Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 9 By Dale Higginbottom Nine games in, as-near-as-dammit a quarter of the season gone; second in the league and (at present) a level of injuries that is manageable. Gameweek 9 injury figures. Man City Vs Arsenal Man City (4 injuries) Goalkeeper, midfield – No injuries reported Defence – Kolarov (8), …
by Walter Broeckx, the ref Before the game it was as if we went back in a time machine one year. The same clubs on the field, the same ref (that is the ref who last season wasn’t exactly the best man on the pitch as he missed a few things like Adebayor trying to …
By Tony Attwood, sitting in front of the tele (with the fire on; it is cold in the midlands) Yes, ok, in Phil’s preview of the game Man City I listed them as having 12 players on the pitch. Some said that was a silly mistake, but it was in fact a clear sign (for …
by Phil Gregory With Chelsea eight points clear after their win against Wolves yesterday, Arsenal travel to Eastlands to play Manchester City. City themselves are three points clear of ourselves with slightly inferior goal difference. It goes without saying that three points are what we want against a team with title ambitions, but our away …
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By Billy “The Dog” McGraw, Professor of Post-Postprandial Philosophy, the University of Certain Things, Frinton on Sea. Arsenal travel this weekend to the Manchester Riviera for a game next to the sand dunes and beaches of the exotic ShipCanal on Sunday. It is a game of some significance for me, as I have been invited …
Ref Watch – Manchester City v Arsenal – 24/10/2010 By DogFace I’d like, if you good people of the Arsenal blogosphere are willing, to drop in occasionally to bring to your attention some Arsenal news of the ‘Untold’ variety. I warn you I’m an old cynic… but please bear with me as I mean well. …
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By Walter Broeckx There are a few interesting things in the media about the relations between the clubs and the national teams. And maybe a development that could be important for not only Arsenal but for the future of club football versus international football. Let us start with the argument between Bayern Munich and the …
Read More “They don’t care if our players get injured: Fifa finally being challenged”
by Tony Attwood Who knows what lies behind the mask What do players do when they retire? Apart from making idiots of themselves on the media, where can they go? What will Henry do when it is all over? Come to that what is Bergkamp doing apart from painting the walls of his houses in …
Read More “Who knows what lies behind the mask: the strange case of Teddy Sherringham”
Do we really win more games when Cesc and Van Persie play? Part-2 By Dark Prince Last week, many had argued that the stats which had been presented in the first part of this article did not show the true picture for Arsenal in the presence or absence of Cesc and Van Persie. So by …
Read More “Do we win more games when Cesc and Van Persie play? The bigger picture”
By Tony Attwood As the media circus hang on to and reprint every word of Sir F Word (apart of course from the F-words) and as Manchester IOU go into emergency session to decide what to do about the Potato Man’s agent (who seemingly pulled exactly the same trick on Everton when his guy moved …
By Walter Broeckx One of our readers said that the problem with time wasting is not the rules but the refs who for some reason don’t enforce the rules on the field. And I could only agree with this. I must say that I sometimes feel like doing a crusade against dangerous tackles on my …
By Tony Attwood What would you change about Arsenal? Since, as you know, I am a devotee of the mighty Lord Wenger, not much. And it is not normally a question I would even contemplate. But this advert from Football Manager 2011 turned up and it was full of the WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT YOUR …
By Tony Attwood Living almost 100 miles from the Ems, I don’t get back home after mid-week games until after midnight, at which time I fall into bed, and just hope to wake up in time to get to work the next day. (Us oldies are not so good in the small hours). So I …
Read More “The most sporting occasion I have seen at Arsenal in fifty years”
By Walter Broeckx, the ref. The ref in our CL game against Shaktar Donetsk was Mr. Moen from Norway. Well let us just see how he did. OTHER: Wilshere comes in late and hits his opponent. The ref gives him a lecture. He could have given a yellow there but later on it turned out …
Read More “The Untold ref review: Arsenal – Shakthar; the best refereeing we have seen”
Arsenal vs Shakhtar By Phil Gregory The first mistake most fans seem to be making in regards to this game is taking their ignorance of Eastern European’ to mean that those teams aren’t up to much. Shakhtar aren’t a soft touch, by any means. There’s a lot of money in certain Eastern European countries, of …
Read More “Arsenal vs Shakhtar: no messing; it’s the serious preview”
by Billy the Dog McGraw assisted by his nurse So, our beloved Underlord, Cesc Fabregas will be at ‘full fitness’ for the Champions League kick around, but the Overlord says he may not start. Theo has stubbed his toe, and may not start. Laurent Koscielny, Thomas Vermaelen, Robin van Persie, and Manuel Almunia are all …
Read More “Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk: the team, the score, and the bomb”
by Walter Broeckx We all have seen the time wasting performed by Birmingham City last weekend at the Emirates. Well those who were in the stadium saw it, that is, because for us at home sitting in front of our TV or PC it’s much more difficult to follow this. Because mostly the director uses …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 8 By Dale Higginbottom In the last injury round-up we were hopeful of an improvement on the injury status of our beloved club. There was the glimmer of a belief that for the first time in a while we might come out of an international break with fewer injuries than …
By Bogus Cheese It’s hard not to feel sorry for Sir Alex F-Word… sorry, I seem to have put an extra word in that. Let’s start again. It’s hard to feel sorry for Sir Alex F-Word. Despite his much vaunted socialism and his shop steward background he has consistently failed to criticise the owners of …
By Walter Broeckx, referee With the visit of Birmingham came also ref Atkinson to the Emirates. Since the Eduardo incident a very tricky game and with from Arsenal’s point of view games where the casualty list was high in the past seasons: Eduardo, Walcott, Cesc…just to name a few. Just take a look at the …
By Tony Attwood After about ten minutes of this game the question arose – can the ref do anything about a playing who feigns injury, and then, when the other team pause to see if he is ok, leaps up uninjured and tries to get the ball back. We debated it, because that’s what we …
By Phil Gregory Birmingham come to the Emirates sitting a single point above the relegation zone, while our own title bid has taken a bit of a beating with recent defeats against West Brom and Chelsea. West Brom showed that no team should be underestimated when they travel to the Emirates, so despite a Birmingham …
Read More “Arsenal v Birmingham; the worries, the concerns, the hopes, the victory”
The Untold Invincibles: Genesis & End of FC Start During the half-time interval, an SS officer entered FC Start’s dressing room. In a stern tone, he darkly said: “You really cannot expect to win, however. Just consider for a moment what will happen if you do.” The FC Start players knew what this meant. Lose …
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by Tony Attwood Sometimes it is hard to recognise all this stuff as football. There’s so much off the pitch, that there hardly seems any room for the old ball kicking thing. Just consider some of the stuff doing the rounds… Arsenal: injuries, injuries, but a few returnees. A tunnel with light in it for …
by Walter Broeckx In a supporters life there are moments that you never forget. Like the first time you see your favourite team live. I even still have a photo taken from the old North Bank somewhere in a photo album that my wife once made of the big events that happened in my life. …
