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 “Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger says the club’s season will get better and the focus is on improving existing strengths, not buying new players.” That’s the story that has been out and about in the press of late, and it is pretty much what you might expect. There has also been the Wenger: …
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By Tony Attwood . If I told you that as the final whistle for Arsenal 0 Fulham 0 a small element of the crowd booed, you might look at the score and think, well, not surprising. . It was a frustrating game in which the visitors parked the bus and waited for the break, and …
Read More “Lies more lies and lies again: the story of booing the Arsenal.”
Tim Charlesworth I was recently on holiday in Madrid and took the opportunity to tour the Bernebau stadium (Real Madrid) with my son. It was interesting to look at a famous stadium and compare it to our own. My first impression was how small the stadium seemed (narrower, but also higher than the Emirates/Grove). This …
Read More “On visiting Real Madrid: thoughts on expanding the Emirates Stadium.”
By Tony Attwood Why did the ref not send Coquelin off in the match against Palace? Of course there can be many reasons offered, ranging from the fact that he didn’t deserve to be sent off, through to the notion that the ref didn’t see the fouls as yellow card offences, and on to something …
Read More “The great Pardew intervention: how Pardew ensured that Coquelin was NOT sent off.”
By Usama and Walter CRYSTAL PALACE vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 2 DATE: 16th August 2015 VENUE: Selhurst Park (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Lee Mason 1st LINESMAN: Scott Ledger 2nd LINESMAN: Edward Smart 4th OFFICIAL: Robert Madley First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “The most detailed Referee Reviews in the history of football: Crystal Palace – Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Remember Gonzalo Higuaín? In 2013 Arsenal were pronounced by the press to be about to sign him. It was everywhere all the time, non stop. So non-stop that even Untold (or to be more precise, me,) said that “it looks like we are signing Higuaín,” which was rather embarrassing because I was the one who …
Read More “The Telegraph pronounces: “Real Madrid accept £48m offer for Karim Benzema.””
By Walter Broeckx I found it rather amusing that in the past week or so we saw the usual resurgence of aaa posters at Untold. People claiming to know it all before it would happen and who said they were right because they had told us so. All this based on one defeat of course. …
Read More “Goal post shifting: how some supporters know it all before it happens.”
Can Arsenal Win the League this Season? What is the Long Term Trend? By Pete I have noticed that, over recent history, Arsenal seem to be more successful in seasons leading up to major international championships than in seasons following them. For example we can see that we won the League in 1998, 2002 and …
Read More “Can Arsenal Win the League this Season? Here are the factors it depends on.”
By Walter Broeckx The PL is a few days underway and we have seen again a few strange decisions. We have seen the usual anti-Arsenal decisions in our two matches. In a way they did cost us as the opening goal from West Ham was a gift from the ref by donating them a free …
Read More “Refs not knowing the change about offside decisions? That makes the PL a pub league.”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal have agreed to loan Gedion Zelalem to Rangers until January or for the whole season. With every position in the first team covered not just covered by a back up player but also by players who can play well in more than one position, promising youngsters are going through the academy …
By Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal, as the banner headline on the site suggests, presents football news from an Arsenal perspective. But as publisher of the site, I’ve always had the vision that we could do more than that, by picking up issues that others ignore and seeing where they lead. Of course when I launched …
Read More “How the media is destroying football day by day by day”
By Tony Attwood Once upon a time having foreign players in the Arsenal team meant having a couple of full backs whose name began “Mc”. Then came the EU, then Bosman, and suddenly clubs woke up to the fact that one could sign players without thinking so much about where they came from. Which then …
WENGER IN, WENGER OUT, WENGER IS NOW OUT & ABOUT………..Don McMahon Don’t you just LOVE it! One defeat and the aaa are gleefully screaming from the rooftops about relegation, failure, disgrace, incompetence, Wenger’s time is up etc. Here are a few reality checks they need to stem their tide of offal and bitter bile against …
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By Walter Broeckx After last weeks defeat I was away for a few days. Walking in Ypres and the surrounding where you can’t go more than 500 meters without seeing another graveyard with soldiers who died in the first world war. It is the ideal medicine to see the result of one football match in …
Read More “Eyes at the back of his head; football in perspective”
By Tony Attwood Very unusually, the BBC picked no less than three Arsenal players for its team of the weekend. First off was Santi Cazorla, of whom the Corporation said, “Only team-mate Mesut Özil (five) created more chances this weekend in the Premier League than Cazorla (four). “After last week’s somewhat inept performance against the …
Read More “The Arsenal Golden Triple, double victories, perfidious journalists”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to the team that started last week. Hector Bellerin came in at right back and Debuchy went back to the bench. Alexis started up front and Oxlade-Chamberlain dropped to the bench. Team in full: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud. On the bench: Ospina, Debuchy, …
Read More “Crystal Palace – Arsenal, 1-2 the most expected result maybe”
By Bulldog Drummond And so the FA Cup (won by Arsenal for the last two seasons and tipped by Untold – although probably no one else – to do it for a third successive season) has started with matches including the likes of Leicester Nirvana, Coventry Sphinx, Jarrow Roofing Bolden CA, and West Allotment Celtic. Meanwhile …
By Tony Attwood I don’t claim to be a fount of all knowledge, but in publishing Untold Arsenal with its audience of 1 million page views a month I do feel the need to keep up. And when the Benzema story first broke I felt a certain amount of unease. I felt, surely this is wrong. …
By Tony Attwood Last night Arsenal under 21s beat Fulham 1-0 at the Emirates. It was a terrific game full of the most amazing skills from incredibly talented players; an absolute joy to watch. It was one of those games where right up to the 86th minute when Zelalem scored there was a doubt if …
Read More “Arsenal 1 Fulham: but the low crowd suggests cost of entry isn’t the issue”
By Tony Attwood Tonight it is Arsenal v Fulham at the Emirates and I’m pleased to say I am able to pop along with Ian and his sons – not something I can’t often do, living out in the wilds of Northamptonshire and the fact that many games are behind closed doors. Quite what sort …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal Sunday 16 August 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – S Ledger and E Smart Fourth Official – R Madley Last week we had the referee with the worst competence scores from last season, this week we have Lee Mason who, whilst not a …
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By Tony Attwood On 13 August Amitai Winehouse published an article in the Telegraph about the comparative strengths of various squads. It includes this paragraph on Arsenal… However, fitness troubles tend to befall the north London side with more regularity than any other team in the Premier League, with Tomas Rosicky, Danny Welbeck and Jack Wilshere …
Read More “Ospina CONFIRMS he is set to leave as injuries mount, but wait, what’s this? Wow!”
By Tony Attwood Sorry Untold Arsenal has been up and down like the preverbial. Please, if you do find us not here, (as it were) please do follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal, and/or go to our Facebook page www.facebook.com/untoldarsenaltolday where we will aim to keep the service running. But now, here’s the story …
Read More “FA up to their misleading news stories again. Don’t be fooled!”
By Usama and Walter First let me point out that this is only looking at the decisions of the refs and has nothing to do with how the teams played. If you want to comment on how the teams played you can do this in the other articles about the match. I welcome Usama on …
Sincere apologies to everyone about the amount of time it is taking us to get Untold Arsenal back up and running. At first it looked like the number of people on the site was our problem, but the difficulties have continued. We have now got some use of the site, although it is very much …
Read More “FA promises investment in grassroots football by copying Sport England proposal”
