Category: Arsenal stories

By Tony Attwood Well you wait all season for a Tomas Rosicky goal to come along and then you get two in one game, plus a header off his own line. No Theo, No Jack, but the reborn Gervinho and Rosicky and three exceptionally valuable points and, what is it, six wins in the last …

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By Tony Attwood Hands up everyone who remembers the time when every day the press would trumpet the “fact” that Arsenal had “now” had “50” cards under Wenger.  (Obviously substituting a different number every week). If you do then you know your Wengerian history, and you probably know that this was one of the greatest …

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By Tony Attwood I don’t think anyone knows which journalist first called our last stadium “the Highbury library”.  But it became a name that could be used by away supporters, the disenchanted, and the lazy journalists to banter around.  Not because it was true (were you there during the “49”???) but because it, well, rhymed. …

Read More “Manchester Utd bring in acoustic engineer and why the Highbury Library was a myth”

By Billy the Dog McGraw I met with my fellow allotment lover Dennis Bergkamp as the sun rose over the Hackney Swamplands to discuss Arsenal’s injury crisis. As we know Tottenham’s injury to Bale is very minor; he will travel forwards in time for a replacement to whatever parts are considered too fragile, and then …

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By Tony Attwood I do love it when Untold manages to latch onto a story while most (not all but most) of our national media are ignoring it. So it has been with my piece on councils and local authorities illegally supporting football clubs around Europe.  That story ran on Untold on 27 March. Now …

Read More “Football finance about to explode; Real Madrid investigated, PSG in difficulty.”

 By Tony Attwood Speaking out against your current manager, and saying nice things about your former manager, is not necessarily the best thing to do, even if you are on something over £8m a year salary.  There’s bound to be a pesky clause in your contract that says you can’t do that sort of thing. …

Read More “Nasri speaks out, but it still looks like his agent is larking about”

By Tony Attwood There are many things wrong with international football in general, and English international football in particular – but at least one thing has already been put right.   The press don’t expect England to win every Euro, World Cup, and every other tournament that is invented.  In fact these days we are hardly …

Read More “Fifa extends its control to the summer even when there is no world cup”

By Tony Attwood The headline relates to the goal attempts.  No wonder most of us who were able to go, enjoyed the game.  Arsenal 26 attempts Reading 5.  Quite a score.  The possession was 70% to us.  It was rather nice to be there. Except of course for the AAA and their eternal “Wenger Out” …

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By Walter Broeckx As this game was not live on my sports channel I had to open my computer to see the game. I thought why not write down my thoughts as they happened during the game? A new Untold way of covering all that involves Arsenal. 4 mins: Giroud header too straight and too …

Read More “Arsenal – Reading: live as it happened. Oh we won by the way. 4-1”

By Billy the Dog McGraw So we know that we are without Theo Walcott who would insist of travelling with England, silly boy, Abou Diaby, and possibly without Kieran Gibbs who is ill. And we know Lukas Podolski and Bacary Sagna are fit. We also know that so far this season we have scored seven …

Read More “Arsenal v Reading Glasses; everything that won’t happen”

SOMETHINGS EVIL THIS WAY COMES Don McMahon This is an advisory to those faint-of-heart or ultimately sceptical of everything football-related. I might end up being accused of penultimate paranoia spanning everything from the simplest to the most complex issues in modern society, but I’ll take that risk. Growing old has many disadvantages but there is one …

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By Walter Broeckx Sometimes there is news that makes you so sad that it feels as if the bad news is about yourself. This is how I felt when I read on arsenal.com that Abou Diaby will be out for at least 8 to 9 months. The full statement was: “The Club can confirm that …

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  Recent posts Arsenal’s worth almost double that of Chelsea; Man City worth less than Tottenham Endangering the safety of an opponent: “intent” and “but I got the ball” Taxpayers money is going to support clubs in debt So what is wrong in the PL? Refs: Case study QPR The books… Woolwich Arsenal: The club …

Read More “Arsenal’s worth almost double that of Chelsea; Man City worth less than Tottenham”

This is a story that has been around for a few weeks now.  It is not making the headlines, but it certainly could if currently developments in the EU keep moving in the direction that they are moving. John Beech, who writes a wonderful series called Football Management has done a lot on this, and …

Read More “Taxpayers money is going to support clubs in debt”