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By Walter Broeckx The hard life of a blogger. After the Arsenal match today I had to go to my own game and so I couldn’t write my usual after-game thoughts. And because of other things I had to do I couldn’t even write my ref preview. So another Untold novelty : the first ref …
By Billy the Dog McGraw Arsenal make the long, long journey to Swansea this weekend. Swansea, as you will of course know, is a diminutive principality situated on an island to the west of Scotland, which is under the control of the Suðurnes (formerly Reykjanes) region of Iceland. [Billy, are you quite sure about …
OH, WHAT A BAD KNIGHT! – by Mal Davies This article concerns the match on Tuesday 5th March 2013 : Manchester United v Real Madrid (1-2, aggregate 2-3) in the champions league. I’m publishing it because although the match was a little while ago, the central point in this post is incredibly important. It reveals either …
Adam Brogden An acquaintance of mine asked me a question some time ago, and this question has had me thinking for quite a while now, not only because of its possible ramifications on the footballing industry, but also because this person earns a living out of the game and has done for the last twenty …
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By Walter Broeckx Next in our series as we will cover each and every team we have Aston Villa. Now before any Aston Villa supporters comes on here and wonder what we are doing reviewing their club I would like it if you would read the other articles on this first to understand what we …
Read More “What’s wrong with the refs in the PL: Case study Aston Villa”
By Tony Attwood It is not that I have anything against The Times newspaper – although its current state is a sad travesty of the paper I used to read many years ago. It is just that their editorial teams is such a bunch of total prats. In fact looking at the Times this week, …
Read More “Have you ever seen a journalist admit he’s got it wrong?”
By Walter Broeckx Let me start by saying that the title of this article is not about how close we came to qualify for the next round. But more on that later. I think our win at Bayern Munich has made a few things clear. And maybe we can put some things to bed now. …
By Walter Broeckx After a long time finally an Arsenal game today. The return leg of the CL game against Bayern Munich. Lots of players are out. At first the bad news came for Bayern Munich with the fact that Schweinsteiger would be out. And then it was confirmed that Ribery also would be out. …
Read More “Bayern – Arsenal, my preview and a new kid in town?”
PART 3 : A team analysis This is a continuation of our series of the way PGMOL is handling the referee crisis. The previous parts are here: Part 1 Part 2 After having pointed out a few of the things that are wrong with the refs in the PL or more particularly with the way …
Read More “Arsenal are 38 points down each season before a ball is kicked”
By Walter Broeckx We have already have seen the first thing that is wrong with the referees in the Premier League, by showing we don’t have enough referees. But it gets worse. Because of some refs not being allowed to do games from certain teams. This could be because the ref has let the PGMOL …
Read More “So what is wrong with the Premier League? – part 2.”
FOOTBALLING SUPERSTITIONS & RITUALS by Don McMahon We all know that superstitions and ¨lucky charms¨ play a significant role in all supporters and players,managers and administrators lives when it comes to pre-game preparations. A number of articles have already been written about such but at the risk of repetition, and in order to lighten the …
Read More “The most bizarre rituals and superstitions in football”
By Walter Broeckx All kinds of things are really wrong in the PL of course. Clubs spending money they didn’t earn or simply don’t have. Wage inflation followed by ticket price inflation. And then we have the referees. Making mistakes on the field. But what will follow is not that much about ref’s mistakes. In …
Read More “Is it right to have referees doing two Premier League games over a weekend?”
by Tony Attwood Sometimes it is difficult to know whether to laugh or cry so probably it is best to do both. At once. Arsenal are planning a “summer swoop” for Swansea captain Ashley Williams, and Saint Germain striker Kevin Gameiro (the latter having “set pulses racing”). (Is your pulse racing? If not, don’t worry …
Read More “Arsenal set to sign. Quick find some more exclamation marks!!”
By Walter Broeckx We all remember what happened after the criminal assaults on Arsenal players. Taylor on Eduardo, that Sunderland man on Diaby, not that kind of boy Shawcross on Ramsey. And there were others like the ones who broke other Arsenal players their legs didn’t even get a red card. Because those great refs …
Match Review: Anthony Taylor – Sunderland Vs Arsenal (0 – 1) [09/02/2013] If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: Read this to fully understand our reviews. Today’s referee is Anthony Taylor MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Anthony Taylor (2013-02-09) Period 1 Min Type From On C/NC Reviewer Comment …
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By Tony Attwood Today is the anniversary of the largest ever crowd at Arsenal, and of course we celebrate that fact on the Arsenal History Society, through the day by day anniversary pages. In such days there were some police on duty, because we had had problems at football matches since the earliest days. (Arsenal’s …
Read More “Police lose appeal over financing coppers near the stadium”
By Walter Broeckx So the media and many of our own fans repeat the mantra about x years and won nothing. If you then ask those people : is it just all about trophies? Do you only love Arsenal when they win? Then most will answer: No, no but I just want us to compete. …
By Walter Broeckx It is fair to say that this was a very educative week on the referee front. And yet I will not go in to any analyses (unless I wander off during this article) on the decisions themselves. No I rather want to talk about how the media has been going on about …
Read More “Ref Cakir: is he a cheat? Or are others cheating the public?”
By Made I. Tup A real war has started it seems. The war to take over Arsenal FC. Our Untold Undercover Team also known as the MI13 has discovered that the £1.5 billion takeover offer is only the start of all events that will bring Arsenal back to the top and beyond. By going where …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal have battled their way to the quarter finals of the Nextgenseries, the competition that is in reality the youth version of the champions league. The round of 16 was played in one game and Arsenal had to travel to the defending champions of last year Inter Milan. Contrary to what we …
Read More “Nextgenseries round of 16 : Inter Milan – Arsenal 0-1”
Win, Lose or Draw. By Martha the Haggis Breeder. I decided to create this article in response to a comment recently posted by an Untold reader which got me thinking about where we actually are leaking the points over the seasons. It’s not really an article, rather more just data as I have created …
On the anniversary of Tottenham’s biggest home defeat to Arsenal we look at how the balance of football in North London has changed. ————————– Glory, Glory Hallelujah…… by Paul Fowler After an incredible Sunday afternoon at ‘The Lane’, and two previous close 5-2 derby game defeats, Tottenham supporters are reported in the media to be …
Permanent Revolution or Eternal Continuity? By Tony Attwood Some fans, it appears, like change. Lots of change. Lots and lots and lots of change. As long as it is the right sort of change, bringing forth trophies and the like. Some like continuity, perhaps seeing the longer term picture. So it goes. Some change of …
Arsenal Day, and the vultures are circling By Tony Attwood It is extraordinary how things come around all at once. Today there are a lot of people asking for Mr Wenger to go, claiming that although he did well at the start, he is not doing well enough now. And yet no matter how you …
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood We don’t mind free speech. In fact we are great admirers and defenders of free speech. We’re all in favour of anyone who can come up with an argument about some things. What we are against is people who think that arguments by their very nature contain abusive …
