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
The first summer deals are now being announced. As a starter, Cheltenham have confirmed that 15 year old Jamie Edge will join Arsenal immediately. Edge has come through Cheltenham’s youth programme and has been playing for Arsenal in an under-16 tournament in Italy. Chairman Paul Baker told the club’s website, “Cheltenham Town have reached a …
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Arsene Wenger’s Magical Embryo Farm Part 2 By Jonny Neale Over the coming weeks I plan to focus on a few specific, lesser known, young players in detail. However, to kick things off, I’d like to offer an overview of what we presently have at our disposal, as a club. This is not intended to …
After the women’s team team won the FA Cup, the League Cup and of course the League, the youth team continued the story by adding the Youth Cup to their winning of the Academy League. The second leg of the FA Youth Cup final was won 2-1 against a Liverpool team that showed what we …
Arsene Wenger’s Magical Embryo Farm By Jonny Neale As we head into the silly season, replete with transfer rumours both in and out, acrimonious boardroom tales and disgruntled players all whipped up to a venomous froth by Fleet Street’s poisonous pens, I think it is worth pausing and taking stock. Reminding ourselves of what has …
As the goal attempts total above suggests, it was a stroll in the park. The pro-Wenger ensemble which dominates the crowd at the Ems left no one in any doubt – among those at the matches there is total support for Wenger. “One Arsene Wenger” was heard over and over – and he got the …
The BBC has taken the decision that last nights FA Youth Cup final in front of around 34,000 spectators did not take place. There was no mention of it at all in the first hour of its saturday morning news show on BBC Radio 5 Live, no mention of it on its teletext sports pages …
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The last time our youth team lost a match was back in December. For most of the season they have sauntered through the opposition, usually on open fields in front of a handful of respectful parents and the club’s coaches. And they won the league. So stunning is this youth team some of the names …
To celebrate Anorak Friday, Untold Arsenal met ex-Arsenal and ex-Blackburn superstar Aaron Fortesque Bentley, who is now knocking them in and laying them low for Hottentot Reservoirs in their crowd filled arena at Leyton Ointment. Untold Arsenal asked Mr Bentley if he was enjoying his current stint as a working foot-baller. U-A: Are you enjoying …
Most EPL clubs buy players with borrowed money or the owner’s petrodollars. Arsenal are different – the money available for buying comes from profit generated by success and sales. Put another way, the basic income from TV, marketing and games goes to pay the mortgage and the salaries. The purchases come from other sources. At …
Next season’s team will look remarkably different from the team that we have seen through this year. This year you’ll remember we Finished 4th in the EPL contrary to all predictions which had us in free fall (remember the “should Wenger go if we don’t make the Europa League) Got to the semi-final of the …
What to do if you have five minutes to spare: go to yesterdays article – (Arsenal Sign a New Defensive Enforcer). If you have a particularly large amount of free time you can skim through that – the bit about the enforcer is at the end – but then, much more importantly I’d invite you …
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The reserves got a good day out and sauntered home 11 on target shots to 3. which is not bad. They let a couple of the ol’ timers play (Theo and Arshavin were there and Sagna was given a game too) but mostly it was the kids. What was particularly nice was to see Bischoff …
I have been getting seriously worried. We had that little bit of a laugh over how every club in the multiverse will be bidding for our players, and how they will all be leaving, and the club will fall apart and we will be heading for League Two or wherever it is that Southampton play. …
In the last 2 years football has changed in the EPL. There have always been teams that would try and play for a 0-0 draw, but the last couple of years has seen a huge rise in this tendency. This year in particular we have had team after team after team turn up and from …
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The Red Flag and why the bloggers are wrong
I suspect I was taking one of my usual vacations on another planet when the news came through that this year’s Ems Cup will include Inter, PSG and Rangers. I don’t support any particular Scottish team, and as I am not a Christian, I don’t fall on either side of the sectarian divide, so I …
Strange days. Ever since I saw the teams for last night’s Reserve game against the Tiny Totts I have been puzzling over the tactics of the Appy Arry cartoon character who seemingly runs the show down the poor end of Seven Sisters. As I was saying yesterday he knew damn well that Arsenal would put …
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We win because Tottenham put out a team made up of the players that some of the previous managers have bought for £millions – from Bentley to Bale, Eduardo to someone else whose name I have forgotten. Arsenal put out a team of 17 year olds. Jack Wilshere was out with an ankle injury, Fran …
Tonight is the Land of Make Believe against the Team of the Future. Or put it another way, the Even Tinier Totts against Arsenal Reserves. Except that being the Totts they don’t believe in usijng the Reserves for up and coming youth players, largely because they don’t have up and coming youth players. This itself …
Given that everyone and his spaniel is chattering away about tonight’s little event in Spain (quite naturally, I’ve already got my Arsenal socks on and I’m just watching it in front of the TV), there’s no point it adding anything else from me. So, just in case anyone is reading, what about the Under 18s? …
The inevitable consequence of an acceptance of Insanity Week and the international matches therein is that Sepp Blatter and his fanatics will keep proposing the 6+5 regulation through which six players in every starting 11 have to be qualified to represent the “football country” in which they play. (I say “football country” because it is …
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One of the great things about Arsenal is that every year we have a whole stream of players who graduate through the ranks. We have the fringe first teamers who step up to be properly part of the main squad, while others come through and move into the Diddly Cup team. This step up process …
Thank you Nahn – ~I love it when people quote Dylan at me. Although it has nothing to do with football, I run a little Bob Dylan blog which slowly records commentaries on the meaning of Dylan’s music. But meanwhile back in the real world, how about starting to talk about next season now? Perverse, …
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Here’s a thought. It is taken from today’s Guardian. Clichy has intercepted more passes than any other player in the EPL – with 118 interceptions. The only other player to have made over 100 interceptions is… oh, that guy who the Independent called “Lightweight” a couple of weeks back, what’s his name? Denilson. It is …
I’ve always known the address of the Tiny Totts as 748 High Road. The only team to have played football in White Hart Lane (as I boringly remind everyone) is Wood Green Town, who played about a quarter of a mile from where I grew up as a child. Town were born around 1885 …
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