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
Its a bit like the proverbial bus – you wait for ages for one, and then two come along. Dennis was unique, original, a genius, something beyond everything else we had ever seen. We would not see his likes again, we were told. And then in an unguarded moment the word slipped out – Jack …
I have just been struck by the number of players we currently have on loan. I suspect this must be an all time record for us – and maybe for any league club. Jay Simpson: WBA Gavin Hoyte: Watford Rui Fonte: Crystal Palace Henri Lansbury, Scunthorpe Utd Paul Rodgers: Northampton Town Rene Steer: Gillingham Armand …
With the chart that is now showing a little way down on the right side of the UNTOLD ARSENAL home page revealing that Theo will be back in one week, and with Arshavin certain to be playing against Sunderland next weekend, it looks at last as if we’ll have a creative midfield again. And with …
It is often said that to win the EPL a team needs an English spine. There’s no evidence presented for this – it is just something that is said. Watching Brazil last night I think I’d sooner my team had a Brazilian spine rather than one made up of John Terry types, but each to …
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I write this in reply to a detailed letter that has been published on this site, which says why we should no longer support Arsenal. I believe the opposite. Partly, because I am a naturally cheery guy (except when I am not) and partly because I am currently writing the history of Arsenal in 1910, …
I am out of touch – I admit it freely – travelling here and there. So I was really grateful to receive a link to the goal Jack Wilshere scored for us against Stoke reserves. Just take a look at the link at the end of this piece. But also consider the team… Francis …
Read More “Did you see this sensational Arsenal goal. Watch it now”
If you have followed my ramblings in the past you’ll know I am rather critical on occasion of my fellow professional scribblers who, I suggest, have been known to take a list of players and a list of clubs, slide them up and down, and come up with links. It is easier than working. My …
Read More “Invented player to sign for Arsenal according to The Times”
One of the great things about supporting Arsenal under Wenger is that I haven’t got a clue what is going to happen. Take Diaby – the notion that he could occasionally run into the top third of the pitch, behave like a proper forward, and score a goal or two, was about the last thing …
Two events yesterday brought home to me the distances we have travelled this year. First, Arsenal put out not their first time, not the squad members who back up the first team, but their third team – a team made up mostly of players who we only see at Barnet in the reserves. And this …
The Lord Wenger has made it clear that come what may the Infants School XI will always play in the Diddly Widdly Carling Cup – rather amusingly when most of them are not allowed to get involved with the sponsor’s product. Now that the club has been drawn against Plymouth in the 3rd round of …
Read More “Plymouth match means another game for the children”
In deepest darkest Hertfordshire (Shenley to be exact) there is a biological laboratory. Surrounded by armed guards and men in track suits, it houses one of the most extraordinary genetic experiments ever seen on British soil. For it is here, no less, that the Genetic Research Experimental Facility is based. Funded by Arsenal FC the …
