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
Tony Adams, Mr Arsenal, won the league four times, the FA cup three times, the league cup twice, the Cup Winners’ Cup, and is only player in English football history to captain a title-winning side in three different decades. Tony Adams is in Gabala, three hours drive from the capital of Azerbaijan. Most British fans …
It’s clear we are about to buy Chamakh. And the Lord Wenger has announced that he will be buying some defenders. In the plural. At least two. Maybe more. In fact, if you manage to plough through all my ramblings, you will see I am predicting a giant squad (and not as I wrote in …
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16-1, I should explain, was the number of shots for each side. And there isn’t too much point in doing any analysis of a match like this. We needed to win, and Fulham were thinking of the Europa League, and we did what was necessary. Most amusingly Tottenham didn’t. Djourou came back and had a …
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————————- Today’s Sponsor: Check out the latest Arsenal V Fulham premiership betting odds for the Gunners’ final game of the season ————————- Tucked away among all the excitement of the Tiny Totts finally managing to do what we’ve been doing every year for the past ten years was the curious tale of a transfer protection …
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This is the second part of the Thomas Vermaelen interview which was arranged by Walter Broeckx of the Official Arsenal Benelux supporters club, and a great friend of Untold Arsenal. If you missed the first part it is here. ————————- WB: Did you ever think of leaving Ajax after you were named captain? TV: When …
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Headline News: Exclusive Vermaelen interview on this site Friday 30th April ———————- By Walter Broeckx Sometimes you hear fans say that we haven’t won anything since 2005 and that it is all down to Wenger not wanting to buy players. Wenger is according to those fans also to blame because he didn’t keep the invincibles …
—————————– Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid —————————– Exclusive Vermaelen Interview on Untold Arsenal The interview will appear on Friday 30th April If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that we have been constantly assisted in the past year by Walter Broeckx, a referee from Belgium, and a leading …
Walter Broeckx Yes the defeats against Wigan and ***** have hurt our feelings. The reaction from some fans was to sell the whole squad and buy a whole new team. Certainly after those 10 minutes disaster those fans had nothing but bad words for the team. And yes the performance could be criticised and this …
Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.goonergifts.com/ —————– And first an apology for the author… I am here today to admit I screwed up big time. Yesterday two correspondents wrote to ask …
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Looking forward to next season already. Walter Broeckx This year the league is almost over and I think it still is a bit early to look back at the current season. We can leave this after the last game has been played to draw our final conclusions. But what we can do is see how …
——————– Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: you know it makes sense ——————– For Arsenal’s sake – Leave Adebayor alone By Ian Trevett I can clearly remember the first time I really gave it to an ex-player. The League Cup semi-final first leg against Manchester United – back in February 1983. Frank Stapleton had turned his …
Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal – the greatest novel about Arsenal with over 300 pages of text. So there. Read extracts and reviews here. ——————- How missing your central back pairing handicaps the attack. By Walter Broeckx This may cause a few people raise their eyebrows. So let me explain. This season Arsenal had for …
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This past week I have got a trifle cheesed off with correspondents on this site who have ignored the article written, and instead developed their own pieces declaring that Arsene Wenger should leave the club. If you’re a regular reader here you’ll know I only cut comments where- plagiarism, racism, antisemitism and anything …
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Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan This team will have its day by Ian Trevett Today is a depressing day as the team effort at Wigan was as poor as we have seen for a long time. I didn’t think we paid them enough respect and it cost us big …
Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan In the many comments on the post re the Wigan game there were a number that said that we should recognise that Wenger and his youth project had failed. One in particular caught my eye: it said that it was harder to recognise this …
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By Walter Broeckx When Arsenal loses a game it is always a difficult moment. Every defeat hurts and the defeat against ****** even more than any other. We could all do like the catastrophists do, and slaughter all the players, the manager and everyone else involved in the club. I think there are plenty of …
By Walter Broeckx Sir Alexenophobia Ferguson has opened his mouth to tell us that the way the Bayern Munich players behaved in the game at Old Trafford was typical of Germans. I’m not going to give too much time on reviewing the ref of that game but let me start by saying that Rafael would …
Today’s Sponsor: The Untold Arsenal / Goonernews Betting Guide Like everything else on this site, it has to be seen to be believed. Robin, Robin, Robin (etc etc) by Walter Broeckx What a boring weekend this is going to be. No Arsenal game in the weekend, this almost feels like the summer period we all …
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Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com ————— Not every Henry is Henry. By Walter Broeckx Last week a player from Wolverhampton got himself sent off with a red card after a horrifying …
We are now in our third consecutive year of mega injuries. To play Barca without Van Persie Cesc Gallas Arshavin Ramsey Song Djourou and do ok shows how sensational a side we are building at Arsenal. And it was ok, for we took the game to them, and made the current Euro Champions, complete with …
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Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal”. A book utterly unlike any other book ever written about Arsenal FC. If you have ever wanted to know what it is that is so utterly incomprehensibly special and different from every other club, this book will go some way to explain that. It’s all been said before… But anyway, …
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Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal”. A book utterly unlike any other book ever written about Arsenal FC. If you have ever wanted to know what it is that is so utterly incomprehensibly special and different from every other club, this book will go some way to explain that. >>> Arsenal 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Welcome …
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This was quite a survey, done all proper and exact like. None of your fiddling of results and mucking about. We went through three stages. Part One:the first gathering of names I asked for suggestions of names as to who might make it from the ranks of the reserves and the youth team into the …
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—————————— Today’s Sponsor: Your Untold Arsenal Betting Guide The Untold Arsenal / Goonernews Betting Guide Like everything else on this site, it has to be seen to be believed. Life, the Universe, the champions league… By Walter Broeckx In life we should learn things and yesterday was a night where we could learn a lot. …
