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 Walter Broeckx I would have loved to start with writing an article about the game from last night where we won in rather pleasant way. Alas, alas, alas… I had to watch the game on a not that good internet stream. I could see most of it but missed the Podolski goal live as …
By Walter Broeckx Ok here I sit. Tony has been snowed in I think and I even don’t know if he will be able to free himself to get to the game. Billy the Dog McGraw has disapeared when the tried to reach the allotment of Dennis Bergkamp so he also is not here. Which …
By Walter Broeckx As a few people were interested in my comments on the refs in previous games when we talked about the refs (and they did gave us plenty to talk about) I will try to add my referee part to the reviews if I can find the time. Otherwise they say I talk …
Read More “Arsenal – West Ham : what can we expect from the ref?”
By Tony Attwood Pep Guardiola as we all know, fooled most people by choosing Germany for his next job. But even with Pep out of the way I suspect Rafael Benítez still doesn’t anticipate staying at Chelsea beyond the end of the season. So Mr Abramovich perhaps is looking for another manager. I wonder who …
Read More “Who wants to work for Chelsea, who would want to come to Arsenal?”
By Adam Brogden Arsenal loyalty through locality and history We seem to be taking a hammering from the media and more disappointingly from ex-players, also fans wanting “like for like” replacements bought in or rather our best players not allowed to leave in the first place. Most of the above has been covered on Untold …
By Tony Attwood It seems there is a fight going on between football authorities and fans, over the use of banners in grounds. Many groups have seen this as a simple fight between fans who want to express their views, and authorities who don’t want these views expressed. It is, although there are side issues …
Read More “Uefa reaches insanity as it contemplates the problem of banners on economic matters”
By Walter Broeckx So let us suppose the board give in to the pressure from some part of the Arsenal fan base and sack the manager today. What is the main criticism I read about Wenger: – He knows nothing about tactics – He will not buy players we need The first one is something …
Today, 19 January, is the anniversary of the birth of Herbert Chapman —————– By Arvind It has been a while since I wrote on Untold. Having moved to a new city for work and resolving to not buy a TV, I have caught maybe 2 or 3 games in the last few months. Rest assured …
By Walter Broeckx I have been banging on this a few times before and will bang on the same nail once again: the nail where I point at the importance of the fans being behind the team from the start of the game till the end. Players have said it enough that if they feel …
Read More “How Arsenal supporters can learn a lot from Chelsea fans”
By Tony Attwood Theo has signed as Mr Wenger said he would, and the noisy anti-Arsenal groupings are protesting, following the lead given them by the national press. But meanwhile what of the Uruguayan, Edinson Cavani, the name mentioned more than most in recent days as a possible transfer. He played for Montevideo from the …
By Walter Broeckx Amidst the daily speculation of Arsenal will buy this player and that player maybe it is time to take a more global look on this transfer market. In our article we counted the players we were linked to and I stopped counting around 35 but have seen at least some 10 more …
By Walter Broeckx Looking back to the Swansea game On a cold freezing night Arsenal brought us warmth. If I would be pretentious I would say that Wenger read our article and the comments last night. I wrote: “Also against MU they played a very decent game. MU played a high pressing game on the …
Read More “Vorm was in vorm, but we’ve got Jack. Reflections on Swansea”
By Walter Broeckx When we look at the last years Arsenal has been hit by a few leg or ankle breaks on the field. A quick summary gives us this Diaby leg break : Sunderland – Arsenal – 01/05/2006 – Ref Dermot Gallagher – career of Diaby since then hampered going from injury to injury. …
Read More “On malevolent Dean Untold Arsenal is leading the way, as media follows years behind”
by Tony Attwood It started at 3.45pm with a drive from Corby to the Sixfields Stadium (home of Northampton Town and one of only two grounds where a stand is named after an Arsenal player). There I picked up Drew, and we drove onto the M1… To be greeted by signs announcing major delays on …
Read More “8 hours 15mins for one freezing goal, but worth it”
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger revealed the following team news ahead of the Swansea City game: And so the long trek south from the Midlands, with the roads frozen (at least where I live) and a very cold night ahead. Commentators will undoubtedly talk about Arsenal fans being fed up with the club hence the …
By Walter Broeckx We all have heard and seen the slogan before. We want our Arsenal back. Even the Chelsea fans started using it the other day after their rich owner sacked the umpteenth manager. And because the new manager isn’t that popular for Chelsea fans they started shouting: “We want our Chelsea back”. In …
By Walter Broeckx Recently in the comment section I warned for some strange things happening. I saw the same person writing comments from the same IP address but using different names and different email addresses. As is the rule on this site and clearly explained we don’t allow this. So when this morning I came …
Read More “The AAA is working their socks off to create more negativity.”
By Tony Attwood For the AAA it is just an excuse, for some it is just plain boring, but for a few of us it continues to be just about the most important issue in football. It is, of course, financial fair play. I mention it yet again today because Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester United and …
Read More “Arsenal, Tottenham, Man U and Liverpool united against Chelsea, Man C, WBA and Fulham”
By Walter Broeckx Lack of time and other obligations prevented me to write an article before this game and it also even prevented me to see the game completely. I had planned to write an article predicting how things could turn with Dean in this game. Even some betting predictions in it. I would have …
By Billy the Dog McGraw It is wonderful how when an article appears under the name “Sir Hardly Anyone” some people still take it seriously. Goodness, any moment now and someone is going to think I’m real too. But enough about the garden shed; the last I heard from Dennis B. was that Olivier Giroud …
Read More “Arsenal v We aint got enough money to buy a ticket”
By Sir Hardly Anyone In one sense it must be easy to write match previews of Arsenal games from an AAA perspective since one can by and large write pretty much the same stuff every time. Better, there is no need to put in any evidence when giving an opinion, nor indeed back up any …
Read More “Arsenal v Man City, from the anti-Arsenal perspective”
By Tony Attwood The story of Rangers has long fascinated Untold, not least because we were one of the first (I can’t really say ‘the first’ since I don’t know who was first) to suggest that big clubs could start to fall to bits for all sorts of reasons. Somehow, in the minds of many …
Read More “Scottish football annoys Rangers, but where else might they play?”
By Tony Attwood Loïc Rémy is a 26 year old striker who plays for Marseilles. Apparently Harry Redknapp went to see the player last weekend with £4m in a brown envelope, but no deal was struck. The press said the £4m was his first year’s salary but we all know that was a euphemism. Marseilles …
By Tony Attwood The notion of a club’s fans booing and jeering their own side, their manager, the board and anyone else locally they don’t like was probably initiated by the fans of Woolwich Arsenal in the 19th century. (For more, see The Crowd at Woowlich Arsenal) It has long since continued at Arsenal, …
Read More “José Mourinho, Villas-Boas, Redknapp, Benitez; who next for Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood . One of the key messages sent out by the little band that runs the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal movement is that the most important thing to do is state opinion as fact, and never back up the claims with evidence. . It is an approach with the Daily Telegraph has taken to heart, …
