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By Walter Broeckx Despite me saying that I would no longer do reviews the events of the Manchester City match forced me to have a go at this match with the old format we used two seasons ago. For those who are not familiar with the rules: in case of doubt we give the ref …
Read More “A referee review Martin City – Arsenal. An utterly unacceptable referee”
When compared with Mr Wenger at the same point in his north London career, AVB was not doing that badly. By Tony Attwood And so here we are again and again. Arsenal v Bayern Munich in the Champs League and Tottenham sack their manager. We’ll deal with Bayern anon, but let’s just pause and …
By Walter Broeckx At the end of the match it seemed that Mertesacker had an argument with Özil. Apparently Özil didn’t went over to the fans to thank them for their support and this angered Mertesacker big time. No I really wouldn’t want to face an angry Mertesacker. I’m not really that much of a …
Read More “Thanking the fans – the Germans will sort it out.”
By Tony Attwood If you ever take a look at the “Arsenal Anniversaries” section that appears on the home pageof Untold you might have seen that today’s list includes a link to 15 December 1934 and the match which occurred that day. All the details are on the Arsenal History site, so I won’t repeat …
Read More “Today is not eternity (but goodness, life must be tough for the family))”
By Walter Broeckx Individual errors and not taking our chances. That was the difference between the two teams today. For the first goal Koscielny was asleep and he didn’t realise Aguero was behind him. Just before that we got the first real chance of the game but missed it. A sentence I am going to …
Read More “Individual errors, giving it away and not taking our chances”
I am sorry if you tried to comment on this article during much of Saturday morning. There was a fault on the page. It has now been resolved. I’d like to say I fixed it, but in truth I just fiddled around a bit and swore quite a lot. Tony D-Sanchez-Cabello Matters European I …
Manchester City v Arsenal 14 December 2013 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson (3rd time this year) Assistants – S Burt and H Lennard (2nd time for each of them with Atkinson this year) 4th Official – R Madley (first time this year) So a third game by Mr Atkinson …
By Tony Attwood After Mr Henry’s first major pundit role on Sky this week, I wrote about how much I enjoyed his performance. Cool, calm, knowledgeable and, more than anything, much more Mr Arsenal than Tony Adams could ever be, after he left. What we didn’t consider however was what Thierry might do next. …
By Tony Attwood I saw a picture of a Celtic banner at a match recently which said Fuck Uefa. And I felt 100% agreement with that. I saw a commentary in the Guardian newspaper (a liberal left broadsheet which has recently done, in my view, enormous good in revealing the extent to which the US …
Read More “Uefa, Celtic and the Guardian. How are we supposed to express our views?”
. By the Earl of Sidcup . Now I like to think that when Untold does a spot of the previewing for each Arsenal game, we give a bit of a different take on things. And indeed what we used to do also is provide a review of the betting, and then adjust it for …
Read More “The facts you never knew about Man City v Arsenal: a preliminary.”
By Tony Attwood Sky must have thought they had done it all. Starting their coverage of Arsenal over an hour before the game they had a real ace to play – Thierry Henry as a pundit. And indeed he was superb. Calm, clear, speaking in the quality English he now has, he gave insights and …
Read More “Poor Sky dig a hole for themselves in covering Arsenal, and spoil the Thierry effect”
By Walter Broeckx Somehow 11 December is our unlucky date the last years. I will not remind you of what happened last year on this day but I still feel the kick in the **** from that day. A day that celebrates the birth of Arsenal (and not just Arsenal in my personal circle) so …
By Walter Broeckx (Additional material on the referee by Tony) Tonight our referee will be Viktor Kassai. And this is bad. Bad? NO, VERY BAD! It was he who refused to give us a penalty for a foul on Vela when we played at Braga a few seasons ago when it was still 0-0. We …
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closer at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013 : Wrong RED cards decisions a closer look – Nr. 2”
THE REAL ARSENAL LEGEND Don McMahon We have recently been priviledged to see a strange phenomena emerge from the cesspool that is the British media’s approach to Arsenal and Arsene Wenger. That minor ¨miracle¨ I am referring to is the apparent love-in the miscreant media have suddenly espoused as their current cause celebre….Wenger’s evident improvement …
By Walter Broeckx Changing the tune is something that is happening a lot of course. No better place to see it happening than in the football environment. And certainly with Arsenal. Not on Untold one could say. Since Tony started this blog all those years ago we have been celebrating each win, have swallowed each …
Keep Calm… We’re 5 Clear! By Sammy The Snake I woke up to read some of the least savory comments on Untold about our result against Everton, and frankly, I’m less than pleased with some people’s fickle attitude. These people are what I call “sail by the wind Gooners”, but some are simple “disruptive Gooner …
—————– Arsenal books for Christmas at discount prices Sometimes it has to be admitted – football can be very bad for one’s health. For this game I had nerves, not so much nerves about what would happen against Everton, but rather nerves in terms of what might happen thereafter if we lost. The shadow of …
Read More “Nerves, smoke bombs, time wasting, Everton and upcoming games.”
By Tony Attwood PGMO and Arsenal reach an agreement on future refereeing Martinelli and the question of some pretty awful mistakes You can almost hear the cogs inside the brains of the football journalists clacking round as they try to formulate the excuses they have for not predicting Arsenal’s success this season – success achieved …
Read More “If Arsenal win the league this year it won’t count”
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday Arsenal honoured our former chairman Peter Hill-Wood with the unveiling of a bust. Peter Hill-Wood retired last summer because of health problems and since then Sir Chips Keswick is our new chairman. Be it that this function is more a ceremonial function these days as we know that the real powerful …
Arsenal v Everton 08 Dec 2013 – The Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Howard Webb Assistants – M Mullarkey and D Cann Fourth Official – A Taylor So another repeat referee our dearly beloved Howard Webb with his usual crew of Mullarkey and Cann. In his 13 games this year, Mr Webb has had …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton 8 Dec 2013. It’s Webb; can be ok but sometimes rather suspect”
According to those in the know, just four months ago we were desperate. Not enough players. Buy someone. Anyone. So we bought one player. We got one player on a free. One youth player stepped up and showed he was ready. One player showed that the manager’s faith in him for the past few years …
Read More “Surprises are bad for one’s heart, which is why we need the British press.”
By an anonymous statistician Not everything in football is true. Not everything on Untold is true. Shocking I know, but there it is. But inventiveness and creativity is good. Take for example St. Totteringham’s Day (also known as St. Totteridge’s Day) I think is a fun idea. But it is restricted to The Arsenal …
Read More “Saints Days – Does St Totteringham and St Totteridge Need Company?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closer at …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-2013 : Wrong 2nd yellow cards decisions a closer look”
By Tony Attwood On 17 August 2012, Robin Van Persie transferred to Manchester Utd. The fee was £22.5 million, plus £1.5 million if Man U won the Premier League or Champions League title within the duration of the initial contract – which was for four years. So the question was raised: why spend £24m plus a salary of …
Read More “RVP will cost Man U over £16m a year for the next 3 years. Is he worth it?”
