Talking with hindsight: the curse of the supporter who always knows better

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. And with sad I mean the fact that we lost on Saturday and Tuesday in games that we shouldn’t have lost. And with funny I mean the fact that this Arsenal is not only …

An Untold idea making its way into football

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Is football going to change in the near future? If it depends on the European Club Association it will. The ECA is an organisation from the biggest clubs in Europe and Arsenal is a member of this organisation as are most of the …

The Untold ref review: Cobblestone Braga-Arsenal

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx The ref for this game in the stone pit of Braga was from Hungary. His name was Viktor Kassai. And when you pronounce his name in my local tongue you can translate this in to a cobblestone. So was the ref rock solid? …

Would you like your own regular column on Untold Arsenal?

by Tony Attwood Maybe its because I am getting old.  Maybe its because my nature these days is to see the pot half full not half empty.  Maybe it is just because I find it utterly laughable to read the comments about how Wenger has lost it when we are two points off the top …

Away to the Stone Pit: tonight’s team and news from Chelsea

By Tony Attwood There are no secrets in football any more.  Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin are having a little break from the rigours, and Gaël Clichy has hurt his back – everyone knows.  Henri Lansbury has gone on a short term loan to Norwich (a small island just off the western coast of …

Braga and the stone-pit: rock climbing in foreign parts

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx Time to look forward to a visit to Os Arsenalistas as they are called in Portugal or Braga as we and most of the world know them. I’m not going to take over from Billy the Dog or from Phil who can do …

Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 14; Totts beat us on injuries

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 14 By Dale Higginbottom In the cold sobriety of an equally cold Monday after a two-day football hangover I can’t help but feel still a little unsure and unstable as I write this. The first home defeat to the Tiny Totts …

The untold ref review : Arsenal –

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx, the SM ref Sometimes I love doing the refs reviews. And sometimes I hate it. But if a dirty jobs needs to be done, someone has to do it. So I try to switch off my Arsenal heart and try to switch my …

The lost weekend: a retrospective

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The Lost Weekend Directed by                            Arsene Wenger Produced by                          Arsenal Football Players Screenplay by                       Everygooner Story by                                 Don Birnam Starring                                Ray Milland & Jane Wyman Running time                        95 Minutes Release date                         November 20th 2010 By Paul Fowler I sit and …

Arsenal – Fifa 2-3

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Walter Broeckx We all could see that Arsenal was totally in control of the game against Tottenham in the first half. And then we ran out of steam as it was visible that some players were struggling to keep up the pace. Did the international games …

Arsenal v the Tinies. The tricks, the tally, those terrified turns as traumatised Totts troop tunnelwards.

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ———————————————- by Phil Gregory Tottenham head to the Emirates on Saturday for a game that has more than a few sub-plots to it. Struggling somewhat in the league off the back of their Champions League commitments, Spurs are in a position where they need to get …

RefWatch – Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur. It’s Phil Dowd; see what we can expect.

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ——————— RefWatch – Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur (20/11/2010 12:45) By DogFace Referee:           Phil Dowd Assistant 1:     Darren Cann Assistant 2:     Simon Long 4th Official:      Andre Marriner Just a quick one today I’m afraid… so apologies, it’s been a busy week! Phil Dowd, in my opinion, is …

Coming up: six Arsenal games in 18 days. Just bring it on

By Walter Broeckx After the midweek internationals (stupid as they were friendly internationals) we get back to the real thing. Arsenal and football. At first sight not many players have come back in pieces it seems. So that is some good news. No, change that into real good news. The only concern looks to be …

Ten things that Wenger should consider: a personal opinion

Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ————————– Akhil Nair I am a gooner from India.  I really like your posts and thought of sharing my personal views to you and to our readers. In our country it is said that cricket is religion and every single person has his or her …

The untold ref review review: a comparison of all the refs we have had this season

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx So here we are after about 1/3 of the season in the EPL and maybe a good time, with the (f*****g) international break this week to take a look at how the refs have done so far. To start with I give you …

One third of the season gone, and Arsenal prepare to win everything

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood Where are we?   We have the usual crop of injuries but thus far we cope – and we are coping far better than before.  Cesc running on half throttle, Vermaelen not running at all, Van Persie out for virtually the whole season and …

Brainless Fifa, but vote for Samir anyway

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx Once upon a time there was an organisation of brainless people. And as it went in those days those people organised themselves. After all, why not. As any organisation they had to give themselves a name but deciding which name is very difficult. …

Football stumbles towards financial insanity

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood I have bored you stiff many times before saying that this is the moment when football collapses under the weight of its own financial stupidity. Yes, I hear you shout, but when?  And who?   “Where’s the evidence?” you call (and I know you …

“Arsenal don’t like it up em.” But are you sure we are bottom of the fair play league?

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Mr P Neville, a footballer, has been reported in the UK press as saying that  Everton’s game plan was to get a trifle rough with Arsenal on Sunday.   He also said the strategy had worked in the past but didn’t …

Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 13

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 13 By Dale Higginbottom Gameweek thirteen, unlucky for some but how lucky or unlucky have the injuries been on the top teams here’s this weeks round-up. Everton Vs Arsenal Arsenal (5 injuries) Goalkeeper – Almunia (7) Defence – Vermaelen (10), Midfield …

The Untold ref review: Everton – Arsenal

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref, not the world cup ref. So for the first time this season we had the honour to have a game from the ref that has done the Champions league and the world cup final. Did he perform at this level? …

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood These are difficult times for the anti-Arsenal alliance of mobsters whose single aim is to bring down the Lord Wenger and the club he built from the mould ridden ruins of the of the Bruce Rioch year. According to the anti-Arsenal we are …

The world put to rights, Caramalised Molasses v Arsenal

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Apologies if you got sidetracked by the earlier preview – the world is back on track, Thomas Vermaelen has opened his presents, and its the regular preview… By Phil Gregory After an interesting game for United, the opportunity to definitively go second looms for Arsenal. I …

Happy birthday Thomas Vermaelen

By Tony Attwood As one door closes another slams in your face, as the old Cockney saying goes.  Thomas V must be feeling this, aged 25, not sure when he will play again. I’ve got problems too, but not as bad as his. And you don’t want to know about my problems, but I will …