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By Tony Attwood
If you create a magazine which boasts that it is the “New Home of Football Writing” then all it needs to be is a little bit better than the football journalism that exists elsewhere. Which you might well think is not that difficult, given the lunatic inaccuracies that we see and […]
By Tony Attwood
We have been pondering whether there are any regulations at all in the Premier League about the quality of the pitches the PL matches should be played on. Judging by Tottenham’s game against Manchester City the answer is an extremely big “no”. You can play on gravel if you like. Or sand. […]
By Blacksheep
I was at the game with Tony but (as he said in the last post) seated downstairs in the North Bank Lower tier. I didn’t count the A4 cards but it wasn’t many and Tony has a better view than me.
There were a few directly behind me but they moan most weeks […]
by Ché ‘Blacksheep’ Guevara
The moving of the Arsenal v. Leicester City game from Saturday 13 February to lunchtime on the Sunday won’t inconvenience me from a travel perspective but it will give me an awkward decision to make (given its Valentine’s day). I think I know what I will do but at least I […]
By ‘DI’ Blacksheep
The confirmation that the police inquiry into the mysterious death of Alexander Litvinenko included a visit to the Emirates Stadium (where they found traces of the radioactive plutonium that killed him) got me thinking about football-related crime scenarios. I am a historian that specializes in the history of crime and punishment (although […]
By Blacksheep
After what seems to have been a very short summer break football was back at the Emirates and I set off to get my early pre-season fix this weekend. This year I rang the changes a little, decided to go BOTH days and to experience it from different vantage points.
As you may […]
By Blacksheep
Today was a five star performance from the Arsenal against a Villa side that might need to readjust to life in the Championship if they can’t get their act together soon. But I’ll leave the match report to Walter when he gets back from leading Arsenal Belgium to the Emirates.
I experienced 5 […]
———————————————- Coventry fail to tame the shrews*
Sky Bet League One, Sixfields Stadium, Northampton – Attendance 1,966
So on a bright sunny day in Northampton (not) and with nothing better to do (except mark essays) it was off to see a local football match to take the mind off Saturday’s defeat. I arrived early, narrowly […]
This article is part of a series in which Untold writers have travelled the length and breadth of the country (well, the Midlands, London and the south) visiting other clubs on days when there is no Arsenal game. Today…
Brentford FC 2-0 Port Vale (Attendance 8,327)
On Saturday my brother and I made our […]
By Tony Attwood
Whether its the constant storms, the fact that it is on TV, the really daft kick off time, the worries about being stuck at the station yet again because the trains aren’t running, or just because it is the cup and hence not as good as the league, Arsenal v Tottenham is […]
Untold Non Lower League: Northampton Town 1-4 Wycombe Wanderers
Attendance: 4,353
Weather: atrocious
Result: Another managerial casualty
Flags and optimism at the start
Tony and I had intended to watch Poole Town (Tony’s local club when his parents moved out of London during his teenage years) travel to Corby Town today, but a […]
Sometime ago Untold ran a grumbling piece about the man from row 15 who couldn’t be bothered to applaud the team even after we had despatched Fenebache (and Fulham the weekend before). He was still urging (very quietly it has to be said) M. Wenger to ‘spend some f***ing money’. Well, his wishes were answered […]
Untold Non-League: Daventry Town FC 3-2 Ramsgate FC
Attendance 215 (including Untold’s intrepid reporter!)
Communication Park, home of DTFC
Once again no ‘proper’ football only pointless internationals (and them not at weekends) meant that I decided to look around to see what was on offer at my local football grounds. I hit […]
Stamford AFC 4-2 Ashton United (attendance 301)
With no Arsenal game this weekend Tony and I scoured the fixture lists and came up with what looked like an interesting tie in the FA cup.
For most us the FA cup doesn’t start till January when the 3rd round proper sees the big boys enter […]
I have to say that meetings aren’t the most fun things one can do in life but when they take place in the posh bit of the Emirates (Club level) and free curry is included it all helps to improve the mood.
I am a committee member of AISA although I’ve struggled to make any […]
Guernsey 2 Dover Athletic 3
Why do we go to watch games of other clubs? Why travel 250 miles in a day to watch a game where the crowd is just a few hundred?
Why, when two of us are Arsenal season ticket holders, and the third comes along to Arsenal when work and other […]
Cambridge City 2-1 Chippenham Town (attendance 322); the second of Untold’s non-league games from the non-league weekend.
Welcome to the Glassworld Stadium in Impington, near Cambridge, the temporary home of Cambridge City for a Sunday k/o in the CALOR league premier division. The Glassworld is actually Histon FC’s ground and Histon play in the […]
Grantham Town 1-5 FC United of Manchester (att. 739)
Last Saturday Tony and I travelled to the South Kesteven Sports stadium, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, to watch a match in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League. It’s part of the Untold Non-League tour, which has already taken us to watch Corby and Guernsey (away at Crawley […]
By Phil Gregory
Unfortunately it was not “that” kind of Arsenal Champions League debut, but I was lucky enough to be at the Emirates for my first Champions League game on Wednesday night. Having only been living in London for a matter of weeks, my previous experience of live Arsenal games was either weekend games […]
Arsenal made a profit last year, despite a drop in property sales (because we had already sold most of Highbury Square) and despite buying buy not selling players.
The operating profit (before exceptional costs, depreciation and player trading) in the football business was £45.8 million (2010 – £56.8 million). The gains made on the commercial […]
An evening in Dortmund
By Walter Broeckx
Going to Dortmund is a drive with the car of about 2 hours from my home. So it actually is closer than London is. And no water to go up, over or under. So when the Benelux supporters met near Antwerp we were all in good mood. Of […]
By our undercover reporters M. Adeup and T. Ruth
Following revelations that Tottenham Hotspur FC have applied to the government for a non-refundable grant for the redevelopment of their White Hart Lane “ground” we decided to seek an interview with the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, the Right Hon […]
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Victory Through Harmony
Continuing our series on stadia, this article looks at Tottenham’s rebuilding plans and Arsenal’s options for enlargement
By Tony Attwood
When Tottenham got permission for the rebuilding of WHL I was slightly dubious about the project. I’m certainly not […]
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Victory Through Harmony
By Walter Broeckx
As I was working on the articles about the football grounds in Europe I had to do a lot of research. And the more numbers I got the more interesting it became. I found it particularly […]
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By Walter Broeckx
So finally we are in part 3 of our series on football crowds in Europe. Part one was about the capacity of the biggest grounds in Europe . And in part two we have seen which team gets the […]
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