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
Mr Bean E Tez, manager of Liverpool Insolvency today spoke to Untold Arsenal. “I want to talk about facts. Manchester Utd play every home match at home. You probably don’t realise this but it is true. Sir Alex F Word keeps assaulting referees, and all he gets is probation. No one arrests him. No one …
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This is actually one of two headlines that have made me giggle of late. It is on the Guardian’s web site, and I’ll come back to it in a moment. And the other headline was “Barca tell Arsenal to stop talking about Yaya Toure” So starting with BarBarBarcaSheep… Of course it is just dribble from …
Clubs rise unexpectedly, and clubs fall equally unexpectedly. With hindsight it is easy, but for the futurologist it is tougher. Take Wimbledon – who foresaw their rise to the 1st division all those years back? Take Leeds – we might have raised collective eyebrows over their insane spending – but they weren’t the only ones …
Liverpool FC have survived for another six months, but only just – and their future remains very much in the balance. Their banks have given the club half a year to repay £350.5m – it was due to be repaid in full on 25 January to Royal Bank of Scotland (partly owned by all British …
In the end that is what is seems to come down to. Is Wenger, as I believe, not just a genius manager, but one who is able to adapt to changing circumstances BEFORE they happen, or is he exactly the opposite: a man so transfixed with his own vision that he can’t change. The negative …
Read More “Wenger: a cunning fox or the man who threw it all away”
This question arose because yesterday I made the point that I couldn’t see Arsenal screwing up its contract issues with a player so that he left. One commentator wrote back and suggested that Flamini was one such case where Arsenal had done just that. I beg to differ – and I believe Hleb and Flamini …
I got the idea for that headline from the one that says Arsenal could lose Theo for just £400,000. That story is in the Mirror in its football news section. Now the word “News” has within it the word “new” which means, well, sort of new – as in not old. The actual story is …
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It is on occasion forgotten that Henry didn’t do it all on his own. Most of the time he had Robert Pires to help him. It took over a year to get right, but when it did work it was stunningly simple. Henry could always be relied upon to spend some of his game on …
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The Lord Wenger has done an interview in which he says that he still has no doubt that over time he will be proven right with his strategy of bringing through younger players rather than doing what Manchester Bankrupt have just done – which is yet again to splash millions of pounds on transfers at …
One of the great things about supporting Arsenal under Wenger is that I haven’t got a clue what is going to happen. Take Diaby – the notion that he could occasionally run into the top third of the pitch, behave like a proper forward, and score a goal or two, was about the last thing …
