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
By Tony Attwood The issue has been raised a number of times: this blog has gone totally over the top in praising Arsène Wenger, instead of recognising his faults. Maybe there’s something in that, and if so, it is entirely my fault. So I thought I would go back, look at Wenger, and all he …
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By Tony Attwood What a jolly day. And so many issues. I’ll combine them into one article, so we can move on to broader matters of substance for consideration and in-depth analysis tomorrow (or not if I get up late, or if you are bored and have had enough). Wenger’s “rant” (as one correspondent described …
Read More “Totts booed and issue DVD, Wenger supremely clever”
By Walter Broeckx Some fans have only bad words for Arsène Wenger. It might be worth having a look at some of them – especially in the light of a 6-0 win. Wenger doesn’t want to buy. Yes Wenger doesn’t want to buy just for the sake of buying a player. He isn’t interested in …
by Tony Attwood For years there has been a general assumption that there are only three ways of developing a club and two ways of making money out of football. You can make your club grow (so it was always said) by Development Method 1) Buying in those who are already acknowledged to be the …
By Tony Attwood Running a football club is about two things: surviving and winning. Obviously if you can’t do the former, then the latter is out of the question. So far, only one club in the modern era has fallen from pretensions of greatness to a desperate attempt to survive: Leeds. Other supposedly big clubs …
By Tony Attwood Star of stage, screen and the members pack Well, if you have received the full Arsenal members’ pack, and put in your DVD (at least the round thing in the pack), and then worked your way through the Ray Parlour stuff, watched the goal of the season countdown, and wondered what next, …
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 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”
According to Sky with its story, “Wenger steps up preparations” Arsenal are going to have to sell players to make space in the squad, because of the 25 player rule. They say, Meanwhile, Wenger has hinted that he may look to move a few players on this summer, with new Premier League regulations stipulating that …
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Why us gooners have much to be proud of Aria Khani The recent world cup final was contested between a technically gifted Spanish side and a very hard working and talented Holland. The Spanish victory was hailed by Alan Hansen and co, as a good result for football. They marvelled over the passing game and …
By Tony Attwood The members of the North Korean branch of the Arsenal supporters club tend to consider Arsène Wenger a renegade running dog who can’t admit his mistakes, who clings to power when all the world that victory is inevitably theirs. Their world view is a simple world view. First, they set up a …
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The players are doing a bit of pre-season limbering up, our new man from the Orient is already here, there’s Chamakh too, Henri Lansbury looked last season like someone we ought to sign (and hey! we have him anyway), Jack Wilshire is back, Theo hasn’t been injured in the world cup, Djourou is fit, and …
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