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
—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————– With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ——————————————– By Tony Attwood Ah, Marseille, the darkest of dark forces. One of the clubs that helped give rise to the legend that match fixing happens in funny foreign places but not in dear old …
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———————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything ———————– By Phil Gregory After what seems like an age, our beloved Arsenal are back after the international break. Sunderland are of course the side facing us at the Emirates and are a side who have started the season poorly after throwing a lot of …
By Tony Attwood Three wins and a draw in Europe to kick off the season – is that our best start? Actually it isn’t, but I just wanted to make the point about how silly all the knocking stuff is. Before Wenger there was no regular European service at Highbury – under Rioch we made …
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By Tony Attwood Theo is injured, Gervinho is injured, Koscielny is injured, plus all the others you know about, like Sébastien Squillaci, Jack Wilshere, Abou Diaby, Yossi Benayoun, Thomas Vermaelen, and Johan Djourou. So who have we got left? Goal – no problems Central defence: Alex Song plus Per Mertesacker with Ignasi Miquel in reserve. …
This weekend brings Bolton down to the Emirates stadium, and with the second string returning to winning ways, it’d be great if the first team could follow suit. Bolton are a strange side, with a lot of positivity surrounding Owen Coyle’s management that isn’t really borne out by the results. They came in at 14th …
By Phil Gregory So, how do you write an article following up on that then? Clearly those were a three points that we should’ve been taking home, especially after a generally excellent first half performance. I’m not going to dissect the game as frankly, you can read that on any Arsenal blog and having been …
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By Phil Gregory I’ve always liked Blackburn away, mainly because I can get tickets. That aside, being a Northern-based Gooner I’ve a few of friends who are Blackburn fans, so I suppose there’s more riding on this game for me than just the three points being contested. A few years ago, when some members of …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered …… Arsenal History Society By Billy The Dog McGraw Some articles write themselves. You know how it is, you take a swing of the 1947 vintage you have been keeping for the weekend, and the next thing you know the whole …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered —————————————– By Walter Broeckx Now I have been talking about the catering and how we got treated in Dortmund by the fans and how it felt to be there. So maybe I should also talk on how the game felt from …
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By Billy the Dog McGraw. Borussia as you will know, being educated fellows and not like those hearty roughs from down the Seven Sisters Road, is Latin. It means Prussia, which is the ancient state which came out of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. These things are important, and not what you get on your ordinary …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Billy the Dog McGraw The last time I saw Swansea play Arsenal I seem to remember that the ground was overlooked by a prison, and that those spending time at the pleasure of Her Majesty would lean out between the bars and shout abuse at us alien visitors from …
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By Phil Gregory You know the negativity surrounding Arsenal is getting a little silly when your Everton-supporting boss bets you £10 that they will finish above Arsenal this season. Now, I know we’ve lost a few players this summer, but for a club who’s only summer signing is a contract extension for Phil Neville, well… …
By Tony Attwood There is a saying, “If you think you are beaten, you are”. And certainly for many Arsenal bloggers that is true. Fortunately it is never true for Mr Wenger, a man who never knows when he is beaten, and who is therefore our most successful manager in 125 years of history. For …
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By Phil Gregory After Nasri’s recent departure, Arsenal travel away to Udinese for a hugely crucial tie. The Italian side took some –myself included – by surprise in the first leg, but there’ll be no risk of them being underestimated this evening. The Liverpool result wasn’t the best preparation for this tie, but positives can …
by Arvind I somehow missed the time of the game and tuned into it 15 minutes late only to see Koscielny hobble off with a terrible looking injury. Hope its good news. We lost the game though with a desperately unlucky goal, I thought. Not counting the second goal as that was always coming 1-0 …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory After a controversial opening-day draw with Newcastle, Liverpool travel to the Emirates with a squad laden with fairly pricey recent signings. That stands them apart from Arsenal FC, with our biggest outlay being Gervinho at around £10m. As Wenger argues however, the question is not money of …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Lucky the Arsenal – Udinese game was shown live on our sports channel. Because otherwise I would have thought that we would have been out of it already. Of course it would have been better if we would have won with a comfortable 5-0 or so. Yeah …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory With Cesc gone, Nasri uncertain and rumblings of discontent in the stands during the Newcastle game there’s plenty to be talking about in this article. So much in fact, that I planned on writing a whole separate piece on the aftermath of the Toon game until work …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory So it’s a new season but the story is very much the same as what has gone before: a smattering of injuries, and a “will they, won’t they” around Cesc and an attacking midfielder. Such is the life of an Arsenal fan, but we’re a courageous lot, …
By Tony Attwood There’s a review of the Q and A session that Ivan Gazidis had at the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association AGM this weekend on the AISA web site and I won’t try and expand on that here, save to make one comment. Mr Gazidis confirmed that once again season ticket renewals had held …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx. A first defeat in pre-season and the media are all over Arsenal I can imagine. And of course a part of the fans will be doing what they like to do: moan without looking at the facts. And in the last game, and in all the other …
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By Tony Attwood It may not be the biggest game in the forthcoming season but we are going to be without a few of the top players for the match with Udinese. Robin Van Persie and Samir Nasri are both suspended for the first leg, so they are definitely out but can return for the …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx What a big chance the refs have missed on Sunday. The plan was that Thierry Henry would have played the last 5 minutes for Arsenal in the game between Arsenal and New York Red Bulls. But the refs didn’t allow this as it was against the rules. …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood With your help we’ve been trying to keep track of the players whom Mr Wenger will be using as the first team squad this season, and recent events have given a bit of an update. I can remember occasions in the past …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx It is always fun to go to an Arsenal game. And this time it was no different. Even though it was only a pre season friendly game it had something special. Or rather said a few things special. After a nice and pleasant ride on the bumpy …
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