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
The story of Arsenal v Hull in recent years is one of the strangest tales that there is in football, full of wild and crazed accusations (none of which stand up in court). Such stories reveal behind them the tale of a man ill-at-ease with his work, and a club which at the time were …
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Arsenal v Hull – 04 December 2013 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – G Beswick & M Scholes Fourth Official – L Probert Mr Marriner is 42 years old, has been a Premier referee since 2005 when he officiated the Charlton v Norwich game. He has been FIFA …
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By Walter Broeckx Some people now claim the fact that it was their pressure that made Wenger buy Özil. Now I don’t know if there are any people out there to pressure Wenger in to anything at all. It doesn’t seem that Wenger is a person who is easily put under pressure to do something …
Read More “The last 38 matches in the PL: which team is the best?”
By Tony Attwood I’ve been so excited by reading the league table I’ve almost forgotten that the transfer window opens in four weeks. But that ignorance has been shattered by the “news” (I use the word lightly) that we are going to get Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata on a six month loan deal. Of …
How the top teams compare with last season By Walter Broeckx Games are coming fast for the moment so I will type a bit faster to make sure we get this ready before the next Arsenal match. Let us have a look at the results of the weekend and what they mean for Arsenal. I’ve …
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Sometimes you just can’t let it go by Bootoome I am not the biggest fan of Mondays. I don’t hate them but Friday and Saturday are my favourite days of the week. While I’ll just get on with it at the dawn of most Monday mornings, I hate that sinking feeling that I get on …
~By Tony Attwood It is the Independent newspaper that put me on the trail of this article. They say today… “Only three Premier League clubs (Newcastle in 1995-96, Chelsea and Liverpool in 2008-09) have made better starts than Arsenal this season, and not won the league.” They also add “Only twice in the last 10 …
Read More “Despite of or because of all that happened in the summer, can Arsenal win the league?”
By Tony Attwood On 1 October 1996: Arsene Wenger officially took up duties, and within minutes confronted and defeated a baying horde of journalists gathered on the steps of Highbury, daring them to announce “the story”. The journalists backed down, but supporters of Man U and other clubs developed the story into the most disgusting …
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By Walter Broeckx After the last European game we had two different views on how attending a game at the Emirates is being experienced. Drew who sits down is in fact standing up most of the time. And I do admit on the rare occasions when I have gone to see my own local team over here …
Who Took The Worse Penalty This Week: Giroud or Özil? By Bootoomee Two penalties were taken. Both were taken in the same way except Giroud placed it to the right while Özil went left. Both were low placement kicks with Özil’s being farther to the left than Giroud’s was to the right. Both tried to …
By Walter Broeckx Oh sometimes you can’t wait to write your article about the match and then you find other things on your path so you have to wait a bit. A bit too long. Certainly after a match like this. A match that even before the game was started was all about Aaron Ramsey. …
A philosophical analysis by the Untold Department of Certain Things The inevitable recap from the start of the season Goalkeeper – we must buy one – this is a major problem Bringing back Flamini shows how useless Arsenal’s management is. We need to buy not scrabble around with the free transfers Mertesacker is simply not …
Cardiff v Arsenal – 30 November 2013 – The Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – L Betts & M McDonnough 4th Official – R East I’m beginning to get bored this year with the repetition of referees for our games – this is the fourth time for a repeat …
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Way way back on October 12 last year Untold ran the story that Greater Manchester Police officers had apprehended Dean Mohareb, the national referee development manager of the FA. This followed a complaint by Janie Frampton the former national referee manager for education and training, who was dismissed from her FA post for professional misconduct earlier …
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By Tony Attwood I’m in London through most of today (Thursday), and not able to do any editing of Untold, so this article and (if it appeared when it should) the previous one by Blacksheep, have been set up to publish automatically at set times. If this one hasn’t appeared you won’t be reading it …
By Walter Broeckx Most of the times writing articles for Untold is fun. I also have found much joy in the referee revciews we have done. I can say it is something that I once started all those years ago and that has grown in to what you can see over here on this site …
We have published a number of comments about Qatar of late. This was sent to me, with the aim of correcting certain misunderstandings. ——————- I was originally commenting on your latest FIFA article. I got caught up on the keyboard writing a much longer comment than I had set my mind too, I could write …
By Walter Broeckx I know in Belgium they make a lot of fuss about the fact that Vermaelen isn’t able to get in to the Arsenal team this season. And they say it might ruin his chances for the Belgium national team. Now to be honest I don’t give a fuck about that national team. …
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By Tony Attwood We’ve often noted here that whether one supports Tottenham or Arsenal is often just a matter of chance. For me, my parents and both sets of grandparents were Arsenal fans, my dad went regularly and my grandfather was at Highbury in the earliest days. making the journey from the family home in Stoke …
By Walter Broeckx What a start of the game that was. We got the ball tried to do a spud start by almost losing the ball too easy, then slapped ourselves in the face, shouted: wake up and that is exactly what we did. Within seconds Sagna released Wilshere on the right flank and after …
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By D-Sanchez Cabello; with additional reporting from the Untold team lurking in the club carpark. In our last article Walter explained each of the nine possible outcomes of tonight’s two group games. Now we’re at it again trying to find out who’s going to play – and that’s not so easy either… Carlsberg is the …
Read More “Marseille playing at squad rotation, for Arsenal a win takes us almost there.”
By Walter Broeckx What might happen in the Group of death. Standing now after 4 matches: Arsenal 9 Napoli 9 Dortmund 6 Marseille 0 Let us first look at the Arsenal win scenarios: Arsenal win + Napoli wins Arsenal 12 Napoli 12 Dortmund 6 Marseille 0 Arsenal and Napoli are qualified but have to decide …
Read More “The Champions League group of death, possible scenarios, all the outcomes.”
DISNEYWORLD AND FOOTBALL – by Don McMahon Many football aficionados are mystified about Qatar and how it ¨won¨ the 2022 WC bidding, as well as FIFA’s seemingly incestuous relationship with these people. Having lived and worked in the Middle East, I know a little about how the social and economic dicta are applied there: 1) …
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By Walter Broeckx We are at this moment in time around about 1/3 of the season. I know that if you look at the maths thing it isn’t correct but if you do your maths then you will also know that next week we will be over 1/3 of the season. It is difficult to …
Read More “A round up of the weekend; the joy, the utter disgrace”
By Sammy the Snake Yesterday we tried to take a broader view of Tottenham’s defeat to Man C, comparing it with Arsenal’s 8-2 debacle against Man U two years back. That’s one way of looking at it. One commentator gave us an alternative vision, saying that Arsenal were stagnating and that Tottenham were reforming, and so …
