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 Andre Kirby and Tony Attwood Andre wrote to Untold thus… I first came across Untold Arsenal in January and I have become a regular reader ever since. All the blogs are well written and well reserched, which I like. Because of this I am requesting that you write an Anti-Vuvuzela piece, as I have …
Great Expectations – Why are you an Arsenal Fan? Guo Sheng Lee I’ve been putting off writing this piece for quite a while now, as work has limited the time I have to write for Untold. However, after reading the piece on Le Grove and actually visiting the blog for the first time, I felt …
Read More “It’s time to ask the doubters… Why are you an Arsenal Fan?”
By Terence McGovern BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW When I first thought of writing this article. it occurred to me that dozens of others would be doing the same and I decided to leave them to it. Days and weeks passed and not one scrap appeared on the subject matter. At that point I felt …
Read More “Better the Devil you know, than the owner you don’t.”
The Rise of the Catastrophist – finally explained If you came today to most Arsenal blogs for the first time, you would be excused from believing that doom and gloom is everywhere. In the last couple of days there has been talk of “mass protests” at the Emirates Cup games, defection of half the squad, …
Read More “How four guys with personality disorders created the doom and gloom movement”
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Check out the latest Arsenal V Fulham premiership betting odds for the Gunners’ final game of the season ——————————————– By Phil Gregory I was at the Blackburn game on Saturday, took my girlfriend to her first game on a bit of a whim after hearing on Saturday that tickets were available on the day of …
———————– This week’s special activity: Go to your local public library this week and ask them to order a copy of “Making the Arsenal” by Tony Attwood. You don’t have to read it but I would like to get a few more sales as we are coming out with a new edition shortly. (And if …
Read More “How Man IOU fans are responding to their club’s crisis. A guide for catastophists”
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/ ————————- FC United of Manchester was formed in 2005 by supporters of the bankrupt Manchester United who were so opposed to the Glazer takeover, they wouldn’t even …
Read More “Imagine Arsenal supporters walking away and setting up their own new club”
I was chatting with Kevin Perrett of Arsenal Independent Supporters Association before the Man City game at the Toppled Bollard (courtesy of Billy the Dog) discussing this, that, and the rest of infinity, when talk turned to the seemingly growing number of Wenger deniers – the doom mongers, the catatrophists, the gloomy bastards who see …
One of the best statements I have read on this site since the end of the 10 year unbeaten run was that encouraging us all to wear the shirt with pride. The 10 year run in which we were unbeaten in the league by Tottenham Sewage (a club renamed to coincide with the chants of …
Read More “Wear your shirt with pride as the EPL starts going to court”
By Tony Attwood Sometimes I think I have it a bit hard. I live in a part of England called the East Midlands. It is a nice rural community in a county that is made up a mixture of sheep farming and light industry. I quite like it here but there is a problem. My …
. According to the chitter chatter of a million journalists trying to catch up with last year’s stories, up to one in four season ticket holders at EPL clubs are considering not renewing for next season in a bid to cut costs, according to a survey published today. And Manchester IOU are going to put …
Read More “Next season the stadia will be empty, so we’d better enjoy the noise now”
Walter Broeckx comments on Antwerp to the Emirates – and back – in one day Another day at the Emirates for me and some of my family. I must say that I really don’t know how to start this time. It was a day of great emotions once again. We left Brussels right on time …
Hello hello, that was fun. Walter and co from Benelux Supporters Club found their way to the Auld Triangle and I took Walter in to show him what a north London pub looks like before it gets crowded (I mean there were only 200 people inside the public bar, and it only took half an …
Read More “A game of three halves as Arsenal beat the wheelbarrow”
Prelim note in case you don’t normally look at the end of the blogs. I am doing some re-arranging of the ending of the blogs, as we move fully into a three post a day mode. Please do take an occasional look at the foot of the article, and let me know any ideas for …
By Walter Broeckx Sometimes if I say that I am an Arsenal fan it makes people raise their eyebrows. How on earth do you become a follower of a team like Arsenal when you live in another country. This is a question I also have often been asked by Englishman. Well to tell you the …
Read More “Supporting Arsenal from afar, and six new rumours”
MUSINGS OF A REALISTICALLY OPTIMISTIC GOONER Mutiu O. Shokanmbi Personal anecdote/introduction: Let me start by stating that I suck at playing football. I was born and raised in Nigeria and in my country if you cannot dribble 2 or more players then you suck. Period! The more players you can dribble past the better player …
By Walter Broeckx Last weekend Tony and I got together in London, and as a treat Tony agreed to show me one or two of the public houses known to be frequented by Arsenal supporters. It was an education for me to see the traditional English pub, and I really wanted to know what local …
Read More “Taking the Good News to the byways of Islington.”
By Walter Broeckx You could say that the game against Villa started on December 24 at 4pm. It was the moment the president of our fan club phoned me to say that our member that makes the bookings on the Eurostar trains received the message that our booking had been cancelled. It was a bit …
By Simon Bailey Ho, Ho, Ho, Merrrry Christmas. Lest we forget, tis the season to be jolly and all that, and now that the public holiday of enforced jollity and happiness is upon us, i feel compelled to write about why supporting Arsenal is like having christmas every day. Seeing as how I have no …
By Walter Broeckx In the comment section of this site a couple of days ago there was a comment from a Gooner from South Africa who was declared not a real fan of The Arsenal because he did not live in England. I must say that from my own experience I never had some one …
Read More “A Johnny Foreigner can never be a true Arsenal fan.”
It is meaningless drivel week (ie when people who were not born in specific countries and who don’t live there, and have never lived there, claim to “represent” said country. A bit like me representing Costa Rica – spent a nice week there, but that’s about it. On the other hand I can play a …
Read More “WHAT IS THE WORST STADIUM YOU HAVE EVER SEEN ARSENAL AT”
Rates of 40-1 were being quoted before the match for Billy “The Dog” McGraw’s prediction to be true, and a fair number of the 108,000 UNTOLD ARSENAL readers decided it was worth a flutter. A fiver on Wolverhampton W. 1 Arsenal 4, with one of those £50 extra bids free if you’ve never had a …
Read More “Bookies in uproar as UNTOLD ARSENAL readers make a fortune”
The line up against Wolverhampton Wibbleyous will be much as we saw against the London Street Directory (the A to Z – do try and keep up). Carlos Vela and Armand Traore are just about ready for action, but not quite. Denilson hasn’t started training yet, but will do so while the silly internationals are …
Read More “Wolverhampton: beat the bookies with Billy The Dog’s pre-match result service”
Billy “The Dog” McGraw speaks exclusively to Untold Arsenal ahead of the vital match against the Tiny Totts. I tell you something, we ain’t got a fucking chance, darling. The defence is so over the place we could let in six. Just make it a pint Vice-Chancellor. Call themselves defenders, they spend half their time …
