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 In a perfect world we would win all our games with 3 or 4 goals. But as we have found out already this isn’t a perfect world at all. Things don’t always happen the way we want them to happen. And so instead of us winning against West Ham with a final …
By Tony Attwood (who I may assure you if you are in a dither about the headline has not gone utterly off his stevedore*) It was once put to me by a publisher who was considering one of my early novels, that the difference between pornography and literature was that literature is about build up, …
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw, (ably assisted once again by his nurse). —————- I speak, in my headline, of course, about the line up for the EPL game or “clash” as the media like to call it, Arsenal vs Western Pornography. I mean, what sort of shambles of a club gets into this situation? Two …
Read More “What a total bloody disaster, fiasco and utter cock-up”
By Tony Attwood Sometimes there is a moment to sit back and reflect. To look at the finer points of detail and say, well, yes, while the broad outline is vital the exact issues are important. Perhaps even to admit that occasionally one doesn’t have to say, “Cor blimely guv that’s a turn up an …
Read More “Newcastle Beachboys vs Arsenal: how to get a prediction dead right (well, almost)”
By Tony Attwood Newcastle v Arsenal is a repeat of the first ever league game Arsenal played in September 1893 in the second division. In fact there’s a whole series of articles about the game, including newspaper reports and an article on each and every one of the Woolwich Arsenal players who take part in …
Read More “Visiting a pleasant seaside town for Newcastle v Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood, sitting in front of the tele (with the fire on; it is cold in the midlands) Yes, ok, in Phil’s preview of the game Man City I listed them as having 12 players on the pitch. Some said that was a silly mistake, but it was in fact a clear sign (for …
by Phil Gregory With Chelsea eight points clear after their win against Wolves yesterday, Arsenal travel to Eastlands to play Manchester City. City themselves are three points clear of ourselves with slightly inferior goal difference. It goes without saying that three points are what we want against a team with title ambitions, but our away …
Read More “Man City v Arsenal: the team, the background, the result”
By Tony Attwood Living almost 100 miles from the Ems, I don’t get back home after mid-week games until after midnight, at which time I fall into bed, and just hope to wake up in time to get to work the next day. (Us oldies are not so good in the small hours). So I …
Read More “The most sporting occasion I have seen at Arsenal in fifty years”
Arsenal vs Shakhtar By Phil Gregory The first mistake most fans seem to be making in regards to this game is taking their ignorance of Eastern European’ to mean that those teams aren’t up to much. Shakhtar aren’t a soft touch, by any means. There’s a lot of money in certain Eastern European countries, of …
Read More “Arsenal vs Shakhtar: no messing; it’s the serious preview”
by Billy the Dog McGraw assisted by his nurse So, our beloved Underlord, Cesc Fabregas will be at ‘full fitness’ for the Champions League kick around, but the Overlord says he may not start. Theo has stubbed his toe, and may not start. Laurent Koscielny, Thomas Vermaelen, Robin van Persie, and Manuel Almunia are all …
Read More “Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk: the team, the score, and the bomb”
by Walter Broeckx We all have seen the time wasting performed by Birmingham City last weekend at the Emirates. Well those who were in the stadium saw it, that is, because for us at home sitting in front of our TV or PC it’s much more difficult to follow this. Because mostly the director uses …
By Tony Attwood After about ten minutes of this game the question arose – can the ref do anything about a playing who feigns injury, and then, when the other team pause to see if he is ok, leaps up uninjured and tries to get the ball back. We debated it, because that’s what we …
By Phil Gregory Birmingham come to the Emirates sitting a single point above the relegation zone, while our own title bid has taken a bit of a beating with recent defeats against West Brom and Chelsea. West Brom showed that no team should be underestimated when they travel to the Emirates, so despite a Birmingham …
Read More “Arsenal v Birmingham; the worries, the concerns, the hopes, the victory”
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw Never before in the history of Arsenal has it happened. We have… a team. More than a team. And team and then some. And most of them are… shhhhh, say it softly, fit. In goal: well we have a goalkeeper. We don’t talk about them. At the back we have: …
By Tony Attwood And so what do we know? Now in our fourth year of the never-ending injuries we are trying and trying to beat Chelsea with six or more key players missing, and once again we have failed. The manager can’t rotate properly and can’t pick the best players for each occasion simply because …
Read More “So our reserves still can’t beat the KGB in Fulham. What now?”
By Phil Gregory With a new approach, the Chelsea match preview… Arsenal predicted line-up Fabianksi Sagna Squillaci Koscielny Clichy Song Wilshere Denilson Nasri Chamakh Arshavin After the Partizan game, we can see that Fabianksi is not a rubbish keeper. If he was, he’d perform poorly in training and never get starts. Some of the basic, …
By Tony Attwood It was the most disgraceful, appalling, awful and unacceptable TV commentary I have ever heard – and there have been some dire ones in the past. I refer, of course, to the commentary on Sky Sports 4 last night. It wasn’t just that Arsenal were set up from the start by the …
Read More “The most disgraceful, appalling, awful, unacceptable performance of all time”
By Phil Gregory Partizan away is by no means a game to be taken lightly. Our away form in Europe isn’t the greatest, but to be fair, the lack of wins has much to do with the fact that many of the ties didn’t actually require a win, with dead rubbers and the like tossed …
By Walter Broeckx Well this wasn’t our best day today. You could see and feel from the first minutes that half of the team was still celebrating our victory at WHL and the other where checking their list to see if they had everything packed for the visit to Belgrade next Tuesday. As a result …
By Tony Attwood A bad day at the office generally can be put right the next day. You know you are off-form and the more you try to correct it the worse it gets. In the end you just have to accept that it was a bad day at the office. The trouble with football …
Read More “Inside the ground at least, we are beating the Anti-Arsenal gangs”
By Billy the Dog McGraw OK, everyone’s dead, semi-dead or deadbeat so we are on the edge of using the 9 year old youth team for the match against the Woobooloos. Here’s one line up – the one that Tony tried out on an unsuspecting public the other day… Almunia Sagna Squillaci Koscielny Clichy Song …
Read More “Referee sends himself off in Arsenal v WBA extravaganza!”
By Tony Attwood I was so enthused last night I went to bed extra late, couldn’t get to sleep, and then woke up late (thank goodness, not getting a full night’s sleep is not good when you get to a Certain Age – as we Veterans call it) and have hardly got time to write …
Read More “Arry says stuff you won’t believe, except, oh, hang on, it was said by Arry, so we don’t”
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Read More “A serious, detailed, and indeed intellectually profound analysis of Tottenham v Arsenal”
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 5 By Dale Higginbottom Do Arsenal get more injuries then their Premier League rivals? That’s what this series of articles will try to answer and put the difficult run of injuries into some perspective. As the match intensity increases to include cup competitions we should expect the league campaigns to …
Read More “How our injury levels compare with our rivals. The Untold Injury Index Week 5”
By Tony Attwood Guessing the Lord Wenger’s team for a league match can be tough (as witness the fact that I never get within a million miles of it). So guessing the team for the Diddly Cup match is well neigh impossible. A first teamer that you thought would be rested suddenly starts, and some …
Read More “Arsenal’s team to play the Tiny Totts in the little cup.”
