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
Arsenal v Swansea 25 March 2014 – The Match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Probert Assistants – R Ganfield and I Hussin Fourth Official – R East After one FIFA accredited referee demonstrated on Saturday that he doesn’t know the rules of the game nor is he able even to recognise the players involved …
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By Walter Broeckx For a few seasons now it has become a normal sight that we see referees with mics wired up with each other to communicate with each other. It is only there for the top leagues of course. Usually lower league referees don’t use it or have it because of the obvious costs …
Read More “What good is it when they still can’t get it right?”
By Walter Broeckx In our article about the broken legs some people doubted our numbers. First they said that the Fabregas broken leg happened against Barcelona. I would advise you to have a look at the match that just preceded the Barcelona match. On March 27, 2010 Arsenal played Birmingham. And in that match Fabregas …
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By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 we continue to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Now we come to …
Read More “The Untold Injury Records 8: how to hurt a player and not get a card”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6, we now are going to have a further look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Next we will have a …
Read More “The Untold Injury records – 7. When legs are broken.”
Editorial note: I can’t get in touch with Dom at the moment re his normal pre-match article, so I’m putting my jottings up. Hopefully Dom will be along in a moment – Tony Chelsea v Arsenal hasn’t exactly been lost under the excitement of the 1000 games, but a lot of the focus has been …
By Walter Broeckx Of course Untold Arsenal is more than happy with the fact that Arsène Wenger will putting his team on the field for the 1000th time in his Arsenal career. I think nobody who knows Untold Arsenal will have any doubt about that. And we have already published a few articles about this …
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Chelsea v Arsenal 22 March 2014 – The Match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – S Ledger and M Perry Fourth Official – A Taylor Third time this year with Mr Marriner following our home wins v Hull (4 Dec – 2-0) and v Sunderland (22 Feb – 4-1). Whilst Mssrs. …
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By Tony Attwood Back in January Untold ran the story of how Tottenham are using the EBay comapny StubHub to sell on tickets in the way that Arsenal runs its own Ticket Exchange. The two approaches are similar, except that StubHub allows people to inflate ticket prices and charge whatever they think they can get …
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Millennium Tribute to Arsene Wenger By: Bootoomee I have very little interest in celebrating milestones. General ones like the New Year are particularly unworthy of celebrating in my opinion. It is just another day. I call my birthdays my own New Year and while I take stock of happenings in the last calendar year, I …
By Billy McGraw With Arsène Wenger approaching 1000 games as manager, as I write this piece, I wondered what the odds might have been if one had predicted that he would reach that amazing number when he first signed up for the club as manager, and the press wrote their infamous Arsène Who? commentaries, (and …
Read More “An absolute certainty for the rest of Arsène’s career”
By Ian Jenkinson @Gooneriano One of the last articles I had written, So Far So Good, But Why?, was in September. We had only played 5 league games, two Champions League qualifiers, and an away Champions League group game at Marseille. Life was good, we sat top of the Premier League, top of our Champions …
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 we now are going to have a look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Now as I have said before we have some …
By Walter Broeckx This part of the injury series could be written from the injury view but also is standing in a very strong relation with the constant anti-Arsenal bashing and anti-Wenger bashing from the media. In the light of the hamstring injury that Mesut Özil suffered early in the match against Bayern the media …
Read More “The Untold Injury records – Part 5.2: Bashing Özil Bashing Wenger”
By Tony Attwood Another week, another set of revelations about how utterly corrupt the racist homophobic organisation known as Fifa is. This time we have been shown how bent the bidding process for the Qatar world cup was – as if we hadn’t guessed. Now there is a lot of hand wringing going on, which …
Read More “Fifa: the con artists whose victims just love to be conned”
By Algi Fitzgibbon. Head of Certain Things, Untold Arsenal. As expected Aarson Ramsey’s contract extension has been announced, and he has signed a new deal along with Santi Cazorla and Gedion Zelalem. And Abou Diaby got in on the act saying that he could be playing again before the end of the season, adding in …
Read More “The new contracts, Diaby, and why winning in the high road matters more”
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL…..Don McMahon We all love our teams and clubs with a passion that rivals our other emotional relationships and often drives us to distraction. It often reaches a level of partisanship and tribalism that exceeds the bounds of rational human behaviour….but that, it appears, is what being a supporter is …
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 we now are going to have a look at the non contact injuries. Now the interesting thing is that this could shed some light on the way Arsenal do with injury management. As for the contact injuries …
Read More “Non-contact injuries at Arsenal; we are not top of that league.”
A million apologies for the down time overnight and this morning (UK time). We are (as you can see) back up now. A new post will appear shortly. Deepest thanks to Anne and Dee who worked to fix this problem. Tony
By Walter Broeckx The day after the North London derby can be a great day. As it is today. But we all have to look back just over more than one year to know how miserable it can be. I must say that I was a bit baffled by the fact that it was our …
By Tony Attwood There is a section in the Observer newspaper (a Sunday broadsheet published in London) called Said and Done in which the ludicrous things that are said within the world of football are contrasted with what actually occurs. It could be very good – indeed lots of other journalists give it awards for …
By Walter Broeckx If Wenger said before the match: ‘catch them cold’ it worked. What a wonderful way to start the North London derby. Hardly one minute played and Rosicky played the ball in to the path of Oxlade-Chamberlain who controlled it half and then the ball came back to Rosicky who did this time …
Read More “Arsenal score hattrick over the Totts : One nil to the Arsenal”
Untold Injury Analysis part 4. By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 of the series on injuries in the Premier League we now are going to dig a bit deeper in the numbers we found in that part 3. We now are going to try to show how …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham: the most abused teams in the league.”
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction to our survey of Arsenal injuries and the next part where we looked at the total number of injuries per club we now are going to try to find out if Arsenal suffered more contact injuries than the other teams. To find out we tried to look at each …
By Tony Attwood Imagine this scenario. A big business takes over a little club – or even two little clubs which it merges (against the fans’ wishes). Two clubs playing in leagues so far down the pyramid that 99.999% of football fans wouldn’t know the names of the leagues, let alone the names of clubs …
Read More “The new route to market as the German system starts to crack”
