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 Last night, for the Southampton match, I bought a ticket for the game for a friend, using my silver membership. It was a lower tier in the East Stand and cost £28.00. Personally I don’t think that was too bad – when you buy a ticket you don’t know what you …
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By Walter Broeckx Southampton had a great start of the season. And if my memory is still a bit what it was I remember that was also the case last season. Wenger pointing out that they lost a lot of players but kept the core of their team in midfield being important to keeping the …
By Bulldog Drummond In the good old days, the very good very old days, when a player went down injured on the pitch an old boy (usually a wizened guy who had finished playing 30 years before and who had no medical qualifications whatsoever) would trot onto the pitch carrying a bucket full of iced …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton; everyone’s injured (as always)”
By TommieGun I am writing this post in order to offer some of my thoughts about opinions being published here and in other media, regarding Arsenal, Arsene, what it means to be a fan (or a supporter), what is acceptable to say (or write), and what is not acceptable. I will lay out a few …
Read More “Should Untold Arsenal be more balanced? Some Perspective about Perspective”
Blacksheep63 Yes I know this is a football site, and an Arsenal football site at that, so what an earth am I doing writing about boxing? Well (tenuous link alert…) on Saturday, instead of finding somewhere to watch BT Sprot spoil another Arsenal away game with their cretinous commentary, I thought I’d avoid the match …
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Arsenal v Southampton 03 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated Wrong Important Decisions table following the United game (to be strictly honest it is updated from Walter’s post game report as I haven’t seen his full referee review so there may need to be further changes). One more …
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UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects by Andrew Crawshaw The UEFA Youth League is a tournament for players who were born on or after 1 January 1996 – i.e they must be younger than 19 on 1 January 2015. The tournament is played between the same 32 clubs that make up the group …
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By Walter Broeckx After one of our earlier articles a new person commented for the first time and asked a question that got me wondering. For the sake of making it clear I will reprint his comment in full: “When did this mass anti Arsenal start? I understand the Tiny Tots but the rest? I …
By Tony Attwood Do you remember that thing the AAA and their media allies used to do? 30 years since Arsenal won a trophy, or whatever it was. And before that, “Arsenal get more red cards than all the rest of the league put together.” Well, they’ve stopped doing it – first because the …
Read More “The new forward line: Me, him, Alexis, (and Theo)”
By Tony Attwood Every now and then I write about the Glasgow club Rangers – primarily because they represent to me the classic case of the failure of the media to ask why, and the failure to step out of line of the cosy bond they have in which each follows the other and none …
Read More “Rangers still on the brink, and we can be sure there are more to come”
By Tony Attwood Steve McManaman is hardly a person who would make my Xmas card list but I have to say that his dealing of the banner that half a dozen AAA had brought with them and snuck into the WBA game, was very good. He pointed out the sheer utter lunacy of what …
Read More “Asking for the Daniel Levy approach to management is a sign of insanity”
By Walter Broeckx The weekend after European football is always a difficult weekend. And certainly when you have the honour of being chosen for the early kick off on Saturday after having played on Wednesday evening. A match that we had to play against one of the top teams in Europe. Well it was before …
Publisher’s Note There is an important campaign going on at the WBA match today, and the second half of this article deals with that. The first half contains the usual pre-match kick about but I would urge you to keep reading to appreciate exactly what the demonstration at the Hawthorns is about. Thanks Tony …
Read More “WBA vs the Invisibles, and something of far greater importance”
By Walter Broeckx So there we have it… just as I predicted. I know it is getting a bit boring. But it is a fact that I predicted it would happen. And it happened again. Another player injured because of the PGMO referees not doing their job. And as the media always tells that it …
By Walter Broeckx So who can we meet… and who not if the CL groups as they now stand were to be the final tables in each group? If that is the case Arsenal would be second in our group so we have to see at the other top teams in the group to see …
By Walter Broeckx I will not deny that we had a poor start to the season. I will not deny that the matches since Anderlecht were not idea in terms of the results if nothing else. Because I thought that we played rather impressively against Manchester United but we were wasteful with the chances that …
Read More “After a match like this it is easy to be a supporter”
By Tony Attwood Chris Bascombe writing in the Telegraph has said that, “We live in an age where the default position is to be offended by the continued employment of those we don’t consider to be as complete human beings as ourselves. There are now offices full of recent graduates dedicated to a daily web …
By Walter Broeckx Well, well well. This must be a dark night for the dark siders. How on earth did the impossible just became possible. The setting before this match was: Wenger is clueless. Klopp is a master tactician who would bring Arsenal to another level. Possible but not really their current Bundesliga level if …
By Bulldog Drummond In the past we used to have specialists, like brain surgeons, bricklayers and baby minders. Now it seems everyone knows and can do everything. So after weeks of all those people who have never managed even a little team, knowing more about tactics than a man who has won eight major trophies …
Read More “Yesterday everyone was a tactician, today they are all psychologists”
By Tony Attwood So we have an interesting duality. On the one hand we can show that Dean made some terrible decisions in the match last weekend. One the other hand we can see that the TV commentary did not reflect this terrible performance by the ref. On a third hand (clearly there are aliens …
Read More “That difficult question “why?” and a lot of rumours”
By Walter Broeckx In their haste to blame Wenger for: 1. Welbeck missing a first chance (AWshould have bought Falcao instead of Welbeck 2. Welbeck missing another header seconds later (see it’s AW his fault should have bought…. 3. Welbeck shooting to weak (see AW should have….) 4. Jack Wilshere missing the easiest of chances …
Read More “Dean Did It Again. We present the proof of his “errors””
By Walter Broeckx Let me start by saying that I would love it if the ticket prices at Arsenal would drop. I would be very happy with that. As for most people it is expensive. And as most of Europe is in not the best economical conditions (certainly my country is doing badly we are …
Read More “It’s cheaper at the Emirates. Arsenal ticket prices and the hidden facts”
On Saturday I eschewed nearly all of my pre-match rituals and we lost to the worst United team since the dawn of time (or sometime in the 1970s I think). Why did I stop? Well because for most of the season they haven’t worked and frankly I’d reached the point (it was Anderlecht at home …
Read More “A confession: when we lose it is all my fault. Football rituals and me”
By Tony Attwood An Arsenal match is, for journalists, a moment for making stuff up… or if not that then a moment for exaggerating and giving undue emphasis to some events while ignoring others. I’m wondering what we can do to stop it. For example the David Hytner Guardian piece today says: “An Arsenal supporter …
Read More “Football Betrayed: would public flogging be a fair punishment for football journalists?”
By Tony Attwood Last season there was mass wild ravings from the AAA and their backers in the mass media, to the effect that Olivier Giroud was no good, useless, a waste of space, tedious, pointless and various other things that I’m too busy to mention. I replied once or twice with an analysis which …
