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 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 …
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There is a feeling in football that things really aren’t that bad. In this article I will try to convince you that they are not just disastrously bad – they are actually far worse than that. Football in England is about to explode. I’ll start with something that we all know about: Portsmouth FC. We …
Before we begin, Untold Rumours now appear that end of the main article in each edition of Untold Arsenal. Today, its our new goalkeeper, and the availability of season tickets. Now onto the meat and two veg… ————————————- I have been working on a piece for several days about the collapse of football as we …
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In this afternoon’s post: 1. Abandoning the youth project is more important than winning the Champions League by Walter Broeckx 2. Untold Rumour of the Day 3. What you may have missed because you weren’t looking properly – including the correct spelling of Kenny Sansom and how to meet him. —————————————————— Abandoning the youth project …
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In this amazing and stunning issue of the blog of blogs, we have the first ever analysis of Arsenal and reggae, a chance to meet Kenny Sampson and another unmissable rumour – this time Fabregas to Tottenham ——————————————— First, And Now for Something Completely Different. By Simon Bailey. Reading one of the posts on here …
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This article is about relationships. (For details of Ashley Cole’s arrest, which is also about relationships, please see the second article near the end of this post.) The relationship between organisations like FIFA, the FA and the EPL and their relationships with the clubs and each other. Plus relationships between clubs and fans. And relationships …
Read More “From Man U to Mansfield via Argentina, plus Ashley Cole is arrested.”
By Walter Broeckx Maybe some will call me paranoid. That could well be the case, but this year’s fixture list is a bit strange to say the least. To play your major rivals for the first four places in four consecutive matches is something we never have witnessed before. In fact I doubt that it …
Read More “Being paranoid helps when supporting the Arsenal”
The hoax story run by Cardena Ser Radio that Cesc had reached a verbal agreement with Barca to join them this summer must be counted as one of the most successful yet from the Spanish hoax factory that churns these tales out. In the olden days it was generally agreed that you could only run …
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Arsenal’s Cathedral: we build for the future, not just this season By Walter Broeckx Sometimes when we have defeats people come out and ask for immediate success. I think that those people don’t see the whole picture but who am I to tell them otherwise? Well just going to try it anyway. You can look …
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Arsenal, the cult of personality and the collective By Brian Baker Another week, another defeat, another round of Chicken Licken posturing from the Arse-blogosphere. I’m not going to dwell on the painful realities of the loss to Chelsea, here, but offer another long-term perspective of Arsenal’s situation. I will start with the cult of personality …
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By Simon Bailey They may be Anti-Arsenal, but they’re our Anti-Arsenal or Why they haven’t got a leg to stand on. I love the Arsenal. No, I mean it, I really love the Arsenal. There are things I love more; my family, my home, and my dearly departed brindle lurcher to name a few. But …
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By Walter Broeckx So we lost against Chelsea. This is no fun but we just have to accept it. This is football and in football you can win and you can lose a game. In fact all the statistics were against us. So far this season when we lose a game we lose the next …
Read More “If you think it is all doom and gloom, just don’t read this”
In the aftermath of the two defeats against Man U and Chelsea there are the inevitable calls from change and an uprising from those who feel all is not right at Arsenal – not least because we get these calls even with Arsenal are winning. But I’d like to put forward something else: an examination …
Read More “There are a limited number of ways of running Arsenal, and most are not sustainable”
By Phil Gregory Our Arsenal travel over to Stamford Bridge looking to put a disappointing home defeat behind them. Any trip to Chelsea is always a tricky affair to negotiate, but on the back of the United defeat many would no doubt prefer an easier tie to allow confidence to be rebuilt. The cards however, …
London police have seized half a tonne of footballing equipment in buildings that they say were being used as a base by the terrorist football separatist group “KGB Fulham” The discovery of the dump, which included shirts, boots, and grass cutting equipment, was made in the early hours of saturday morning. Fake driving licences, cars …
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By Gf60 The recent finding by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that Chel$ki were not guilty of inducing a breach of contract by Kakuta was a surprise. More of a surprise was the noting that the original contract between Kakuta and Lens was invalid. This raises more questions than it answers. A few hours before this …
Why Arsène’s Arsenal are hated (even by its own fans): a long perspective By Brian Baker I was prompted to write this following the extraordinary convulsions in the Arsenal blogosphere after the defeat to Manchester United. Chicken Licken bloggers, one of whom claimed they could manage Arsenal better than Arsene, renewed their calls for Denilson’s …
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By Walter Broeckx You know that I do not agree with the way the doom and gloom brigade sees things around The Arsenal. Like I said before I get angry by seeing them telling all their silly sentences like “sack Wenger”, “Give Denilson to the spuds” and more nonsense. But as I always have the …
Read More “Football is now all black and white, and we have lost the shades in between”
I read a strange thing today on Le Grove. Now if you read the bits and pieces here regularly you will know that we are pro-Wenger, and Le Grove are, how shall I put it, well, not. But as I have said before, even though I don’t agree with almost all of what they say, …
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By Walter Broeckx There is something strange going on in football land. We had a transfer market in which nothing much happened. All the big teams have kept their pockets closed. Chelsea didn’t buy anyone, MU bought Smalling from Fulham but he will stay at Fulham till the end of the season. We got Sol …
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By Walter Broeckx Yes Sunday 31 January was the end of the world. We lost a home game against Manchester United with 1 goal against 3. The result made me sleep bad and again I was thinking: what if. And yes it did hurt me deep that defeat and I really didn’t think it was …
I ended my last piece by saying, “So, if the system works as it has for 100 years, is there any reason for thinking it is different today from what people saw in 1910?” As I have written my answer to that question, it has grown and grown, and I can’t put it all in …
Read More “Why is English football in such a total utter mess?”
Is English professional football really on the brink of a total collapse? That’s the question I want to answer, and I’m going to take a couple of articles to do it. But before the messianic stuff, I want to start with an enormous thank you. The thank you lasts five paragraphs, so if you don’t …
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