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: “Making the Arsenal” – just so you can realise what it was like in the really bad times. ———————- by Walter Broeckx Introducing video evidence without delaying the game. As you know I don’t spare my criticism when I see bad referee decisions. I always try to do this by explaining it with the …
How would The Invincibles have coped? A Retro-Retrospective. By Dale Higginbottom After the recent poor results around the end of the season and reading the hatred of many so-called Arsenal fans I wanted to bring a little bit of perspective on things and think about how would The Invincibles have coped if faced with similar …
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Today’s sponsor: Arsenal Worldwide. The association for every Arsenal fan across the world by Walter Broeckx Some of us can still remember the CL game at home against Liverpool. When Cesc shot at goal the ball was kept out… by an Arsenal player, Nicklas Bendtner. Yes it was a painful moment for us and certainly …
The Rise of the Catastrophist – finally explained If you came today to most Arsenal blogs for the first time, you would be excused from believing that doom and gloom is everywhere. In the last couple of days there has been talk of “mass protests” at the Emirates Cup games, defection of half the squad, …
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Today’s sponsor: Arsenal Worldwide. The association for every Arsenal fan across the world ——————————– by Walter Broeckx So here we go again. Cesc has hardly put one foot on Spanish soil and the Spanish media are all over him again with all kind of stories about his move to Barcelona. Now to understand how things …
The FA is fairly strong on the Tottenham supporting front. Or at least it was until naughty Lord Triesman was taped by a bimbo spilling the beans about the way the pesky Russians and the Spanish are bribing world cup refs. Tottenham-crazed Triesman is now yesterday’s news (a bit like the club he supports) – …
Read More “Tottenham Hotspur’s Triesman goes but other Tinies remain as FA crawls along the gutter”
by Walter Broeckx When I came in touch with Armin Medic, of the Bosnian supporters club, a few months ago he came up with the idea to do something for the Arsenal fans outside the UK. We had some very interesting email sessions and so the idea of making a magazine written by Arsenal fans from …
By Walter Broeckx Congratulations and celebrations, When I tell everyone that you’re going to the world cup Congratulations and jubilations, I want the world to know I’m not surprised at all. ————- Forgive me to have changed the lyrics of this old Cliff Richard song a bit. The refs that are going to the world …
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By Phil Gregory Before the opening of the transfer window and the start of silly season, I think it wise have a look at the squad and see what we need to add for the upcoming season. I’m counting out players with injuries that mean they start the season injured: given the “Eduardo experience” I’d …
Read More “Next season’s squad – the analysis, the detail, the review, the transfers”
Tony Adams, Mr Arsenal, won the league four times, the FA cup three times, the league cup twice, the Cup Winners’ Cup, and is only player in English football history to captain a title-winning side in three different decades. Tony Adams is in Gabala, three hours drive from the capital of Azerbaijan. Most British fans …
———————————– Today’s sponsor: The book that… well…. that… is different from every other Arsenal book you have ever seen in your life, and if you buy it and don’t agree I’ll give you your money back (terms and conditions apply). ———————————– The fan who never saw Arsenal lifting a cup By Isaiah “Isaic” Saw Being …
by Walter Broeckx The final games have been played. The league table is final. As you know I have done a few reviews of our season and compared it with the games we had last season. So now we can try to draw a few final conclusions. Until the game against Birmingham we were doing …
It’s clear we are about to buy Chamakh. And the Lord Wenger has announced that he will be buying some defenders. In the plural. At least two. Maybe more. In fact, if you manage to plough through all my ramblings, you will see I am predicting a giant squad (and not as I wrote in …
Read More “Arsenal’s squad for next season: no restriction on the number of new players”
Today’s Sponsor: Historical Fiction on Acid. The strangest book on football in the history of books on football. ———————— Crisis, What Crisis? By Simon Bailey. Is the English game in crisis? Well if we compare it to FIFA or Trinidad and Tobagos FA our own situation doesn’t look too bad. But judged on it’s own …
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By Walter Broeckx In September the UEFA’s Executive Committee approved the Financial Fair Play concept for the well-being of European club football. The major objective of the Financial Fair Play concept is to improve the financial fairness in European competitions, as well as the long-term stability of European club football. In order to achieve this …
Read More “Financial fair play: how Uefa’s new regulations will be run by a plumber”
By Walter Broeckx Oh the joy of being an Arsenal fan when at 5 am on a Sunday morning the alarm clock next to my bed wakes me up. Pure delight is what runs in my blood when I realise I will be in the Emirates in some 12 hours from now. Instead of the …
Arsenal have won the Premier Academy League – the first team ever to retain the title. What’s more they have secured their position as the most successful youth team club of all time. What’s more, Arsenal won the title without using their main players from last year. Jay Emmanuel Thomas, for example, who could have …
Read More “Be proud, be very proud. Arsenal become first team ever to retain Premier Academy League”
This article was published at about 8am on 11 May but there were reports from readers that it was not visible, so I am trying it again. Tony There were 15 Arsenal players on loan by the end of the season. Here’s an analysis of them – the percentage figure at the end comes from …
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TODAY’S SPONSOR… Gooner Gifts 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. ————————– There were 15 Arsenal players on loan by the end of the season. Here’s an analysis of them – the percentage figure at the end comes …
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TODAY’S SPONSOR… Gooner Gifts 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. ———————– Arsenal Ladies and Arsenal Youth both win by Tony Attwood Arsenal Ladies have won the last ever Premier League – for the seventh year running. Although …
By Tony Attwood Two stories at once – this one, and the fact that Arsenal Ladies won the league yesterday (Sunday). I’ll come back to the triumph of Arsenal Ladies in the next piece. First… Liverpool’s finances look awful – more awful than before. But I don’t think that that is the whole story. Give …
Read More “The league look ready to abandon support for Liverpool”
16-1, I should explain, was the number of shots for each side. And there isn’t too much point in doing any analysis of a match like this. We needed to win, and Fulham were thinking of the Europa League, and we did what was necessary. Most amusingly Tottenham didn’t. Djourou came back and had a …
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By Tony Attwood Fulham is one of those teams that I rarely have animosity for. They don’t seem to play long ball stuff, and they don’t try to kick us to death. (Of course having written that a few hours before the match, they might well try to do that today, but my recollection is …
Read More “Football is a mug’s game. Just when you think you are on the up, this happens.”
by Tony Attwood Just a little story that I noticed, in case it is of interest. There’s an interesting piece in the Guardian today which suggests that the team will change from 4-3-3- over to 4-4-2 for the game against Fulham. I have to admit when Eboue is in the team I do sometimes lose …
By Tony Attwood Since everyone in the UK is still wondering who is going to run the country, and no one is reading blogs, I thought I would amuse myself by doing a preview of the game against Fulham by looking at their finances. Fulham FC is actually a network of companies which ultimately seem …
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