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
———————— Today’s Sponsor: I am not going to tell you: it’s a surprise ——————————— We’ve been without players like Fabregas, Almunia, Gallas, Vermaelen, Arshavin, Ramsey, Rosicky etc so much this season that it seems normal that we play without them. Take out Song and Clichy as well, and it suddenly becomes apparent that what we …
Gooner Gifts 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.goonergifts.com/ ————————- FC United of Manchester was formed in 2005 by supporters of the bankrupt Manchester United who were so opposed to the Glazer takeover, they wouldn’t even …
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Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid —————————– There is a story doing the rounds that says that the EPL is about to propose that transfer fees must be paid within a year of a player signing. At the moment the fee is paid over a period up to five years, which is …
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Walter Broeckx Yes the defeats against Wigan and ***** have hurt our feelings. The reaction from some fans was to sell the whole squad and buy a whole new team. Certainly after those 10 minutes disaster those fans had nothing but bad words for the team. And yes the performance could be criticised and this …
Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts 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.goonergifts.com/ —————– And first an apology for the author… I am here today to admit I screwed up big time. Yesterday two correspondents wrote to ask …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Sometimes I get the distinct feeling that football isn’t real at all – but is just made up. I mean, we have got through to the quarter final of the Euro Cup – which is further than our recent rivals Chelsea and Liverpool, and the same as Manchester United. We went out when playing a …
Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal”. A book utterly unlike any other book ever written about Arsenal FC. If you have ever wanted to know what it is that is so utterly incomprehensibly special and different from every other club, this book will go some way to explain that. >>> Arsenal 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Welcome …
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Is it all over ? By Walter Broeckx If you look at what some people say, it is all over . Even worse because we dropped points against Birmingham in the last minutes we are doomed for the rest of the season. We will be out of the CL on wednesday, in fact why even …
I started this list the other day, just because I wanted to try and get my head around all the names of young players that crop up. There was some laughter and criticism of my efforts – laughter because I managed to get people in twice, and criticism because it was said that younggunsblog.co.uk/ and …
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. According to the chitter chatter of a million journalists trying to catch up with last year’s stories, up to one in four season ticket holders at EPL clubs are considering not renewing for next season in a bid to cut costs, according to a survey published today. And Manchester IOU are going to put …
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Top Four? by Simon Bailey As the clock ticked round to 90 minutes on Saturday, my friend John grimly declared that if the score stayed as it was we could kiss the league goodbye. My first instinct was to agree. My next thought was that we have been written off twice already this season. My …
Yesterday the football world received some incredibly good news. By Walter Broeckx And by this good news I don’t mean us sending Porto back home with a 5-0 defeat in their bag. That is some very good news for Arsenal and maybe also for the football world in general but you can’t expect fans of …
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“You’re Fucked and you know you are….” By Simon Bailey. I think we are all caught in one of those moments where we are living an alternate reality. You sort of recognise what’s going on, but it all feels a bit surreal. A week ago everything was normal. Respective managers were briefing their respective teams …
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Trying to stay in touch with the financial morass that is the EPL, is tough. In this article I am trying to pull together some of the latest facts, figures, and then conclusions. I am hopeful that if there are factual errors these can be pointed out and I will produce an update a bit …
English football’s omertà: a time for Clean Hands By Brian Baker I was listening to the radio in the car, driving back after family commitments, when I heard that Aaron Ramsey had been assaulted on a football field in Stoke. I was emotionally thrown back to the day of Eduardo’s injury, ten minutes after which …
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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, …
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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 …
You don’t know what you’re doing By Phil Gregory. If you haven’t already read Tony’s cracking piece on football finance that went up on Monday, I’d recommend it before you read any further. As a humble second year economics student, I’d like to share with you some of the insights my studies have given me …
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By Walter Broeckx Play off or not to play off. With the current rumours, (and for once these are not rumours spread by the Untold Arsenal), around a play off for the 4th ticket that gives the right to enter the Champions League, it maybe is worth while to have a look at other countries …
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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If the EPL is about to go bust, what can we as fans do to resurrect it? Rhys Jaggar Sensationalism has been our diet on the back pages, on the internet and at fanzines for the past decade. Foreign ‘billionaires’ coming in, huge debts to pay off, great dreams of Kaka, Ronaldo or Zidane coming …
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Before we begin, Untold Rumours now appear that end of the main article in each edition of Untold Arsenal. Today, its our new goalkeeper, and the availability of season tickets. Now onto the meat and two veg… ————————————- I have been working on a piece for several days about the collapse of football as we …
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