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
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 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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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By Phil Gregory Yesterday Untold Arsenal published the second in the series of Barca’s finances revealing how the club has lied over supposed profits, and how the prediction made previously that they were actually on the edge financially was completely true. Having seen the story develop I wanted to know what happened in the build …
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By Tony Attwood You might remember how Barcelona have boasted about making money, having no problem with cash, and winning things at the same time, and all that sort of stuff. Why can’t we be like that, cry the anti-Arsenal Arsenal. Well here’s why. I had the temerity to put up an article “Barca on …
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This is overseas week on Untold Arsenal. Walter Broeckx is in Spain covering “Cesc Week” and here is Billy’s piece on tonight’s game in Austria. . Unfortunately transmission lines across the ocean are not what they might be and Walter’s article wasn’t listed yesterday on Goonernews, so if you rely on that august publication, you …
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Just what do the footballing public in southern Europe think about the issue of Cesc, his contract, and the fact that Barca are nowhere near as financially sound as the world makes out. We sent out intrepid report Walter Broeckx to Spain, to keep us up to date on how football appears in such foreign …
Read More “The five year deal is done and Cesc is ready to sign for Barca”
The edition of this article published at around 8.30am BST on 26 July missed out Sagna, not because I don’t know he is there, but rather because my computer decided to take on a life of his own. His details were added at around 1pm BST. Apologies for the first mistake – I had to …
By Tony Attwood The supporters’ rebellion at Manchester United this summer was supposed to involve season ticket holders not renewing until the last minute. But the trouble with rebellions is that they can sometimes get a bit out of control. I am not sure that the middle class members of the 3rd Estate in France …
Read More “In 3 years time Old Trafford will be half empty, but the Ems will still be full”
It never used to be like this. In the olden days each season was pretty much the same as the season before. There’d be two new clubs in the First Division (usually West Ham and Blackburn, if memory serves) and every other year we would have a new centre forward (probably Scottish). If there had …
The start of the new season at Arsenal has been given an enormous boost as all 23 players in the world cup squad of France have been suspended. It might only be for one game, but ensuring that at least three of our top players are not selected for France in the forthcoming round of …
