turan was signed in the last transfer window as Barcelona found a loophole in their banning order realising they could sign the player, but simply not play him. Now they argue …
By Tony Attwood In a recent article Blacksheep asked, What is wrong with football. I was re-reading this and found myself asking “what is wrong with football supporters?” I found myself asking why commentators on this site sometimes find it necessary to write, “if you think x you are an idiot,” where x is fairly obviously, …
By Usama and Walter DINAMO ZAGREB vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 1 DATE: 16th September 2015 VENUE: Stadion Maksimir (Zagreb, Croatia) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Ovidiu Haţegan (Romania) 1st LINESMAN: Octavian Șovre (Romania) 2nd LINESMAN: Sebastian Gheorghe (Romania) 4th OFFICIAL: Radu Ghinguleac (Romania) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
By Tony Attwood 1: Kane isn’t scoring Apparently on Tottenham’s tour of Australia, so many fans buzzed around Kane while he was shopping he had to be rescued by minibus. And so highly esteemed is he in tot-land this season in plays in Adebayor’s old shirt which he told the Telegraph he had adopted in …
Read More “Ten things we learned at the ground of the tiny totts”
By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes compared to the last match. In fact only one player stayed in the starting line up and that was Ramsey. Team that started : Ospina, Debuchy, Chambers, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Arteta, Flamini, Ramsey, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Giroud. On the bench: Macey, Iwobi, Ozil, Alexis, Walcott, Monreal, Bellerin. A very tight start …
By Bulldog Drummond. First the afternoon result: Arsenal under 18s 5 Tiny Tottenhams 3. Our goals from Fortune, Nelson, Robinson (2), Nketiah. And so here we are again, at the soon to be closed for repairs White Hart Lane. And here we are with a team in the League Cup which is probably not going …
Read More “Arsenal 5 Tiny Totts 3. And now its the teeny weeny cup”
—————– The Dean petition is now over 90,000 strong. If you have not yet signed please do so at the end of the article. —————– By Walter Broeckx Mike Dean, the list is long. Too long. Toooooooooo long. The day it all went wrong for me is : 23/02/2008: Birmingham – Arsenal 2-2: Taylor …
Read More “The long list: how Mike Dean’s activity has cost Arsenal points and players”
Let’s see the funny side Tim Charlesworth I’m really going to stick my neck out here, and post a defence of public enemy number one, Jose Mourinho. Everything I have ever read about this highly successful manager suggests that he is a perfectly reasonable chap, who spends time with his family, and has a sense …
