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
A couple of years ago there was one financial story about Arsenal – the club was bust. It had over-stretched itself with the grand plans for the new ground, the bubble was bursting, Henry was finished, it was all over. Now we can see exactly what the story is. Arsenal have more money than everyone in …
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A year ago we had a team that was falling apart. Henry had been injured and looked lost – as well as having personal troubles. We were even doubtful about making 4th in the league, and there was talk of Tottenham over-taking us. We’d previous lost Vieira, and clearly Henry was going to go – …
Just before the dreadful tackle that could have caused Arsenal’s Eduardo to have a leg amputated, Birmingham City FC was just another struggling EPL club. Since that moment the world for the club has turned upside down. Numerous people tried to have an investigation into the awful attack on Eduardo, and for a while it …
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Birmingham City FC, the club whose player took Eduardo out of football for at least nine months has been raided by the police. After the attack on Eduardo there was a strong attempt to have a FIFA investigation into the tackle and the club, with the hope of long-term action being taken. In the end …
ITV has sold its 50% share in Arsenal Broadband to Stan Kronenke who already owns a chunk of the club. It was ITV which sold its 9.9% stake in Arsenal last April to KSE.. Although this does not give Kronenke a higher number of shares in the club it does show his complete committment to Arsenal and its economic …
It was fairly awful. Endless pushing and shoving. Ankle taps, elbowing, and the long balls up the pitch. And a ref who really couldn’t grasp that this was not how football was supposed to be. Yup – the Hoofs (also known as as Liverpool FC) were back in town for another boring, horrible exposition of …
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Arsenal are now certain to have two new major players for next season. They will of course be ignored by the media, who will bang on about Arsenal not signing players, but their names will be known to Arsenal fans. The first is Mexican Vela who signed in 2007, but who played this season on loan in Spain. He first …
Arsenal FC have decided to play a reserve team against Liverpool in the EPL on saturday. There will be no Sagna, no van Persie, no Rosicky, no Adebayour, no Eduardo. With five major figures missing the chances are that Arsenal will use Walcott and Hleb as an alternating midfield/ forward duo alonside Bendtner. Wile Arsenal …
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Liverpool achieved a 1-1 draw with Arsenal in the Champions League, and in celebrating the draw showed to all followers of European football just what has gone wrong with the European game. Liverpool managed a pathetic 2 shots on target in the whole game, one of which went in, and as such will feel that …
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According to the Guardian “Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard was forced to endure abusive chants about his daughter” during the Mersey derby and the police have been asked to investigate. Everton’s spokesman Ian Ross said,. “Whilst we would never condone the singling out of individual players for vitriolic insults, it is a shame that Mr Benítez …
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Colorado Arsenal – the club formed following the historic partnership agreement between Arsenal FC and Colorado Rapids – got off to a flying start by thumping LA Galaxy 4-0. The game saw superstar David Beckham playing all over the pitch (no one was quite sure what his position was supposed to be) for the full …
A bid by Arsenal to get a UEFA Cup Final at the Emirates has been thwarted by the government’s tax collection agency Revenue and Customs. FIFA and UEFA now require football associations to confirm in writing that no player who plays in a cup final will have to pay tax on any earnings that result …
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Having demanded a review of the Eduardo case, FIFA have backed down after pressure from the FA and the an increasingly frantic Birmingham City manager. After making one statement saying that players who cripple other players should be out of the game as long as the person they have hurt, FIFA gave in to the …
Following the campaign run by this blog FIFA have now said that they will meet the FA to discuss the pathetic 3 match ban that Birmingham City’s Martin Taylor got following his tackle on Eduardo which left him unable to play for at least 9 months. Since then the Birmingham manager and the Birmingham owner …
Read More “FIFA confirm that they want to take action over Eduardo assault”
City of London police obtained a search warrant and raided Birmingham City Football Club early today. Birmingham City have recently been in the news for their objection to a FIFA enquiry into the atrocious tackle on Arsenal’s Eduardo which not only threatened his career but could have left him requiring amputation. FIFA have said they …
Despite a clear statement by FIFA that it is looking into the violent assault on Eduardo in the Arsenal match against Birmingham, the FA has decided to go along with the demands of Birmingham City chairman David Gold, and their manager A McLeish, and not look at a further action over the events. This attack …
Taylor, the Birmingham City “player” whose violent attack on Eduardo left him unable to play for at least 9 months is returning to football today, 18 March. Taylor’s “skill” in football will be witnessed once again in a reserve match. The decision to “play” Taylor comes despite a full-scale investigation by Fifa ordered by Sepp …
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Virgin Media has finally announced the launch of Arsenal TV for subscribers of Virgin’s cable TV system. The Arsenal channel will be available from tomorrow, Tuesday March 18, free for all Virgin Media’s XL TV customers, and included as part of the Setanta Sports pack for TV customers on M or L packages. We get Yankee Reds …
The long-running campaign which has appeared in most newspapers and on most TV and radio shows, which says, “If you want to stop Arsenal you have to kick Arsenal”, claimed Gael Clichy as its latest victim. In a wild attack, Middlesboro player “Mido” – one time of Tottenham – kicked Clichy in the head. The …
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Looking at the draw for the quarter and semi-finals in Europe (Liverpool Reds in the quarters, and Chelsea maybe in the semis) it is interesting to reflect on not only our chances but also where other teams have got to. Thinking back to the predictions made at the start of the season by several billion …
Senior figures at the FA have confirmed that they are looking at ways to reduce the importance of the FA Cup. Their method – a restriction on the number of non-English players – is quite possibly against EU laws, but such legal niceties are never top of the FA’s agenda when suggesting change. The approach …
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The brief on this blog is to cover stories that others don’t touch. When this story popped up I couldn’t believe it wasn’t running anywhere else – maybe no one noticed, or maybe it is not as important as I think it is. But anyway, this weekend we are likely to see the Arsenal first …
Birmingham City manager A McLeish has reacted with great anger to the report that FIFA will investigate his players attack on Eduardo. McLeish drew particular attention to himself with comments to the effect that his player had not meant to injure Eduardo – with the implication therefore that everything was ok. Now he is taking …
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Fifa are examining Martin Taylor’s awful foul on Eduardo. Eduardo is out for 9 months or more, and could have lost his leg. The Birmingham defender got a simple three-match ban. The world governing body have asked the FA to send them the disciplinary file. Taylor said the tackle was not malicious, and has brought out the usual round of character witnesses …
You can see it on their faces and hear it in their voices – oh how desparate Liverpool supporters are to join the Top 3 and be considered among the elite. But it won’t happen for a variety of reasons – reasons which can be best understood if we examine the difference between Arsenal and …
