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 Laurent Koscielny gave us fourth place this year. And a lot more. Before coming to us he played in the third, second and then first division of the French League – the last with our old pals Lorient – before signing on 7 July 2010. He was voted the most effective signing …
By Tony Attwood Don’t get too excited – the change in refereeing in the Premier League from next season is not the one we have been asking for (demanding even) in which we request the number of referees that PGMOL supplies to the Premier League is greatly increased. Such a move would reduce the possibility …
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By Tony Attwood As you may have read Manchester City and the baseball team New York Yankees (who previously had a liaison with Manchester U) have agreed to buy a franchise into Major League Soccer, as the new club, to be known as New York City Football Club will be franchise number 20 in 2015. …
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By Walter Broeckx In Antwerp (my home town) some 30 years ago we had 3 teams in the top division. Antwerp (the oldest club in Belgium), Beerschot (the second club one could say) and Berchem (the small sympathetic club – the one that still is my local club as I lived near the ground that …
Read More “Be careful when a possible new owner promises heaven on earth”
By Tony Attwood What do you want your club to be? Champions of the Football League? Double Winners? Champions of Europe? Yes, undoubtedly. But here’s a question. Does it matter how we go about getting to these heights? Would it matter if our club bribed referees? Would it matter if we ensured that only refs …
Read More “Anfield, White Hart Lane, Emirates. The pesky business of the new stadium.”
Newcastle Sports Direct Franchise XI vs The Arsenal: The match screening event (part 2*) By Drew Gray (AKA @Blacksheep63) It was a rather odd Sunday last weekend, partly because I was heading south for London when Arsenal were playing several hundred miles north, and partly because I was going to the Emirates without Tony. I …
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By Walter Broeckx Some pundits couldn’t understand the rather high level of celebration that could be seen amongst Gooners and Gunners after the final game, with even the manager joining in, in his own laid back way. I do think that had more to do with the fact that they couldn’t believe we did it …
Read More “Onwards and Upwards: what will happen to Arsenal this summer”
By Walter Broeckx With the season over I would love to try to put the season in perspective when looking at the numbers. Where things went wrong and where things went right. What to do to improve for next season and other stuff like that. Our start was rather disastrous, one could say. Just look …
Read More “Who is the right man for the job as Arsenal manager?”
By Tony Attwood . This close season there is an opportunity. An opportunity to buy. Not just because of the new money coming in but also because with virtually every other club losing their manager (Real Mad now confirmed to be the latest) there will be a huge merry-go-round this year. The stability at Arsenal …
Read More “Gonzalo Higuaín, Stevan Jovetić, accents and transfers”
By Tony Attwood One of the regular games that the AAA likes to play is to suggest that because of the perceived failure of Mr Wenger as a manager, and the board of directors, the Emirates will soon be less than full. Now to make this argument work the AAA propagandists have to suggest that …
By Walter Broeckx Sometimes, at the end of the season, there are so many things you want to say. Yet it is sometimes too difficult to start writing at all. Even when we endure the most terrible losses I can usually, after swallowing the painful defeat, put myself behind my computer (actually it is sitting …
By Billy the Dog McGraw It is interesting the conjecture that if King Harold Godwinson had not won the Battle of Stamford Bridge against King Harald Hardrada (a man still known in Newcastle as Haraldr harðráði) and his mate Tostig, then these days the capital of England could be York and we might all be …
By Walter Broeckx Last summer was a bad summer. Well that is kicking in an already open door as they say in my mother language. We lost our top scorer. And we lost our main assist provider. And because of the European championship a few of our players couldn’t join in pre-season from the start. …
Read More “How the defence has improved and the forwards have met the challenge”
By Tony Attwood Chaos rules, we sign the man we want; we don’t want Rooney. That seems to be the order of the day. Everywhere you turn clubs are falling out with their management. Today’s story (that the Brighton manager has been suspended) is not top of the headlines as they are a Championship club, …
Are the Play-offs fair? Adam Brogden. We have had in place a system of achievement in football ever since the very first cavewomen drove her man to kick a rock in anger, and that system is referred to as the pyramid system. OK not from the very start of time, nor the very start of …
by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Howard Webb next. And this is the final article in this series. We have talked about teams and then showed how each team did with each ref. And then we did the ref articles …
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OUR NEIGHBOURS DOWN THE ROAD Don McMahon It will be possible to take this article as an insult and a disloyalty to the Arsenal. It is possible to shrug it off as the ravings of a senile senior citizen. I hope however you will understand the motives behind this opus. What started my train of …
By Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Anthony Taylor next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing you see in the last row. This is for new readers of course. Regular readers can skip this …
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By Tony Attwood If there is a moment that we might one day eventually look back to, as being the time when we achieved a breakthrough in Untold’s constant highlighting of referee problems in the Premier League, it could just be Arsenal v Wigan 14 May 2013. Of course there is nothing so sad as …
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By Walter Broeckx So what do I know? I wrote about bad omens and bad signs. And there the Arsenal proved me wrong. Thanks guys. Don’t mind feeling a bit stupid with my predictions being so wrong. In fact the most important thing I tried to do was try to make us all aware that …
By Billy the Dog McGraw Arsène Wenger has said it would be “sad” if Wigan Athletic are relegated, as they almost certainly will be if we win tonight. A draw hands the advantage over to the Tottenham H team but would still probably not be enough for Wigan. When asked if he saw similarities with …
Read More “Arsenal vs Wigan. A time to stand up and shout a lot.”
By Walter Broeckx Most of the time I am of the more optimistic kind of Gooners one could say. But there are a few reasons why I want to warn you that our game against Wigan will not be an easy ride. If we look at the omens, the calendar and, well, you know, the …
By Tony Attwood There are so many ways to look at Wigan’s cup victory in respect of Arsenal’s game on Tuesday. Here are just a few 1. Wigan’s motivational response is good. They take great heart from their unlikely achievement in winning the FA Cup and from the off play with commitment combined with careful …
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by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average, we have referee Swarbrick next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing you see in the last row. This is for new readers of course. Regular readers can skip this text …
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By Tony Attwood If you keep a regular eye on the blog, TV, radio and newspaper headlines you may have noticed that there is a new game in town – although perhaps game is the wrong word, because the perpetrators of it are hoping that it could tear Arsenal apart in September. Go back a …
Read More “The Anti-Arsenal prepare for a huge assault on the club next season”
