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
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx A legendary manager in Belgium used to say in his Brussels tongue “pinanty is pinanty” which means in English: “a penalty is a penalty”. For those interested in who said this it was Raymond Goethals, former manager of the Belgium national team and …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx So the news is out. Phil Dowd will be the ref for our next home game against Blackburn. Other people on this site will bring you statistical evidence on how bad he is as a ref for Arsenal. So I don’t want to …
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By Walter Broeckx, the biased untold ref according to some but not to others.. So for the second time we had ref Stuart Atwell this season. Last time a comfortable win this time a draw. What did I make of the ref? Just read on if you want. Min Type Decision C/NC points weight on …
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By Walter Broeckx, also in cup games your untold ref We had ref Foy today. And as I said before the game even with 3 wins in the league a ref with some serious low scores with always the same problems coming back. Let us see if they also came back this match? Min Type …
By Walter Broeckx So ref Busacca has made a report about the behaviour of Wenger and Samir Nasri after the game in Barcelona. And now Uefa will charge them both with improper conduct and they could face a ban. In a way this is good news. Because this now gives us the chance to show …
Read More “Whatever Wenger and Nasri said, it was the truth and nothing but the truth”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref When someone on this site said it was Busacca as the ref I felt bad. I remembered him from our game in Shakhtar and felt he was a home ref in that game. So how was his game? Just take …
By Johnny Deigh, another Untold ref So once again Johnny has taken the immense task upon him to review a Manchester United game. I can barely watch them once so looking twice at their games is a hell of a job. And as the ref was our dear and beloved friend Phil Dowd it was …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref on the crime scene Hello you Gooners in the Emirates. I was there to see how ref Taylor did his job. Er… well no let me rephrase this how he did what he did. So let us see how this …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Arsenal v Sunderland (05/03/2011. 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistant 1: Dave Bryan Assistant 2: Andy Garratt 4th Official: Peter Walton Good morning stat-fans and welcome one and all to the now [im]famous RefWatch! This week is seems that the PGMOL (in …
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By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref in the FA cup I can now understand why we couldn’t find the ref of this game on the websites until it appeared on Arsenal.com. Ref Mason from the Everton game came back to the Emirates. But this time no Everton involved. Could he now show he can have …
by Walter Broeckx As I mentioned in my ref report I noticed a strange thing about the way Dean finished the game. In this post you can find a few links. When you click on them you will see windows media player opening and showing some very short clips. Most refs have a very typical …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Thanks to our regular reader, Johhny Deigh, who has been so kind to take on the the Wigan- Manchester United game we got a ref review of Wigan – Manchester United. So I do wish to thank him for taking the trouble to go through the whole …
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By Walter Broeckx, the ref with the hardest job in the Arsenal World If we can forget all the shit that happened in the last minute we can still try to see how ref Dean did his game. And what his contribution was. And I must say that I noticed a few of the things …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx So it is Dean as our ref in the Carling Cup Final. Is this a good choice for Arsenal? Let me do my ref review before the game this time. And maybe by reading …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the ref that jumps through hoops to find the truth As a nice remembrance gesture PGMOL chief Mike Riley decided to give us the same ref that we had when we played Stoke last season and when that nice friendly boy decided to …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx So time to make a final round up on all the different reasons which can lead to poor refereeing. I opened this series with four reasons as to why we have a problem…. 1. Not enough refs 2. Fatigue 3. Familiarity 4. Influence …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Arsenal v Stoke City (23/02/2011 19:45) By DogFace Referee: Peter Walton Assistant 1: Martin Yerby Assistant 2: Patrick Keane 4th Official: Phil Crossley (Who?!) Good morning stat-fans and welcome to the best damn pre-match statistical based (with a dollop of cynical/satirical opinion) EPL Referee …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Having spent a lot of time on writing my articles about the problems that are real and existing in the world of refereeing I would like to talk a bit about the excuse that is generally given to explain this problem. It comes …
Read More “Football referees: are they biased or are they just incompetent?”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref goes on his way As I am always looking to go further and further I continue my experiment and hope that it works out a bit and still is readable at the end of the day. So here is a …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref with an experiment You will see a completely different format this time. In bold you will see the things I usually have in my reviews. But I also mention all the decisions the refs had to make in the game. …
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By Walter Broeckx This is the last article in this series where I will give you other possible reasons for poor refereeing in the EPL. But even then after this article it will not be over. I think it never will be in fact. But before we start here’s a list of the articles so …
Read More “Why refereeing in the EPL is so poor (part 5): instructions and “rewards””
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Chris Foy was the ref today. Let’s get it on. OTHER/OTHER/GOAL: Wilshere is being tripped but manages to get the ball that rolls to Cesc who then scores. But before Cesc scored the ref had blown his whistle. This is …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony RefWatch – Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers (12/02/2011 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: Darren Cann Assistant 2: Gary Beswick 4th Official: Mick Russell Good morning stat-fans and welcome to another RefWatch. I’d like to start today by saying thanks to all …
Read More “Arsenal v Wolverhampton: the now famous Untold Ref Preview (as seen on the BBC)”
By Walter Broeckx In this part of the series on what could cause poor refereeing in the EPL, I want to talk about a very personal subject of the ref. His inner thoughts and how it could affect them. As well as some hard-to-discover issues happen in all countries and why should the EPL be …
Read More “Poor refereeing in the EPL, reasons and solutions part 4”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony This is the third article in referee Walter Broeckx series about the reasons behind the extraordinarily poor state of refereeing in the Premier League as revealed in his regular post-match analysis of the number of decisions right, wrong and missed in each Arsenal …
Read More “What’s wrong with the refs, part 3: childhood dreams”
