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
Articles on Untold Arsenal are so good that they also appear on Team Talk. The same is true with much of our correspondence. The name of the “author” is changed on Team Talk. Team Talk have been told repeatedly, but won’t stop the activity, so, I think we should celebrate this situation. Read it here, …
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By Ronny Lamb and Tony Attwood Aided by the growing number of correspondents around Europe who are now contributing to Untold Arsenal I’ve been pulling together the financial doings of Real Madrid. And here’s the irony. They are just like Manchester IOU. Each is as bust as the other – and there are serious doubts …
Read More “United in insolvency: the story of Real Madrid & Manchester U”
Depression is not worry – it is a lot worse than that, and can alternate with manic hysteria or with a short-term feeling that everything is wonderful. So it we look for these traits in EPL supporters, where do we find them? Newcastle Zebras must be top of the league – except they are not …
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It is one of the more bemusing things about the EPL, that each year it seems, the Tiny Totts sack a manager, pay him off, off load some of the players the last manager bought (D Bentley anyone?) and still make a profit. To put this in context here is a list of the profitable …
I spent a jolly afternoon on Wednesday in London, doing my bit being interviewed for a DVD review of last season, pontificating in front of the cameras on the Lord Wenger and all his doings etc. Of course the great danger is that one can, in the heat of questioning, make a prediction or two, …
UPDATE – since I wrote this article it seems Setanta is going bust. I have added an update commentary based on that view, in the correspondence column that follows the article. Here’s the original article….. Shock horror, English football is falling apart – and Arsenal are making a signing of someone who is not 11 …
When the big games come I get nervous – just like most supporters I guess. Probably the worst occasion was the final game at home to Leicester in the Unbeaten Season. I had hoped I would be dancing and singing and having a lovely time, taking photos and all. But the silly buggers were one …
I once described Eboue as a clown, and got lambasted like mad for it. What I actually meant to say was that I thought he had a wicked sense of humour like the best clowns – but no one wanted to know about my excuses and I was denounced repeatedly as a racist. Perry Groves …
Strange days. Ever since I saw the teams for last night’s Reserve game against the Tiny Totts I have been puzzling over the tactics of the Appy Arry cartoon character who seemingly runs the show down the poor end of Seven Sisters. As I was saying yesterday he knew damn well that Arsenal would put …
Read More “Tottenham trouble, Arsenal adventure, Liverpool liquidation”
We win because Tottenham put out a team made up of the players that some of the previous managers have bought for £millions – from Bentley to Bale, Eduardo to someone else whose name I have forgotten. Arsenal put out a team of 17 year olds. Jack Wilshere was out with an ankle injury, Fran …
Tonight is the Land of Make Believe against the Team of the Future. Or put it another way, the Even Tinier Totts against Arsenal Reserves. Except that being the Totts they don’t believe in usijng the Reserves for up and coming youth players, largely because they don’t have up and coming youth players. This itself …
This story comes from two source (who shall remain nameless). You can believe it or no, although unlike tales of Atlantis, alien invasions covered up by government and the Chinese discovery of America in the 15th century, at least this time you will be able to see if this is right or not. Time will …
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Following their great announcement as to their ability to build a 58,000 seater stadium for 87p plus the coupons they got from people leaving Tesco’s Tottenham have announced the name of their new stadium. It will be called Woolworths. And in other news, as they say, the thing on the left about injuries is an …
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If you have read my wild ramblings off and on over the last couple of years you might recall that in my view the financial approach of clubs such as Liverpool and Manchester U is unsustainable. This, I argue, is because their entire approach is based on three contingencies, all of which have to be …
April Fools’ Day was mostly fairly dull and predictable. The biggest joke of all – that our players could be taken off, made to play in other places for other teams, and then handed back injured – was sadly real. I am still waiting for news of disasters from Wednesday. The regular rather sad attempts …
It is the day when we take all our best players and give them to nutters who don’t care about their long term well-being and will sacrifice our players’ careers just to keep their own job. It is the day that Capello has decided to have a spat with Appy Arry Headcase over Ron Knee …
If you follow the women’s game you’ll know that for years we’ve dominated, going for century after century without being beaten by anyone. But this year Everton have tried to match the record. The Arsenal/Everton games have somehow slipped back to the end of the season, which is how we have Arsenal played 15 won …
I don’t read everything in the sporting press, obviously, but so far I have not found any serious condemnation of the tactics of Blackburn in the press. On Match of the Day the BBC commentators laughed at the diving, and noted the attack on Almunia, but left it at that. The notion that Allerdyce had …
Now if you have been paying attention you will recall that a little while back I mentioned “en passant” (as they say in Slovenia*) that David Beckham was going to buy a football club. Thus once again you read it here first. Now it is true that I didn’t quite get the club right – …
I’ve always known the address of the Tiny Totts as 748 High Road. The only team to have played football in White Hart Lane (as I boringly remind everyone) is Wood Green Town, who played about a quarter of a mile from where I grew up as a child. Town were born around 1885 …
Read More “We win at 748 High Road, and the iceman visits east London”
It is often said that to win the EPL a team needs an English spine. There’s no evidence presented for this – it is just something that is said. Watching Brazil last night I think I’d sooner my team had a Brazilian spine rather than one made up of John Terry types, but each to …
Read More “Brady arrested (not that one), English spines, Arsenal’s youth”
The scenes that greeted the sight of Gael’s blood at the WHL ground last Sunday revealed that it is never a good idea to take the Tiny Totts at face (or any other part of their anatomy) value. As the cameras revealed the baying hordes salivating at the sight of blood, desperate to bite into …
Read More “Garlic, silver bullets, wooden stakes: be ready for Tottenham”
The Tiny Totts are today celebrating an Unbeaten Season and have produced a second DVD to celebrate their unbeaten season… against Arsenal. Actually, they haven’t (although after putting out a DVD of the 4-4 it wouldn’t surprise me if they did) but I just thought it would be amusing to speculate… But what did strike …
The return of Keane from a championship chasing club to a relegation flirting club just six months after he went the other way for more money, is proof if it were needed of the financial disaster facing Liverpool Weetabix. Liverpool were, let us not forget, held up as a model of how football could move …
I write this in reply to a detailed letter that has been published on this site, which says why we should no longer support Arsenal. I believe the opposite. Partly, because I am a naturally cheery guy (except when I am not) and partly because I am currently writing the history of Arsenal in 1910, …
