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 Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal doesn’t do predictions about who we are about to buy, but if we did I might be tempted to say Sébastien Squillaci. Squillaci is a central defender who was with Monaco – with whom we know that our Lord Wenger has many contacts. He went on loan to AC Ajaccio …
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For England, that was the Golden Generation. Actually the last two world cups and the euro thing in the middle were the tournaments of the Golden Generation. England were about to win everything. After it was all over in South Africa, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of football, made a statement. He comes across …
Read More “Will failed England turn to Arsenal’s golden generation? Of course not.”
By Walter Broeckx A lot of supporters have a difficult time in this transfer window and say that we have gone backwards and have lost a lot of players and mostly in defence and this was the point where we suffered the most last season. So let us have a look at it in detail …
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw “Footballers, like measles, should be caught young”, Sandro Rosell. It was one of the most amazing moments in football that the world has ever seen. Cesc Fábregas, champion of the universe, master of his destiny, prophet to the masses, and player of the year in the Sidereal Daily Mentioner, descended …
Read More “Barca announce the signing of Cesc. Five year contract agreed”
By Walter Broeckx If you ask me what is the most depressing on being an Arsenal fan I should have to have a deep thought before answering. The reason is simple: I don’t find many things depressing when it comes to Arsenal. Would it be the fact that we haven’t won anything in 5 years? …
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Below is the team that played in a reserve game earlier this week – against Boreham Stiff, (sorry Wood). Szczesny Nordtveit – Bartley – Miquel – Cruise Aneke – Randall – Ozyakup Murphy – Afobe – Miyaichi Wellington Silva was on the bench, coming on at half time. So what do we learn from that? …
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By Walter Broeckx We should buy more world class players. It is a sentence often used by fans who want us to buy more. So maybe we could try to find what is exactly meant by “a world class” player. If I think of world class players I think of players who can turn a …
Read More “Finding and signing world class players is easier said than done”
France 2 Spain 1. Last night. Final of the UEFA Under 19 Championship. In the team were two Arsenal players – Coquelin and Sunu. Both played brilliantly, both were significant part of France’s victory, and both were part of the magnificent double winning team of Arsenal, that won the Youth Cup and Youth League. They …
By Tony Attwood Cesc Fábregas has decided to stay at Arsenal. What’s more he has given his exact reasons. “My main reason for staying is that I like to be paid,” he said. “I am not mercenary, but if I sign a contract that says I will be paid each month, I like to be …
Read More “Cesc speaks, decides on his future, and gives his reasons”
“It’s only noise” By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger is opening up a little in his interviews, and giving us a little more insight into how matters are going to pan out in the opening match of the season. One big hint comes in a statement directly from him that he will buy one or two …
Read More “Wenger reveals more about the team v Liverpool, transfers and injuries”
This is overseas week on Untold Arsenal. Walter Broeckx is in Spain covering “Cesc Week” and here is Billy’s piece on tonight’s game in Austria. . Unfortunately transmission lines across the ocean are not what they might be and Walter’s article wasn’t listed yesterday on Goonernews, so if you rely on that august publication, you …
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Just what do the footballing public in southern Europe think about the issue of Cesc, his contract, and the fact that Barca are nowhere near as financially sound as the world makes out. We sent out intrepid report Walter Broeckx to Spain, to keep us up to date on how football appears in such foreign …
Read More “The five year deal is done and Cesc is ready to sign for Barca”
The edition of this article published at around 8.30am BST on 26 July missed out Sagna, not because I don’t know he is there, but rather because my computer decided to take on a life of his own. His details were added at around 1pm BST. Apologies for the first mistake – I had to …
The start of the new season at Arsenal has been given an enormous boost as all 23 players in the world cup squad of France have been suspended. It might only be for one game, but ensuring that at least three of our top players are not selected for France in the forthcoming round of …
By Walter Broeckx I could hardly believe the news I heard today. They said you were leaving and that you were going away. So I had to go to Arsenal.com and there it was red on white: Eduardo joins Shakhtar Donetsk. Well to be honest I could believe it. And most of all I could …
Midfielders: Diaby, Wilshere, Fabregas, Rosicky, Nasri, Denilson, Ramsey, Song By Tony Attwood This article continues in the format established earlier in a review of the forward line. Also at the end is an update on which of the reserve players are not at the summer camp, and whether that means much… So, onto the midfield… …
According to Sky with its story, “Wenger steps up preparations” Arsenal are going to have to sell players to make space in the squad, because of the 25 player rule. They say, Meanwhile, Wenger has hinted that he may look to move a few players on this summer, with new Premier League regulations stipulating that …
Read More “Sky reveal exclusively Arsenal will sign at least six more first team players”
Emmanuel Egbuka Has anyone ever considered the idea that the whole story of Cesc requesting that his future be decided before the world cup was engineered by Arsenal FC, together with Arsene and Cesc? The aim would be to put an end to the media’s never ending stories of Cesc going to Barcelona before almost …
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Jack Wilshere joined Arsenal aged 9, JET joined Arsenal aged 9, Jay Simpson joined Arsenal aged 9 Henri Lansbury joined Arsenal aged 9, Emmanuel Frimpong, joined Arsenal aged 11 (we were a bit late there, but to be fair he had just come from Ghana) Craig Eastmond joined Arsenal aged 11 (ditto – must be …
Read More “The day the Youth Project was crowned in all its magnificent glory.”
Same format as last year – all change at half time, but this time the reserves and the first team were more mixed. No Almunia though, which maybe says something – we saw the second, third and fourth choice keepers but not Big Al. No Denilson – he’s injured. No world cup players – they …
Read More “It’s the Frimpong-Wilshere show: Barnet 4 Arsenal 21”
Forwards: Arshavin, van Persie, Bendtner, Chamakh, Eduardo, Walcott, Vela. By Tony Attwood By way of explanation I should add that Vela and Walcott have been listed by Arsenal as forwards and Arshavin as a midfielder. I’ve just made an arbitary decision and called them all forwards. And what do we find… Overall we have never …
Read More “Next season’s Arsenal team in detail: the front line”
By Walter Broeckx Cesc has just had the “privilege” of spending some two months in the Spanish team during the world cup and its preparation. And in this period he has kept his mouth shut about his future and if he said something it was in fact saying nothing. But we must keep in mind …
Read More “Cesc: the reality and the truth. (Thanks Puyol and Picque)”
By Tony Attwood It seems like forever since we had any real football, but there’s only five days to go before we start again – as usual at Barnet. Last season the game was curious: we had two different teams out for the two halves (that’s fairly normal) but with some of them playing out …
Read More “Let the football begin: Arsenal back in action on saturday”
By Tony Attwood If you ever care to meander out of the present day to the dim and distant past you might have noticed that on the Woolwich Arsenal site we are running a series on the players who started the first match of the 1910/11 season for Arsenal. Which made we want to think …
Read More “Arsenal’s First Team 2010-11; the complete run down”
As you’ll know, Laurent Koscielny is our latest new signing. If we want to be honest before his name was linked with Arsenal not many of us had heard his name. And I have to confess that I never had heard of him before either. I must say that I did on occasion look at …
