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 Tony Attwood And so what do we know? Now in our fourth year of the never-ending injuries we are trying and trying to beat Chelsea with six or more key players missing, and once again we have failed. The manager can’t rotate properly and can’t pick the best players for each occasion simply because …
Read More “So our reserves still can’t beat the KGB in Fulham. What now?”
By Phil Gregory With a new approach, the Chelsea match preview… Arsenal predicted line-up Fabianksi Sagna Squillaci Koscielny Clichy Song Wilshere Denilson Nasri Chamakh Arshavin After the Partizan game, we can see that Fabianksi is not a rubbish keeper. If he was, he’d perform poorly in training and never get starts. Some of the basic, …
By Tony Attwood As it is saturday, consider this point: should you be able to nip into a pub and watch any EPL game you want? If you are in England or Wales the answer is no. Showing games originating through satellites owned via other EU countries is illegal – although down at the Toppled …
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Anti Arsenal Conspiracy …FACT! By Paul Blythe I have read recent articles by Tony, Walter and Phil and to be honest I am just a little pissed off. No, not at the authors, not even at what they had to say, but at the subject to which their ample talents were addressed. It was one …
By Tony Attwood Munchester City (also known as Man UOI) made a financial loss of £121m in the 12 months to 31 May 2010, the first full year of ownership by Sheikh Yermoney bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Their income was £125m and their wages bill was £133m, up from £83m. Put another way Manchester UOI spent …
Read More “Can Man City and Chelsea really meet the UEFA Financial regs any time soon?”
by Walter Broeckx At the end of last season we had some people who claimed that the stadium would be empty this season. Our regular readers will remember that they claimed that the season ticket holders had been voting Wenger out and would not renew. Later Tony showed that there was no such thing at …
Read More “Despite earlier predictions to the contrary, Arsenal support is growing and growing”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal Independent Supporters Association (AISA) has announced that at its AGM the guest speaker will be Alex Phillips, UEFA’s head of the Executive Office. I’ll give the detail of what the Executive Office is, in a moment, but without even going into that, it is a great coup for AISA to get …
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Arsène’s huge down under By Bruce G’day all you whingeing Poms from the land Down Under, a paradise of amber nectar, aerial ping-pong and white pointers!! Just stumbled upon your site as I was googlin’ Arse, now don’t get yer knickers in a knot, it is strictly research for my own gratification like and I …
by Walter Broeckx What is the impact on watching a game in front of your TV compared to watch it in the stands? Yesterday evening when I had finished my match report for the Arsenal Benelux website I went to our forum where the other fans from our supporters club give their view on the …
By Tony Attwood It was the most disgraceful, appalling, awful and unacceptable TV commentary I have ever heard – and there have been some dire ones in the past. I refer, of course, to the commentary on Sky Sports 4 last night. It wasn’t just that Arsenal were set up from the start by the …
Read More “The most disgraceful, appalling, awful, unacceptable performance of all time”
By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref For our CL game against Belgrade we got the company of ref Stark from Germany. Did he have a “stark” (strong in English) performance? A first point of attention is the fact that I cannot remember a game that was televised in such a bad way. Sometimes you got …
by Walter Broeckx Does the Champions league has an effect on the season or not? A question that is often asked but has it ever been researched? Now we shouldn’t be complaining about the extra pressure we put on ourselves when we play in the Champions League. We earn a lot of money by joining …
Read More “Partizan vs Arsenal: Does the CL makes a difference?”
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 6 By Dale Higginbottom This last weekend saw teams, including or beloved Arsenal, slip up against weaker opposition. What do the injuries say about this and do we as Arsenal fans have good reason to believe that this was just a hiccup? As before the players listed are players failing …
By Phil Gregory Partizan away is by no means a game to be taken lightly. Our away form in Europe isn’t the greatest, but to be fair, the lack of wins has much to do with the fact that many of the ties didn’t actually require a win, with dead rubbers and the like tossed …
Read between the lines. By Terence McGovern So the annual financial figures are in and all is rosy in the garden. It is notable however that many Arsenal fans are not exactly overcome with enthusiasm about it and so we should ask ourselves, what we want from these figures and really at the end of …
Read More “Behind the Arsenal figures… what does it all mean?”
By Phil Gregory Righto, so Arsenal have released their latest financial statements, so let’s have a look at them. There’s been much ado made over record breaking profits and turnover, but it’s important to remember that this is solely attributable to the property development side of the club and so these bumper profits are largely …
Read More “Arsenal’s financials: the in-depth analysis and what it all means.”
by Walter Broeckx, the referee Together with West Bromwich Albion came ref Michael Oliver. A young ref with some kind of reputation. Let us see how his match was. Could it be worse than ours? OTHER/CARD: the ref blows a foul against Eboue at the moment the foul is given. The ball runs to Nasri …
By Walter Broeckx Well this wasn’t our best day today. You could see and feel from the first minutes that half of the team was still celebrating our victory at WHL and the other where checking their list to see if they had everything packed for the visit to Belgrade next Tuesday. As a result …
By Tony Attwood A bad day at the office generally can be put right the next day. You know you are off-form and the more you try to correct it the worse it gets. In the end you just have to accept that it was a bad day at the office. The trouble with football …
Read More “Inside the ground at least, we are beating the Anti-Arsenal gangs”
By Billy the Dog McGraw OK, everyone’s dead, semi-dead or deadbeat so we are on the edge of using the 9 year old youth team for the match against the Woobooloos. Here’s one line up – the one that Tony tried out on an unsuspecting public the other day… Almunia Sagna Squillaci Koscielny Clichy Song …
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By Tony Attwood Could this be the all-time injury record for Arsenal – or indeed any EPL club? If you are a reader of the Arsenal History site you will know that we recently covered a game in the 1920s in which Arsenal were without 10 first teamers and ended up playing the goal keeper …
By Tony Attwood So having done my bit yesterday to put the boot in vis a vis Liverpool and Manchester IOU here’s what Arsenal FC have been up to The completion of sale of 362 (2009 – 208) private apartments at Highbury Square and the social housing site at Queensland Road generated £156.9 million of …
I have a dream. By Paul Blythe (With obvious apologies) Fourteen years ago, a great Frenchman, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the first of his many contracts. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Arsenal Fans who had been seared in the flames of the withering …
Read More “I have a dream…. of an ever greater and more glorious Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Christian Purslow, MD of that amusing little club up in the north west, has finally admitted that the club can’t service the debt. While Kenneth Dalglish MBE (a man whom all football fans must remember as a sensational player, and a man of considerable dignity in the aftermath of Hillsborough) seems now …
By Tony Attwood Imagine being told by the boss that he doesn’t think you are quite up to it. Maybe you would like to move on? There’s a good opportunity going in… Norway. Or maybe Malta…. That must be bad enough. But as a footballer being told by people who are supposedly supporting your team …
Read More “Almunia: It’s been a really tough year; plus free club level tickets for WBA”
