Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Joe Doe “What Alex Ferguson did to David Moyes and – subsequently – to Louis Van Gaal? Well, it wasn’t very original thing to do. It was the same pattern that had been established by Jose Mourinho. If Ferguson had implemented values (or, more precisely, lack of any) to Premiership that have been burdening …
By Walter Broeckx This week we had a few interesting moments that involved referees’ and players’ behaviour. Things we don’t like to see but that are used by some teams in order to gain an advantage. Unsporting things. Things that also make life difficult for referees. Let us have a closer look. The diver’s disease. …
Read More “Stopping diving and the harassment of referees. It can be done”
By Tony Attwood. Poor Man U. For so many years the darling of the media. A media so bewitched by what they are and what they might be, that not a word could be said against them. And now those naughty fellows in the newspapers can write such things as, “Referees are not the only …
Read More “The virus of the media turns on Man U with a vengeance”
. By Tony Attwood . A little while ago I experienced Arsenal’s facilities for the disabled first hand, and I must say I was amazed. Amazed because one only ever hears negative things about Arsenal, and everything I found was good. Good in the sense of the way carers go in for free, …
Read More “How Arsenal helped a Tottenham star, and our provision for the disabled”
By Walter Broeckx The current PL season still has some 10 matches to go and a few Wembley outings hopefully but the first news about the season 2015-2016 has been made public today. And so we see that Arsenal will play together with Everton, Stoke City and a Singapore Select XI team for the Barclays Asia …
By Tony Attwood We’ve covered the story about Tottenham’s new stadium a number of times, about the uncertainties and delays, and indeed the changes of plans. Of course there have been some sniggering from the Arsenal end at the club’s delays and misfortunes, and outrage at their having a compliant local authority (which Arsenal most …
By Walter Broeckx We know that some people only take a look at the last 30 minutes to decide if you are any good or total rubbish. At Untold we try to be a bit more balanced. We certainly will not say that Giroud is a complete waste of space when he misses a few …
By Tony Attwood Getting older is a bit of a pain, especially when bits of you start going wrong. With me of late it is the eyes – but fortunately all can be fixed with cataract surgery. Thank goodness I live in the 21st century. Except, there is a period after the operation is done, …
Blacksheep and I were lucky enough to go to both the semi final and final at Wembley, so we are back there this year. And we are playing… Bradford or Reading It will be our 28th semi final. and thus far have won 18 and lost 9. 28 is more than any other team. Oh …
By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes compared with the team that beat QPR last Wednesday. Szczesny came in the place of Ospina and Koscielny and Monreal came in the place of Gabriel and Monreal. Oxlade-Chamberlain came in the palce of Rosicky and up front Welbeck came in the place of Giroud. The starting line …
Read More “Fa Cup : Mu – Arsenal 1-2, we are going to Wembley! Again”
By Walter Broeckx Apart from the FA cup matches that have been played up to now there was not much football around. The noisy neighbours went to QPR and won. The ref at the whistle seemingly being blinded when some things happened in the tiny penalty area. Lloris bringing a striker down without a penalty …
By Walter Broeckx The life behind the scenes of Untold is sometimes very funny. After my article that I had written about Wenger I read a comment that said that it was a “Very AKB written article”. I think I will take this as a compliment then. He was first time poster so he can …
By Tony Attwood Paul Scholes has now set himself up as a spokesperson for the “Arsenal is in decline” movement claiming that “Over the years, the big players who were really ambitious – Vieira, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fàbregas, Robin van Persie – have all left, “They left for the simple reason that Arsenal are not in …
Read More “Scholes joins the no-evidence “its true cos I say so” gang.”
By Walter Broeckx From time to time I get interesting mails from people who send me links or extracts to things they have read on the internet. And I am grateful for this because I do tend to stay away from the serious media as much as possible but in order to be able to …
Read More “Arsène Wenger is more than a manager, he is part of the soul of our club”
THE FA Cup Weekend – Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Taking the games in the order in which they are to be played Bradford City FC v Reading FC 12:45 Saturday 6 March – Live BT Sport Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – Michael Mullarkey and Marc Perry Fourth Official – Michael Jones Lee has …
By Jerry Mesut Özil is an amazing player in my opinion that has received unfair criticism from the media since his arrival from Real Madrid last year. The criticism, in my opinion, has been over the top and I have failed to understand why. Is it because of the huge transfer fee, contribution to the …
By Walter Broeckx How strange football can be is something that we see from time to time. Apart from Tony who has seen his quality all these years ago when his vision was much sharper than it was recently most of thought that Coquelin was a lost cause. Coming to Arsenal at the age of …
By.Don McMahon The recent mini-crisis, otherwise known as the media tempest in a teapot or the aaa meltdown or the night of the brain-dead(the aaa national holiday), allowed me and most of humanity to appreciate how dramatic the media and our fickle aaa plastic fanboys can be. The Wenger out chants once again rang through …
Ref for this match was Mike Jones Mr. Jones certainly wasn’t at his best in this match. After two early fouls not much happened till Upson pulled Alexis down with a holding offence around the neck when he could have gone one on one with the last defender in the middle of the goal was …
By Walter Broeckx Before the match some people might have said that we should beat QPR with our fingers in our nose (as the expression is in my mother language). Meaning it should be an easy win. One you don’t have to make any effort, just turn up and you will get the 3 points. …
By Bootoomee I chuckled as I read Tony’s epiphany giving up on engaging the AAA in debates about the running of our beloved Arsenal Football Club. I have always gone with the less conciliatory approach of mocking when necessary because as an avid Internet comments reader and poster, I know for a fact that people who …
Read More “The Lies the Media Fabricate and The Gullible Fans Who Spread Them”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes as one could expect but maybe not the changes one expected. Per Mertesacker comes back in the team in the place of Koscielny and so Gabriel stays in the team. I wonder if it has something to do with the tendonitis that Koscielny has and that maybe makes it …
By Bulldog Drummond So here we are, nine points behind Chelsea with 11 games to play. On the same date in 1998 we were 11 points behind with 12 to play. And just like now, still in the FA Cup. In 1998 we’d had a fairly awful late autumn, winning two and drawing two league …
Read More “All tonight’s results before they happen and QPR v Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx First article on this can be found here In the previous article I looked at how one journalist in the Guardian was arguing that no one should be criticising referees. Continuing to look at that article I have to go to his words on saying that referees are needed just as crossbars …
Read More “1984: it is forbidden to talk about referees. Part 2 – why it is wrong to stay silent”
QPR v Arsenal 4th March 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw With this game so soon after the weekend, I have not been able to update the table of shame so it remains the same as for Sunday. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 15 Red Cards …
Read More “QPR v Arsenal 4/03/15 – The Match Officials. “Pathetic one sided refereeing””
