Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made one change in the starting line up. Walcott came in the place of Oxlade-Chamberlain. For the rest an unchanged team so an attack with Giroud, Walcott and Campbell. The team that started: : Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Ramsey, Walcott, Ozil, Campbell, Giroud Near the Greek beach: Ospina, Debuchy, …
Read More “CL Olympiacos – Arsenal 0-3: putting the dots on the i’s”
By Tony Attwood Olympiakos are top of the Greek league. They have played 13 and won 13. Their owner and president is accused of being involved in and directing a criminal organization, aiding and abetting blackmailing, aiding and abetting the creating of explosions, aiding and abetting bribery and fraud. He is currently out …
Read More “Wholesale corruption, 20 charged by police, Uefa nepotism. Yep it’s the Champions League”
By Tony Attwood According to the general view, what is happening at Chelsea is a quirk, an oddity, a one-off. Normal service resumes soon. Chelsea have spent over £700,000,000 on transfer fees and had undoubted success both in Europe and at home, including of course being the current champions of England. And …
Read More “Does the rise of Leicester and collapse of Chelsea really represent a seismic shift?”
. They don’t accord us the basic rights that even a murderer gets. By Tony Attwood If you have been reading Untold for a while you will know that part of our view is that a lot of information about football that should be discussed and made public isn’t. Hence the name “Untold”. By discussing …
Read More “This is what happens when the media are left alone and allowed to define football”
By Walter Broeckx I must say that the PL this season is very strange indeed. There is not a weekend without surprise results. And sometimes big surprises. What can we say about the title race so far this season? Let us start with the biggest surprise team: Leicester. Top of the league now and I …
Read More “A very strange season – losing points to the refs, showing up the anti-Arsenal mob.”
Exposed! How Northern bias affects match results, injury tables and the National team. By Proud Kev Okay, it’s a sensational headline. The sort of thing you see on a daily basis by those employed to make up stories. Except this isn’t a made up story. This is based on something Untold often refer to …
Read More “Exposed! How Northern bias affects match results, injury tables and the National team.”
This article looks at the top football matches that Arsenal have been victorious in when they have gone into the game as underdogs. Arsenal are one of the most decorated teams in English football and have been a major European force for a number years but they are not always the favourites going into games …
. The 20 players Arsenal are apparently just about to sign By Sir Hardly Anyone. . There has been a change in the way that some newspapers are reporting the stories of transfers this January, with anxious editors trying hard to distance themselves from the utter fantasy world of the bloggettas and instead look as …
Read More “Wenger prepares to buy replacement for Coquelin. Trouble is the replacement is injured”
By Tony Attwood The late autumn is a time when Arsenal can dip; we’ve seen it before. Indeed if you look at where Arsenal stood after 15 games in recent years you get this table of positions in the league Year After 15 games Season end 2015 2 2014 6 3 2013 1 4 2012 …
Read More “Just how badly has the recent dip affected Arsenal’s chances of winning the league?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone (complete with new names – see below). I was a little surprised to hear that prices were not reduced for yesterday’s game, given that Arsenal put their reserve side out. I mean, normally speaking reserve matches are free at the Emirates. And I know it was the reserves because just before …
Read More “Arsenal Reserves v Very Fat Sam’s team: the view from behind”
Arsenal v Sunderland 5 December 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw As I write this (Wed PM) there hasn’t been a referee review published this week so the Table of Shame remains as I gave it last week:- Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 14 Red Cards 0 …
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By Walter Broeckx Sorry but things beyond my control prevented me from getting home on time to see the start. In fact I missed the whole first 20minutes. So forgive me for letting them out of this report as I really haven’t got any idea how they went. From when I could I see …
. Four of the last seven games at the Ems between Arsenal and Sunderland have been 0-0. Bus parking anyone? By Bulldog Drummond Watching the Norwich game on TV I was amazed first at how flippant the commentary was about Alexis Sánchez being pushed into the TV camera pit and then amazed at myself …
Read More “Bloody hell it’s Fat Sam again. Time to get out the very big bus park.”
By Tony Attwood Chelsea have released some plans of what the new Stamford Bridge home will look like if it gets planning permission. If matters go at all like New White Hart Lane, New Stamford Bridge will change quite a few times and be subject to years of delay before it gets built. But maybe Chelsea’s …
Read More “New Stamford Bridge, the Olympic stadium and a new ground for Everton. It isn’t so easy.”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold Arsenal you will know that one of the fundamentals of our approach is that football opinions are fine, but there is also space for evidence based football reporting to balance out the opinion based reporting. Indeed there is so much opinion based reporting …
Read More “Evidence based football reporting. It can’t be catching on. Can it?”
By Tony Attwood “Spectre is less likely to be corrupt than Fifa.” I love Marina Hyde’s phrase in the Guardian – not only because it is funny but also because it is true. . And that truth was to be found in the latest round of arrests that Walter covered on Untold yesterday. For one …
By Walter Broeckx This morning the Swiss police has arrested a few people. Once again a few top people from Fifa. This time it is supposed to be Juan Angle Napout, president of the South-American Football association (what we would call UEFA in Europe) and also Alfredo Hawit from Honduras who is the boss of …
Read More “And meanwhile at Fifa headquarters … business as usual”
Football has in fact just become a front for political and economic maneuvering. By Tony Attwood. Sometimes in football numbers just don’t add up. Sadly when this happens the politics always does add up, and the result can be rather alarming. And indeed there is something worth considering which is tucked away in the recent news …
Read More “Why the purchase of part of Man City by the Chinese state is a matter for concern”
An update on the Juniors by Andrew Crawshaw U21s After a disappointing game against Stoke, the U21s were back on track in their latest game away to Brighton when they emerged with all three points in a 2 – 1 victory thanks to a fantastic solo goal from 16 year old Donyell Malen. Donyell joined …
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 12 DATE: 8th November 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Martin Atkinson 1st LINESMAN: Michael Mullarkey 2nd LINESMAN: Stephen Child 4th OFFICIAL: Andre Marriner First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood It has only taken them six years, but I suppose better late than never. Untold Arsenal has been regularly publishing referee reviews for a long old time, showing over and over again there are clear cases of either gross incompetence of systematic bias by Premier League referees. We’ve even had a …
Read More “One newspaper breaks ranks to support Untold’s research into referee bias”
“The amount of muscle injuries sustained by young players in the Academy there has been cut in half over the last three years.” By Tony Attwood The story concerns Des Ryan, Arsenal’s head of sports medicine and athletic development and the headline above the story reads, “Galway native Des Ryan has managed to halve …
Read More “Arsenal have managed to halve muscle injuries sustained by Academy players”
By Walter Broeckx Yes November has been dissapointing, not for the first time in recent history in fact. If we look at the average results in the Wenger era as they have been published on arsenal.com it is the worst month resultwise most of the time. The fact that in that period we usually have …
Read More “Oh please let us panic and throw all and everything overboard”
By Tony Attwood Do take a look at the link to the Indy video at the end. Try not to laugh. At least not too much. You don’t want your boss to know you’re watching football rather than working. In June 2014 Cesc Fabregas signed for Chelsea. At £27 million, he was cheaper than Alexis Sánchez, …
Read More “The decline of Chelsea and the foresight of Wenger all explained in one player”
By Walter Broeckx I have been writing in the past about injuries. I even wrote a whole series in which we looked at the different types of injuries that Arsenal players had suffered. One of the debating points was of course when an injury is caused by contact or not. I remember some not agreeing …
