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
Is it all over ? By Walter Broeckx If you look at what some people say, it is all over . Even worse because we dropped points against Birmingham in the last minutes we are doomed for the rest of the season. We will be out of the CL on wednesday, in fact why even …
Stat of the Week: The Glen Hoddle Clinical Finishing Index By J B Harwood A few weeks ago one of the Sky Sports favourite pundits was waxing lyrical about Arsenal. How pleasing on the eye they are, the quality of their play, everyone’s second favourite team… the usual diatribe. You could feel a “but” coming …
Read More “The Glen Hoddle Clinical Finishing Index. And Arsenal.”
Over the past two weeks visitors to this august and hallowed site have been selecting and rejecting Arsenal’s Golden 30 – the players who have not yet established themselves in the first team, but might do so in the coming year or two. You can see the whole list of them, with some of the …
Read More “Vote for the players in Arsenal’s Golden 30, to determine who will make it next year”
By Walter Broeckx of the Arsenal Benelux Supporters’ Club After what seemed to be ages the return of Robin Van Persie comes nearer. This week the manager revealed that our striker could be two weeks at the best away from real involvement in games. Last weekend Robin Van Persie was on Dutch TV and he …
Read More “Robin van Persie says he will reconsider his priorities”
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 …
By Cape Gooner Give yourself a 10 if you strongly agree, a zero if you strongly disagree or any integer in between. 1. I would not replace RvP with Torres, Drogba or Rooney 2. I would not replace Cesc with Gerrard or Lampard 3. I would not replace Song with Essien 4. I would not …
Read More “How big a Gooner are you really? Time to check your commitment to the cause”
Arshavin is the Arsenal hitman who celebrates scoring goals by putting his finger over his lips, indicating for people to be quiet. So we found ourselves entering the start of one of the best football hoaxes of the last few years. I’ve been charting football hoaxes on Untold almost since we started, and we’ve had …
Read More “Arshavin hoax sinks whole of Fleet Street and beyond”
Is Wenger doing the trick once again? By Walter Broeckx .We all know that if Wenger wants to buy a player who shows great prospect he is willing to do something special. The story on how Wenger beat SAF when he signed Aaron Ramsey right under his nose is well known. Ramsey who had been …
Read More “Exclusive: Arsenal’s big money summer transfer – revealed by Untold Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Today was a day that some players have answered some critics they have been receiving for a while now. I want to start with the player that left the field in tears just over one year ago. Eboue. After that he had is horror display at the Lane, not helped by the …
Read More “Chelsea slip, we march on, and the crucified return from the dead”
. 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 …
Read More “Arsenal v West Ham. The build up, the teams, the result, the fun”
I know that this is what we should debate in the summer when bugger all happens but it just sprang to my mind as I contemplated in amazement the fact that we have more midfielders than we need for the game against those jolly chappies from the chippy eastern province. Next season we will have …
Read More “Next season’s amazing wizard as Arsenal win the quadruple”
. By Walter Broeckx I recently read a book, written by Bernard Joy, a former Gunner in the 1930-1940’s called Forward Arsenal and in this book Bernard Joy is talking about the players in those days also being more than just Gunners. Players who are ready to set their personal ambitions aside for the benefit …
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!”
Tonight the ref is the number one ref in Belgium. Or as Zafod Bebblebrox says in the Hitchhikers’ Guide “Belgium Man!” Here’s the assessment of our resident Belgian Referee: Walter Broeckx…….. ———— I really hope he doesn’t screw up on us. Last season he had the Liverpool – Real Madrid game and before the game …
Read More “Tonight’s ref: the inside story, plus the journos prepare their excuses”
This is a story of life and death. And acting. And celebration. It is the story of a club from the Russian Premier League side FC Moscow which has gone bust just a short while after their oligarch owner, a man in the Roman Abramovich league, pulled out, having decided to switch sports. And it …
It’s been months since we talked about players and matches, what with midweek dribble ball and the invasion of the hatchet men last saturday, so here’s a quick run down on this saturdays team, before a quick review of the opposition and their semi-illustrated history. —————- Almunia Sagna Vermaelen Silvestre Clichy (Eboue, Traore) Ramsey, Denilson, …
Read More “Arsenal Burnley: a delightful and insightful fistful of pratfalls”
A review of the issue of assault, and the previous convictions of Shawcross By The Law Back when I was a Law Student, we were taught an interesting rule in Criminal Law, called The Eggshell Skull Rule. This rule stated that if you struck someone on the head which resulted in a shattered skull and …
Read More “Why Shawcross can’t say, “I didn’t mean it” and a review of his previous assaults.”
