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
I loved Freddie as a player – he had everything I wanted when watching Arsenal. And I remember him returning this season with WHU – he got a huge roar of support, and blew kisses to the crowd when he went off injured. So was it the slightest bit likely that he said all that …
UEFA are hotting up their attack on clubs that have insane levels of debt. UEFA were deeply affected by the story that swept around the world that the two finalists in this year’s competition had debts of over £1.5 billion. The situation was made worse with the revelation that Manchester U are unable to pay …
At one level I have no time for Tottenham Hotspur, but like any reasonable supporter who has been going to matches for years and years, and who used to live in the vicinity of the two grounds, I know some Tottenham fans. Sometimes we even manage tp set aside the sarcasm and what passes …
Choose one club from four: Club A has debts of £700 million and no obvious way of paying them. Indeed although they declared a profit of £40 million last year, all that had to go to paying off interest charges – and still they were short of money to pay the banks and lenders. As …
He is 17, he is Welsh (so he wouldn’t qualify under any odd FIFA 6+5 rule) and he knows how to pass the ball. He plays in central midfield – and he has that same sort of sense that Fabregas has which involves knowing where the opposition is, and where your team mates are. All …
I don’t know about you, but I tend to read the Arsenal news, and then maybe bits and pieces of news about other clubs. So yes it feels like we are in a mess in the transfer market – but if I do go and read the stories about other clubs – they are no …
In a story that has circulated in most journals today, Nic Anelka has admitted that his career has taken a series of downward spirals since he left Arsenal, and that if he had his time again he would stay at Arsenal throughout. Anelka is not the only player to find things go wrong in leaving …
1. Get a list of the Arsenal first team. This can be difficult between the drinking and sleeping, but there is one on the Arsenal web site – if you can find that. 2. Get a list of top European clubs. This is harder, but here’s a tip – there are a couple in …
There’s an Arsenal web site that is currently running a yes/no question along the lines – should Arsenal sign another striker? The majority have said yes. Which is fine – except we are getting a bit overloaded. We have Adebayor – scored the same number of goals in Season 3 as Theirry Henry, which …
Uefa has produced its alternative to the wild scheme of FIFA – which goes completely against EU law. The UEFA proposal, which the EU has indicated it could well accept avoids the issue of the nationality of players and instead requires that clubs playing in the European competitions should include in the 25 man squad …
Read More “FIFA / EU compromise emerges – Arsenal to benefit”
“We were at the crossroad between the interests of clubs and national teams, and the congress of Fifa has given very clear indications of where we have to go,” said Sepp Blatter as he pushed through his infamous rule about home grown players. The crossroads is exactly where FIFA is. Its position has been undermined …
Poor sad Flamini. He leaves Arsenal, which is bad enough in itself, and then the Arsenal Curse begins to hit – just as it did on Birmingham City FC after the attack on Eduardo. First, he finds that he is not going to play in the Champions League. Then he finds that he is not …
Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner for Employment, Social affairs and Equal opportunities has confirmed what Untold Arsenal has said for months, that the FIFA plan to limit the number of “foreign” players in each team is completely illegal under EU law, and would be opposed by the EU. It is now more than likely that FIFA …
Read More “Arsenal unaffected by EU rejection of FIFA wild ideas”
As we said on Untold Arsenal last week the Nasri deal is on – just the usual boring stuff about whether it is 20k a week or 22k, and how many years. Clever aren’t we? And as we said nine months ago Grimandi is of total importance to AFC – he was in Colorado, which …
Read More “Nasri’s here, Grimandi stays, Randall & Barazite in 1st team”
The idea that FIFAs bizarre attempt to limit the number of “foreign” players who can play in domestic matches will easily get through EU legislation is bizarre. But let’s assume for the moment that Blatter’s limit of seven foreign players on the pitch for any team at any one time, does actually happen in 2010/11. …
Read More “Blatter’s 7+4 restriction on foreign players won’t hurt Arsenal”
According to Wikipedia Stan Collymore “is widely regarded as one of the best football analysts for his work on radio,television and in print.” There can be few Arsenal supporters who would agree with this after Collymore’s ludicrous and bizarre outburst on Radio 5 on the evening of 26 May 2008. Collymore, part of a …
The Daily Telegraph has reported that UEFA has held a committee meeting too look at the issue of the bankruptcy of this year’s two Euro Cup Finalisits. Unfortunately there is no mention of the committee meeting on the UEFA web site (although it might well go up in due course) but there is no doubt …
Read More “Arsenal in clear as UEFA start to define its approach to debt”
Tonights the big night. The two most indebted clubs in the history of football, who between them owe over £1.5 billion and have absolutely no way of paying it back. One of them the most notorious anti-footballing team of the present era, the other sinking deeper and deeper into the financial mire. Meanwhile in the …
The two teams in tonights cup game owe 1.5 billion pounds between them. They are the most debt laden clubs in the world – and the fact that they have made it to the final says something utterly awful about football. This is Match 39: the great dream of the English Premier League. A game …
Read More “Arsenal not in final as they don’t have enough debt”
More Untold Arsenal awards Superstar of next season: Theo Walcott. Suddenly, just when we all expected it not to happen, he exploded. The one thing that was wrong – his inability to avoid being drawn into blind alleys where he lost the ball – vanished. It was as if he thought, “Bugger this, let’s do …
Gael Clichy, along with Sagna and Diaby have escaped a possible long term injury of the type suffered by Van Persie and Alex Hleb, as France have failed to procure their services for the Euro Finals this summer. There was a concern that France might inflict international football on Clichy after he was put into …
Gilles Grimandi has been watching him, everyone says he is incredible, and Nasri himself has said he’s leaving. The price is around 14 million pounds which is within the realms of Arsenal’s affordability for the right player – and if it is true that Hleb wants to go, then Arsenal will get all of that …
The best moment – the first goal away to Milan, which shows that Fabregas is not only a genius but is able to take control of the match. Not only the best moment because of what it signified there and then but also because it showed a side of Cesc that can only grow. Runner-up: …
The reason is that a) he’s amazing b) he’s said he’s ready to leave Marseilles c) lots of people have linked him to Arsenal – although that’s probably because Gilles Grimandi has been watching him. The price is around 14 million pounds which is within the realms of Arsenal’s affordability for the right player And …
The reason is that a) he’s amazing b) he’s said he’s ready to leave Marseilles c) lots of people have linked him to Arsenal – although that’s probably because Gilles Grimandi has been watching him. The price is around 14 million pounds which is within the realms of Arsenal’s affordability for the right player And …
