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
EXPLANATION OF ZONAL MARKING SYSTEM. By Bob Macdonald I am qualified Uefa grade ‘A’ coach, and have vast experience both coaching and managing at a fairly high level. My observations are in fact no more than that, and I would be the last person to suggest I know more than the next person. However I …
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On the anniversary of one of the most bizarre referee performances of all time, I thought I’d look at whether the media has changed its stance of late. . By Tony Attwood . A lot of the problem about the debate concerning referees is the very curious way the media follow it up. . For …
Read More “Chelsea complain, Man U complain. But hush, don’t talk about refs.”
By Walter Broeckx So Arsenal starting with the following players in this match against Aston Taylor: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Cazorla, Özil, Walcott, Giroud. On the cold beach we had Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Rosicky, Flamini, Chambers and Akpom. In the stands we had my wife, myself and the rest of a 30 man …
By Tony Attwood To some people all Arsenal did in the transfer window was bought Krystian Bielik and Gabriel Paulista. Maybe – but what is the result? According to TransferMarket.co.uk it means we have a squad that is worth £343.02m. Some players have increased in value since we bought them (Ospina is now worth £6.16m …
Read More “The value of each squad, the transfer fee oddities and multiple loans.”
By Walter Broeckx Not really the match report as you are used to getting from me after a game. That will be for later. When I get the time to review the match from the comfort of my sofa and enjoy the events on the pitch as they unfolded in front of our eyes. Because …
By Tony Attwood I’ll come to the dodgy and indeed the very very dodgy in a moment, but first, a headline from the Daily Telegraph. “Arsene Wenger failed to land a single player before the window shut – despite links to a host of stars across Europe.” Yes, well, considering that Mr Wenger had already …
Read More “All the dodgy doings you might have missed on deadline day”
By Tony Attwood Every day we get comments on Untold which criticise either one or more Arsenal players, or our manager, or the management team. As I have said many, many times before, we will publish such commentaries, but only when backed up by some logic, stats or reasoned argument. Just calling someone at Arsenal …
By Tony Attwood It struck me as Blacksheep and I walked back from the game to Archway underground station, what a warped vision of football is created by the arrant nonsense that is pumped out by so many blogs and the newspapers each day, with their endless story that the only thing that matters is the …
Read More “Villa’s problem, Arsenal’s six injuries and the cost of January transfers”
By Bulldog Drummond Quite a big day for the Untold Collective: Andrew, Walter, Blacksheep and Tony all at the game together. Untold doesn’t manage that very often. And glory be, what a difference a few weeks makes. From the December doom gloom and doom and gloom and we are finished, to this, in the Guardian: …
Read More “The difficult task of fitting in all the players: Arsenal v Villa”
By Tony Attwood With each passing outrage from Fifa Untold has raised the issue of the sponsors of the dictatorship, and suggested that the sponsors should take a good look at what is going on in their name. Of course we can’t expect much to happen, not least when the Football Association in England, always …
By Tony Attwood ‘Arsenal to make audacious swoop for Suarez’ Roll up roll up all the nonsense you want to have. Suarez plays for a club quite rightly banned from transfers because of its child trafficking policies, and Arsène Wenger says that we are not signing anyone, and so we get that headline. Oh what …
Read More “Tiny Arsène, Arteta signs, we’re buying Suarez, and dictionary lackadaisicals latest”
By Andrew Crawshaw Firstly, following Walter’s review of Mr Pawson in our away game at Southampton, we have an updated Table of Shame – it is shown at the end. That table reveals that there are still no signs of it starting to even out. Mr Pawson made two wrong Important Decisions (second yellow cards, red …
Read More “Arsenal v Villa 1 Feb 2015: Taylor will bend the rules to punish Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood The oldest, one might almost say, the traditional way of match fixing, was established by Liverpool and Manchester United at the end of the 1914/15 season. Yes, 100 years ago this season. Manchester United were looking likely to be relegated while Liverpool were comfortably placed mid-table. So the two clubs worked …
Read More “The three ways of fixing matches in the Premier League”
By Walter Broeckx So Taylor it is again. Only 7 matches since his last match in charge of Arsenal the evil face of the PGMO is back. Let us look at his stats up to now and compare them with the overall record from Arsenal in the PL. Total WIN DRAW LOST Arsenal 174 96 …
By Tony Attwood Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys were dropped by Sky after making off-air comments during a game in January 2011 saying that female officials “don’t know the offside rule” and predicting assistant ref Sian Massey would make mistakes during a game a couple of days later. The comments were boorish, sexist and …
By Walter Broeckx Over the last months we have heard the media coming up with the phrase that Arsenal is a one man team. One could say this is another fine example of the laziness from the journalists. Now of course I am the last person to take anything away from what Alexis has brought …
Ref for this match was Mike Dean I know on a lot of occasions people say that our referee reviews are all about sour grapes. So how do we judge the ref in a match when for the first time in 12 centuries (more or less) we beat a top 4 club at their home …
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By Tony Attwood Ever since Barcelona were caught out for their child trafficking activities some people have been poking around Real Madrid to ask if they have been doing the same thing. It hardly makes a news story that they have said no. But Real Mad has also recognised that Fifa has asked the Spanish …
By Walter Broeckx So after the usual long wait Arsenal.com finally made it known to the world that we have a new player. His full name is Gabriel Armando de Abreu. And that sounds a good name to have to me. It really sounds Portuguese and that is not that surprising as he comes from …
Ref for this match was John Moss I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the start of this match. It took Stoke 10 minutes to commit their first foul. And I think that maybe that was the reason that the ref completely ignored it. It was the foul from Arnautovic on Debuchy that lead …
By Tony Attwood Maybe I blinked and missed it, or maybe its all been called off because of a dodgy medical, but the big Arsenal transfer, seems to have stopped. Instead we have… Arsenal transfer news and rumours: Real Madrid to sell Karim Benzema to Arsenal to fund Raheem Sterling move That’s the big news. …
Read More “The transfer window deadline has been pre-recorded”
By Tony Attwood OK I know the story has got around a bit and I am very much not the first to find it, but hacking with humour does still amuse me – although not necessarily when I have to try and clear up the mess. So the story is this Go to www.Google.co.uk In …
Ref for this match was Craig Pawson A ref we haven’t got many numbers on so it is always difficult to draw conclusions. What I did noticed is that he is not looking good at hidden kicks on the Achilles. Alderweireld did this a few times and each time it escaped the ref’s attention. This …
By Tony (some of this might be right but dont bank on it) Attwood Well, you know, I’m sure, but just in case not… Mr Wenger had the deal all set vis a vis the work permit and Gabriel Paulista will be granted a permit to work in the UK. Now he just needs …
Read More “Gabriel Paulista: he has the work permit, and the medical should be done by now.”
By Walter Broeckx For most of us living outside England the first time we saw English football was in the FA cup final at Wembley. In my country we had the luck to having the leading football commentator not just being an excellent footballer in his days but also he loved England and English football. And …
Read More “The romance of the FA cup: a day on the internet and on TV”
