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
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”
By Imade Itup Another England match, another England footballer wins an injunction banning the reporting of allegations about his private life. According to my records that is now three England players currently with publicly listed injunctions stopping the press and blogs from saying anything about their lives. In considering the point I found myself meandering …
Read More “England: a national team hiding behind a series of court injunctions”
By Tony Attwood You might recall I have been a bit miffed previously about the Guardian newspaper in the UK taking the occasional story from Untold. Now the Observer is following suit. (You might like to know that the The Observer is the sunday version of the Guardian and is Britain’s oldest newspaper still being …
Read More “How the press use Untold Arsenal as a source of football news”
By Walter Broeckx I really would like to know how much the average IQ is at Fufa’s headquarter. Reports mention the score above but I’m not sure it is really that high. But I’m sure they know a lot more about making money and on corruption than I do. But when it comes to things …
Read More “50, the added IQ in Fufa’s headquarter and still going down”
By Walter Broeckx In the so called WC-Bid book that has been finally made public that Belgium and Holland have put together for the organisation of the Fifa World Cup 2018 we can find some very strange things. It seems that our former government in Belgium has agreed with all the privileges that Fifa would …
France 2 Spain 1. Last night. Final of the UEFA Under 19 Championship. In the team were two Arsenal players – Coquelin and Sunu. Both played brilliantly, both were significant part of France’s victory, and both were part of the magnificent double winning team of Arsenal, that won the Youth Cup and Youth League. They …
The start of the new season at Arsenal has been given an enormous boost as all 23 players in the world cup squad of France have been suspended. It might only be for one game, but ensuring that at least three of our top players are not selected for France in the forthcoming round of …
by Walter Broeckx If anyone still had any idea on what Fifa stands for and on how Fifa is looking at it’s job to see if all the clubs do the things according the rules we know now. Yesterday on Fifa.com this article appeared and I will copy it like it was written. Xavi confident …
By Walter Broeckx Tomorrow the IFAB (International Football Association Board), the committee that is deciding upon the rules in football will have a meeting on Wednesday. The meeting will be held in Cardiff. And on the agenda of the meeting is only one item. And this item is to study and eventually approve the demand …
By Walter Broeckx Finally the world cup is over. Time to start looking ahead and think about real football, club football and Arsenal. But just a final word from my point of view on the refs in the world cup. We all have seen the big mistakes some refs made and I am going to …
Read More “The world cup final: being bald does not make you into a good ref”
By Walter Broeckx Another lovely page seems to be written in the lovely way of perfect live as it is according to Fifa. A few days ago claims have been made about Australia’s team bidding to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. They seem to have been given some gifts to try and influence votes. …
By Walter Broeckx Every now and then you have such a game where in a few minutes so many things happen in a game that you can write a whole article on it. Paraguay – Spain was such a match. Before we go to the penalties let’s look at the disallowed goal from Paraguay. A …
“They are evil, dreadful, disgusting, moronic, the lowest of the low.” By Tony Attwood England’s “golden generation” have now had their final, finest hour. As the great guru, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of Brooking, said recently, “There is an immediate void in the standard of the team. World Cup 2014 will be difficult …
Read More “Theo and Jack: when they come knocking, just say “No!””
By Walter Broeckx In the last decades we have seen that the more technical ability and skill you have in your team the more chance you have of winning something. You also need other things but without these first two key points you are hardly going to win anything these days. If we take the …
Read More “For England and the FA, it is time to choose which way to go”
By Adrian Raffill On 23rd February 2008 Birmingham City’s Martin Taylor launched himself into a challenge that took Eduardo’s foot clean off the end of his leg. Arsene Wenger had barely finished his post match criticism of the thuggery that had just been broadcast live all over the world before the English football world rose …
Read More “The best thing to do is to kick these foreigners. That shows them who’s who.”
by Walter Broeckx I think most of the English media will be starting a crusade against Mauricio Espinosa. Off course he is the one that had to make the decision but let me come to possible other responsibles later on. Just to clear things it was not a disallowed goal as it was called, it was …
Read More “England – Germany, who is to blame for the not given goal?”
. By Tony Attwood The rules of football are established by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). It calls itself the “guardian of the Laws of the Game”. What it says goes. There is only one IFAB, (just like there is only one monopolies’ commission) and everyone buys into it. The first set of …
Read More “Who exactly makes the rules in football? And why won’t they allow goal line tech.”
By Tony Attwood (not really an Emperor; he’s just a very naughty boy). When journalists want to talk about crime, they often choose to talk of “organised crime”. I’ve never heard a discussion of “disorganised crime” but if it exists, I suppose we can say it’s what the gang that runs the illicit international football …
Read More “FICK FUFA; how disorganised crime runs world football”
by Walter Broeckx Despite the urgent plea from the President of the Medical Committee which we have mentioned in an article a few days before the start of the World cup the way most of the referees are doing their games is the opposite from this plea. His plea was to ban all dangerous tackles …
by Walter Broeckx I’m not a big fan of international football. Well, maybe that’s an understatement as I think it cost us the title this season with the injury from Robin Van Persie. When I was watching the world cup today I was wondering: if the world cup would be played with club teams would it make …
By Walter Broeckx When I saw Mourinho win against Barcelona and Bayern Munich with his very defensive tactics I feared the worst for football. I feared that we were in for a lot of teams trying to stick to his tactics. Park the bus in front of goal and hope for a counter attack and …
Read More “The Mourinho revolution and the death of football”
By Walter Broeckx Some people who have seen the game Holland – Denmark might have noticed them. A group of Dutch girls in orange mini dress. They sang and danced and well they were a very nice thing to look at. I would say almost better than most world cup matches I have seen so …
By Walter Broeckx Last summer Inter Milan bought the Argentine striker Diego Milito and the Brazilian midfielder Thiago Motta from Genua. Both had a great season with Inter that won the league, the cup and off course the champions league. Both players played a major role if we only look at the final of the …
Read More “Inter to be stripped of Euro Cup? Italy enters the world of a huge new football scandal”
By Walter Broeckx So here we go again, the world cup has started. I have let you know on many occasions that I hate international football. I don’t give a damn about it and I think the world could be a better place if Fifa and the national teams would suddenly disappear from the planet. …
Read More “How Arsenal players will get on in the world cup”
By Tony Attwood The last post (the one from Walter on what you can and can’t say to a ref) was about football with attitude. So this is about football with altitude. Clever eh? Oh well… Anyway, as you would expect, the issue of playing 10 miles up in the air is one that FIFA …
Read More “Untold world cup: football with altitude. What the mainstream media never tell you.”
