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
Dirty Internationals by Alek Pan What would you say if you were given evidence that overseas players (ie those from outside the UK) make the EPL harder, dirtier and more unfair than it would otherwise be? Quite probably you would want to look at the evidence twice. Maybe you would suggest that the person who …
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Tapping up, Cesc Fabregas and what’s happening this summer By Phil Gregory With Barcelona’s pursuit of Cesc Fabregas never out of the news (largely thanks to the rent-a-quote that is Xavi Hernandez) Gunners worldwide have been getting more than a little annoyed and anger at “tapping up” is commonplace. The Ashley Cole saga is surely …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood The Barcelona president, Sandro Rosell, has called Arsenal’s signing of a 16-year-old Jon Miquel Toral Harper “immoral”. The player was 16 on 5 February, has there’s been talk of him being the “new Cesc Fábregas”. He’s just about the same age as Cesc …
Read More “The real immorality rests utterly within bankrupt Barcelona”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Are Arsenal Players Still Lightweight? (Comparing the Arsenal of 2004 and the present batch) By Nitesh Padhi A common complaint against this present Arsenal team is that they are too lightweight. Of course, we can never ever forget the Invincibles and the Tony Adams era, men …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here A walk on the wild side; not football, just weird There is an argument that I have had sometimes about whether players who step up from the reserves or who come back from a very long injury period are like “new transfers”. Personally I do count …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Thanks to a reader from a very cold place in Canada we got some interesting statistics which we will bring to you. Our reader pointed at the numbers and maybe they could settle a few nerves in the coming weeks …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony The return of Diaby – just like a new signing? By Ian Trevett The shutters of transfer window are preparing to slam shut, and in all probability there will be no marquee signing at Arsenal. Now we have three fit centre backs, I …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Scoring goals the most important thing in football. Without scoring goals you just cannot win games. We could rely on other teams to score own goals as United did last season when the own goals was their second best striker. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Tony Attwood As you will know, we’ve signed one player this transfer window: Ryo Miyaichi, who is 18. Now it seems we are on the edge of getting the second: Alexander Mark David Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton. In case what we all …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood The Premier Academy League Table: don’t look at it unless you are feeling strong. We are sixth in the league out of ten, with a goal difference of minus 4. Won six, drawn two, lost seven. The last three games were a 0-3 …
Read More “What on earth has gone wrong with the youth team?”
By Walter Broeckx On all radio stations you hear songs with words like: ‘It’s Christmas time’ and all deejays are pretending to be father Christmas and are shouting ‘Hohoho’ between every Christmas song they are playing. We hear the word peace every five minutes and with the snow so much present we are heading for …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx A few weeks ago Wenger told on Arsenal.com that this squad was the strongest he has ever had. After that we had 2 losses in a row and rather painful ones. One on a dreadful Saturday in North London and the other …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Corley After the Fulham game, Arsene Wenger indicated that he had instructed Alex Song to play further forwards this season in an effort to open up more room in midfield. General reaction around the blog-o-net seems to be that Wenger must be crazy. ‘He’s a …
Read More “Playing Song further forwards? Just how many points has that cost us?”
By Tony Attwood That headline does not represent my views actually but they are views that are expressed on the internet, usually accompanied by a list of players who clearly can’t play and should be dropped, or removed, transferred or just put out to grass. All the current back four usually get a mention somewhere …
Read More ““We need three new players now. For God’s sake spend the money!””
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Will Forest Help Ramsey Grow? Patrick Norwood, Upper90magazine. As an Arsenal fan living in Nottingham the story that has caught my eye the past few weeks has definitely been, Aaron Ramsey’s loan move to Nottingham Forest. Since moving to Arsenal at just 17, for £5 million, from boyhood club …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Keeping clean sheets. How to do it. If Wenger knew how to do it, I think he would do it immediately. So this is just an attempt from my part to see if we could find some pattern in our clean sheets and …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Ibrahima Fode NDIAYE After one third of the season gone, lessons can be learned and remarks can be made. The biggest lesson is injuries can wreck any team’s form. Indeed we have seen a Chelsea team that looked unbeatable with the A team, going through …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood Where are we? We have the usual crop of injuries but thus far we cope – and we are coping far better than before. Cesc running on half throttle, Vermaelen not running at all, Van Persie out for virtually the whole season and …
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UNTOLD ARSENAL IS NOW ON TWITTER @UNTOLDARSENAL and Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ———————- What can Arsenal do to be number 1? By Nachiketa Sharma Sorry guys I know the title of this may hurt some of the hardcore gooners out there who like me think that we still are the no1 team in the …
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By Sean Welch I’m writing this to give you some facts that you could use for a soon to be a rainy/slow day. Or maybe remember as we near the end of the season, and you think, “didn’t that guy on Untold write something about this, back in early November?” We are, I believe, going …
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Do we really win more games when Cesc and Van Persie play? Part-2 By Dark Prince Last week, many had argued that the stats which had been presented in the first part of this article did not show the true picture for Arsenal in the presence or absence of Cesc and Van Persie. So by …
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By Tony Attwood As the media circus hang on to and reprint every word of Sir F Word (apart of course from the F-words) and as Manchester IOU go into emergency session to decide what to do about the Potato Man’s agent (who seemingly pulled exactly the same trick on Everton when his guy moved …
By Bogus Cheese It’s hard not to feel sorry for Sir Alex F-Word… sorry, I seem to have put an extra word in that. Let’s start again. It’s hard to feel sorry for Sir Alex F-Word. Despite his much vaunted socialism and his shop steward background he has consistently failed to criticise the owners of …
by Tony Attwood Sometimes it is hard to recognise all this stuff as football. There’s so much off the pitch, that there hardly seems any room for the old ball kicking thing. Just consider some of the stuff doing the rounds… Arsenal: injuries, injuries, but a few returnees. A tunnel with light in it for …
by Walter Broeckx In a supporters life there are moments that you never forget. Like the first time you see your favourite team live. I even still have a photo taken from the old North Bank somewhere in a photo album that my wife once made of the big events that happened in my life. …
