Wenger doesn’t need new players; he needs to spend money on some new fans

Ian’s piece brought a number of the employees of  the Ministry of Disinformation onto our site. and I though I would look for a moment at how they are working, what their current message is, and most challenging who is employing them. In doing this I am returning to a couple of pieces posted by …

Listening to people outside England gives you a different picture

By Walter Broeckx The picture painted by the English media of Arsenal being a club in total disaster and downfall is something that is not really recognisable in Europe.  And certainly it isn’t in those parts where they don’t pay  any attention to what the English gutter and phone hacking press are saying. Last Saturday …

For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness,

By Don McMahon For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness, Ralph Waldo Emerson The plethora of angry, hyper-sensitive, choleric, distressed, fitful, and fickle fans bombarding cyberspace with their tryst lamentations and predictions of imminent doom and unmitigated disaster for all things Arsenal, eagerly abetted and aided by the xenophobic British …

At the Morning Lark nothing much happened

Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood After about a week in France with no access to the internet, or the English media, I return with the thought that something ought to have happened in football.   But picking …

If you want to criticise Wenger, please do it here

By Tony Attwood As everyone who reads the mast head knows, this is a pro-Wenger site – a site set up to balance the very anti-Wenger approach of some other blogs. The site has had a little difficulty over the past 18 months as readers who are against Wenger have used the site to express …

The mini league table – Arsenal on top

By Walter Broeckx One of the big issues in recent seasons was our form in the top games. Pundits and a lot of fans blamed Arsenal and Wenger for not winning the top games. And this was in their eyes the reason for Arsenal not winning things. So after all the top 4 games being …

Arsenal – Everybody has an opinion!

Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By DC Arsenal – Everybody has an opinion! After we drew at Tottenham, the following evening I happened to find myself at a dinner that had drawn a wide variety of people.  Somebody, whom …

Snooping Around Barcelona Blogs

Snooping Around Barcelona Blogs By Sammy The Snake Snooping Around has gone international! We’ve been setting up the international desk at Snooping Around headquarters, and I’m pleased to say we are now live across the universe. In the few minutes that we have operated internationally, we have managed to bring chaos/democracy (still wondering which one) …

Snooping around Wigan. (This might be a health hazard)

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Snooping Around 18, 19 & 20 By Sammy The Snake Sammy The Snake runs a company. Well, you got me! Sammy The Snake pretends to run a company while he day-dreams about Arsenal. I have a huge football pitch in my head, and …

Snooping Around Stoke’s Losers

I twit therefore I am @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Stoke’s Losers By Sammy The Snake So Stoke travelled to “Theatre of A Sex Show”  to roll over and play dead! I watched the first 45 of the game, and did something I’ve rarely done in my football life: I switched off …

Snooping Around Blue Sky Blogs

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Blue Sky Blogs By Sammy The Snake My father’s most favorite comment while I was growing up was “money doesn’t grow on trees”. As my childhood was spent mostly on and around trees, this was quite obvious for me, but that didn’t discourage the …

Snooping Around Nude Cuban Football Hotties On The Beach

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Nude Cuban Football Hotties On The Beach By Sammy The Snake You simply had to click on this one, didn’t you?! The title just jumped out of the page, and you couldn’t resist, right? In fact, I was only referring to fat old men …

Was R Green man of the match or should he have been sent off?

By Tony Attwood There is in the football media a hierarchy.  It is not a natural hierarchy, but is one that the media itself creates and re-creates for its own benefit – with each element of the media anxious to keep its own position, endlessly looking over the corporate shoulder at who is coming up …

Bogus Cheese takes on the anti-Arsenal brigade and tells them what for!

By Bogus Cheese, our man with an argument Mes cheery cheries.  Bonjour, hello and what’s new? A happy Limburger to you all. Our dearest old chums of chance, the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal are up to it again!  You’d have thought they might climb back down a bit having taking such a hammering over the question of …

In 3 years time Old Trafford will be half empty, but the Ems will still be full

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 …

Arsenal Worldwide, an update

by Walter Broeckx When I came in touch with Armin Medic, of the Bosnian supporters club,  a few months ago he came up with the idea to do something for the Arsenal fans outside the UK. We had some very interesting email sessions and so the idea of making a magazine written by Arsenal fans from …

Why Wenger must go: the bluffers’ guide

———————— Today’s Sponsor: I am not going to tell you: it’s a surprise ——————————— It is easy to argue that Wenger should go by taking one issue and shouting it, without any backup argument. But it is harder to construct the logic over a larger number of issues. In fact I have never seen it …

The Gooners who hate Arsenal

I was chatting with Kevin Perrett of Arsenal Independent Supporters Association before the Man City game at the  Toppled Bollard (courtesy of Billy the Dog) discussing this, that, and the rest of infinity, when talk turned to the seemingly growing number of Wenger deniers – the doom mongers, the catatrophists, the gloomy bastards who see …

Wenger: the nutty professor who should leave now? Or is it some fans who are bonkers?

    This past week I have got a trifle cheesed off with correspondents on this site who have ignored the article written, and instead developed their own pieces declaring that Arsene Wenger should leave the club. If you’re a regular reader here you’ll know I only cut comments where- plagiarism, racism, antisemitism and anything …

This team will have its day

Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan This team will have its day by Ian Trevett Today is a depressing day as the team effort at Wigan was as poor as we have seen for a long time. I didn’t think we paid them enough respect and it cost us big …

Has Wenger and his youth project utterly failed?

Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan In the many comments on the post re the Wigan game there were a number that said that we should recognise that Wenger and his youth project had failed.  One in particular caught my eye: it said that it was harder to recognise this …

Emirates stadium seriously contaminated. Profound health implications revealed

Exclusive! Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the FSB and KGB in Russia who was granted political asylum in the UK.  He accused the FSB of terrorist acts within Russia, in order to bring Putin to power. On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko fell ill and died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim …

The world of football meanders along, and carries us with it…

It’s a bit of a funny old world at the moment (as they say), and my ramblings herein have no overall focus, what with us not having a match this weekend.  But I thought I’d just throw in some of the stuff that has caught my attention of late. If it is all too boring, …

Arsenal sign a fish

Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com —————- Last week we had April Fools Day with all the usual stuff going up on the web sites.  Red Action announced that Arsenal were going …

The childish whimpering of car thieves like Domenech represent the pathetic winging of football’s dodos entering the last chance saloon

“The childish whimpering of car thieves like Domenech represent the pathetic winging  of football’s dodos entering the last chance saloon.”   I think that is a fair and reasoned statement. The idiot Domenech, whose main job is to steal footballers who are carefully trained, developed and nurtured by their clubs, not to mention paid by their …