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
Why Flamini is abruptly so good at football? By Darsei Canhasi “I am watching him closely” said France manager Didier Deschamps a few days ago, when asked about the inclusion of Mathieu Flamini. These words mean Flamini has a chance to participate in the next year’s world cup. To date, he has only three games …
Dominic Sanchez-Cabello Yes! I know it’s a shit title. Leave me alone. Tonight we play Chelsea at the Emirates and in some ways it is a prelude to the critical November we have coming up. We know that they take this competition seriously and the wealth of a former Soviet Republic lines their bench. But …
Read More “Arsenal – Chelsea: Things Just Ain’t so Dench for Pundits…”
By Tony Attwood You may recall a situation last season when Manchester City (a bit like Wigan before them) were unable to sell their away ticket allocation for a league game, so within the rules of away allocation, they returned the unwanted tickets to Arsenal. Arsenal then moved the barriers separating home and away fans, …
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Stoke. Three totally unbiased refs!”
By Walter Broeckx When I look back at the game at Crystal Palace we should try to look at some things that are not highlighted by the pundits at all. As some of them were far too busy trying to discredit our performance and our win. What they didn’t highlight was that the match after …
Read More “Gnabry, Monreal, Jack, Özil. Hail the heroes from the game at Palace”
The 10 Football commandments – Don McMahon You may know that I have a rather different view of the Beautiful Game from many supporters, regardless of which team they follow. My involvement in football began in 1958 when I got hit in the face by one of the old, all leather, laced footballs while I …
Read More “The 10 Football Commandments for the 21st century”
by Tony Attwood Ah yes, you know you are getting old when you speak of the good old days. But I guess I am still ok as I only talk of the “old days” rather than the Good Old Days. “All the things that have gone,” is ok to talk about without feeling one’s age. …
Read More “Palacial Stats, FA Cup first timers, Everything that has gone, (except sundials)”
By Walter Broeckx Selhurst Park. I must say a name that still brings back some good memories to me. In the year 1979 I was there once for a FA cup game. It was a few days after I had witnessed my first game at Highbury. A game Arsenal lost 0-1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers. The …
Read More “Crystal Palace – Arsenal: A good looking ugly win”
By Tony Attwood It is my habit, these last few years, to leave my seat at the ems as the whistle goes for half time and trot lightly down the stairs in order to queue for a coffee. In case you have never been there I should point out that the queues at the Ems …
Read More “How long does it take to have a drink at half time? (Palace 0 Arsenal 2)”
By Dominic, with a bit by Tony at the end I was saddened to hear that Holloway had left The Eagles earlier this week – I despaired when Pulis was named the bookies favourite to replace him. With odds as low as 2-7, a bet on Pulis would present practically the most depressing weekends gambling …
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was the big friend of Sunderland 6”
Crystal Palace v Arsenal Saturday 26 October The Officials Referee – Chris Foy Assistants – P Kirkup and M Wilkes. 4th Official – M Oliver Chris Foy has done three premiership games this year handing out 11 yellow , but no red cards. He has been in the premier league since 2001/2 (longer …
Read More “Crystal Palace v Arsenal 26 October. See what the ref is going to do before he does it!”
There is a problem with part of the process that ends up with you being able to read (or sometimes not read) Untold. If you are having an intermittent problem with Untold or the History Site and you have the chance to do this, can you email Tony.Attwood@aisa.org with details of which browser you are …
Tax is difficult. Ask Lionel Messi. It is always so difficult to quite what work out what’s required. Or ask Fifa and Uefa who demand that they never pay tax to their host countries during competitions. Not a penny. If the state does not agree, then don’t bother applying. (They don’t even pay to have …
Read More “French football goes on strike. French supporters support the state”
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Any good refs out there for Swansea ?”
By Walter Broeckx When I see the league table, and I do admit I look at it every day, I cannot help it but a big smile comes on my face. It’s always nice to be top of the league. No denying that. Strolling on the internet you get to see all kinds of opinions …
Read More “Are we doing better than last year? A negative or a positive way at looking at it”
What’s wrong with football in England? I guess it is the notion that is at the heart of Greg Dyke’s great idea of a commission that symbolises all that is wrong. It is a commission made up of certain people who have led English football into its current mess. The men (and at the moment …
Read More “Dear Mr Dyke. Throw out the commission and start again”
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was Tottenham’s bogey ref?”
THE SUBTLEST TOUCH By Don McMahon As you may know, if you’ve read any of my pieces on Untold in the past, I’m a retired professional referee whose observations and viewpoints about officiating do not always coincide with what the UA espouses but who also acknowledges that something is not quite right with the PGMOL …
Read More “Referees are increasingly ignoring the laws of the game. One wonders why they are there.”
By Tony Attwood Towards the end of last night’s match it started to rain. And I really mean rain. Rain so heavy and unremitting that one rarely sees in England. Yes it rains in England, but not rain that within minutes swamps your shoes which are designed for dodgy weather, makes your jeans weigh 20 …
By Walter Broeckx The only thing that was really disappointing for me is the final score. Of course there have been a few other things that one can not really be happy about. But that is the way it goes. In a very even match between the two teams and on a moment when we …
By Walter Broeckx So finally the long wait was over last weekend and we had the only real important football team around on the pitch again: The Arsenal. We had a few nervous moments in the last game as Norwich defended rather well at first without really going overboard on the usual kicking part we …
Arsène Who? by Charles Veritie Arsène celebrates his 64th. birthday on 22nd October 2013 and I’d like to offer my personal thanks to Arsène for the great work he has done for the club of my life. I wish him Bon anniversaire, and good wishes from myself and every single person involved with Untold. So by way of …
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and having given the award for the best ref of last season …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Who was a good ref for WBA. (Hint: it wasn’t Probert)”
By Walter Broeckx The games are coming fast for the moment. But that is the toll we have to pay to be in the Champions League. The lot down the road can always rest till Thursday to play their games but those of us in the Champions League we have to be ready sooner. But …
Read More “Picking the Arsenal team for Tuesday is simple…or is it?”
