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
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————————————————— The season begins: here’s the widest coverage of Arsenal imaginable: see the end of the article for details of how Untold is evolving… —————————————————————————— Untold Defenders: how well did we do? By Arvind A few weeks back I had decided I would start off …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Joel Campbell has completed a transfer of a little under £1m from Deportivo Saprissa – a record for a Costa Rican player. I feel a little attachment to the lad already since I have actually been to the country, and loved every second of it – except …
Read More “Joel Campbell. 7 players and a new Arsenal partnership arrangement”
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood In Lequipe they are saying that Arsenal are talking with representatives of Shakthar and with their Brazilian player Jadson. This is the player who supplied the winning goal for Shakhtar to with the UEFA Cup Final in which he was made man of the match. He has also scored four …
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 …
Read More “Be very quiet, don’t say a word. There’s good news at Arsenal”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx I was going to write an article about how much pre season friendly games have an impact on the season. Of course as the season is not yet underway we cannot know what the impact will be of those games we have been playing so far. Looking …
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By Tony Attwood I don’t know if Southampton like Arsenal or hate Arsenal, but they are making some money out of Arsenal. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, a winger whom Untold (and the rest of the world) predicted would sign, is undergoing a medical. Arsenal are paying £5m now and the same again later depending on appearances. Alex …
Read More “Hello Alexander Oxlade-Chamberlain, great grandson of the British Prime Minister”
By “Arsenal Forever” (ok its Tony really, but there’s a point to the name) I’m currently working on a book with two esteemed Arsenal supporters Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews called WOOLWICH ARSENAL: THE CLUB THAT CHANGED FOOTBALL. Now don’t run away at this point thinking “its another one of those history things, why doesn’t …
Read More “From Woolwich Arsenal to Ignasi Miquel. Be a partizan, but smile at the same time”
By Tony Attwood More than 17,000 people voted in a poll about the midfield of Bar Bar Barce this season. It appears (I have to say this since my Spanish is next to non-existent) that El Mundo gave its readers 12 alternative midfield line ups and people had to vote on the ones they liked …
Read More “It was Mr Wenger who bankrupted Barca – and he can now destroy them with Cesc”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx The questions surrounding Cesc and to a lesser part Nasri are very important issues for Arsenal. Some supporters are ready to drive them to the airport themselves. I can understand them for a part. After all the tapping up from his Spanish team mates Cesc is in …
Read More “The Cesc dilemma: the real reason why we should not let him go”
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 By Walter Broeckx The Arsenal game is very much based on trying to score more goals than the other team. We are a very attacking team and this also leads to the fact that our defenders are under more pressure than defenders in other teams. If you look at a …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood 1. Because as soon as Barca have him they will do the same thing with Ignasi Miquel who left Barca under similar circumstances. This really is a key point because Arsenal transferred Cesc quite properly within the laws of the game, and yet the local mayor talks …
Read More “The three reasons why Cesc should not go to that club in Spain”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood We’ve been debating the work permit situation of Ryo, and the information seems to be that there is no “mother born in Belgium” loophole, and he does need one (a permit that is). So Arsenal are now applying for one. It is interesting that we tried to …
Read More “Ryo, Bartley, Cesc, Nasri, Jagielka, Mata; the new line up and the back up team.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The Summer of our Discontent By Ian Trevett There is no doubt that this summer has been a disaster and it is a bad time to be an Arsenal fan. Manchester United has spent in the region of £60m. Chelsea and Manchester City are about …
Read More “The Summer of our Discontent: how Arsenal are falling behind everyone else.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood It is looking like we might have just players in the Under 20 world cup this summer. I don’t have any finalised squad details (if you do, please update) but here’s what I have to go on Damián Martínez – Argentina Francis Coquelin and Gilles Sunu, France …
Read More “Arsenal at the under 20 world cup and under 18 European cup this summer.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Updating the squad list for the coming season is in some ways easy – after all we have seen the team put out by Mr Wenger in the pre-season friendlies and from this we can start to put together our 25 player list. But to get a …
Read More “The 2011/12 Arsenal squad looks to be the biggest ever”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ARSENAL ARTILLERY PLAYER BY PLAYER By Don McMahon,M.Ed. I will briefly explain what I intend to achieve in this article and then begin the analysis. There are incessant criticisms and dismissals of some of our seasoned and less experienced players from all corners of the Gooners community. Lets see if …
Read More “Under-rated or over-rated players; who is leaving, who is stepping up.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Okay my scouting work on this Young lad Campbell seems to end in tears and frustration. The deal is off until the end of the U20 world cup in which he has to play for Costa Rica. So I will be keeping an eye on him if …
Read More “Let us do it the Arsenal way; Campbell on hold, others pending”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Arvind There is a lot of great work going on at Untold about various kinds of statistics, that affect Arsenal results – both positively and negatively. Just recently, one article which talked about how Gael Clichy’s statistics were nowhere near as bad as you …
Read More “All the attributes an Arsenal left back should have”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Editorial whatnot: Just so you know that we know, there’s contradictory messages here there and everywhere about this player coming to Arsenal. Or not. Or perhaps. By Walter Broeckx Live can be funny sometimes. Last week I sat staring at my TV and as there was nothing interesting on any …
By Tony Attwood The Premier League has changed their rule on ‘weakened’ teams, probably the most insane, inept, stupid and crazed rule in the history of football. (Well, ok, maybe not the most – the ability of countries to insist that all players – except those named Giggs – must play in friendlies for the …
By Walter Broeckx Last year I wrote a bit of a funny article being angry at Wenger for having bought some players with difficult names as Szczesny, Koscielny… well luckily our new signing has an official nickname which is rather easy to write down. With the signing of Gervinho a lot of things can be …
Re arranged Arsenal Squad Announced!!! By Countdown Brian Ahh Jaeeeysus I am tired of all the rumour and intrigue and gossip and scandal surrounding my glorious club and fresh from imagining what it would be like to take some well earned rest nestling in Sara Beeny’s glorious décolletage I have decided to rearrange the squad …
By Tony Attwood I recently wrote about an idea for a series of articles through the season on ex-Arsenal players who are now in senior management anywhere in the world. A lot of names were submitted – although many of these are not managing now, and I was looking for current people. The list is …
Read More “Ex-Arsenal players: so few in management so many in journalism”
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood A group of fans have been calling for Dein to be reinstalled at Arsenal again. Now I don’t know much about the inner kitchen at Arsenal so I have to rely on what I read and hear. I think it is fair to say that Dein has done a …
