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
There is a story doing the rounds today that at the weekend’s friendly match between Manchester Bankrupt and Burscough the Londoners who support Manchester were demonstrating against Cristiano Ronaldodo. They have clearly had enough of a player (or “Slave” as they now like to be called) who just wants to leave. I have no desire …
All business life has bubbles. If you paid attention at school you might have heard of the South Sea Bubble – when the South Sea company bought the national debt from the government and paid insane interest rates, based entirely on the fact that more and more people were signing up for the scam. Then …
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In 2006 Italy faced a football scandal which saw four clubs punished – including Juve to whom Patrick Vieira was transferred. Vieira won the championship with Juve, but then had his medals removed because the games had been fixed. Milan were also found guilty. That was big enough, but it was only part one. …
Read More “Arsenal players going to Milan are walking into minefield”
Last summer there were mutterings. Lots of them in fact. And many were very dark concerning the need to build a new team, that maybe even Wenger was past his sell by date, and what the hell was he doing buying another full back for, and where was the new centre half, and on and …
News has come in that, as we predicted, Manchester Bankrupt are unable to pay their debts. With non-Murdoch newspapers now working to distance themselves from the insanity of the “we must sell 2 players a year” story in the News of the World, and with the Guardian printing a moderately decent reanalysis showing that Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal finances sound but Man U fail to pay their bills”
The opening half of the 2007/8 season is one the schedule writers at Sky and Setanta certainly want to forget. Convinced by the propaganda put out by their own pundits that Arsenal would sink to mid-table obscurity they abandoned us to a round of 3pm saturday kick-offs (apart from the ones the police moved to …
Read More “Setanta/Sky desparate to avoid repeat of 2007 embarrassment over Arsenal”
I love Goonernews and always try to ensure its on blogs and the like, but sometimes for reasons that no one quite knows, they don’t run all the exciting and wonderful stories that we cover. So just in case you are fed up with 20831 different sites telling you that we signed this French guy, …
Now it is rather churlish I know to kick a little person when down, so laying into Luton Town may look a trifle unbecoming. But they give me bad memories, and they have clearly done a lot that is wrong. So I think it is time if not for a kick, then at least a …
Read More “Why all Arsenal fans should rejoice in the end of Luton Town”
Yesterday (10 July) the Sun wrote some stuff about the Arsenal. And somehow I just wish that it were true. Because they also wrote some amusing bits about the lovely people who live down the Lane – the Tiny Totts, not to mention Liverpool Weetabix. First, that BarbarByesome Blacksheep are buying Hleb for £15 million. …
The great thing about supporting Arsenal is that we all know the club will be there next year, and the year after and the year after that. Which is more than can be said for a growing number of teams. I have reported regularly on the financial disaster that is Manchester Utd and Liverpool where …
Read More “Arsenal finances safe, but yet another EPL club heads for the abyss”
1. The Murdoch Corporation “What’s the big news today boys?” “Peter Crouch is actually dead, has rigor mortis and is wheeled about on a trolly” “No done that” “Berbatov lives on the moon with Elvis Presley’s uncle” “No done that” “Arsenal need to sell two players a year to pay the mortgage” “Nice one – …
The President of BarBarcelona, Joan Laporta was defeated in a vote of confidence members of the club last weekend. Not surprisingly some members of the board of the club called for him to resign, as did the 24240 people who voted for him to be deposed. But the rules say that’s not enough votes – …
Or put it another way – given the choice would you believe anything that comes out of an organisation run by Mr Berlusconi? The News of the Dickheads piece about Arsenal being a club that has to sell two top players a year to pay the rent caused outrage among Arsenal fans, and there was …
Read More “If we don’t believe the News of the Dickheads why should we believe Milan”
To put Arsenal’s financial situation in the simplest terms consider this. We get about 22,000 more people at each match at the Emirates than we got at Highbury. Each person pays around £40 per ticket on average. (If you pay less, do remember the top prices are a lot higher than at Highbury, and five …
It’s amazing. It’s incredible. Peter Crouch is not coming to the Arsenal. Last month the News of the World told us that Peter Crouch was being lined up as the replacement for Adebayor. But incredibly, amazingly, it seems he was not. This is the first time in the past half hour that the News …
Read More “Stunning revelation: News of World prediction on Arsenal transfer is false!!!”
There has been considerable annoyance over the News of the World article which claims Wenger said that Arsenal will have to sell two top players a year to pay for the mortgage. The actual line was: “If we sold two top players a year for the next 20 years, that would pay for the mortgage …
Sometimes our great friends at GoonerNews – a venerable and exciting institution that I hold in the highest regard – don’t run every single word of wisdom that comes from the mighty Untold Arsenal. I’ve asked them why not, and they tell me the feeds are not that reliable, so I suggested adding more sugar. …
On Sunday (that’s the quaintly numbered 06/07/08) there is a vote of no confidence in the Barca president. Now if you were Barca president and you had not won any trophies and you knew that everyone was going to have a chance to vote on your presidency what would you do? Possibly you would talk …
That is the profit Arsenal look set to make from selling Adebayor to Barca in the next week or three. When Ade came from Monaco he was unknown, and no one thought much of him. In fact I remember comments about Wenger buying unknowns all the time and why don’t we compete with the likes …
It is utterly ludicrous. Not an English player in sight through the finals. All these foreign players coming over here and taking over, and not a single chance for our lads to shine. Of course it has something to do with facilities and training – but if we don’t take action NOW nothing is going …
I have to admit that I rarely listen to Talk Sport – mostly during the Domplepom thing event which involves hitting a little ball over a net for two weeks in parts of London I don’t willingly go to. During this period Radio 5 Live is off the air, replaced by upper class twits rambling …
Read More “Talk Sport is a crumbling ruin unworthy of its position”
The Curse of Arsenal is a curse placed upon individuals and organisations in response to actions which are deemed by those involved in the Curse to be unacceptable. It is used with caution, because of its immense power. But when it is used it can have a huge effect. We have been recording the use …
Just before the EPL starts again in August billions of overpaid, over-watered journalists and “experts” pour out of the pubs for long enough to download their “predictions” for the coming season. Being blessed with a brain that understands Entanglement (get yourself an A level in physics if you don’t know that reference – but no …
The fact that Amaury Bischoff had the squad number 38 at Werder Bremen, and the fact that the highest number in the squad last year was 40, and there was no number 39, tells us something. He’s a defensive midfielder and some specualte that he is of the Flamini model. But he hasn’t played much …
Read More “New signing isn’t quite what you might have been told”
Thank goodness the Euro Thing is over, and no Arsenal player got hurt. A miracle and undoubtedly a sign from the Almighty of great things to come this year. But just as we all thought it is time to relax for a few weeks, while watching Manchester Bankrupt try to put a brave face on …
Read More “Arsenal escaped from Euro, but what about the Olympics?”
