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 Dr Billy “The Dog” McGraw Senior Psychologist, Hospital of the North Circular Road, Enfield. So, my friends, were you sitting in row 15 last night in the lower tier of the north bank? Just behind the goal. Did you spend the whole evening saying, in a monotone, “Spend some fucking money”? In between saying …
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By Walter Broeckx So Arsenal have done the job in a very professional way. Winning both legs and keeping the qualifying record at 100% wins. That alone is a rather impressive fact I would say. As a result Uefa will be a bit relieved that they don’t have to put everything upside down if the …
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Dominic Sanchez-Cabello This game really doesn’t matter anymore. We’re 3-0 up, they don’t seem to care and if the worst happens there is a hearing anyway. Bearing that in mind, I was half tempted to write you a match preview for St Stephen’s Borough against the Old Enemy Plymstock A.F.C instead. I had it planned: …
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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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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By Walter Broeckx After almost two complete match days in the PL (one game missing and that is Manchester United – Chelsea) and with the last week of the transfer market finally upon us I want to make a quick update on the state of affairs in the PL. Let us start with Arsenal of …
Read More “What influence results more: spending the money early or refereeing?”
What it’s all about (an explanation by Tony) Drew and I are season ticket holders at the Ems and travel together to home games from Northants. During our many hours of discussion and debate we’ve often talked about the other teams we’ve watched during times of our lives when we were unable to make it …
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By Tony Attwood “Look, we lost one game since the beginning of March. That’s why it was a shock. But we won in the Champions League at Bayern Munich. We won at Fenerbahce. It is just like that at the moment. The media in general has brainwashed a little bit the Emirates…. “But being responsible …
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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How to deal with the refs Each day the Arsenal History Society site puts up an article about an Arsenal player or Arsenal event that has an anniversary on the day in question. Today was the turn of Jérémie Aliadière to come under the microscope, and in preparing the piece I was reminded of the …
By Walter Broeckx On a very very busy day for me between our annual course as a ref and a training session added to it, then rushing home to see the Arsenal game at Fulham before having just one hour before I go to my match… And it is a rather special match. For the …
By Tony Attwood They came to the Ems for the Ems Cup, and made it utterly clear that the notion of how to cope with “one point for a goal” was completely beyond them. Three was it – the maximum. Beyond that their maths could not cope as the entire commentary team degenerated into giggles …
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Dominic Sanchez-Cabello So, we looked good in Istanbul, Chelsea were lucky at The Bridge and some bloke called Gareth is to be sold for 90 million. The man is called Gareth for heaven’s sake! Onwards to Fulham: Craven Cottage is one of the trickier places to go and in recent times has been the setting …
Read More “A trip down the River, a game at the Cottage, a pm in the pub”
Why are agents still pushing their players into Spain? Why are British clubs still selling players to Spain when they must know (even if it is via prickles in the back of the neck) that there is every chance of several Spanish clubs going into administration or liquidation this year. And that as a result …
By Tony Attwood Right. You are Arsenal manager or CEO or whatever. You are in charge of transfers. What do you do? Tell everyone who you are signing or stay quiet? The former has a problem because if the deal doesn’t go through because the selling club won’t sell, it makes you look silly. So …
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By Walter Broeckx After the first match review that was more based on the in my opinion fairly unbiased performance of the ref I will now give my thoughts on the game and the players. If some fans were visibly struck by our defeat last Saturday the team surely didn’t look affected that …
Read More “A fine display of team work and work ethics, more of this please”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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By Tony Attwood Encouraging win against Manchester City in the final friendly, terrible game for the opener against a bent or incompetent referee, and then a good win away in Europe. What does that say about Arsenal? Whatever you want, of course. If we lose we can be rubbish, if we win we can be …
So it is all to happen in the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium,in Kadıköy district, Istanbul. A stadium that was built in 1908 (so it is even two years older than Very Old Trafford) and holds 50,500. We shouldn’t really be there, since the UEFA Emergency Panel has already decided once to replace Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü with …
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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4 THINGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN AT THE END OF THIS EPL SEASON (2013/2014) Abu mansur Arsene Wenger finally gives up-after eight years without a trophy and a woeful start to the season, the immense pressure from the fans and media might be responsible for this being Wenger’s last season in charge of Arsenal. I feel …
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Football Transfer Economics By Pete Reading the ever more acrimonious debates over Arsenal’s summer transfer dealings (or lack of) has got me thinking a little more deeply over how the transfer market works – and whether the different participants are behaving optimally in a rational sense. To whit, I believe the following factors in terms …
Consolation in defeat: or how to keep calm when all seems lost It has been a difficult weekend so far. On weekend days off from working at the Gillespie Road University I attend each and every home game at Ashburnham Grove with my fellow doctors of philosophy. I admit that trying to make sense of …
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By Dr Billy McGraw, Fellow of the Institute of Certain Things and Resident Psychologist at the North Circular Road Hospital, Southgate with special responsibility for football fans who want the club they claim to love to fail. “The human race, to which a number of my patients belong, has been playing children’s games from the …
By Tony Attwood If you are going to the Emirates today I do hope you’ll either buy a programme or look over the shoulder of the guy next to you at his programme, because after one year’s break, Arsenal History Society has its own page in the programme once again. This season, instead of doing …
Read More “Don’t forget the programme, and the new AISA revelations”
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. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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