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 Walter Broeckx Sometimes you wake up in the morning and feel: this is going to be a bad day. And you cannot get rid of that feeling. And when you think: what could go wrong? You can only think of Arsenal. In fact last weekend the first bad feelings started on Saturday when I came …
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Quantifying the Bias of Arsenal’s Referees vs. The Rest of the League’s Clubs By Zach Slaton and DogFace This post can also be found at http://numbersgameblog.blogspot.com/ Author’s Note: Special thanks to DogFace for his co-authorship on this post. His voluminous data set, unending patience, invaluable insight and contribution, and constant editorial feedback throughout the creation of …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Billy the Dog McGraw runs his finger over Uefa’s financial fair play rules, gets it snagged on a sharp bit and scuttles off to the local A and E for a quick repair. There is a report on the BBC web site this morning that “Two …
Read More “Financial Fair Play equals nothing, but someone is going to go bust”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx So the news is out. Phil Dowd will be the ref for our next home game against Blackburn. Other people on this site will bring you statistical evidence on how bad he is as a ref for Arsenal. So I don’t want to …
Read More “Beyond the shame; Calciopoli hits as Arsenal’s next home match is fixed.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood This article follows (rather logically I thought given that it is called “part 2”) from part one which is here. The first step towards resolving the issues raised in part one must be to ask what we feel about the quality of refereeing. …
Read More “Are Premier League matches fixed? The final proof. Part 2.”
By Tony Attwood Consider Mark Clattenburg. He is 35, and one of 16 select group officials that run EPL games. He is the guy who failed to punish Wayne Rooney for the elbow against Wigan Athletic’s James McCarthy. Then he gave Fulham a penalty against Blackburn Rovers that not everyone was convinced by. …
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By Tony Attwood We have been talking in my company about Ashley Cole – and one thing came up. Why did he take a gun to work? It is an interesting question because it is one that is laden with pre-meditation – unless of course Mr Cole always takes a gun to work. I agreed …
Dirty Internationals by Alek Pan What would you say if you were given evidence that overseas players (ie those from outside the UK) make the EPL harder, dirtier and more unfair than it would otherwise be? Quite probably you would want to look at the evidence twice. Maybe you would suggest that the person who …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx When I wrote my article Arsenal against the rest: Everton, the refs, the epl, the fa…. I didn’t realised that the …would be filled in that soon. Oh yes we have to play the rest of the teams on the …
By Tony Attwood The FA have refused to act over the wild and unfounded allegations of David Moyes the manager of Everton. Moyes said after the Everton game that Cesc had abused the ref to such a degree that he (Cesc) should have been shown a red card. Moyes presented no evidence of the offence. …
Read More “Final proof that the Premier League is bent; Moyes goes unpunished for slander on Cesc”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory As the blog that has always written on the big issues such as finance and corruption before they become popular, it makes sense that Untold Arsenal would be interested in a Commons inquiry into football governance. In particular I often harp on about …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention you will have seen a couple of extremely insightful pieces on this site over the Christmas period from Walter Broeckx. I’ve put a link to them at the end of this note. As mentioned before, suggesting that …
Read More “So is the EPL fixed? Taking the argument forward”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood That scoreline is of course shots on target. You might consider goal attempts a better measure. In which case, The Blues 6 Arsenal 18. Either way it was rather jolly – except for two things – the dreadful awful tackle, and what Ferguson …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood So what does England really do about this world cup stuff? There are some interesting options such as 1: Get deep inside Fifa and try to reform what must be the most corrupt sporting body ever seen on the planet. 2: Stay in …
Read More “England, Fifa, FA, corruption, incompetence. The ancien régime approaches its end.”
by Walter Broeckx Oh, how long they have been waiting for this one to come. And now they can finally have a go at Arsenal again. Yes I am talking about the Cesc tackle right at the end of the game against Wolverhampton. Like flies on a fresh shit they can flying in and all …
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Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Manchester IOU plod along their merry way, spending all their profit on interest and fees for the owners. Liverpoodle (named after the annoying little dog favoured by rich Americans) have paid off RBS, but are perhaps just a little red-faced by the …
By Walter Broeckx As we are in a dull period of the season with the international games having just ended, and the word corruption having been mentioned in an article I thought it could be interesting to have a look at a corruption scandal that took place in Belgium some 5 years ago. It involved …
By Bogus Cheese My dears! My dears! What a moment, what a day! Welcome welcome! Camembert to you all. One of the many tricks of the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal web sites is to make endless criticisms while making few predictions. However several of the old “Wenger is an alien, turf him out now” sites did, through …
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It never used to be like this. In the olden days each season was pretty much the same as the season before. There’d be two new clubs in the First Division (usually West Ham and Blackburn, if memory serves) and every other year we would have a new centre forward (probably Scottish). If there had …
Emmanuel Egbuka Has anyone ever considered the idea that the whole story of Cesc requesting that his future be decided before the world cup was engineered by Arsenal FC, together with Arsene and Cesc? The aim would be to put an end to the media’s never ending stories of Cesc going to Barcelona before almost …
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By Walter Broeckx Another lovely page seems to be written in the lovely way of perfect live as it is according to Fifa. A few days ago claims have been made about Australia’s team bidding to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. They seem to have been given some gifts to try and influence votes. …
by Tony Attwood There is a school of thought that says that no matter what, a club as big as Liverpool will always be able to carry on. The banks would never foreclose on those irritable little scoucers and besides, they are just too important to go bust. Someone will buy them. Quite possibly this …
Read More “Liverpool chairman admits, the owners no longer have any control of the club”
By Tony Attwood (not really an Emperor; he’s just a very naughty boy). When journalists want to talk about crime, they often choose to talk of “organised crime”. I’ve never heard a discussion of “disorganised crime” but if it exists, I suppose we can say it’s what the gang that runs the illicit international football …
Read More “FICK FUFA; how disorganised crime runs world football”
By Walter Broeckx Some people who have seen the game Holland – Denmark might have noticed them. A group of Dutch girls in orange mini dress. They sang and danced and well they were a very nice thing to look at. I would say almost better than most world cup matches I have seen so …
by Tony Attwood, and the guy who writes Le Grove Three linked financial matters. First, the EPL is haemorrhaging cash on salaries. Secondly most Arsenal season ticket holders are giving up their season tickets, and third the Glazer Gang’s other businesses have all come unstuck so they have no choice but to hang on to …
Read More “Arsenal’s financial collapse, EPL financial collapse, Man U financial collapse”
