By Don McMahon For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness, Ralph Waldo Emerson The plethora of angry, hyper-sensitive, choleric, distressed, fitful, and fickle fans bombarding cyberspace with their tryst lamentations and predictions of imminent doom and unmitigated disaster for all things Arsenal, eagerly abetted and aided by the xenophobic British …
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Untold Arsenal. The History Index The story of the last time something odd went on By Walter Broeckx A lot of the criticism that is aimed at Arsenal and Wenger is about project youth. Some of the fans have been saying that project youth has failed because we didn’t win anything in the last 6 …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal 12 reasons why next season will be better than the last. By Tony Attwood For a number of years now the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal, with their negativity, predictions of disaster, and downright depressive natures have dominated much of the commentary …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Alex McLeish has moved from being manager of Birmingham City (whom he has just seen relegated) to Aston Villa, (who would like to see themselves as challengers to the top four, …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx For those who just sit there….. As there still is a bit of time before we start playing again I find it the right time to look at the new season. …
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By Tony Attwood It was surprising (to me at least, but perhaps not to anyone else) to hear the chant of “Six percent you’re having a laugh” ring round the Ems in the second half of the Villa game. It was of course not the first time there have been negative comments and chants at …
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A moment’s reflection on life, politics, bias, blogs, commentary, motoring, tackling, football and the Daily Mail By Tony Attwood Every now and then Arsène Wenger speaks out on the tackles that Arsenal players suffer, and saying they should not be allowed in the game. Diaby, Eduardo, Ramsey are examples that we all know. What then …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Busker Brian I was walking down the street today, listening to a busker singing this refrain to the tune of Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel. He moved me to tears His name was Busker Brian I was sittin’ in the Highbury station Gettin’ closer …
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The Real achievement at the Lane By Ian Trevett It hasn’t been much fun reading some of the posts on less supportive Arsenal sites this week, with lots of vitriol aimed at the boss and various players. However, there was a short post on Arsenal Insider that really took my eye. It went along the …
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By Walter Broeckx Losing to United is not a pleasant thing. I don’t like it. Losing to Barcelona, and certainly the way the ref threw a shadow over the second game is very frustrating. I don’t like it at all. But do we have to throw all and everyone over board? Let me just give …
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Snooping Around ManPoo, errr… ManU, Blogs By Sammy The Snake So we rebooted with a nice 5-0 win after our FA Cup Final crash, which is always nice. Couldn’t have asked for more, although our good friends at Le Grove have found many faults with the team’s display! They don’t like the first goal, saying …
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By Walter Broeckx I wonder what is the hardest thing to take? Losing a final to Birmingham City is hard. Certainly when we could have won it. More possession, more shots on target, more shots of target, more corners. The last half hour Szczesny was almost a spectator if you compare it with the things …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Snooping Around Everton and Tot Blogs By Sammy The Snake (plus a little meander from his friend) Taking cue from President Hosni Mobarak of Egypt, and in line with all our Untold efforts to avoid an uprising around this strategic corner of the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Yes I think it is Wenger his fault. Every time we lose a game. Oops we didn’t lose the game, we actually won the game. So every game people come out to tell us how poor we are. People come …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx After giving the more boring numbers in an earlier article relating to the percentage of the ground that is full in each match I now will try to give a somewhat more colourful view on attendances in the EPL during the last 3 …
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I twit therefore I am @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Looking back I can remember two big stories swirling around during last summer. One of course was Cesc, and his going. The other was that renewals of season tickets had collapsed and that the stadium would be fairly empty this year, …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Eibaad Ahmed Butt Arsenal; a team that excites me to my very core, a team that has defined the word passion to me, a team that made football more than a sport to me. Now; I live in Asia (Pakistan) and there isn’t much of …
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by Tony Attwood It is hard to find many people in football who don’t have a bad word to say about Arsène Wenger, and Arsenal FC. In the current era it seemed to start with the journalists who tried to run the original paedophile story when Arsène Wenger first arrived (and who now conveniently forget …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Nude Cuban Football Hotties On The Beach By Sammy The Snake You simply had to click on this one, didn’t you?! The title just jumped out of the page, and you couldn’t resist, right? In fact, I was only referring to fat old men …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around: Chelsea Blogs By Sammy the Snake Disclaimer: My best friend, a genuinely nice guy, is a Chelsea supporter. He calls me and congratulates me every time the Gunners win. When Chelsea drop points, I call him and rub it in his face. What can …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Background: In response to the penultimate article which suggested in what was meant to be an ironic manner that the EPL would investigate Arsenal’s win at Villa because it was impossible for a team so awful as Arsenal to win any game, a correspondent under the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around: ManU Blogs by Sammy the Snake So the Lord of Untold is looking for a few typing monkeys to write a regular pro-Wenger column. Pro-wenger, I am. The main reason I started supporting Arsenal was the way the club was run, and that is …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. And with sad I mean the fact that we lost on Saturday and Tuesday in games that we shouldn’t have lost. And with funny I mean the fact that this Arsenal is not only …
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Untold Arsenal is now on twitter at UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood It is being reported in the UK this morning that last night on a TV programme an MP was speaking about a new 50 year defence treaty signed by France and the UK. Defending the decision to sign the treaty the MP said that …
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The new consortium looking at Liverpool could back out if the court action currently going on allows Hicks and Gillette to stay in control. The banks would then take action to put Liverpool in admiistration, and that would result in the club losing nine points. It is now said that the American buyers would then …
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