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 A little while back Arsenal Supporters Trust allied itself with the equivalent groups at Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool to write to the FA about the importance of maintaining the rule that says 15% of tickets for FA Cup matches be reserved for away supporters. In Arsenal’s case this means 9,000 tickets, and …
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By Walter Broeckx For the replay of the FA cup final of 2014 we saw the next team from Arsenal at the start Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Cazorla, Walcott, Campbell, Alexis. As substitutes we had Martinez, Debuchy, Koscielny, Zelalem, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Maitland-Niles, Akpom. So a lot of changes compared to the Southampton match. …
Welcome to the FA Cup third round clash between Arsenal and Hull City at the Emirates, brought to you by Arsenal’s Official Car And Van Rental Partner Europcar. It’s the most magical weekend in English football and fortune has brought these two sides together at the first opportunity since their memorable meeting in last year’s …
By Tony Attwood. So it seems we have made or are making or are about to make our first signing in terms of Teddy Bishop from Ipswich. It is not announced yet, so this could be another total error in reading the ancient runes and tea-leaves on my part. Man U want/wanted Bishop but the …
By Tony Attwood Since we won the FA Cup that question has been more puzzling than ever. It used to be that winning a trophy was doing well. But although the victory over Hull and the subsequent beating of Man C in the Charity Shield gave Mr Wenger some respite, it lasted little more than …
By Tony Attwood If you have not read the excellent article about supporting Arsenal from a distance, I would urge you to read it now, before moving on to this, my epilogue to that story. I was first told that Arsenal were going to target India as a market about five years ago, but at …
By Tony Attwood When I was a young writer, trying to break into the business full time, I adopted the tactic of writing articles and books that by and large no one else was trying: different approaches, different styles, different ways of looking at issues. As a result I got a lot of rejections from …
Ref on the day was Lee Mason Referee Mason surely got off with a bad start. Tiote deliberately putting his studs in the chest of Alexis and he completely ignored or missed it. If as some say he couldn’t see it, it was down to a technical error from the ref. Bad positioning it is …
Southampton v Arsenal 01 January 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated table of shame following Walter’s review of the Stoke game Untold ref Review: Stoke – Arsenal, the Anthony Taylor horror show. “Shockingly bad”. Twenty two wrong decisions in that game, eleven yellow card or worse and all against …
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Un-important Gooners. A rant. A whine. A cry…. distant gooners. by Arsenal 13 This is what happened during the West-Ham game. Comments section of the Untold. Most people know this. BUT compiling it again to show the person and for the people with similar views where they are wrong. For generalization, lets name him X, and …
By Tony Attwood The FA has a section on its web site called “Media comments and Social Networking cases – Charging guidelines” It says in part, The following types of public media comment, including on social networking websites, may be considered to be in breach of FA Rule E3: Comments which are improper, which bring the …
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By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the team who was level on points at the start of this match we had these players Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis. And on the beach we had Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom. Gibbs came in the place of …
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By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Mirror and several other newspapers the transfer window is now open. But no! Woe! Woe! and Thrice woe! (which is really only meaningful to British readers who remember Frankie Howerd). The window is jammed shut. It will not open. Pliers, crowbars and ratchets have been ordered. But it …
Read More “Panic ensues as transfer window fails to open; Zelalem goes US”
By Tony Attwood Thanks for everyone for the goodwishes. I feel a bit of a fraud – it was just a bug, and I slept for about 24 hours. Anyway I’ve struggled up to the computer complete with pint mug of water, just to see what new year’s eve holds in store. The papers are …
By Walter Broeckx I just got a message from Tony that he is sick in bed and asking me to publish an article on Untold. As you will have noticed our morning article didn’t come as usual. Because Tony being sick of course. So I stopped what I was doing, send him first of all …
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By Tony Attwood The result of Barcelona’s behind-closed-doors appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the charges of dealing in children (often referred to as child trafficking) between 2009 and 2013, has been rejected and it is confirmed that they will not be allowed to sign any players in 2015. Although the appeal …
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By Billy “the Dog” McGraw In my last piece about how outdated views of logic and reason have come to dominate the debate on football I tried to suggest that the contemporary vision of considering evidence and then looking for the simplest most straightforward explanation based on evidence, has been thrown out of the window. Instead …
By Walter Broeckx With the end of the year upon us and after having played our last match of this calendar year it might be a good moment to look back at this year. It was a typical Arsenal year one could say. Highs and lows. And a year in which the, ‘I know better …
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Ref (or whatever you want to call him) on the day was Anthony Taylor As most of you will never look back at the match in full and I can understand that but as a reviewer we have the hard task to do this. Mostly it is fun but not this time. As a referee …
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THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE……Don McMahon I have seen so many bloggers writing sarcastic and demeaning comments about the Club, the players and particularly the manager over the years I have followed AFC… and one thing they all seem to have in common is that they are totally blind to one side of the Arsenal. …
By Tony Attwood So where have we got to? One defeat in the last nine 20 goals for, nine goals against in last nine Seven wins, one draw, one defeat in last nine Five wins, one defeat, one draw in last seven league games OK it is not the form of the Unbeaten Season, but …
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By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the home ground of the team that sat in front of us at the start of this match we had Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Welbeck. On the beach sat Ospina, Gibbs, Chambers, Campbell, Walcott, Podolski, Akpom. So Koscielny back in the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Taking his lead from the invidious aaa and their allies within mediaeval journalism (I rather like that phrase) the Rather Large Sam speaks. Arsenal are weak and so can be exploited. West Ham, quoth he, are going for Europe – and indeed Europe quakes. A goodly length in times past Europe quaked …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Neil Swarbrick Assistants – S Ledger and M Wilkes Fourth Official – K Stroud Mr Swarbrick is Lancastrian and has been officiating in the Premier League since December 2010, along with Mr Moss he was officially promoted to the select group at the start of the 2011-12 season. He has …
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By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Abuse levels on Untold seem to on the up, which is a bit of a shame, so I thought I would pop in with a couple of comments on a post that was sent in the other day, but not published. (It is printed below exactly as submitted). “Calling people …
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