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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 16 By Dale Higginbottom Monday comes around again and so does another injury round up. With only four games played at the time of writing there might not be so much to report but shall we look at the numbers and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood As I have made repeatedly clear I was never a footballer, but even after I gave up my pointless escapades on grass after finishing as a student, I continued to play (I use the word in its most childish sense) five a side …
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Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 15 By Dale Higginbottom As winter well and truly hits Britain, we enter a busy period of football. The cold weather coupled with the high frequency of games could have a big impact on injuries to players and we plan to report all these injuries here on Untold. Gameweek 15 …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 14 By Dale Higginbottom In the cold sobriety of an equally cold Monday after a two-day football hangover I can’t help but feel still a little unsure and unstable as I write this. The first home defeat to the Tiny Totts …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 13 By Dale Higginbottom Gameweek thirteen, unlucky for some but how lucky or unlucky have the injuries been on the top teams here’s this weeks round-up. Everton Vs Arsenal Arsenal (5 injuries) Goalkeeper – Almunia (7) Defence – Vermaelen (10), Midfield …
Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 12 By Dale Higginbottom What’s this, two injury articles in a week? Well yes, given the midweek league games I thought another brief round-up was in order. We’re now into Gameweek 12 and here’s how the injury figures stack up …
Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————— Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 11 By Dale Higginbottom Back-to-back defeats are difficult to take as fans of a title challenging team. You always hope that you can recover quickly after the disappointment of a tough away defeat in the Champions League but it …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 10 By Dale Higginbottom Gameweek 10 saw some interesting results and performances by the so-called title contenders but how do the injury figures stack up? Arsenal Vs West Ham Arsenal (7 injuries) Goalkeeper – Almunia (4) Defence – Vermaelen (7), Gibbs (3) Midfield – Frimpong (9), Ramsey (10), Diaby (3) …
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Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 9 By Dale Higginbottom Nine games in, as-near-as-dammit a quarter of the season gone; second in the league and (at present) a level of injuries that is manageable. Gameweek 9 injury figures. Man City Vs Arsenal Man City (4 injuries) Goalkeeper, midfield – No injuries reported Defence – Kolarov (8), …
By Walter Broeckx There are a few interesting things in the media about the relations between the clubs and the national teams. And maybe a development that could be important for not only Arsenal but for the future of club football versus international football. Let us start with the argument between Bayern Munich and the …
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Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 8 By Dale Higginbottom In the last injury round-up we were hopeful of an improvement on the injury status of our beloved club. There was the glimmer of a belief that for the first time in a while we might come out of an international break with fewer injuries than …
By Tony Attwood After about ten minutes of this game the question arose – can the ref do anything about a playing who feigns injury, and then, when the other team pause to see if he is ok, leaps up uninjured and tries to get the ball back. We debated it, because that’s what we …
by Tony Attwood Sometimes it is hard to recognise all this stuff as football. There’s so much off the pitch, that there hardly seems any room for the old ball kicking thing. Just consider some of the stuff doing the rounds… Arsenal: injuries, injuries, but a few returnees. A tunnel with light in it for …
by Walter Broeckx In a supporters life there are moments that you never forget. Like the first time you see your favourite team live. I even still have a photo taken from the old North Bank somewhere in a photo album that my wife once made of the big events that happened in my life. …
by Walter Broeckx We have to be more clinical in front of goal. I think we all have said it or heard it over a million times these last 24 hours. And no one can argue this. Yes we had the chances to score goals and we missed them. But to be more clinical in …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 7 By Dale Higginbottom The weekend before an international break has been a time where we are usually able to field quite a strong team, well at least stronger than the game after an international break. This time around it could be different with so many players out on the …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 6 By Dale Higginbottom This last weekend saw teams, including or beloved Arsenal, slip up against weaker opposition. What do the injuries say about this and do we as Arsenal fans have good reason to believe that this was just a hiccup? As before the players listed are players failing …
By Tony Attwood Could this be the all-time injury record for Arsenal – or indeed any EPL club? If you are a reader of the Arsenal History site you will know that we recently covered a game in the 1920s in which Arsenal were without 10 first teamers and ended up playing the goal keeper …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 4 By Dale Higginbottom We certainly didn’t come away form the break unscathed, injuries to Walcott and Vermaelen were tough blows but we probably come out of the break fairly well and I’ll explain later. This is the third article in the series and I thought I’d set out a …
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