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
Thanks for all the comments about our new players for next season – always open to ideas and suggestions. Below is the updated list – but here’s a word of warning. The huge squad idea is great for covering injuries – but not everyone gets injured, and players want to play. What is Nicolas Bendtner …
The arrival of The Thug as Chelsea manager (named after his love of hitting journalists, referees and anyone else he happens to “bump” into) is great news for Arsenal. The Thug is known to like players from Brazil, and after that Portugal. He will therefore go spending the Russian’s oil money on such players, …
I’m using the word “new” in the journalistic sense – that is it could mean anything you want. So I include people who have been Arsenal for a while, but out on loan, or waiting to be the right age to sign professional. The list falls into two parts. First the relatively unknowns …
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Aaron Spear. He is 15 and plays for Plymouth. And Newcastle Utd thought they had just about had him all signed up. Until (rumour has it) along comes Arsenal. Now of course this could be some journalist getting his Aaron’s confused. Or maybe they turned Aaron into Arson into Arsene (you know how it is …
We have got through round one of the Euro Tiddly Winks Championshippy Whippy and no one, but no one and that means no one from Arsenal has been injured. Now I know that is in part due to the fact that the French manager is such a dodo he can’t see that the when the …
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It’s a story of downright lies told on the Manchester U web site. Plus the pure arrogance of Sir Alex Ferguson. And as a side show the way that Liverpool were simply not even counted as serious contenders in a transfer costing as little as £5 million. Not to mention the way in which Everton …
One week ago Manchester Bankrupt issued a statement on their website which said that the bankrupt club was “delighted to announce it has agreed terms with Cardiff City for the transfer of Aaron Ramsey subject to terms being agreed and the player passing a medical”. Cardiff City were a little surprised, and diffidently pointed out …
France 0 Romania 0. To call this atrocious rubbish was be unkind to rubbish. The one good thing was that no Arsenal player was injured. France will continue to be terrible until they start to bring in more Arsenal players – but unfortunately that could mean our players would get injured. Still we have got …
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Carlos Vela scored his second goal for Mexico’s first team in the 4-0 win over Peru, in a match played in Chicago (for reasons that will not become clear in this article). Sven (who is about to take over the team from Jesus is said to have been “impressed”. The goal came after 21 minutes …
With the tournament just two days old there have been a string of injuries to players whose bodies are reacting to the mental and physical strain of international matches a few weeks after a long domestic season. Alexander Frei damaged cruciate ligaments in his first match, while Portugal’s goalkeeper Quim is out of the whole …
The terror show that is international football raised its head inSwitzerland this afternoon as the Swiss captain was seriously injured. Fans of club football across Europe were reminded once again of Arsene Wenger’s comment that international managers were like car thieves: they take what you own, wreck it, return it to you and expect you …
Europe’s most illegal sporting competition – Euro 2008 – kicks off this afternoon. For most players and most countries the competition represents a complete denial of a law that is at the heart of their constitutions. While Switzerland and Turkey are not affected, being outside the EU, everyone else is covered by EU law which …
In May “Untold Arsenal” received over 40,000 different visitors. Two points about this: First, we have a strict definition of a unique visitor. Obviously we only include each person once during the month – so if you come along and kindly read our pages two or three times in the month you only get counted …
An article in the Birmingham Express and Star today has come closer than any previous statement to admitting the effect of the Curse of Arsenal, that was placed on Birmingham City FC in February. After the Eduardo Event, police raided the Birmingham City offices and removed paperwork, two top figures in the club were arrested …
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I loved Freddie as a player – he had everything I wanted when watching Arsenal. And I remember him returning this season with WHU – he got a huge roar of support, and blew kisses to the crowd when he went off injured. So was it the slightest bit likely that he said all that …
UEFA are hotting up their attack on clubs that have insane levels of debt. UEFA were deeply affected by the story that swept around the world that the two finalists in this year’s competition had debts of over £1.5 billion. The situation was made worse with the revelation that Manchester U are unable to pay …
At one level I have no time for Tottenham Hotspur, but like any reasonable supporter who has been going to matches for years and years, and who used to live in the vicinity of the two grounds, I know some Tottenham fans. Sometimes we even manage tp set aside the sarcasm and what passes …
Choose one club from four: Club A has debts of £700 million and no obvious way of paying them. Indeed although they declared a profit of £40 million last year, all that had to go to paying off interest charges – and still they were short of money to pay the banks and lenders. As …
He is 17, he is Welsh (so he wouldn’t qualify under any odd FIFA 6+5 rule) and he knows how to pass the ball. He plays in central midfield – and he has that same sort of sense that Fabregas has which involves knowing where the opposition is, and where your team mates are. All …
I don’t know about you, but I tend to read the Arsenal news, and then maybe bits and pieces of news about other clubs. So yes it feels like we are in a mess in the transfer market – but if I do go and read the stories about other clubs – they are no …
In a story that has circulated in most journals today, Nic Anelka has admitted that his career has taken a series of downward spirals since he left Arsenal, and that if he had his time again he would stay at Arsenal throughout. Anelka is not the only player to find things go wrong in leaving …
1. Get a list of the Arsenal first team. This can be difficult between the drinking and sleeping, but there is one on the Arsenal web site – if you can find that. 2. Get a list of top European clubs. This is harder, but here’s a tip – there are a couple in …
