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
Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan In the many comments on the post re the Wigan game there were a number that said that we should recognise that Wenger and his youth project had failed. One in particular caught my eye: it said that it was harder to recognise this …
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Wow, what a weekend of football so far. United were dead and buried and the title was on it’s way to Stamford Bridge. Not anymore. Are we in it? Mathematically, yes though realistically there are too few games to expect to overhaul two sides. One could perhaps be relied on to slip up, but not …
Read More “The detailed truth: Wigan v Arsenal, and the result”
The Romans built a fort at Wigan. Thus begin all official and unofficial histories of one of England’s least known shanty towns. The problem for Wigan was that having got there the pesky Romans took a look and immediately buggered off, leaving the village to the even peskier Northumbrians. After 800 years they built a …
Read More “Where is Wigan, how do I get there, what’s this pier thing and who is Eddie Waring?”
I have had two enquiries from friends of this site, both of whom live outside of the UK, both asking for help in terms of their visits. I’m more than happy to pass on the questions. If you have any thoughts can you put them below in the usual way? Thanks. First Jay Javari has …
By Walter Broeckx. Additional material by Tony Attwood When the referee in the Porto / Arsenal game allowed a quick free kick to be taken there were two reactions. Arsenal players, management and supporters were outraged. And the media, never one to miss an opportunity to knock Arsenal, said, “How many times did we see …
Read More “The quick restart after the foul: what does the ref’s manual say”
One of the best statements I have read on this site since the end of the 10 year unbeaten run was that encouraging us all to wear the shirt with pride. The 10 year run in which we were unbeaten in the league by Tottenham Sewage (a club renamed to coincide with the chants of …
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By Walter Broeckx When Arsenal loses a game it is always a difficult moment. Every defeat hurts and the defeat against ****** even more than any other. We could all do like the catastrophists do, and slaughter all the players, the manager and everyone else involved in the club. I think there are plenty of …
They had to wait until Arsenal put out a team with six first team regulars missing, and a team for most of the game including our 4th and 5th choice centre backs, but it had to happen one day. After 10 years of waiting, after the endless defeats and humiliations, Tottenham finally managed to beat …
Read More “Tot supporters chant “Pedophile” as they get their first victory in ten years.”
Spurs and shares. by Phil Gregory Well, well, well, if it isn’t North London Derby O’clock. The derby at the Emirates was an absolute cracker, one of those where you remember what you were doing that day. I, unfortunately missed some of the match, getting roped into playing for my team’s Saturday morning game despite …
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Inside informants at Tottie-Train, the Temporary Tottenham Training Turf have revealed that the Tinies have spent lots of time looking at Arsenal and the way they have consistentlyended up several hundred light years ahead of the Totts year after year. Of course the Tots have had some success – their secret underwater research centre in …
By Walter Broeckx As a ref I am rather well placed to hear some things that others never hear. I have heard stories told by other refs on how they have helped teams to stay up or to become champions. Some did it because the president of a club came in the dressing room before …
Which is why, in between everything else, I have been calling this, Tiny Totts week. And in a sense this is the article I have been building up to all season. I doubt that the Tinies even know the importance of this match in historical terms. They probably know it in hysterical terms but then, …
Read More “It is 100 years almost to the day since the first Tottenham v Arsenal game”
Exclusive! Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the FSB and KGB in Russia who was granted political asylum in the UK. He accused the FSB of terrorist acts within Russia, in order to bring Putin to power. On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko fell ill and died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim …
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By Walter Broeckx Sir Alexenophobia Ferguson has opened his mouth to tell us that the way the Bayern Munich players behaved in the game at Old Trafford was typical of Germans. I’m not going to give too much time on reviewing the ref of that game but let me start by saying that Rafael would …
Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal”. A book utterly unlike any other book ever written about Arsenal FC. If you have ever wanted to know what it is that is so utterly incomprehensibly special and different from every other club, this book will go some way to explain that. —————- I am going to start by stressing that …
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Today’s Sponsor: The Untold Arsenal / Goonernews Betting Guide Like everything else on this site, it has to be seen to be believed. Robin, Robin, Robin (etc etc) by Walter Broeckx What a boring weekend this is going to be. No Arsenal game in the weekend, this almost feels like the summer period we all …
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It’s a bit of a funny old world at the moment (as they say), and my ramblings herein have no overall focus, what with us not having a match this weekend. But I thought I’d just throw in some of the stuff that has caught my attention of late. If it is all too boring, …
Read More “The world of football meanders along, and carries us with it…”
By Tony Attwood Sometimes I think I have it a bit hard. I live in a part of England called the East Midlands. It is a nice rural community in a county that is made up a mixture of sheep farming and light industry. I quite like it here but there is a problem. My …
Sometimes I get the distinct feeling that football isn’t real at all – but is just made up. I mean, we have got through to the quarter final of the Euro Cup – which is further than our recent rivals Chelsea and Liverpool, and the same as Manchester United. We went out when playing a …
Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com —————- Last week we had April Fools Day with all the usual stuff going up on the web sites. Red Action announced that Arsenal were going …
Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com ————— Not every Henry is Henry. By Walter Broeckx Last week a player from Wolverhampton got himself sent off with a red card after a horrifying …
We are now in our third consecutive year of mega injuries. To play Barca without Van Persie Cesc Gallas Arshavin Ramsey Song Djourou and do ok shows how sensational a side we are building at Arsenal. And it was ok, for we took the game to them, and made the current Euro Champions, complete with …
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By Phil Gregory. Here we are then with the final installment of our feast of football. There’s everything still to play for, but after a 2-2 draw at home, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think the odds had tipped just a little bit further away from us. Truth be told, as I …
Read More ““Sod it.” Untold’s unbeatable preview of the Barca Game.”
Arsenal Ladies smashed Chelsea Ladies 4-0 away in the FA Cup semi-final and will play their old rivals Everton in May’s FA Women’s Cup final. Three goals in the last 11 minutes of the first got matters sorted. This will now be Arsenal’s 11th Final. What’s more Kim Little scored a goal which means she …
Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal”. A book utterly unlike any other book ever written about Arsenal FC. If you have ever wanted to know what it is that is so utterly incomprehensibly special and different from every other club, this book will go some way to explain that. It’s all been said before… But anyway, …
Read More “Barca v Arsenal: it’s all been said before. Well, almost”
