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 This is a site which considers football from the point of view of supporters who support Arsenal – the club, the manager, the board, the team, the history, the style. So why do we bother with stories concerning the likes of Portsmouth, Birmingham, Aston Villa, Leeds United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Rangers? Because these …
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By Tony Attwood So, what was it actually like, actually being there, at the Emirates, watching a game like Arsenal v Newcastle? It is, as it is most of the time with Arsenal, amusing, jolly, funny, friendly, interesting, warming…. It is in fact exactly the opposite of what you might imagine if you ever …
Read More “19 years above Tottenham, 17 years in the Champs league, and a lot of fun and laughter.”
By Walter Broeckx First thing first: Happy St. Totteringhamsday to all you Gooners out there! We will be back to comment on this fact in later articles of course. But now we will start with the match and the natural order in that. Apart from one time in the second half when Goufran could escape …
Arsenal v Newcastle – 28 April 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Neil Swarbrick Assistants – L Betts & I Hussin Fourth Official – C Pawson A second time this year for Mr Swarbrick, we had him in our away game to Villa in January which we won 2 – …
Read More “Arsenal v Newcastle – 28 April 2014 – The most biased ref of all.”
By Walter Broeckx A few weeks ago I wrote that the FA/PL/PGMOL would do all they could to make it a 3 horse race as long as possible. I think even Steven Gerrard fell for this scenario yesterday. We are not going to let this slip he said a few games ago I have been …
Read More “A very important match against Newcastle; looking for St Totteridge.”
WENGER or WHAT? By Don McMahon Our witless whiners and moody moaners (otherwise known as the AAA) and even some rational denizens of the Arsenal Republic have been and still are crying for Wenger to be replaced with anyone who isn’t available….so what’s new? There are a number of reasons why a new manager …
. By Tony Attwood . One of the original pieces of research that Untold has broken over the years was that which revealed the key to international success in football. The story has since become commonplace, and has oft been repeated in newspapers and on TV, but I’m still proud that it was this site which …
By Walter Broeckx Daydreams…. Usually Untold is not the place to find the daily big transfer rumours that are posted around the internet. And when we do it we usually get it wrong completely. That might be one reason to stay clear of it as much as possible. Even though it would invite clicks and …
Read More “Cesc to Arsenal this summer. Well, there’s a chance…”
. By Tony Attwood . According to comments circulating Friday and Saturday, Arsène Wenger has told Arsenal he will sign a new deal to stay on as manager. After 18 seasons in charge and with the challenge for Champions League spot still on, we now find Arsenal as the only rival to Real Madrid for longevity in …
Read More “Wenger stays, worries about Sagna and Vermaelen, Untold at the Final”
By Tony Attwood With Untold appearing and disappearing like a thing that appears and disappears quite a lot, it is possible that you might have missed one or two of our great insights in recent weeks. As far as I can tell all the articles that should be there, are there, so you can go …
Read More “What will happen over FFP? Looks like we got it right.”
By Tony Attwood Five strikers to solve Arsenal’s supposed problems. As you may know, if you have followed Untold through our difficult times of late, I’m not at all convinced we need another striker. But the fact is that we did make a title charge, once the focus of a flurry of online betting …
By Tony Attwood It is a view propagated by lazy journalists that transfers are just things that clubs do. Dead simple. Arsenal need a new player in the certain position, so they identify the best player out there, and buy him. . It is an interesting and rather amusing approach based on the notion that …
Read More “How Tottenham tried to prevent Arsenal from signing Ozil”
By Walter Broeckx Note: Because of serious cyberattacks on our site we have been off line for a few days. Slowly we are back on track and we will publish articles again. This one is slightly out of date but still very interesting to see what will happen in the future. ———————————– Dean in …
Read More “Watch out Mourinho, Dean is not one to mess with”
By Walter Broeckx While typing this with hesitating fingers it looks as if the site is back in our hands. Finally. I hope it will continue for a longer period this time. In short what happened to us over the last weeks was that we suddenly got under a major attack. Attacks flying in from …
Read More “Are we back in business? Untold Arsenal fights back”
By Tony Attwood Lukasz Fabianski will leave Arsenal in the summer, to pursue the first team football that his recent Arsenal performances deserve. It’s a shame, but that’s how it goes. No team manages to keep two top keepers long-term. He’ll be one of many players to have left in recent years for a wide …
Read More “Why Arsenal should avoid the pressure to drop Fabianski for the FA Cup Final”
By Walter Broeckx As Untold Arsenal is a site that talks about football in general and not only about Arsenal I would like to talk about the cup final in Holland. And there are a few links with Arsenal in this. And with articles written on Untold in the last months. And the Hull – …
Read More “Cup final thoughts: do smoke bombs damage your mental stability?”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of my ramblings on Untold you might recall that a while back I reported that Sport England had decided to cut funding to the FA by £1.6 million a year after participation levels among adult males in England dropped. Now our national press did its regular …
By Tony Attwood Doing research and taking note of the information that is available to you, is part of the job if you are going to comment. Whether you are a manager, a blogger, a pundit or a journalist, knowing a little bit about the game is helpful. As is reading the research that others …
By Walter Broeckx When looking at the way Arsenal filled up Wembley for a very big part I really couldn’t understand the decision from the FA to only give some 25.000 ticket to Arsenal. I don’t know how many tickets will be given to Hull but I can imagine that this will be the same …
By Walter Broeckx The starting line up had a few changes compared to the West Ham United match. Vermaelen had to be withdrawn as he got a hamstring injury shortly before the match. Monreal came in at left back. And as he has been criticized a lot lately I just want to say he had …
Read More “Hull, advertising boards, Poldi brace, Özil back, and some nice football”
By Billy ‘the dog’ McGraw. Head of Security, emirates stadium Much has been made of the fact that the security services that run the Emirates Stadium – our stadium of choice – failed utterly to prevent some Tottenham fans throwing coins and other objects at ambulance men, while also failing to stop supporters of …
By Tony Attwood All goals count. Tap ins, and lobs from inside your own half, they all just count as one goal. Which is why it is always worth considering the total number of goals your centre forward scores. But we also know that it takes a bit of time for newly purchased centre forwards …
Read More “Thierry Henry vs Olivier Giroud. What’s the difference?”
Hull v Arsenal 20 April 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Jonathan Moss Assistants – S Long & J Flynn Fourth Official – K Friend I don’t know; we wait all season for Kevin Friend then get him twice in a week – this time as fourth official. It …
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By Walter Broeckx Despite me not being the tactical wizard that will give you all the pro’s and the con’s of a 4-4-2 compared to a 3-5-2 or a 4-5-1 formation I do like to throw a stone in the water from time to time and give you something to think about. I want to …
By Walter Broeckx The way the media has been trying to give Özil a failure tag is amazing. After Arsenal had stunned the whole world that they had been able to sign him they had to stop the mantra they had been using for the last years: Arsenal (and Wenger of course) doesn’t want to …
Read More “As the Independent name Ozil as one of the worst buys of the year…”
