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 When Robin Van Persie got his very bad injury last season when he played with Holland against Italy it was clear that he would miss the biggest part of the season for Arsenal. I then wrote that probably Robin would be fit for the world cup and have a big impact. Well …
Read More “A Gunner in the world cup final: Robin van Persie – the inside story.”
Egg on face, custard all over face, total red face… how do I express my utter embarrassment? After weeks if not months laughing at the Tiny Totts and others not managing to put together a reserve team, Young Guns (exquisite, up to date and far more accurate than Untold on such matters) has revealed that …
by Walter Broeckx One of our readers, Adam, wrote a comment a few days ago and it goes like this: “If you truly wish to ascertain blame then you should look in the direction of “Neuer” and “Tevez” true sportsmen who should both receive awards for honesty. All other arguments are a waste of time. …
Welcome to the Untold Intrepretation By Tony Attwood As the transfer guessing game starts (according to my diary tomorrow’s July 1), here’s where we are starting from – the squad for the new season. This season for the first time the “25” year rule applies. We’ve been through this in detail a number of times …
Read More “Arsenal’s 2010/11 squad – the new rules, the transfers, the list”
By Adrian Raffill On 23rd February 2008 Birmingham City’s Martin Taylor launched himself into a challenge that took Eduardo’s foot clean off the end of his leg. Arsene Wenger had barely finished his post match criticism of the thuggery that had just been broadcast live all over the world before the English football world rose …
Read More “The best thing to do is to kick these foreigners. That shows them who’s who.”
By Walter Broeckx Vicente del Bosque is the name of the manager of the Spanish national team and he just maybe the most important player in the saga of where Cesc will be next season or even next seasons. Del Bosque is what we could call a Real Madrid man. He played there the main …
By JBH Yes Arsenal had injuries… but so too did Chelsea and Man Utd How many times did you hear the above strap line at the end of the last season? Well there are injuries and there are INJURIES! Lets take a little closer look at the injuries over the past year before we jump …
Read More “The injuries of 2009/10: just how do we compare with the other top teams?”
By Tony Attwood (on my birthday!) Arsenal have provisionally struck a deal, subject to the usual personal terms, a medical and a cup of tea, with FC Lorient for centre back Laurent Koscielny, according to our pals at Young Guns. (OK I know I keep mentioning that site, but as a source of accurate info …
Read More “Laurent Koscielny: Arsenal. Francis Coquelin: Lorient”
By Walter Broeckx. Editor’s note: if you are squeemish, or a very deep and sincere believer in animals’ rights, this may not be the article for you. Especially at lunch time. Ever since Vermaelen set foot on English soil some fans noticed that he had a very sharp look in his eyes. Eyes that can …
OK, that would be just me then. Or at least that is what it often felt like when he was in the team. In his short, peak period, I thought he was God’s gift to the team, and was certain he was going to become one of the all time greats. There’s even a little …
Will he come by bike? By Walter Broeckx We all know how most of the media in the big football countries are talking about transfers. I should have said lying about transfers. Every big name that goes along is rumoured to be sold, or has been sold or will be sold before, during, after the …
Read More “Arsenal’s new central defender. You read it here first (unless you speak Dutch).”
Tony Attwood Michael Ballack and Joe Cole have left the KGB compound in Fulham on free transfers. There’s no doubt that both are great players, and that in earlier days would have been given new contracts by the world’s leading exponents of Prefabricated Football. You bring in already fully made talent, and exploit it for …
Read More “First signs of new Uefa financial rules having impact as clubs start shedding players”
By Phil Gregory I was recently fortunate enough to be able to do a short interview with Bill Gerrard, Professor of Sports Management and Finance at Leeds University. Professor Gerrard is heavily involved in the game, having worked with top sides in fields as diverse as squad valuations and performance analysis, while advising the board …
Read More “Statistical analyses in football: an interview with the Professor”
By GF60 “Looking back is sometimes dangerous because we see the past that we want to remember and not the past that has happened in reality.” With all-seater grounds, nancyfied and oh so safe stadia, no-one will ever know again, the thrill of being able to tell the crowd size merely by the pressure on …
Read More “Highbury, Crush barriers, Cliff Holton and Stanley Matthews. A trip down memory lane”
By Walter Broeckx If you type in the words “Wenger should buy” in Google, then you get some 44.500 hits in the last 24 hours. If you take the last week you come up with some 177.000 and 426.000 in the last month. If we include the words “AW should buy” we get another 70.800 hits …
Read More “Arsène Wenger gets advice on who he should buy every two seconds.”
By Toby Maitland I’ve been an Arsenal fan since the mid-1970s: a season-ticket holder in the late eighties, now living in the US and follow The Arsenal on the telly and the web. I was hoping that you would post something the Untold Arsenal blog that relates to the Cesc Situation. Much has already been …
Read More “Why Cesc won’t go now, but why he might, maybe, perhaps, possibly, could go in August”
by Walter Broeckx The first day of the transfer window has not been a bad day for Arsenal. And I don’t refer to the fact that Cesc has not been sold to Barcelona for the moment. But the bad news on this will be that the media will keep this fire burning for some 2 …
