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
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES: Arsenal results before the game starts. So, where were we? Everyone’s been off being kicked for their country during Cripplegate Week, and everyone is injured, so we are putting out the under 11s for this fixture. Arshavin’s out, Cesc is probably out, my cat’s out (but that’s a cat-flap issue) and Theo …
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A review of “Forward, Arsenal” by Bernard Joy Bernard Joy was the last amateur player to play for England. He played for the University of London, Casuals (with whom he won the Amateur Cup – which I should add for younger readers was a very big deal in earlier times, getting huge crowds, and sometimes …
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Arsenal – the club for every day of the week By Ian Trevett, Editor of Highbury High Untold Arsenal has kindly allowed me to write a feature for the site and invite readers of the Tony’s excellent blog to contribute features to the Arsenal fanzine Highbury High. Highbury High has become a close ally to …
Arsene Wenger: the best manager England never had By Simon Bailey. No work today, the wife was out getting last minute school uniforms, books, bags, and whatever else they need, so I decided to put on The Damned United, the story of Brian Clough’s six week tenure at Leeds United. It’s not really a ‘Football’ …
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Welcome to the new world – the world in which Arsenal have recreated a team, devised a new free-flowing 4-3-3 system, and produced players of the highest quality who just a year ago were derided. Welcome also to the new world in which Untold Arsenal is able to influence complete matches and give you the …
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So – does size really matter. According to the Sun. And sadly the BBC in a recent article repeated the same stuff, without crediting the Sun, and I fear without checking any of the facts. . Because Sun + facts = a contradiction & as I show below, there is a very good reason why …
Welcome to Season 91. In September 1919 Arsenal started to play in the First Division, having been awarded a place in the reshuffle that followed the end of the First World War. The top division was expanded by two clubs at that time, but the issue of promotion was made very murky because the last …
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The scene: I’m in my final year in the sixth form at a boys grammar school in Dorset, hoping to take the musical world by storm any time now. I get to maybe three or four Arsenal games a year with my dad – it holds us together as I do my sixties teenager rebellion …
Read More “My worst season: Appendix, Arsenal, Liverpool, Wright, ten without a win – 1965/6”
Were the Last Four Years the Worst in Arsenal’s History? by “LRV” Arsenal joined the old Football League Division 1 (the top flight in English football) in the 1919/20 season. Since then, Arsenal Fans have witnessed the good, not-so-good, poor, not-so-poor, Very good, not-so-bad, bad seasons. In all of these, one thing remains a source …
