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 Okay forget all the transfer rumours, forget all the gossip, forget it all. As from today the only thing that really matters in football has restarted: the game on the pitch. I am fully aware that you don’t win anything in pre-season games. Apart from the Emirates Cup maybe. But after sitting …
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By Phil Gregory And here it ends, the final week of Premier League football is upon us. We’re away to Fulham and whilst reliant on City to stumble for us to slip back into fourth place, but the real drama of the day is at the bottom of the table. Fourth place wouldn’t be a …
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By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref goes on the pitch What would be the ultimate dream of any Arsenal supporter? Apart from us winning every game and every trophy that is. Well I think most of us would give an arm or a leg to be able to say that they have played a game …
By Tony Attwood It was surprising (to me at least, but perhaps not to anyone else) to hear the chant of “Six percent you’re having a laugh” ring round the Ems in the second half of the Villa game. It was of course not the first time there have been negative comments and chants at …
By Billy Le Dog Today is World Vampire Day, and in celebration, we note that the Emirates is the only stadium in the western spiral arm of the galaxy in which a goal scored with a shot from outside the penalty area this season. And thus, therefore and so we come to Our Jack’s 50th …
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RefWatch – Stoke City v Arsenal (08/05/2011 14:05) By DogFace Referee: Mark Halsey Assistant 1: Ceri Richards Assistant 2: Glenn Turner 4th Official: Michael Oliver Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch. Let’s have a look at Referee: Full name: Mark R Halsey Date of birth: 8 July 1961 (1961-07-08) (age 49) Place of birth: …
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By Phil Gregory Arsenal travel up to Stoke on Sunday, ready for a game that has been one of our more controversial matches in recent years. Their “robust” approach to the game irritated many Arsenal fans prior to Shawcross snapping Ramsey’s leg, so the atmosphere promises to be testy. Indeed, the temperature will be ratcheted …
By Tony Attwood Sometimes with the angst and argument, the debate and disappointment, it is easy (for me at least) to forget what I am doing spending my time and hard-earned dosh with Arsenal. But when I think, I know I spend time and money with the club to enjoy myself and to hope for …
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By Walter Broeckx So we won a game of football. A victory that makes me a bit sad. No, not that I feel sad because we won. No it makes me feel sad because the things that happened in the last weeks and earlier in this season. But you will get a more detailed view …
RefWatch – Arsenal v Manchester United (01/05/2011 14:05) By DogFace Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: John Flynn Assistant 2: Andy Garratt 4th Official: Lee Mason Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch. Let’s have a look at Referee: Full name: Christopher J Foy Date of birth: 20 November 1962 (1962-11-20) (age 48) Place of birth: …
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By Phil Gregory Despite the title being seemingly out of reach, United’s visit to Arsenal still holds some importance for our season. A win here is surely key is we are to try and regain second from Chelsea – I expect them to lose at Old Trafford – and second would represent progress from last …
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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 Phil Gregory After Wednesday’s tumultuous clash with Tottenham at White Hart Lane we’re back to it with another away tie versus Bolton. Despite a shock result in the FA Cup versus Stoke, Bolton’s …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory. The Liverpool game was a big, big disappointment. A draw against Liverpool is no bad thing even given their relative fall from grace, so the result in itself is not the end of the world. The manner of the defeat is what stings. …
By Walter Broeckx Pos Team P W D L F A +/- Pts 1 Manchester United 31 19 9 3 68 32 36 66 2 Arsenal 30 17 8 5 59 29 30 59 This is the way the table stands for the moment. And this is what many gooners call total failure. They start …
by Phil Gregory The usual Untold match preview comes with a twist – United fan Mark Butterworth has given me his thoughts throughout (text in italics). If you want to read my interview with him on general title run-in and United, check the article that was posted on Friday afternoon. Before launching into the preview …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory As part of the build up to our FA Cup tie away to Manchester United on Saturday, I posed a few questions to Manchester United fan Mark Butterworth. He’s also going to co-write the match preview for the game but here we wanted …
By Walter Broeckx Losing to Barcelona could be a blessing in disguise. We defended rather well I think in the first half and only a black out from Fabregas allowed them to score. I think Cesc will put this right for us in the next weeks. Come on Cesc, make up for this will you. …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Phil Gregory Arsenal go into this game off the back of a disappointing 0-0 draw with Sunderland. Leading after the first leg, we know that a similar result against Barca would see us through to the quarter finals and the favourites knocked out, but I …
By Phil Gregory Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here A 5-0 victory was one of the better ways to react after losing in a final, even if it was against lower league side Leyton Orient. I was impressed with the manner of the victory, having expected a cagier victory with a stronger …
By Tony Attwood My answer is yes we did learn something. First, and most important, we (as in those of us who didn’t get to the away version of this fixture) saw what an incredibly assured play Ignasi Miquel is at the centre of defence. He signed for us aged 15 from UD Cornella in …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After the disappointing result in the Carling Cup, we have an opportunity to get back to winning ways in the form of our FA Cup replay. Held to a draw after Leyton Orient’s late equaliser, you’d hope that a tie versus lower league …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After forays in first the European and more recently the FA Cup, it’s back to the grind of the Premier League. Stoke City are the visitors, a team few Arsenal fans liked even before Aaron Ramsey got his leg smashed by Ryan Shawcross. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Just imagine what it would be like if we just had a first team with a few reserve players who could pop in when things were not quite on the boil. That first team would be playing every game, league, FA Cup, League …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Just before we get into this preview I should point out that Phil got the score on Wednesday 100% correct. Not bad eh? Tony Orient v Arsenal, by Phil Gregory From Wednesday night’s clash against Barcelona, we’re back to earth with a low-key cup tie at …
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