Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Tony Attwood We have often referred back to the match fixing scandals in Italy; I thought that maybe to add to the picture we ought to cover match fixing in some other countries too. And I thought I’d start with Greece, where the affair in 2011 was originally called The Koriopolis. But in case …
Read More “Match fixing in Greece, Olympiacos and next season’s Champs League”
By Walter Broeckx On more than one occasion Tony has shown that journalists and pundits are lazy people. And I think it is fair to say that we have seen it again in the last couple of days. It all started (although not really started as such, as it has been the media/pundits theme for …
By Tony Attwood This year St Totters Day was the biggest I can ever remember, with even the national media jumping on the bandwagon. Indeed if you want a flavour of what other Arsenal fans got up to on the great day this year take a look at St Tots Day from the Independent. This means of …
Read More “Why we need the young non-international playing players”
By Tony Attwood I can’t recall a new season starting so early, but that is how it seems. We’ve still got to establish the order of the top four, play Man U, Sunderland and WBA in the league, and sort out the FA Cup. And yet all the talk is of next season. No real …
Read More “We’ve got the 100, had St Tot and got into Europe. So now what?”
By Tony Attwood All clubs have style. It is reflected in the way the players are encouraged to present themselves, the way the club reveres its past, the way the club considers its fans, even the way the club considers the people who live in houses round about. In such an analysis there are some …
By Walter Broeckx No changes in the team that started the match against Hull. According to Arsenal.com Koscielny made his 200th appearance so lets hope he can celebrate a good win at the end of the match. On the bench we had a few changes. Gabriel and Rosicky have a place on the bench in …
By Tony Attwood The last time Hull beat Arsenal at home was 2nd April 1915. It was match 33 out of a 38 match second division season, in a game played at Hull. The score was 0-1 to Hull, and the crowd was 8,000. Of the remaining games we drew one, lost one and won …
Read More “Is it time to sing, “It’s happened again…?” Hull v Arsenal. The preview.”
By Walter Broeckx One could say that some of the results went our way last weekend. Of course the best result we have seen looking at the league table was Manchester United losing at home to WBA. We will play WBA at the final day of the season so let us not underestimate them. The …
Hull v Arsenal 04 May 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly lets start off with the ‘Table of Shame’ updated following Walter’s report on Mike Jones performance in the Newcastle game – Ref Review : Newcastle – Arsenal: an overwhelming bias. A very poor overall performance gaining 58% overall, bias against arsenal …
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. So, Hull. Luring near the foot of the table. Pld W D L F A GD Pts 14 Aston Villa 35 9 8 18 29 50 -21 35 15 Newcastle 35 9 8 18 36 60 -24 35 16 Hull City 34 8 10 16 32 45 -13 34 17 Leicester City 35 9 …
Read More “Arsenal has more points after 33 games than any campaign since 2009-10”
By Bootoomee When Souleymane, a black Frenchman was prevented by Chelsea fans from taking the Metro on his way back home from work in the evening of Tuesday 17th February, he did not complain to anybody. Not to the officials of the Paris Metro. Not to the police. Not to his wife and children. Souleymane …
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By Tony Attwood Newspapermen often like to confuse ideas. For example if a football manager speaks out of turn (at least “speaks out of turn” in the mind of a journalist) then the manager has engaged on a “rant”. Call a journalist an ostrich, and immediately it becomes a rant. But if a journalist …
by Tony Attwood Selling players who we would rather like to keep is something that Arsenal became fairly familiar with during the years of paying for the new stadium. However that Liverpool, who have only just embarked on upgrading Anfield for a cost of around £114m, adding 8000 new seats, and yet are embroiled in …
Read More “Why Sterling can leave Liverpool any time he wants”
A little while back I wrote about the problems Arsenal have fitting all the current players and players on loan into the “25” list that is allowed. Of course that will be worked out later, but it is worth considering who is knocking on the door in terms of youth players who might follow Hector …
Read More “Jon Toral: one of ten under age players we could see next season.”
By Tony Attwood As was suggested in correspondence following an earlier article, the deal between Tottenham Hotspur and Haringey Council over the funding of the new stadium for Tottenham could be seen as state aid, something that is not allowable under EU law. Now Untold can reveal that the situation has been referred to the European …
By Tony Attwood What is the purpose of newspaper football journalism? It is not a question one hears asked very often, and indeed is not a question that football journalists ever pose at all. But this is Untold, and the clue to what we are is in our name, so let’s try and answer the …
Read More “How newspaper football journalists have become part of the opiate of the fans”
By Blacksheep An Untold Banner On Sunday Tony and I were chewing over the bones of the game against Chelski and I put an idea to him. How about we (i.e the Untold family) fund a banner that can be displayed at the Emirates? You probably know the sort of thing I mean …
By Tony Attwood On 30 December 2014 Barcelona lost their third and final appeal against Fifa’s ruling that the running of their “world famous” academy was illegal under Fifa rules. Interestingly, the Spain FA, which was also found guilty in a related case, did not bother to appeal at all. Now Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid …
Read More “Barcelona’s new academy plan aborted and now Madrid about to be banned.”
By Walter Broeckx After last nights match between Hull (who we will play next Monday) and Liverpool the league table is this 1. Chelsea 33 played 77 points 2. Man City 34 played 67 points 3. Arsenal 33 played 67 points 4. Man Utd 34 played 65 points 5. Liverpool 34 played 58 points 6. …
By Walter Broeckx If we look back at the season so far one could say that we had a turning point in our season. Or maybe even a few turning points in our season. Some caught the eye more than others as we will explain later on in this article. For me the season really …
Read More “Do we really need 4 players? Or just ……4 more fit players?”
By Pararealist There is racism in football, and also in all other areas of society, but although they are related, we are going to concentrate on racism in football. First let me do a little preamble. I know some people are easily offended by honest discussions of prejudice and race. There are those who confuse …
By Walter Broeckx Lets have a look at our own players in our match against Chelsea. Not by giving them any points or so as this is not Untold to do but I think some things should be said about the players. Ospina : hardly had anything to do really. But he had each shot …
By Walter Broeckx I didn’t really want to spend any time on the bloke that is called Piers Morgan. But as yesterday Aaron Ramsey showed what a strong person he is I think it is appropriate to mention this incident. Now this Mr. Moron (oh a typo but I just leave it like that if you don’t …
By Walter Broeckx From the team that brought us our second FA cup final in one year Arsenal made four changes. Ospina cam in goal and Szczesny dropped to the bench again. At right back Bellerin came back in the team and Debuchy dropped next to Szczeseny. Monreal also took back hos place from Gibbs. Per …
Read More “Arsenal – Chelsea, wake us up at the final whistle”
By Bulldog Drummond Here’s a nice opening thought just in case you have some nerves about the game today: When we beat Reading last weekend, that gave us nine wins in a row. That is our best run since the Invincibles won 10 games in a row in 2004. The match that ended that run …
