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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood In terms of reporting on football, by and large I doubt that anyone has much expectation that we will ever be better informed about what is actually going on than we are now. Jounalists, bloggers and newspaper editors choose what is and what is not news, and report it in their own …
Read More “How come England are getting better at football all of a sudden”
by Robert Johnson Last season, Arsenal were looking like strong contenders for the Europa League. They drew the first leg of the semi-final against Athletico Madrid at the Emirates. However, their Europa League hopes were ended when Diego Costa scored the solo goal in the second leg of the semi-final. After beating Arsenal, Diego Simeone’s …
By Bulldog Drummond In the early days of Untold Arsenal we regularly ran a match preview looking at the betting deals on offer and where the best offer was. But sadly our correspondent moved on, for wholly understandable reasons (and remember, Untold doesn’t pay its writers, so eventually most of us decide they’ve done their …
By Walter Broeckx This morning the Swiss police has arrested a few people. Once again a few top people from Fifa. This time it is supposed to be Juan Angle Napout, president of the South-American Football association (what we would call UEFA in Europe) and also Alfredo Hawit from Honduras who is the boss of …
Read More “And meanwhile at Fifa headquarters … business as usual”
By Walter Broeckx A spokesman of the Austrian football federation said last Thursday against the press agency Reuter that Michel Platini can count on the full support of the whole Uefa. This was said after a meeting held in Nyon. An emergency meeting it was about the position of Uefa-president Michel Platini. As we all …
Read More “FIFA, Uefa and the national FA’s : the same pile of shit?”
By Walter Broeckx As you know we on Untold have been on Fufa their back on many occasions. Today I want to continue but I admit that I didn’t have much time and I thought that maybe for once it would be better to let someone speak about Fufa and what he found out in …
Read More “The greatest indictment of their crimes: Luis Figo speaks about Fifa”
By Walter Broeckx A few times in the last few weeks I have seen the question coming up in the comment section: “I wonder what Walter has to say about that decision in the world cup?” But because of my one man embargo on Fifa and all what is connected to them I haven’t seen …
By Walter Broeckx Everyone familiar in European football knows the word: Uefalona. This is an indication of how Uefa treated Barcelona in the past years. It went from blatant help from referees not only in the match against Arsenal where Busacca let the Barcelona players free when they were manhandling Arsenal players and then sending …
Read More “Will Fifa stand firm in the Suarez saga or will their bite loosen?”
By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it sure would be funny. We all know about Fifa and about how rotten and corrupt some of their members are. This is not invented by Untold; we only see how other people who have examined Fifa and their top dogs came to this conclusion. It is …
Read More “Fifa see North Korea not as a warning but as a blueprint”
By Walter Broeckx As Untold Arsenal is a site that talks about football in general and not only about Arsenal I would like to talk about the cup final in Holland. And there are a few links with Arsenal in this. And with articles written on Untold in the last months. And the Hull – …
Read More “Cup final thoughts: do smoke bombs damage your mental stability?”
The 2014 FIFA World Cup draw takes place this Friday in Brazil but you can follow all the action with our Thomson Sport #GetMeToBrazil Live Blog, bringing you all the news, updates and samba dancing you can handle in one afternoon. The live draw will start at 4pm (UK Time) but you can join us …
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By Walter Broeckx Look who’s talking. Joseph Blatter the big boss of the organisation that is out there in order to make as much money as possible out of football, uses all means including overloading players as much as possible with meaningless games on every occasion, (also known as Fifa) has spoken. He has said …
By Tony Attwood Uefa is considering launching a nine division European league for nations, colonies and territories. It claims the games of the new league can be played in the periods set aside at the moment for friendly matches, but there looks like every chance of this being another thin edge of a very thick …
Read More “Yet another international tournament. It is time to stand up and say “f*** off Uefa””
