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
Untold has been away for quite a while – but we are back again, and each time we come back we tighten our security more and more and more and more and… well you get the idea. During our down time we published Instant judgement is not the best way to view football: we need …
The fifth Global Sports Salaries Survey tells us the answer, and as you almost certainly said, it is Manchester City. The average member of the first team gets by on an income of £5.3m a year. Which explains why Uefa has this week got a bit miffed about the way Man C has responded …
Read More “Who pays players the most? Well, gone on… guess…”
Whisper it quietly and carefully, but it seems as if something is stirring within Uefa and Fifa. This isn’t to say that they are transformed and reformed, and they are still intent on trading with the Slave State of Qatar, but there have been moves. First the banning of Barcelona from making transfers, then the …
Read More “Loan contracts cannot be restrictive. Uefa ups its game.”
By Tony Attwood My perception of noise in the emirates stadium is always a bit biased because I sit in the north bank – the noisiest part of the stadium. But I sit in the upper tier, which traditionally is less vocal, so that bias is reduced a little. What’s more I sit above Red …
Read More “Arsenal v West Ham. Having fun and reclaiming our club for us.”
By Walter Broeckx After having played a long semi final on Saturday evening the main question would be how the legs would react to the fatigue. So it was no real surprise to see a lot of changes in the team. Half the team to be exact. Gibbs wasn’t even on the bench after having …
Another day, another match. Emma, Drew and I have decided to extend our trip to London a little for this one, going first to the British Museum to see the Vikings before taking in the game which should be pleasant indeed, not least because it gives me another chance to bore everyone stupid with my …
Arsenal v West Ham United Tuesday 15 April – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Kevin Friend Assistants – H Lennard and M Wilkes Fourth Official – C Foy Here’s a change a first timer for us this year and with only five games to go in the season. Mr Friend was born …
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By Walter Broeckx As I wrote in my article that you might have read a few days ago if you have been able to enter the site as it has been going on and off line at an amazing rhythm…. Even I don’t know when I will be able to read something, and as for …
If you’ve been trying to access Untold since last saturday you will know that the site has been down more than up. We’ve had a team working on the problems and we’re back – at least for now. But if we vanish again, do keep an eye on us on Twitter, and on the history …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as is well known, has a waiting list for season tickets and silver memberships. It is hard to say exactly how long the season ticket waiting list is, but it is still quite a few years long. The silver membership waiting list is so long that for many red members the …
I am very sorry indeed that Untold has been up and down like… well you know what like. We’re now back up again and I’ll post a piece in a moment. But please accept my apologies. You can’t begin to imagine how frustrating this has been for me. Tony
By Tony Attwood Arsenal Reserves 1 Wigan Athletic 1 (4-2 on pens). We’ve seen Arsenal Reserves labour before against more modest opposition, and of course everyone jumps on the bandwagon, doing the usual stuff about how poor Arsenal is, without actually bringing much in the way of new analysis to the situation. And that situation …
Read More “Fatboy gets angry about not knowing Arsenal Reserves. I get angy over empty seats.”
By Tony Attwood My trip to Wembley starts at noon; I think Walter started at around 4am. One stop in Northampton to meet up with Drew, then we drive to Harrow (or somewhere odd like that) to meet up with Ian and his sons, and then the tube on to Wembley where maybe, if we …
By Walter Broeckx One day to go. One day to go before I will be in London again. One day to go before I lose another virginity. This time it will be about watching a match at Wembley. The second time I lose some kind of virginity this season. The other was just a few …
By Tony Attwood “Many fans will only remember success because that’s the only reason they started supporting them in the first place.” That comment came from Phil Banyard of Nottingham Trent University who has studied the psychological effects of failure among fans. He continued… “It’s not much different to watching the Harlem Globetrotters – you …
FA Cup semi-finals – The match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Saturday 12 April kick off 17:07 Wigan Athletic v Arsenal Referee – Michael Oliver Assistants – Stuart Burt and Darren England Fourth Official – Craig Pawson Reserve Assistant – John Brooks Sunday 13 April kick off 16:07 Hull City v Sheffield United Referee – Andre …
A pre-semi-final ramble over a variety of subjects of minor importance, but which pass the time. By Tony Attwood Arsenal, as you will know if you read the Arsenal History blog, has had five different names in its history. Dial Square (or possibly Dial Square Cricket Club – it’s not clear given there’s no …
Read More “What’s in a name? What’s in a colour? Arsenal’s 27th FA Cup semi.”
By Walter Broeckx This Saturday as you know we will play the semi final of the FA cup. As it is a while ago we went that far in this competition I think we must make our minds up. Will we support the club from now on till the end of the game completely. Or …
OF MICE AND MEN….by Don McMahon Walter…..as a fellow referee and having played at about the same level as you once did, I can state that officials get to see an unrestrained panorama of the football being played, like no player can. I can remember officiating Morocco against our local provincial team in a friendly …
By Walter Broeckx In a way it is strange that in the season that has seen us being top of the league more than any other team that so many fans suddenly have turned desperate. I have no problem in admitting that things haven’t gone well the last weeks. But this is how things go. …
A comment came into Untold a few days back which basically said that all the stuff about the systematic errors by referees which favour some teams and harm others, and all the analysis of injuries and how Arsenal get more on-field contact injuries than others, is all nonsense. The clear fact, it was said in …
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Don McMahon The actions of FIFA against Barcelona and the Spanish FA got me to pondering a delightfully mischievous idea that has been bandied about the blogosphere and Europe since the early 2000’s. What would be the consequences of the following teams breaking away from Fifa and Eufa and …
Read More “For whom the bell tolls: the future prospects for Fifa and Uefa”
By Walter Broeckx Apart from when it comes to refereeing matters I don’t have a really in-depth knowledge about football. If you read my articles I rarely go in to things like formation and tactics. Because as I have said a few days ago even in my playing days I never took notice of them. …
By Tony Attwood On 14 March various newspapers carried the story that Arsène Wenger had ordered an internal enquiry into why Arsenal have suffered such a disproportionately high number of injuries to the first team squad. Nothing more was heard of this until last Friday when several papers carried reports on a further interview with Mr …
Read More “The question no journalist asked at the press conference.”
By Tony Attwood Just when I thought that we had done with the issue of Tottenham and their stadium, thinking that any minute now the massive presence of Eric Pickles would shake the world about and give permission for the compulsory purchase of parts of the High Road so the development of the new stadium …
Read More “Tottenham on tour: the stadium mystery deepens again”
