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 review of the issue of assault, and the previous convictions of Shawcross By The Law Back when I was a Law Student, we were taught an interesting rule in Criminal Law, called The Eggshell Skull Rule. This rule stated that if you struck someone on the head which resulted in a shattered skull and …
Read More “Why Shawcross can’t say, “I didn’t mean it” and a review of his previous assaults.”
Untold Arsenal is published two or three times a day. There’s an list of recent articles on the right in date order, followed by a month by month drop down menu. At the end of the main piece there’s an abbreviated contents section (just in case we published something while you weren’t looking.) Stupidity Week …
The argument about Aaron Ramsey runs roughly like this… The media, with a mixture of traditional English dislike of success, plus a deep-rooted disgust at all things French, and a desperate need to create news out of nothing, constantly announce that the only way to beat Arsenal is to rough them up. The story is …
J’accuse! by Walter Broeckx The EPL is maybe the best league in the World for now. The FA and the PL organization can be proud of that. The best footballers of the world come to England to play games at maybe the highest level in the world. Week in week out you can see teams, …
Read More “Why Stoke type thuggery is not allowed in Spain and Italy”
Many of us have been outraged beyond endurance by the assault on Ramsey on 27th February. 24 hours later I am still frustrated an annoyed in a way that is not a normal part of my nature. If I may speak for once for Walter (who is of course more than able to speak for …
Read More “Man U colour protest fizzles out: there’s a lesson to be learned”
Saturday April 15th 2005. Arsenal played Blackburn in the semi-final of the FA Cup at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. I was there. In a shockingly dire first half I noticed that Blackburn were using a tactic I had never seen before. Blackburn were taking it in turn to kick the Arsenal players. Many …
Financial stability or ambition? Which do fans want? Rhys Jaggar Easy to answer that: BOTH. Fans want to know that their club can win something, but they don’t want the club to go bust. Thing is: for many clubs, it mightn’t be possible. Arsenal seemed to manage it, but now it seems that stability has …
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By Walter Broeckx Another Champions league game … and another controversial game by the ref. I will not start over the not giving penalty for Arsenal for a blatant foul on Rosicky just before THE incident that over shadowed the game. But I just did. Well we don’t get penalty’s this season from refs and …
Read More “The Porto free kick. The referee’s point of view.”
There is a feeling in football that things really aren’t that bad. In this article I will try to convince you that they are not just disastrously bad – they are actually far worse than that. Football in England is about to explode. I’ll start with something that we all know about: Portsmouth FC. We …
Arsenal, the cult of personality and the collective By Brian Baker Another week, another defeat, another round of Chicken Licken posturing from the Arse-blogosphere. I’m not going to dwell on the painful realities of the loss to Chelsea, here, but offer another long-term perspective of Arsenal’s situation. I will start with the cult of personality …
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By Gf60 The recent finding by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that Chel$ki were not guilty of inducing a breach of contract by Kakuta was a surprise. More of a surprise was the noting that the original contract between Kakuta and Lens was invalid. This raises more questions than it answers. A few hours before this …
I read a strange thing today on Le Grove. Now if you read the bits and pieces here regularly you will know that we are pro-Wenger, and Le Grove are, how shall I put it, well, not. But as I have said before, even though I don’t agree with almost all of what they say, …
Read More “How crooked is English football: here’s a few examples”
Well hi diddley dee do! I have just spent 2.5 years screaming about the insanity of football in the EPL and how it will all end in tears, and what do you know? It is all ending in tears! (Apart from those down the pub where it all ends in beers). There is so much …
Read More “Every EPL club going bust except Arsenal. Extra, extra, read all about it.”
Let me make it clear that this is not a tirade against Fran Media. If he goes, or if he has already gone, then I will be sorry, but I’ll understand. It is what agents do to young players. Get games every week, grass is always greener, all that stuff. But if he is going, …
Yesterday I took a look at Liverpool. Now about Manchester City. They have joined Leeds United and Chelsea in imposing tough restrictions on who can get near the club – following the revelations about how they sacked Mark Hughes. (Leeds ban papers who report on the legal battles of K Bates, or report on the …
Read More “Manchester City and Mancini. A match made in hell.”
Redknapp to be charged with defrauding Revenue and Customs Untold Arsenal predicts EXACTLY the right score yet again!!! Oh where to begin? The is the second Tottenham manager in recent history to have had a little contretemps with the authorities while holding that esteemed office. In 1987 David Pleat was cautioned concerning kerb crawling (the …
Read More “Arry charged with tax evasion; Untold predicts the exact score YET AGAIN”
Way back before the dawn of the space time continuum I worked as a writer of (among other things) science fiction books of the Doctor Who and Blake’s 7 variety. So I know all about temporal distortions, reversing the polarity, and “Absolute zero sub-ether technology,” which Avon described as “clever stuff.” Which is why I …
By Walter Broeckx Tuesday evening. Wife not at home. Anything on the TV? Oh yes they give a game of the EPL this evening. Well I might take a look. So I put on my sporting channel and instead of a game of the EPL I see it’s a game of the BEPL. The Bent …
Read More “Wolverhampton Reserves and Arsenal Reserves – where’s the difference?”
So everyone is “carrying knocks” or is downright injured. I have often wondered about “carrying a knock”. I mean, carrying where? In my pocket? And what, after all, does a knock look like when it is carried? Is it perhaps a bit like the dark matter that physicists keep talking about every time they try …
Read More “When you are carrying a knock, do you put it in your pocket or hold it in your hand?”
I will admit at once that there are two problems in proving corruption exists within English football. First, the only people who stand a chance of proving corruption are a) the police b) the football authorities c) an insider in a club, or a journalist with exquisite sources. As I will outline below, part of …
Read More “Proving that both the English league and Champs league are corrupt”
I wrote two days ago that I had reached the conclusion that football in England was corrupt. In response to my article the majority of commentators agreed, but three arguments were put forward to reject the claim. They are important points, and I think they need debating. 1: As soon as Arsenal lose a match …
Read More “Is this just a conspiracy theory, or is English football truly corrupt?”
In 1999 David Yallop wrote an inside account of how world football is run called “How They Stole the Game”. It revealed total corruption from top to bottom, and was largely ignored by the football reporting media in the UK. In 2006 William Gaillard, Uefa’s director of communications, said in an interview with the BBC …
This article deals a little bit about Arsenal/Chelsea (well it gives the score), with the arrogance and re-writing of history by at least one man in Liverpool, with the latest on Notts C and Sven, and any other bits and pieces I think about on the way. In short, it is a saturday morning and …
By Simon Bailey. What a lot of fuss. ‘Henri the thief”, as the Irish commentator for RTE called him for the last 20 minutes of the game, has unwittingly catapulted himself into the biggest footballing controversy since …erm, …uh, oh yeah, last Saturday when Shay Given tripped Evra and, shock horror, no penalty was given. …
By Billy the Dog McGraw Landlord, The Toppled Bollard, Islington As usual for a Friday I trotted off to the allotments on Hackney Marshes where I bumped into Dennis Bergkamp who was bemoaning the state of his turnips. “But what about that Terry Enry?” I enquired, ingloriously. “But what about my turnips?” said Dennis, and …
Read More “Do we always need someone to boo – plus team from Billy the Dog”
