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 Yesterday I wrote an article about the 3 young left backs we have in our squad and the options they bring to fill the gap that has been made after the departure of Clichy. But today I want to give you another possible solution also in our team available. Because with Thomas …
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By Walter Broeckx Lots of the fans are unhappy because we haven’t signed anyone yet. Mostly the “we want it now” brigade. The ones that only look at now and this hour. But running a team and bringing a squad together is more than now. It is looking forward for some time and weighing up …
Read More “The left back situation: maybe Arsène doesn’t need to buy”
By Walter Broeckx One of our readers thought it would be interesting to see how some of our major targets did last season with their team. And we are talking about our targeted defenders. So I dipped in my numbers and tried to see if there is anything special to mention about the defending of …
Read More “What would be the best option: Samba, Cahill or…”
By Tony Attwood I wrote a brief piece today on the Arsenal History site (link below) concerning Dennis Bergkamp, in recognition of his appointment as assistant manager at Ajax. The article got me thinking about two things: First, how many other ex-Arsenal men are working in senior management at clubs? Remi Garde has just got …
Read More “Bergkamp, player abuse and players as managers. Can you help”
By Waleed Ahmed This article is not meant as an exercise in fantasy, but rather as a discussion of Arsenal’s strengths and weaknesses, and our approach next season, based on signings. So starting from that point, this is what I would like to happen this summer. Cesc, Nasri, and Clichy stay. Cesc does not have …
Read More “5 out, 3 in, 2 promoted from the ranks. The complete squad overhaul this summer.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood This is a summary of where I believe we have got to as we approach to opening of the transfer window. I don’t claim much special knowledge – just a few friends on the inside and …
By Walter Broeckx With the signing of Gervinho looking very much on the cards (according to L’Equipe Arsenal are holding talks with in Lille since Wednesday) I will be trying to give you a bit of a view on my memory of him. Because for most readers I suspect Gervinho is a player who you …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal 12 reasons why next season will be better than the last. By Tony Attwood For a number of years now the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal, with their negativity, predictions of disaster, and downright depressive natures have dominated much of the commentary …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here On Arsenal’s Leadership By Martin Doyle Much has been said and written about the leadership of Arsenal, mainly around the lack of leadership on the pitch. I want to think about leadership in this …
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By Phil Gregory After part two of the tactical review series, I ended the article just as I started getting to Arsenal’s attacking game. Here I’ll have a look at that side of our game and consider whether a change of shape may be beneficial. We regularly see the problem where we attempt to thread …
Read More “Arsenal’s Tactical review – part 3 : the attacking force”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal have signed 19-year-old Finland Under-21 defender Carl Jenkinson from Charlton. He is 6ft 1in tall, which apparently now matters, is right-footed, and can play for England if he really wants to (he was born in England). He played for Charlton for the first time last December, and played in eight games …
Read More “Our first signing, more new contracts, the pre-season begins…”
By Tony Attwood Last summer we played a little game of guessing which players would break through into the first team this year? One name was easy and stood out: Jack Wilshere. We also had high hopes for Jay Emmanuel Thomas and Henri Lansbury. Plus there were several players who we knew would come back …
Read More “The four players who will join the first team next season”
By Walter Broeckx By being an Arsenal supporter I get to visit a variety of places. Of course I come to London to see us play. Or I come to London to play in the Emirates myself. Or I go to places like Liège to see us play in the Champions League. I was also …
Read More “Untold Arsenal meet Vermaelen gets a hint about our next big signing”
By Billy the Dog McGraw – our legal correspondent. By and large I don’t like censorship. But I find myself writing on a site that is now censoring comments and have to admit that I see the need sometimes. (At the moment we have the issue of people who come onto the site, look at …
Read More “Why I dont like Giggs and other musings about super injunctions”
Untold Arsenal and Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Arsenal Index History of Arsenal with a new series on the Rioch year, and onto the Wenger years. Making the Arsenal – the book of Arsenal death and rebirth By Walter Broeckx Sometimes it is a wise thing to have deeper …
By Walter Broeckx So Jack Wilshere has been included in the -21 squad that will represent England on the European Championship this summer. I wish England and Jack all the best. As we all know Wenger is against Jack being called up for this tournament. Because it would mean that Wilshere will have no real …
Read More “Why it’s not the same for Jack despite the claims”
Who is the most effective attacking player of Arsenal? By Alek Pan Everyone can choose criteria to assess attacking abilities of players. So I do not insist that statistics say everything. But I think that stats can help us in understanding the issue of selecting a team. The main task of attacking player is to …
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Arshavin loses his pace Alek Pan One of the most constantly re-iterated mantra this season is that Arshavin has lost his pace. Lets take a look at the period when Arshavin began to slow down. Appearances of Arshavin on the beginning of the season 2010-2011: Date Team Opponent Comp Result Appear G A G+A 31/07 …
By Tony Attwood In 2008 Hampshire police announced the investigating of racial and homophobic abuse directed by Tottenham fans towards Sol Campbell at a Portsmouth v Tottenham game. The police said they would report the matter to the Football Association because it was not possible to make arrests due to the sheer numbers chanting. The …
Read More “Tottenham, anti-Semitism, the FA, the League, the police, and the fans”
By Tony Attwood Reading some of the commentaries on web sites concerning all the players Arsenal absolutely must buy this summer, it looks to me as if a lot of commentators don’t want to see any players from our junior ranks being promoted this year. Which is a bit of a shame, because I think …
Read More “Next season’s new players: the complete guide (well almost)”
By Walter Broeckx Are we June already? Just checking my calendar and it still is only March. Okay, I admit we near April but still there is a big gap between now and the transfer period. Yet, Barcelona is talking again about Cesc. Not much news you could say. They are talking always about Cesc …
By Walter Broeckx The victory has many fathers, defeat is an orphan is a well know idiom in my part of the world. So to pass the time a bit I thought it could be interesting to see with which team we started when we lost our 5 games in the league so far. So …
By Walter Broeckx Here we go again. What is the matter with some part of our fans? Do they have no brains? Or are they just like me from other parts of the world where English is not their mother language and so they misunderstand things? But even I as a non-English speaker can grab …
Read More “The difference between what is said and what is meant”
By Walter Broeckx Some of us had high expectations on Wellington Silva who would join Arsenal in January. But as he didn’t get a work permit he was send on loan to Spain. A bit under the radar was the signing of Ryo Miyaichi. Some knew he had done a trial last year then went …
Read More “Our new boy Ryodinho, a special talent (although not in England)”
By Tony Attwood We have been talking in my company about Ashley Cole – and one thing came up. Why did he take a gun to work? It is an interesting question because it is one that is laden with pre-meditation – unless of course Mr Cole always takes a gun to work. I agreed …
