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
Arsenal was once the capital of whining, whinging, moaning, and general complaining of an “its a total disaster” type. Supposed fans would moan about Wenger, his lack of signings, his tactics, the silence of the ground, the lack of passion on the pitch, not winning anything for 2,102,453 seconds, the slowness of Dixon, the misses …
Dear Mr Usmanov, You will appreciate that there are many Arsenal supporters who are nervous at what they see as your desire to increase your shareholding in Arsenal. There are also, as you will know, a number who are concerned about the stories that relate to your past. And there are others who are concerned …
Read More “What Mr Usmanov can do with his money – an open letter to the Arsenal shareholder”
There I was, pausing in my busy daily schedule of writing stuff, to take a quick Florida Salad Sandwich, when the news pops up. Arsenal will sell Cesc for £40 million. And you know it must be true because it is in that central and vital source of all news about Arsenal, the people on …
Despite my regular protests Team Talk won’t do anything about people taking Untold Arsenal stories and sticking them on the TT site, with no acknowledgment. OK it is not that important, and you can say, “so what?” and “get over it”. And I see your point, squire, but… I am sure Team Talk won’t mind …
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Last season the excellent magazine Highbury High invited a range of supporters to participate in the prediction game, where the writers nominate the player who would make the breakthrough in the season to come. The publishers very kindly included me in their list of guest writers and so I duly cheated and put in two …
Just as I was thinking we’d had enough of hoaxes on this site for a while, a post turned up claiming that “Wenger is London’s least popular Premier League manager in the eyes of his club’s own supporters with Roy Hodgson, Guus Hiddink, Gianfranco Zola and Harry Redknapp all polling higher marks for last season” …
Read More “Evening Standard launch another hoax Arsenal story, but its not very good”
By Greg Adams At a time when most of the major Premier League clubs have been bought by Russian, American and Arab investors and mortgaged to within an inch of their survival we should be grateful that, for the time being, ownership of Arsenal remains largely in the hands of those that love the club …
Read More “Why you should join Arsenal Supporters Trust today”
Depression is not worry – it is a lot worse than that, and can alternate with manic hysteria or with a short-term feeling that everything is wonderful. So it we look for these traits in EPL supporters, where do we find them? Newcastle Zebras must be top of the league – except they are not …
Read More “Who are the most depressed supporters in the EPL?”
Although this article doesn’t start with anything Arsenal it gets there in the end. If you have a mind to, stay with me. Writing (as I am) as many Europeans exercise their right to vote for Members of the European Parliament I am reminded of John Philpot Curran and a speech he made on the …
Read More “All Arsenal supporters should write to RBS about Liverpool’s loans”
Just imagine what would have happened if Ancelotti – late of AC Milan now of the KGB in Fulham had been at Arsenal. At first the club’s world-wide supporters would have rejected his credentials. Here is a man whose greatest achievement in Europe prior to joining AC Milan was to win not the Euro Cup …
Read More “If Ancelotti had been at Arsenal we’d have kicked him out”
After those of us with a bit too much time on our hands gave the Mirror and News of the World a bit of a run around over their “Everyone wants to leave Arsenal” campaign, they’ve retaliated twice – once with the old-fashioned “snub” standby, and now today with with Wenger clearout story. The “snub” …
Read More “Invented Arsenal stories + a rundown of all the clubs that have gone bust”
Every day this site gets about 10 or 15 comments which I don’t publish. Quite a few are in Russian (honest!) and I can’t allow them through because I can’t read the lingo so I don’t know what they are about. I suppose they are attracted by the fact that I renamed Chelsea to KGB …
Read More “What Mr Wenger said at the shareholders’ meeting”
A majority of EPL clubs have agreed to a new rule which means that the players selected for each EPL game (including those on the bench) must include a set number of “home-grown” players. Uefa already requires that clubs must have eight homegrown players in their squads of 25 nominated for the tournament. The Football …
In legal terms that is a meaningless question – the company is either trading or it runs out of the ability to borrow money and stops paying its bills. No one has presented a winding up order on the club yet but hardly a week passes without the feeling growing that we are getting ever …
What to do if you have five minutes to spare: go to yesterdays article – (Arsenal Sign a New Defensive Enforcer). If you have a particularly large amount of free time you can skim through that – the bit about the enforcer is at the end – but then, much more importantly I’d invite you …
Read More “Intelligent comment and a very funny joke about Arsenal”
Is fourth good enough? Well it depends on what you mean by fourth. There was a time a couple of years back when Liverpool came fourth and I remember looking at the table with interest at the time and realising that they were so far behind the top that they were closer (in number of …
The “Wenger must go” chant is rising and rising. Fortunately not in the stadium, where most supporters seem to have a longer term perspective, but on the internet it is everywhere. I’ve just been reading the post on Arsenal Action called “Sorry Arsene its time to go”, where the writer gives his reason for this …
When the big games come I get nervous – just like most supporters I guess. Probably the worst occasion was the final game at home to Leicester in the Unbeaten Season. I had hoped I would be dancing and singing and having a lovely time, taking photos and all. But the silly buggers were one …
I have been getting seriously worried. We had that little bit of a laugh over how every club in the multiverse will be bidding for our players, and how they will all be leaving, and the club will fall apart and we will be heading for League Two or wherever it is that Southampton play. …
In the last 2 years football has changed in the EPL. There have always been teams that would try and play for a 0-0 draw, but the last couple of years has seen a huge rise in this tendency. This year in particular we have had team after team after team turn up and from …
Read More “Our magnificent defence, our magnificent youth team”
The Red Flag and why the bloggers are wrong
Arsene Wenger’s great dream of producing a reserve team that can regularly beat Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United’s first team is almost ready to be unleashed on the world, but not quite. Last night we went out with no Almunia, no Gallas, no Djourou, a clearly only half-working Sagna, no Clichy, no Van Persie, no …
I suspect I was taking one of my usual vacations on another planet when the news came through that this year’s Ems Cup will include Inter, PSG and Rangers. I don’t support any particular Scottish team, and as I am not a Christian, I don’t fall on either side of the sectarian divide, so I …
There are clubs that owe an uncontrolled unmaintainable fortune, and those that don’t. Arsenal have a debt that declines year by year with the mortgage, the rest have debts so huge they can’t be refinanced and interest can’t be repaid. And there are Arsenal supporters who think Arsenal should join these manic clubs, should buy …
One is obvious – we won and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Pires was given the regard and respect that he should have – he was a significant part of the success that Henry got, through an overwhelming and perfect understanding between the two (apart from that time they mucked about doing a penalty …
