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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Half-Term Report By Dale Higginbottom What is the point of it all? Why are we here? Well back in August I posed the question, Do Arsenal really get more injuries than anyone else? and out of that asked, “Do we have good reason to …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Fallen Angles & Obsolete Demons By Sammy The Snake Enter the land of doom and gloom. Step in to a world of great expectations. Open your eyes to living in the past. Touch the faded grass, and smell the corpses on the ground. Welcome …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx I can imagine the AAA brigade going wild, and enthusiastic and enjoying the occasion. After having to keep their mouth shut for a while they can let themselves go after our 1-1 against Leeds. Now we all can have some things to say …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood It was while we were standing outside the Auld Triangle mingling with the Leeds fans before the match on saturday that Ian reminded me of the last time we watched Arsenal / Leeds. We were challenging to win the league with three games …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx After giving the more boring numbers in an earlier article relating to the percentage of the ground that is full in each match I now will try to give a somewhat more colourful view on attendances in the EPL during the last 3 …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory As the blog that has always written on the big issues such as finance and corruption before they become popular, it makes sense that Untold Arsenal would be interested in a Commons inquiry into football governance. In particular I often harp on about …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx The first FA cup game and leading the teams out was ref Phil Dowd. How was his game ? OTHER: A Leeds defender comes in with a frontal tackle and blocks the ball with one foot but goes in with the other foot …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After a disappointing result against City despite an excellent performance, all you can really do is shrug your shoulders and go “one of those days”. Some will point to the dropped points as evidence of Arsenal’s frailty and inability to break opponents down, …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 22 By Dale Higginbottom For the second time this week we take a look at the battered, bruised, knackered and broken. Our last league game for a week and a half and the last game in a busy period of league …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the surgeon ref One of our critical readers, and thank God we have many critical readers, didn’t accept right away my view on the penalty incident in our game against City. Fair enough I think it is everyone is right to contest what …
I twit therefore I am @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Stoke’s Losers By Sammy The Snake So Stoke travelled to “Theatre of A Sex Show” to roll over and play dead! I watched the first 45 of the game, and did something I’ve rarely done in my football life: I switched off …
I twit therefore I am @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Looking back I can remember two big stories swirling around during last summer. One of course was Cesc, and his going. The other was that renewals of season tickets had collapsed and that the stadium would be fairly empty this year, …
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Twitter on Arsenal @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx, the untold ref For the coming of Manchester Cattanacio we had ref Mike Jones at the Emirates. So let us try to see how he did the game from a ref point of view. OTHER: A few early decisions, to keep the players …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By DogFace Referee: Mike Jones Assistant 1: Darren Cann Assistant 2: Stephen Child 4th Official: Stuart Attwell Good day stat-fans and welcome again to another article in the famous RefWatch series (as read in the Alpha Centauri system where they [the Gooolagh a tri-sexed silicone based …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory Birmingham away was a great win against a side who’ve caused us trouble over the last few years, and most of the Premier League various difficulties in taking three points since their latest promotion. The stats were certainly interesting reading, our three nil …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – The Festive Review (Gameweeks 19, 20 & 21) By Dale Higginbottom Rather than bombarding you with an injury update every two or three days I’ve waited until the New Year’s Day games were out of the way before having a round-up The …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention you will have seen a couple of extremely insightful pieces on this site over the Christmas period from Walter Broeckx. I’ve put a link to them at the end of this note. As mentioned before, suggesting that …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx The draw at Wigan is still upsetting some Arsenal fans. Wenger is blamed for the changes he made. And in a way of course it is Wenger who is to blame as he made the decision. And some Arsenal fans point at other …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Is losing games the worst thing that can happen to you when you want to win the title? At first sight you might answer this question with : yes. But let us try to analyse this a bit deeper and take a look …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around League Table As We Start Second Half of Season By Sammy The Snake What a wonderful holiday season! Beating Chelsea with such style was a simple joy. The sun was shining bright on Tuesday & Wednesday, but then Thursday morning was a bit cloudy …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the new year’s ref Peter Walton was the ref at Birmingham today. And he was in charge when Stoke finally managed to break Ramsey’s leg last season after letting go too many tackles. Was he up to it today…? OTHER: ….With less than …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood That scoreline is of course shots on target. You might consider goal attempts a better measure. In which case, The Blues 6 Arsenal 18. Either way it was rather jolly – except for two things – the dreadful awful tackle, and what Ferguson …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here A preview by Billy The Dog McGraw Birmingham is a diminutive village famed for being the lowest settlement in the United Kingdom at 170 feet below sea level. The location, home to elves, dwarves and other such creatures, was discovered by chance in 1874 when the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Editorial what-not. The series that we have been running on referees and corruption takes a breather for a moment as we focus on the forthcoming game with Birmingham. The next article in the series will follow in a day or two. Meanwhile we are still on …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Part 2 of our series on refereeing. (If you have not seen the previous article it might be a good idea to have a read through, to see where these statistics are going). By Walter Broeckx, the ref detective When I was doing my ref review …
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