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 Walter Broeckx For as long as I can remember we have been saying that it is vital for a team (any team in fact) to feel support from their supporters. In a way this seems natural of course but with a part of our supporters not really being supportive for anything the club does it …
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By Goonermikey So we just had our annual bashing by the media for having the “most expensive tickets”. But how about we actually take a look at the real facts rather than the selective data we find the media using. For starters, the statistics are less than adequate since the media takes no account …
Read More “The lazy ticket price “information” from the media”
By Walter Broeckx Of course I know that it is just a coincidence that in the last two matches we got the same final score. These things happen and in the long run they happen a few times but it isn’t written in stone now that each time we will win with this scoreline. Would …
Read More “Keeping clean sheets, scoring 3 goals what more do you want”
By Walter Broeckx A spokesman of the Austrian football federation said last Thursday against the press agency Reuter that Michel Platini can count on the full support of the whole Uefa. This was said after a meeting held in Nyon. An emergency meeting it was about the position of Uefa-president Michel Platini. As we all …
Read More “FIFA, Uefa and the national FA’s : the same pile of shit?”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made one change compared to the team that started our last PL match against Manchester United. Koscielny started in the place of Gabriel. Gabriel wasn’t even on the bench so probably he is injured. For the rest the team was unchanged. Arsenal team that started: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Cazorla, …
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By Walter Broeckx As it seems that the rest of the Untold Arsenal staff is out on holidays, finding a way home after having been to the Arsenal AGM and probably having drunk too much, it is up to me to do the stuff we do before the match: trying to say something sensible (or …
Read More “Watford – Arsenal: elevator clubs, focus and the team selection”
Watford v Arsenal 17 October 2015 – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The Table of Shame – now up to date for all eight games played 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 …
By Metalhead Recently Arsene Wenger called for the media to be held accountable for what they say on television and write up in newspapers/articles. One can imagine his frustration, considering how some of them get away with saying pretty much anything they like with no logic or evidence to back their claims. Prior to the …
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By Proud Kev Walters great articles on some of our unsung and ‘cheap’ young talent, should make people think. Why do we have this obsession on transfer values and spending money? Do you really have to spend big money every transfer window to have success? Now the FFM’s would state categorically that the answer to …
Read More “The Wenger narrative, defending, and the funny Kolo Toure trial.”
by Andrew Crawshaw The AGM is a shareholder’s meeting required by law to be held each year so that the Board of Directors can be seen to be accountable to the company shareholders. OK so who are the shareholders and how many shares do they each have? To answer this question I …
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By Walter Broeckx In the last years we have done a lot of studying and investigating on referees and referee behaviour. And the strange referee behaviour we have sometimes seen. Based on our numbers and having looked around we could come to the conclusion that there is/was some kind of similar system at work like …
By Tony Attwood Owen Gibson in the Observer has reported that the Football Association will save £12m a year after refinancing its Wembley debt. Another £18m is being saved by making about a third of the FA’s staff redundant as the FA tries to do something, aything, to redeem itself in terms of the world …
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Why are some of our players so dramatically improved By Tim Charlesworth My last article (yesterday) observed that a number of our players were showing some surprising improvements over the last twelve months. Why? There are a lot of things that, as supporters, we don’t see at a football club. Most of the real action …
Read More “What is happening to our players? Part 2: The answer?”
By Walter Broeckx The more news that comes out in the open about Fifa and Uefa the more I hate the internationals. I have never been a liker of these matches anyway but the way we are proven right about how corrupt these organisations seem to be the more I hate them. Of course anyone …
By Don McMahon Well the house of cards that was FIFA, EUFA and perhaps, soon the English FA seems to be finally tumbling down around their corrupt ears. Let us NOT forget that this is a tragedy for the Beautiful Game and we are the victims of this perennial fraud! The tragedy lies in the …
What is happening to our players? By Tim Charlesworth Walter has recently written a couple of interesting articles about Nacho and Coquelin, and the extraordinary improvement that they have shown over the last twelve months. These are the two most noteworthy examples, but actually they are not the only players to improve in the last …
Read More “What is happening to our players? Part 1: The facts and the questions”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. MANCHESTER UNITED COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 8 DATE: 4th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Anthony Taylor 1st LINESMAN: John Brooks 2nd LINESMAN: Lee Betts 4th OFFICIAL: Roger East First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description …
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The wheel’s still in spin… By Tony Attwood Very, very slowly there is a movement away from the reform of Fifa to a total revolutionary overthrow of the old regime. It is of course something that is not at all welcomed by the entrenched powers – Fifa and Uefa, the FA and all the other …
Read More “It’s not that we don’t need THIS Fifa, we don’t need ANY Fifa.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is a curious fact of life that you can wait all summer long for a defensive midfielder without one appearing and then two appear all at once. Even more curious is that Arsenal don’t need one since we currently have one of the very best DM’s in Europe. But …
Read More “Deal Agreed with Brazilian Striker, and perfect DM replacement found”
By Tony Attwood The other day, having torn what remains of my hair out and eaten half the furniture in my humble abode I finally got to express my frustration and anger over the way the press continue to talk up international football while talking down Arsenal. In particular my annoyance was raised to unbearable …
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By Tony Attwood It has, both for those people who play fantasy football and for the journalists who base their regular commentaries around fantasy football, while nicking their news stories without checking from wholly unreliable news stories, been a bit of a topsy turvy season so far. One minute Arsenal is in total meltdown and …
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you must be sick to death of me referring back to the article I wrote five years ago about why England is so rubbish as an international football team. I refer back to it because it is evidence based, it shows in clear stats …
By Walter Broeckx With the boredom of the interlul upon us time to check the internet and see if there are interesting things to find. And yes there are. Not just Untold is writing interesting things. I found a few interesting tables that have been put together by some people. And I wanted to check …
Read More “Arsenal since New year. Time to stop the moaning and start the supporting!”
By Tony Attwood Lionel Messi tax charges dropped in Spain shouted the Daily Telegraph, always keen to lend a hand to the very rich and famous – although you can always tell when they know they haven’t checked the facts properly because the article was attributed to “Telegraph Sport”. Lionel Messi tax fraud case: Barcelona …
By Tony Attwood You may have seen on a number of other sites an analysis of the last 38 league games played by Premier League clubs. It has turned up without attribution on a number of sites but I think it originated with @goonerdesi. If I’ve got that wrong my apologies. Anyway, it was …
Read More “The “last 38 match” table – Arsenal and Man C neck and neck to take control.”
