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by Walter Broeckx An injury free world cup? Who’s responsible? Since Tony has given my the opportunity to do some writing on Untold I have on occasionally tried to provide some information on the rules in football and how refs should act according the guidelines given by Fifa. As with every World Cup Fifa is …
Read More “Fifa’s finally promise that leg breaking fouls will be properly punished”
How Arsenal came to the rescue of English football. By Tony Attwood I started researching this article with three questions in mind: a) Why is England so bad at football b) Why does Arsenal under Wenger use so few English players? c) Why does the Netherlands, with its small population seem to do better than …
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I laid my cards on the table, put myself on the line, laid my body on the tracks, and generally risked ridicule. After a lot of Untold readers had previously written in and said that the new UEFA regs on financial doping would hit the dust, they went through unmolested. UEFA Club Licensing and Financial …
Read More “New financial regs approved, so I don’t look a total prat”
The last time I wrote about the new Champions League anti-financial-doping regulations that are being voted on today, 27th May, a lot of people wrote in saying that they had already been watered down, and wouldn’t work because clubs would find a way round them. I know it is bizarre for me, a person who …
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Read More “Uefa to pass financial doping rules on 27 May; most of EPL won’t qualify for Europe”
by our special reporters in Switzerland and all over the world: R. Ubbish and E.M.P. Tyhead May 18. The new FA chairman has accused the Belgium FA of helping Holland to bribe refs on the coming World cup to make sure Holland win it. Holland and Belgium are bidding together for the world cup 2018. …
Read More “Business as usual at Fifa’s headquarters as Tottenham bid for the world cup”
By Walter Broeckx Congratulations and celebrations, When I tell everyone that you’re going to the world cup Congratulations and jubilations, I want the world to know I’m not surprised at all. ————- Forgive me to have changed the lyrics of this old Cliff Richard song a bit. The refs that are going to the world …
Read More “Rewarding the loyal refs for their dreadful decisions”
Tony Adams, Mr Arsenal, won the league four times, the FA cup three times, the league cup twice, the Cup Winners’ Cup, and is only player in English football history to captain a title-winning side in three different decades. Tony Adams is in Gabala, three hours drive from the capital of Azerbaijan. Most British fans …
By Walter Broeckx In September the UEFA’s Executive Committee approved the Financial Fair Play concept for the well-being of European club football. The major objective of the Financial Fair Play concept is to improve the financial fairness in European competitions, as well as the long-term stability of European club football. In order to achieve this …
Read More “Financial fair play: how Uefa’s new regulations will be run by a plumber”
Today’s Sponsor: Goonernews Betting Guide Back to the End of the Universe Peter Hawkins Like most of you supporters of real football, I was feeling really pissed off by last Sunday tea-time. “Bugger this!” I thought to myself (nobody else was listening), “I’m going out to see if I can tell those who support the …
By Walter Broeckx Sir Alexenophobia Ferguson has opened his mouth to tell us that the way the Bayern Munich players behaved in the game at Old Trafford was typical of Germans. I’m not going to give too much time on reviewing the ref of that game but let me start by saying that Rafael would …
It’s a bit of a funny old world at the moment (as they say), and my ramblings herein have no overall focus, what with us not having a match this weekend. But I thought I’d just throw in some of the stuff that has caught my attention of late. If it is all too boring, …
Read More “The world of football meanders along, and carries us with it…”
“The childish whimpering of car thieves like Domenech represent the pathetic winging of football’s dodos entering the last chance saloon.” I think that is a fair and reasoned statement. The idiot Domenech, whose main job is to steal footballers who are carefully trained, developed and nurtured by their clubs, not to mention paid by their …
Tony’s confession I made an absolute howler in the original headline of this piece with a grammatical error the size of Real Mad’s overdraft. It has been pointed out in correspondence, quite rightly. Normally I don’t go back and change a site once published, but this error was so bad I just couldn’t live with …
Read More “Make the most of this Barca game: they are almost as bankrupt as Liverpool”
By Walter Broeckx of the Arsenal Benelux Supporters’ Club After what seemed to be ages the return of Robin Van Persie comes nearer. This week the manager revealed that our striker could be two weeks at the best away from real involvement in games. Last weekend Robin Van Persie was on Dutch TV and he …
Read More “Robin van Persie says he will reconsider his priorities”
By Walter Broeckx I remember the day that Belgium had it’s greatest tragedy in football history very well. I know it was a very bright and sunny day. As I worked in the office of an industrial laundry at that time and we had a lot of hotels in Brussels as clients we had a …
The Football Association chief executive resigned on 18th March 2010 after about nine months in the job. Like virtually all of his recent predecssors he has simply thrown in the towel once he realised the enormity of the problem the FA faces. No reason has been given for his departure, and at the moment I …
Read More “Exclusive: the real reason why Watmore resigned from the FA”
By Walter Broeckx In January Sepp Blatter declared according to various media that he was in favour of goal line technology. This was rather a surprising thing as in the years before he was someone who was against the use of technology. But there was joy among people who have always been in favour of …
Read More “It’s one set of rules for Blatter, and another for everyone else”
Untold Arsenal is published two or three times a day. There’s an list of recent articles on the right in date order, followed by a month by month drop down menu. At the end of the main piece there’s an abbreviated contents section (just in case we published something while you weren’t looking.) Stupidity Week …
Sepp Blatter wants to keep going as the top man in football. He has stated he had many more things he still wants to do. Football should be afraid – very afraid. At this moment a lot of the stuff that we’ve debated over the past two years are now moving away from just being …
Read More ““Its democracy Sepp, but not as we know it.” FIFA update.”
Rhys Jaggar and Tony Attwood There are fans of a certain age who can remember Ajax being top dogs in Europe. In fact, that was really the first dominant European side I remember as a boy. Cruyff et al. I wasn’t quite old enough to remember the Lisbon Lions or Feyenoord, but both won the …
By Walter Broeckx Play off or not to play off. With the current rumours, (and for once these are not rumours spread by the Untold Arsenal), around a play off for the 4th ticket that gives the right to enter the Champions League, it maybe is worth while to have a look at other countries …
By Walter Broeckx Another Champions league game … and another controversial game by the ref. I will not start over the not giving penalty for Arsenal for a blatant foul on Rosicky just before THE incident that over shadowed the game. But I just did. Well we don’t get penalty’s this season from refs and …
Read More “The Porto free kick. The referee’s point of view.”
The F.A. Forget To Bolt The Stable Door……Again. Simon Bailey. The fact that the Champions League is fast becoming the only prize worth having in club football has not escaped Michel Platini or UEFA. Staging this round over four weeks so as to maximise TV income is a clever move evidenced by the greater income …
Read More “F.A. Forget To Bolt The Stable Door, plus teams, and the incredible Untold Rumours.”
By Gf60 The recent finding by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that Chel$ki were not guilty of inducing a breach of contract by Kakuta was a surprise. More of a surprise was the noting that the original contract between Kakuta and Lens was invalid. This raises more questions than it answers. A few hours before this …
