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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 There is very little that the football associations of various countries can do about Fifa since they have been playing the Fifa game for years. Indeed all the English FA have done is made themselves look stupid. They kow-tow to the Fifa organisation, will not have a word said against it, sign …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Arsenal have been using Ryo Miyaichi in their friendlies this season – and yet he does not appear to qualify to play in the UK. So what’s going on? The first possibility is that somehow during his time in the Netherlands he picked up a local passport, …
Read More “Ryo Miyaichi: who checks the passport. Oh no oh no oh no!!!”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood It is looking like we might have just players in the Under 20 world cup this summer. I don’t have any finalised squad details (if you do, please update) but here’s what I have to go on Damián Martínez – Argentina Francis Coquelin and Gilles Sunu, France …
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By Tony Attwood For Arsenal to win the league this coming season we need four things to happen. Quite obviously the team needs to play well. I know it is patently obvious, but sometimes I like the obvious. Equally obvious is that the under 10s say there’s no chance of that, and they are doing …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Sometimes the sound of silence makes more noise than 60.000 in the Emirates. Somewhere in March I had the idea of writing a study. A study on the world of referees. …
Read More “The big European study on refs reveals something rather sinister”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Domhuaille I have been a Football fanatic since I first discovered the joys of the beautiful game in High School. At that time, the biggest sports, where I lived, did not include the …
Read More “Ignoring the ignoble, excusing the inexcusable, defending the indefensible”
By Tony Attwood For a while it looked like Man IOU and Liverpool (previously known as the Insolvents) were going to come a cropper over the Uefa financial rules which aimed originally to make clubs playing in European championships be financially solvent. But with those two, and Chelsea and Man City spending like they had …
Read More “Fifa aim to help Barca with the new 18 player squad rule. Arsenal not affected.”
by Tony Attwood A little while ago the Scottish Football Association threatened to sue a QC who accused it of being “dishonest”, “dysfunctional” and “biased”. As far as I know, they didn’t, but the mere fact that they said they might, shows that something is amiss in football in the north of the UK. If …
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By Tony Attwood . Before England put in their bid for the World Cup they knew that organisation they were dealing with, and the people within it, were corrupt. They must have known because on this site, and of course on many others, there are loads of articles about corruption in Fifa. We even have …
Read More “FA clearly guilty of bringing the game into disrepute. So what’s their punishment”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood The idea of an under 18s Champions League built along the same lines as the mainstream competition was first reported (as far as I know) on the Datasport web site in Italy in 2009. Ever since there have been discussions going on, and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Billy the Dog McGraw runs his finger over Uefa’s financial fair play rules, gets it snagged on a sharp bit and scuttles off to the local A and E for a quick repair. There is a report on the BBC web site this morning that “Two …
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By Walter Broeckx So ref Busacca has made a report about the behaviour of Wenger and Samir Nasri after the game in Barcelona. And now Uefa will charge them both with improper conduct and they could face a ban. In a way this is good news. Because this now gives us the chance to show …
Read More “Whatever Wenger and Nasri said, it was the truth and nothing but the truth”
By Tony Attwood It didn’t make much of an impact in the news when he said it, but S Blatter, head of the discredited Fifa, has demanded a reduction of the number of teams playing in the top leagues in some countries including England. The man who has presided over the massive growth in meaningless …
Read More “Fifa seeks to dictate the way leagues work; the leagues fight back”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood So what does England really do about this world cup stuff? There are some interesting options such as 1: Get deep inside Fifa and try to reform what must be the most corrupt sporting body ever seen on the planet. 2: Stay in …
Read More “England, Fifa, FA, corruption, incompetence. The ancien régime approaches its end.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Phil Gregory So the news is in, Russia has the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022. Anyone who is connected to the Untold facebook page will know my thoughts already, but I decided to elaborate on them and put together a quick article. There …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Is football going to change in the near future? If it depends on the European Club Association it will. The ECA is an organisation from the biggest clubs in Europe and Arsenal is a member of this organisation as are most of the …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Walter Broeckx We all could see that Arsenal was totally in control of the game against Tottenham in the first half. And then we ran out of steam as it was visible that some players were struggling to keep up the pace. Did the international games …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx Once upon a time there was an organisation of brainless people. And as it went in those days those people organised themselves. After all, why not. As any organisation they had to give themselves a name but deciding which name is very difficult. …
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 …
The new consortium looking at Liverpool could back out if the court action currently going on allows Hicks and Gillette to stay in control. The banks would then take action to put Liverpool in admiistration, and that would result in the club losing nine points. It is now said that the American buyers would then …
by Walter Broeckx As we have yet another international break in front of us I just wanted to take on two international matters and talk about my beloved friends from FIFA. Yesterday in my paper it was said that Fifa has suspended Nigeria because Fifa thinks that the political regime in Nigeria is interfering with …
By Tony Attwood If you have an exceptionally long memory you might recall that during the summer the England team in the Bent World Cup didn’t do very well. And the question arose as to why. Untold Arsenal did a bit of research and came up with a reason: we didn’t have the same number …
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By Tony Attwood As it is saturday, consider this point: should you be able to nip into a pub and watch any EPL game you want? If you are in England or Wales the answer is no. Showing games originating through satellites owned via other EU countries is illegal – although down at the Toppled …
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A Norwegian website has claimed that it has the personal data of more than 250,000 football fans who were sold World Cup Final tickets by an employee of FIFA. Dagbladet says the list includes the full name, date of birth and passport number in each case and was built up from the sale of tickets for …
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By Walter Broeckx I must admit the first hours when I found out about the Walcott injury I was down. Very down. Why oh why did it happen again to one of our players. We all remember last season. Robin Van Persie who was on fire. From the start of the season he gave assists and …
Read More “The solution for international football and a way to end injuries”
