Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory With renewed confidence for our title tilt after a comfortable win over Chelsea, it’s off to Wigan after a mere day’s rest for the Arsenal. The Christmas fixture list is crazy at the best of times, but a single day between games is …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx But first, The Prologue (by Tony) Kevin sits two rows in front of me, in the increasingly famous block 99, just above Red Action. At half time we were standing at our seats taking in the glorious goal, debating extraordinary ability of Nasri …
Read More “When Kevin says we’ll get three, we get three.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After the last game was cancelled against Stoke, the snow has thawed sufficiently for our home game against Chelsea to be given the go ahead. (It’s deep snow where I am Phil, and I’m struggling to get the car dug out of the …
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RefWatch – Arsenal v Stoke City (18/12/2010 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Lee Mason Assistant 1: Mick McDonough Assistant 2: Patrick Keane 4th Official: Keith Stroud Good morning stat-fans and welcome to what is a rather threadbare RefWatch. The reason being that we have on our hands a couple of new(ish) boys – the up’n’comers and …
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Arsenal / Partizan By Phil Gregory Following on from Smair Nasri versus Fulham, Partizan come to the Emirates. After a tight game in Belgrade , which arguably marked the turning point in Fabianski’s Arsenal career, the final match of the group stage offers us an outside chance of first place in the group. It wouldn’t …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Just look at the facts. We are supposed to be team that according to the pundits is really a bad team. We don’t know how to defend, we don’t know how to score, we don’t know how to deal with …
Read More “The EPL is the worst league in the world. After Arsenal/Fulham it must be”
By Phil Gregory Following on from the midweek Carling Cup action, Fulham travel to the Emirates . It’s been a disappointing campaign for Fulham: things can never said to be going well when you are near the foot of the table. They’ve consistently been picking points up over the course of the season but mainly …
Read More “Ice, snow, frozen wastelands, Arsenal, Fulham, teams, result”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory Carling Cup action is the order of the day for Tuesday evening, with Wigan coming to the Emirates. Wigan at home fits the bill of what I’d call an “ideal” Carling Cup tie: a lower Premier League/decent Championship side, good enough to pose …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Sometimes around 1615 Galileo Galilei invited an emissary of the pope to look through his telescope at the four little discs moving across the face of Jupiter. The emissary refused to look, saying that he did not need to look through a telescope …
Read More “Was Galileo an Arsenal supporter, does the sun go round the earth, are the Opta stats a load of cobblers.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Billy “The Dog” McGraw The Premier League has announced that it is to carry out what it calls a “major and significant” enquiry into match fixing at the Aston Villa vs Arsenal game today. “It is self-evident,” said Sir Hardly Anyone, president of the EPL, …
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By Tony Attwood There are no secrets in football any more. Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin are having a little break from the rigours, and Gaël Clichy has hurt his back – everyone knows. Henri Lansbury has gone on a short term loan to Norwich (a small island just off the western coast of …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx Time to look forward to a visit to Os Arsenalistas as they are called in Portugal or Braga as we and most of the world know them. I’m not going to take over from Billy the Dog or from Phil who can do …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The Lost Weekend Directed by Arsene Wenger Produced by Arsenal Football Players Screenplay by Everygooner Story by Don Birnam Starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman Running time 95 Minutes Release date November 20th 2010 By Paul Fowler I sit and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ———————————————- by Phil Gregory Tottenham head to the Emirates on Saturday for a game that has more than a few sub-plots to it. Struggling somewhat in the league off the back of their Champions League commitments, Spurs are in a position where they need to get …
Read More “Arsenal v the Tinies. The tricks, the tally, those terrified turns as traumatised Totts troop tunnelwards.”
By Walter Broeckx After the midweek internationals (stupid as they were friendly internationals) we get back to the real thing. Arsenal and football. At first sight not many players have come back in pieces it seems. So that is some good news. No, change that into real good news. The only concern looks to be …
Read More “Coming up: six Arsenal games in 18 days. Just bring it on”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood These are difficult times for the anti-Arsenal alliance of mobsters whose single aim is to bring down the Lord Wenger and the club he built from the mould ridden ruins of the of the Bruce Rioch year. According to the anti-Arsenal we are …
Read More “Don’t say we didn’t warn you.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Apologies if you got sidetracked by the earlier preview – the world is back on track, Thomas Vermaelen has opened his presents, and its the regular preview… By Phil Gregory After an interesting game for United, the opportunity to definitively go second looms for Arsenal. I …
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By Tony Attwood As one door closes another slams in your face, as the old Cockney saying goes. Thomas V must be feeling this, aged 25, not sure when he will play again. I’ve got problems too, but not as bad as his. And you don’t want to know about my problems, but I will …
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Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood This little piece is written on Tuesday night, and left for my co-editor Walter to publish at an appropriate moment. I can’t beat his 2593 mile round trip from Antwerp to the Ems, but I am travelling from my home in Northamptonshire …
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Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————- By Tony Attwood I’ve rambled on here before about the fact that I have never played semi-pro football, never refereed, never managed a team, and that my highest achievement in the world of active football was at the very amateur level. And even then …
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Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————— By Phil Gregory Arsenal return home after the second string fell to defeat in the Ukraine in midweek. An inconsistent Newcastle side are the guests at the Emirates, coming in off the back of an impressive 5-1 derby win. I was fortunate enough to …
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By Billy the Dog McGraw. This weekend we shall see the new formation – at least that is my prediction. In a second and a half I shall give you the low-down and upside down on the Castle of Neu but first, look at this… Fabianski Sagna, Squillaci, Koscielny, Clichy Song, Wilshere Fabregas, Nasri Walcott, …
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By Walter Broeckx I think many people could write a book about us losing yesterday. They could point at the mistake player X made, or at the bad pass player Z made. Or we could blame the ref, which I partly do in fact for the first goal. As he made the mistake of playing …
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Match preview by Billy the Dog McGraw, lost at sea. Here’s a thought. We have had months and years (up to 1 September) of Arsenal being sniggered at by silly Spanish people who claimed that Cesc was about to leave, and how we couldn’t keep our players, and well, even if not in the summer …
Read More “You might think its a long way to the chemist, but that’s nothing compared to Donesk”
Shakhtar vs Arsenal preview by Phil Gregory Off the back of a deserved late winner against West Ham at the weekend, Arsenal are off to Eastern Europe. Not usually the most lucrative of hunting grounds for us, a solid victory in Belgrade earlier in the European campaign hopefully marks a new beginning for Arsenals travails …
Read More “It’s a hell of a long way to the Ukraine. Part 1”
