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 Phil Gregory Next up is Birmingham away, a match with more than enough plotlines for a football game, but more on that later. I was talking to a mate about the league run-in (a United fan, unfortunately) and we agreed that it is rapidly resembling a knockout competition. The old cliché of “every game …
Billy the Dog McGraw, landlord of the Toppled Bollard, Islington, looks forward to another exciting encounter. Interview by Dennis Bergkamp Translation by Iva Goodidea of Whatsgoingon Birmingham City FC are the official team of Satan, the Devil, the Horned Beast, Beelzebub. They were founded as Small Heath Alliance and Leicester Building Society in 1875 and …
West Porno United, named after their owners, threw everything at Arsenal in this game, and then some. We expected rotational fouling – it is what the lesser clubs do, and we got it. We expected the referee (their 12th man) and his linos (13th and 14th) to do their bit in letter it go – and they did. …
. Phil Gregory on Arsenal v West Ham United . Morning Untold. We’re straight onto the next cup final with the Hammers coming to the Emirates on Saturday, but first a quick word on the Hull game. As a longtime Bendtner fan, life hasn’t always been easy for me. I had a huge argument about …
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By Walter Broeckx The last time I compared our current season with the last, we were half way the season. In case you missed it last time around, I just would like to explain that I just took the games from last season and the corresponding game of this season and compared the results. It’s …
Read More “We’ve already scored more goals than in the whole of last season”
. Did Arsenal “come of age” against Hull? By Paul Collins Looking through the media outlets this weekend there seemed to be a common theme, that of Arsenal “maturing”, “coming of age”, or “growing up” against Hull. Is there any substance to that argument? I personally don’t think so, and believe that those who spout …
By Walter Broeckx Another eventful game I must say and once again some very strange things going on, on a football field. Let me start with the actual field of play. In the Fifa rules, which Mr. Blatters finds so important, there are some clear rules concerning the lines on a football field. When I …
By Phil Gregory After an awe-inspiring win against Porto, Hull away is next up on the agenda and with it the end of our recent week-long rest periods. I can empathise with the players, I really can: fixture congestion is a blight on the game extending as far down the footballing pyramid as Intramural League …
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Billy The Dog McGraw previews Arsenal at Hull, and our reunion with Spit Brown. Spit Brown is a world-famous fantasist who holds the record for the number of times a manager has been warned about his future conduct in one year. He manages a football club at Kingston upon Hull – a diminutive village on …
Yesterday the football world received some incredibly good news. By Walter Broeckx And by this good news I don’t mean us sending Porto back home with a 5-0 defeat in their bag. That is some very good news for Arsenal and maybe also for the football world in general but you can’t expect fans of …
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By Walter Broeckx I have read somewhere over the internet that the pundits in England had a hard night. I can understand that. How can you explain Arsenal beating Porto with 5 -0 when you have been saying a whole season how bad we are. And then to realise we played without Cesc, Gallas and …
Read More “Could Man U or Chelsea have won a game like this? No chance!”
Tottenham could decide the Championship Paul Collins The final weeks of the 2009/10 season are shaping up to be fascinating. When was the last time we had 3 teams in serious contention for the Championship at this late a stage in the season AND at the same time saw the battle for 4th, and the …
Walter Broeckx comments on Antwerp to the Emirates – and back – in one day Another day at the Emirates for me and some of my family. I must say that I really don’t know how to start this time. It was a day of great emotions once again. We left Brussels right on time …
Hello hello, that was fun. Walter and co from Benelux Supporters Club found their way to the Auld Triangle and I took Walter in to show him what a north London pub looks like before it gets crowded (I mean there were only 200 people inside the public bar, and it only took half an …
Read More “A game of three halves as Arsenal beat the wheelbarrow”
Oh what a week, what a day. The chauffeurs are chauffed, the postilions are in position, and the trusty Austin 7 is in the drive ready for the 88 miles from here to Arnos Grove underground station. And there I was a few days back thinking that these Burnley people were jolly nice folk who …
English football’s omertà: a time for Clean Hands By Brian Baker I was listening to the radio in the car, driving back after family commitments, when I heard that Aaron Ramsey had been assaulted on a football field in Stoke. I was emotionally thrown back to the day of Eduardo’s injury, ten minutes after which …
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The argument about Aaron Ramsey runs roughly like this… The media, with a mixture of traditional English dislike of success, plus a deep-rooted disgust at all things French, and a desperate need to create news out of nothing, constantly announce that the only way to beat Arsenal is to rough them up. The story is …
By Walter Broeckx Some have asked my point of view on the game and I must say it is with much pain in my heart that I will try to analyse the game. I will try to come to the Ramsey incident in the last part and hopefully by then I get my thoughts a …
It was as if Stoke City had studied the disgraceful tactics of Birmingham City and seen them as a blueprint rather than a dire warning. And in one way they were right. After all, if you can cut out a player totally for a year or maybe more, and just risk a 3 match ban …
Read More “Evil nauseating scum plus utterly bent ref 1 Arsenal 3”
Article history: because of the difficulties explained below, bits of this article were added as time went by. Last update 1108 GMT, 27 Feb By Billy the Dog McGraw Tony telephoned me in an absolute panic (you know how he gets worked up so easily) saying that Phil had sent in his Stoke City preview …
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Silverware or Silver Lining. By Simon Bailey. There has been plenty of talk about United and Chelsea having to drop points in order for us to win the title this year. It’s fairly obvious that one-dimensional United will drop some. Rooney looks knackered and with their fixture list, will inevitably fade. The press have made …
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A Start of a Golden Age! By Hartwick89. So with 11 games left the maximum points for the top three is 33. The table for the top three post Saturday’s fixtures is; Chelsea 61points; Manchester United 57points; Arsenal 55 points. And the remaining fixtures are as follows; Manchester United Chelsea Arsenal 1.Everton …
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Text of Billy The Dog’s interview with Ino Nothing on BBC Radio 5 previewing the Big Match. Preliminaires Sunderland is a small village to the north of Hatfield (actually one geography book has it north of Bradford but I don’t think that is possible). The village was invaded by the Vikings in 1227 (just before …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland: Davy Lamp, Sir Hardly Anyone and a man with one leg”
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.”
Billy the Dog McGraw’s Postcard from Porto First thing to notice out here is that the locals don’t speak English to each other – they speak Euro. This is a bit of a pain because it means you have to shout all the time to be understood. Seems a bit perverse to me, but there …
