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By Walter Broeckx We are under way after a delay of some 15 minutes because of some underground disturbance. This will have its affect on this article as you will be invited to update it in the comment section once it is published. This is because of the delay I cannot see the final minutes …
Read More “Arsenal – Southampton, the now completed incomplete match report”
Arsenal v Southampton – 23 November The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Mark Clattenberg Assistants – S Beck, A Holmes Fourth Official – A D’Urso A game between First and Third in the league, and also between the two teams least favoured by all of the referees. Second time this year for …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: how will ref Clattenberg treat to the Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood The media is talking positively about Arsenal and the Untold Editorial Board is in total panic. This weekend is of course THE BIG ONE. 50 years since the launch of Doctor Who! (OK, so I got thrown out of the editorial meeting this morning for bringing that up, largely on the basis …
Read More “Injuries diminish, media talk positively, something’s not right.”
By Walter Broeckx Look who’s talking. Joseph Blatter the big boss of the organisation that is out there in order to make as much money as possible out of football, uses all means including overloading players as much as possible with meaningless games on every occasion, (also known as Fifa) has spoken. He has said …
There is something a little strange going on at Arsenal in terms of the youth and reserves. I’m writing this, not because I fully understand what is happening, but because I am hoping that you will be able to fill in the gaps in my knowledge (not for the first time). In the Uefa Youth …
Read More “What’s the point of going on loan – is this the end of youth policy?”
By Walter Broeckx For years I have been wondering what it takes to become a pundit. Now maybe I am myself not the smartest person around but I think that I have finally found the answer to it. What makes you suited to become a person is to have the most simple world image possible. …
Read More “Pundits and their simple world image; Per Mertesacker and his total brilliance.”
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 …
By Tony Attwood Hush, don’t say it too loud, but articles have begun to appear saying that there is something wrong with the Premier League. And this is utterly remarkable. First off, a few years ago, the English press stopped suggesting that England were going to win international competitions – and indeed would if it …
Read More “Apathy, frustration and vitriol spread across the league”
By Walter Broeckx Earlier this week the news came out. Bad news. Well for Tony probably. Because from now on he will be certain that he will be called a racist whenever he doesn’t spell the name correctly of what seems will be our goalkeeper for the next few years and beyond. Wojciech Szczesny has …
Read More “Szczesny: signs new contract, spelling checkers go crazy, Tony becomes desperate…”
Untold doesn’t do international matches, except to decry them as being a source of pain as already injured players are used by national managers and thus injured even more. Oh, and we have done our article (9 June 2010) – now oft copied from by the national press and others, but with Untold rarely cited …
Read More “On the eve of the internationals it is time to ask, “Who needs nations?””
What is the role of the football fan? There’s only one Baron Davis! By Ian Jenkinson. @Gooneriano As you may have read in Walter’s article on the Dortmund match, I too was very lucky to be in attendance at the game with two friends. I was looked after by some very good people with the …
Read More “What is the role of the football fan? The view of a superstar…”
By Walter Broeckx A quick round up of the fortunes and misfortunes of Arsenal players when taken away from our club to their respective countries. We are half way through the international games and so far no real disaster has happened to an Arsenal player, when we look at it from an Arsenal point of …
Read More “Internationals: Nail biting times for Arsenal supporters, plus a visit to Venus”
By Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 I looked at which referees delivered unbiased refereeing based on a series of criteria I defined. I noted that nearly 1 game in five met the criteria for unbiased refereeing or to put it the other way 4 out of 5 games didn’t – which is not a very …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx While doing my round of the internet I stumbled in to an interesting table. It was a table that was showing how many players that were more or less raised at the club on average play for that club. They called it club trained players. And a club trained player was a …
Read More “Arsenal top of the league: project youth at work”
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 …
by Don McMahon There is no mystery to our ¨sudden¨ solidity and cohesive team spirit which, in my humble opinion, dates from last January and therefore isn’t so novel: 1)Our Germans have a long tradition of loyalty and sacrifice for their comrades. The Wehrmacht’s slogan during the war, despite their horrible reputation, was …
By Walter Broeckx Amazing things happening in the world of football these days. Of course we at Untold have been writing for years about strange things in football. Strange things in referee land. About gambling. About match fixing. About money laundering. About dodgy transfer dealings that could be connected with money laundering. We have …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx When reading arsenal.com today I found this article to be very interesting. http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-team-spirit-is-massive-now I will quote parts of it in the article for those who don’t want to click on the link (and if you do make sure you return) and give my thoughts on what Jack has said. …
Read More “Wilshere explaines the most important reason of our good results this calender year”
By Walter Broeckx Of course we cannot really blame the countries that have to play for a place in the Fick Fufa world cup for having to play the games they have to play. This will mean that the 3 French Arsenal players will have two big games to play in the next …
Read More “All Arsenal players injured and out or will be soon”
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 …
By Andrew Crawshaw What constitutes unbiased refereeing? A simple question, the answer depends to a large degree on one’s viewpoint. To me the answer comes in three parts. 1- Games where the referee made no mistakes – and yes there were some last year. 2 – Games where there were so few referee mistakes that …
Read More “Unbiased refereeing in 2012/13 – Part 1 the Referees”
By Walter Broeckx Last week I went to see the match between the U19 from Dortmund and Arsenal played a few hours before the real CL match between both teams. Now I’m not going to pretend to have more knowledge about the youth players than anyone else for this. I was lucky to had …
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 …
