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
By Tony Attwood We’ve already had a chat about the ludicrous lists of players that Arsenal are “set to” buy and are on “high alert” about. Pity the poor player who Arsenal is only “monitoring” – you’re nothing – way down the list. These days “monitoring” hardly merits a mention in the press. I bring …
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 this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
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By Tony Attwood When we heard it was Probert who was doing the Arsenal game this weekend there considerable debate within labyrinth of Untold corridors around the simple topic: how should we cover it? If we were a newspaper or at all pompous we’d call it an “editorial conference”. And since we now do pomposity …
Read More “Probert gets his act together, maybe we helped, and dancing after midnight.”
By Walter Broeckx (updated slightly 8.30 BST, Sunday) After we found out that co-leader Liverpool dropped points at Newcastle the pressure was even more on Arsenal to win this game. A win would take us 2 points clear of the team in second whatever the results of the other teams. For the first time we …
Read More “The fastest but incomplete match report : Arsenal – Norwich 4-1”
Dominic Sanchez-Cabello Two defensive mids may be a bit much for today’s game. After all: we’re at home and they are Norwich – what is there to fear? Lee Probert, of course… but unless we have Flamini steal his whistle whilst Arteta distracts him, I don’t see how it helps us. Rest Arteta for Dortmund; …
By Walter Broeckx In another article Andrew has reported a few things about the ref who has been appointed by Mike Riley, head of the PGMOL for the Norwich Arsenal match. But there is more about this ref. The first time we had him on our radar was early in the season 2009-2010. Our away …
It is with utterly overwhelming sadness that I have to report the death of one of Untold Arsenal’s most valued contributors, Adam Brogden. Lydia Cubinakova, Adam’s partner wrote to me earlier this week to tell me that Adam was taken away from us suddenly on Monday night at about 22:15 in a fatal tragic road accident. I have …
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Arsenal v Norwich Saturday 19th October 2013 – The most predictable referee appointment, the most predictable result “One incorrect decision favouring Arsenal, fifteen favouring Norwich” Referee – Lee Probert Assistant Referees – R Ganfield and M Scholes 4th Official – K Hill Lee Probert – Has done four games in the premier league so far …
Read More “Why Arsenal will lose on Saturday: Probert is in charge”
By Tony Attwood On the one hand I want to have an exclusive – or at least beat all the big papers by running the story first. On the other hand I am as nervous as hell that I have got the story before the nationals run it, as that makes me feel that maybe …
Arsenal AGM 17 October 2013 Andrew Crawshaw The Arsenal AGM took place at the Emirates Stadium at 11.30 on Thursday 17th October with some two hundred or so shareholders or their representatives present as well as assorted members of the press and other invitees. I was there representing a shareholder and these are my thoughts …
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 this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : Wigan and the bias of the referees”
By Tony Attwood Jury service prohibits me from attending the AGM of Arsenal this year, which is a shame, for I’ve enjoyed it recently. I’ve enjoyed it in fact for two specific reasons. One for the superb speeches delivered by Arsene Wenger – totally without notes, but organised, coherent, developmental, structured and packed with …
Read More “No Untold at the AGM this year, but at least the press are calming down.”
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 we now are bringing it all together. In the last …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13 : The best ref in the PL was….”
By Tony Attwood The united versions of Arsenal supporters associations have voiced their disapproval at the club’s owner for not meeting with them, as he said he would when he took over the club. And I have a certain sympathy with that. People in positions of power should not make promises they don’t intend to …
Read More “Football Club Owners: distanced, lunatic, weird, profiteers…”
England are just one win away from automatic qualification to the World Cup in Brazil next year but if Hodgson’s men are to finish top of Group H they will have to beat a tough Poland side at Wembley tonight: bit.ly/getmetobrazil Ahead of the starting line-up being announced, it is being rumoured that Arsenal youngster …
* This is the editor’s headline and will only make sense if you recall the original series of Star Trek. If not, you might care to think of this piece under the title “THE EVOLVING GAME – an article partially based on Jason Burt’s essay in The Telegraph” which is how the author describes it. …
By Walter Broeckx Are you also so bored these days? Well then you are not alone. I thought about going to see a local game of football myself and write a report and take some pictures like Tony and Drew do each time there is no Arsenal game to go to. But it started raining …
Read More “The in(ter)-jury(nationals) games from Fifa: boring as usual”
By our man down the pub. So who is it going to be in January? a) no one b) Fernando Llorente c) Saido Berahino d) Karim Benzema “No one” is the preferred option of the AAA who are desperate for Giroud to be injured and then for Arsenal to slip down the league and (they imagine) …
Read More “Arsenal on (red) alert looking to outbid… blah blah blah”
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 we now are bringing it all together. In the last article in …
By Tony Attwood For a while on the administrative front the story has been around that Liam Brady will leave Arsenal. At the time of the announcement of his departure, Ivan Gazidis said, “Liam has a deep understanding of what it takes to discover and develop a talented youngster into someone who can perform at …
Read More “Stillness and Speed. The old boys want to return to Arsenal.”
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 we now bring together the scores from all the refs and we …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: The referee competency league table”
By Tony Attwood The chair of Southampton has joined with Chelsea in launching an attack on Uefa’s Financial Fair Play policy and the Premier League’s own version of the programme. I don’t want to do another FFP article, because the whole situation remains too unclear to make any firm predictions about. But fFor now I …
Read More “Southampton: a new contender knocking at the door?”
Just 180 minutes of football separate England from a place at the Brazil 2014 World Cup but if Roy Hodgson’s side are to stand a chance of qualifying they must beat Montenegro tonight, without any Arsenal stars in the starting XI. As it stands England are just one point ahead of Ukraine and Montenegro in …
By Tony Attwood During the days when every rag bag of anti-Wengerians could raise a banner and get a back page headline in the degenerate press, the notion was simple: anything is better than Wenger, anything is better than Kronke. I am not too sure that feeling is one that holds sway in the realms …
Read More “Concern about finances – how the top teams think”
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. __________________________ For the next and last ref in our series we have ref Roger East. Roger East, born in 1965 and so he is around 48 years …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/13: Roger East. A short term solution”
