Arsenal Burnley: a delightful and insightful fistful of pratfalls

It’s been months since we talked about players and matches, what with midweek dribble ball and the invasion of the hatchet men last saturday, so here’s a quick run down on this saturdays team, before a quick review of the opposition and their semi-illustrated history. —————- Almunia Sagna Vermaelen Silvestre Clichy (Eboue, Traore) Ramsey, Denilson, …

Football needs fixing: an open letter to the FA

To the Football Association, from Simon Bailey Sir, I am writing to you as a concerned supporter of both England and of a Premier League football team. The history of football in England is rich and diverse, but at the root of it are the clubs that make up the leagues. Clubs that have existed …

Clubs in debt: you ain’t seen nuffink yet

Trying to stay in touch with the financial morass that is the EPL, is tough.  In this article I am trying to pull together some of the latest facts, figures, and then conclusions.  I am hopeful that if there are factual errors these can be pointed out and I will produce an update a bit …

What the rule book says about the Shawcross tackle

By Walter Broeckx Much has been made of Shawcross being a nice man and therefore not to blame.   And behind this has comes the argument that all the fuss is about nothing because what Shawcross did was a legitimate tackle. So let us clear this up for once and for all. At least until the …

Why Shawcross can’t say, “I didn’t mean it” and a review of his previous assaults.

A review of the issue of assault, and the previous convictions of Shawcross By The Law Back when I was a Law Student, we were taught an interesting rule in Criminal Law, called The Eggshell Skull Rule. This rule stated that if you struck someone on the head which resulted in a shattered skull and …

Stupidity week again and again and again

Untold Arsenal is published two or three times a day.    There’s an list of recent articles on the right in date order, followed by a month by month drop down menu.  At the end of the main piece there’s an abbreviated contents section (just in case we published something while you weren’t looking.) Stupidity Week …

English football’s omertà: a time for Clean Hands

English football’s omertà: a time for Clean Hands By Brian Baker I was listening to the radio in the car, driving back after family commitments, when I heard that Aaron Ramsey had been assaulted on a football field in Stoke. I was emotionally thrown back to the day of Eduardo’s injury, ten minutes after which …

Was the assault on Ramsey linked to money?

The argument about Aaron Ramsey runs roughly like this… The media, with a mixture of traditional English dislike of success, plus a deep-rooted disgust at all things French, and a desperate need to create news out of nothing, constantly announce that the only way to beat Arsenal is to rough them up.  The story is …

Why Stoke type thuggery is not allowed in Spain and Italy

J’accuse! by Walter Broeckx The EPL is maybe the best league in the World for now. The FA and the PL organization can be proud of that. The best footballers of the world come to England to play games at maybe the highest level in the world. Week in week out you can see teams, …