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 In the game against Legia Warsaw we saw once again that some teams don’t know the rules at all. Or better said intentionally try to break the rules. Now that is not a big surprise for me as a ref as I have to see the same attempts every week and hear …
by Walter Broeckx Yes this is Untold Arsenal but to start this article I will have to turn your eyes to one our rivals in London as Ajax will loan their Serbian striker Miralem Sulejmani out for one season and give him to West Ham United. A fairly modest headline in the transfer period. The fact that …
by Phil Gregory With the new Financial Fair Play rules all over the papers along with a sackful of misconceptions of how they’ll actually work I thought it’d be worthwhile to have a look at them and see what’s what. Without further ado…. The new Financial Fair Play (FFP) criteria assess the financial situation of …
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For England, that was the Golden Generation. Actually the last two world cups and the euro thing in the middle were the tournaments of the Golden Generation. England were about to win everything. After it was all over in South Africa, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of football, made a statement. He comes across …
Read More “Will failed England turn to Arsenal’s golden generation? Of course not.”
By Walter Broeckx I really would like to know how much the average IQ is at Fufa’s headquarter. Reports mention the score above but I’m not sure it is really that high. But I’m sure they know a lot more about making money and on corruption than I do. But when it comes to things …
Read More “50, the added IQ in Fufa’s headquarter and still going down”
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Our man in a spot. Arsenal are sending a witchdoctor and exorcist to Wembley to help the three players picked for Wednesday’s game. It appears that Arsenal are worried both about the influence over young players of such malign forces as A Cole and Fabuloso Cappuccino and so will be …
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by Walter Broeckx Many Arsenal fans have thrown themselves off the cliffs after Saturday’s game. Be it mostly virtual cliffs on the internet. The world stopped turning, the forces of gravity lost their force, the end of the world was near: Arsenal conceded 5 goals in one match. Was I happy with us conceding 5 …
Liverpool FC are likely to become the first EPL side owned by the state By Tony Attwood A Chinese government fund (China Investment Corp) supposedly represented by Kenny Huang has, apparently, being selling off share assets to raise exactly the amount of money that Liverpool Insolvency is in debt to the banks: £351.4m. (That’s not …
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By Walter Broeckx A lot of supporters have a difficult time in this transfer window and say that we have gone backwards and have lost a lot of players and mostly in defence and this was the point where we suffered the most last season. So let us have a look at it in detail …
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw “Footballers, like measles, should be caught young”, Sandro Rosell. It was one of the most amazing moments in football that the world has ever seen. Cesc Fábregas, champion of the universe, master of his destiny, prophet to the masses, and player of the year in the Sidereal Daily Mentioner, descended …
Read More “Barca announce the signing of Cesc. Five year contract agreed”
By Walter Broeckx If you ask me what is the most depressing on being an Arsenal fan I should have to have a deep thought before answering. The reason is simple: I don’t find many things depressing when it comes to Arsenal. Would it be the fact that we haven’t won anything in 5 years? …
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Below is the team that played in a reserve game earlier this week – against Boreham Stiff, (sorry Wood). Szczesny Nordtveit – Bartley – Miquel – Cruise Aneke – Randall – Ozyakup Murphy – Afobe – Miyaichi Wellington Silva was on the bench, coming on at half time. So what do we learn from that? …
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By Gooneraside A simple grammar for those who just don’t get it Fiction. The Mirror, 7 June 2010 – Joe Cole will join Arsenal after the World Cup. So we know that for the piece of poo it was. But how many of you believed this at the time? None of you, you say? Then …
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By Phil Gregory Leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) are – thanks to the situations at Manchester United and Liverpool respectively – all over the papers. They are something most fans don’t really “get”, and pertinent questions such as “how could they buy our club if they didn’t actually have the money?” pop up quite often. I’m going …
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By Walter Broeckx In the so called WC-Bid book that has been finally made public that Belgium and Holland have put together for the organisation of the Fifa World Cup 2018 we can find some very strange things. It seems that our former government in Belgium has agreed with all the privileges that Fifa would …
By Tony Attwood Ivan Gazidis is the chief executive of Arsenal FC. I’m, well, the editor of Untold Arsenal, and the Arsenal History site, and I write books and adverts. And we met, Mr Gazidis and I, in an office in Highbury House (which if you are not able to get to the matches I …
By Walter Broeckx We should buy more world class players. It is a sentence often used by fans who want us to buy more. So maybe we could try to find what is exactly meant by “a world class” player. If I think of world class players I think of players who can turn a …
Read More “Finding and signing world class players is easier said than done”
By Tony Attwood So with two weeks to go, what do we know? As usual I have no idea, but here’s some of my own thoughts from the last couple of days… 1: We have bought a centre forward and a central defender and both look fairly nifty. 2: Arshavin is playing like he plays …
Read More “What we have learned so far, and why it is vital not to have a sense of humour”
By Tony Attwood I do enjoy it when Untold manages to get a bit ahead of the game. We’ve been debating the 25 rule for months, have gone through various interpretations, looked at what the official EPL rules say, doubted the comments on the Arsenal web site, and generally munched the whole thing over a …
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France 2 Spain 1. Last night. Final of the UEFA Under 19 Championship. In the team were two Arsenal players – Coquelin and Sunu. Both played brilliantly, both were significant part of France’s victory, and both were part of the magnificent double winning team of Arsenal, that won the Youth Cup and Youth League. They …
By Walter Broeckx Today is my last complete day in Cataluña. And I must say that I feel rather glad about it. I will be returning to a colder place, with less sunshine but with a media and press that is a bit more factual than the rubbish I had to see in the last …
Read More ““Well we all want Cesc to come to Barcelona, but can they pay for him?””
By Tony Attwood Cesc Fábregas has decided to stay at Arsenal. What’s more he has given his exact reasons. “My main reason for staying is that I like to be paid,” he said. “I am not mercenary, but if I sign a contract that says I will be paid each month, I like to be …
Read More “Cesc speaks, decides on his future, and gives his reasons”
We’ve debated this issue over and over again – how big is the waiting list at Arsenal for season ticket in the main part of the ground (by which I mean upper and lower tiers, not Club Level and Diamond Geezer Level). The Anti-Arsenal Arsenal (AAA) web sites have suggested since the start of last …
Read More “Season tickets at Arsenal – just how big is the waiting list? At last, an answer.”
By Walter Broeckx Our man on the spot. Well another few hot days in Cataluña over here but that is not what you want to here, if you want to hear it. But I have been doing the round of the sporting things they call sports news papers over here. Mind you I don’t buy …
Read More “From our correspondent in Spain: Barca and Arsenal – the secret agreement”
“It’s only noise” By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger is opening up a little in his interviews, and giving us a little more insight into how matters are going to pan out in the opening match of the season. One big hint comes in a statement directly from him that he will buy one or two …
Read More “Wenger reveals more about the team v Liverpool, transfers and injuries”
