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 Bogus Cheese My dears! My dears! What a moment, what a day! Welcome welcome! Camembert to you all. One of the many tricks of the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal web sites is to make endless criticisms while making few predictions. However several of the old “Wenger is an alien, turf him out now” sites did, through …
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By Phil Gregory Blackpool are welcomed to the Emirates for our first home game of the season. The newly-promoted got an excellent result away at Wigan, though it’s quite easy to over-hype the result. Any 4-0 win, especially away from home is highly commendable, but Wigan seemingly did their utmost to help. A horrendous defensive …
Arsenal welcome The Creature from the Black Lagoon By Billy The Dog McGraw, Landlord of the Toppled Bollard, Islington. At the heart of the matter there are three creatures. Oysten the Greater, Oysten the Lesser, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. All three have a significant part to play in the world of Blackpudlian …
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by Tony Attwood For years there has been a general assumption that there are only three ways of developing a club and two ways of making money out of football. You can make your club grow (so it was always said) by Development Method 1) Buying in those who are already acknowledged to be the …
We’ve got the Jack, Jack, Jack by Walter Broeckx Some people who like a bit of hard rock will now where I have got this line from. It is the chorus of an ACDC song which is mostly sung out loud by visitors of their concerts. As I haven’t been in the Emirates ever when Jack Wilshere …
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By Tony Attwood Untold Arsenal doesn’t do predictions about who we are about to buy, but if we did I might be tempted to say Sébastien Squillaci. Squillaci is a central defender who was with Monaco – with whom we know that our Lord Wenger has many contacts. He went on loan to AC Ajaccio …
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The Twinkle of a Fading Star By Tony Attwood Trotting off to Italy for a week and a bit is rather an interesting experience. My Italian verges on the non-existent side of useless, so my attempts to glean footballing information from Corriere dello Sport in its native printed form is limited. Fortunately there is an …
by Waleed Ahmad The so-called “art of tackling” is great and all, but what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. As someone who loves winning, I think players who can’t tackle are better for a side than players who can win the ball perfectly well. I honestly believe that at Arsenal there is too much …
By Walter Broeckx In my match review I didn’t talk much about our two new signings. I did this just because I wanted to think a bit more about their performances and to have a look at a few situations in the game. So let us start with our goal scorer Chamakh. On Arsenal.com he …
By Walter Broeckx The wise lessons I learned from “De Croc” I must apologize because I have to start with talking about someone who isn’t related to Arsenal at first sight but someone who has told me some interesting things that many Arsenal fans should listen to or take notice of. So to start this article …
By Walter Broeckx When Tony started this blog he was doing it mostly because he had enough of the stream of negativity that surrounded the blogosphere around Arsenal and Arsène Wenger. He wanted to balance it a bit with this blog that since then has supported Wenger in what he has been doing for this …
by Waleed Ahmad Why We Won’t Win The Title Until The Season Is Over It is because we wait until the very end to do things. What’s the point? We should sneakily rip a few pages from certain Italian clubs’ books and win the title before anyone else can. We need to learn to spend …
By Tony Attwood Why would anyone want to put money into football? Why would the Chinese want Liverpool, the Arabs want Manchester City, and anyone want Leeds United? The people who have continuously talked about why (although not directly) are the Glazer family who suggest that all will be ok soon because the new internet …
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by Walter Broeckx When the fixture list comes out in June every team is anxious to know what the first match will be. An easy home game against a new team? Going away to a team that should be struggling to avoid relegation? But one can be sure that one thing most teams don’t like …
By Walter Broeckx When I leave this place of sorrow To another world I will go But if there’s no Arsenal in heaven I will be going down below If my friends I have to leave you Someday we will meet again I will return and never leave you Being a Gooner to the …
By Phil Gregory Liverpool away, a great opener that the fixture computer has given us there. It’s going to be tough, an away tie with a side looking to make amends for a truly shoddy showing last season. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Liverpool FC, the fans do my head in with their …
By Walter Broeckx No Billy the Dog opening of the season for the moment. Since his last article he hasn’t been seen around in the country. Maybe the witchdoctor has put him under a spell and he still has to recover. Or maybe he has gone with Tony to Italy and look for a new …
By Tony Attwood Running a football club is about two things: surviving and winning. Obviously if you can’t do the former, then the latter is out of the question. So far, only one club in the modern era has fallen from pretensions of greatness to a desperate attempt to survive: Leeds. Other supposedly big clubs …
by Walter Broeckx In the game against Legia Warsaw we saw once again that some teams don’t know the rules at all. Or better said intentionally try to break the rules. Now that is not a big surprise for me as a ref as I have to see the same attempts every week and hear …
by Tony Attwood The Arsenal History project, organised by Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, and (I think it is fair to say) welcomed by the upper echelons of Arsenal FC, has taken on a new direction. We are starting to publish memories of fans – and at the moment we are focussing on memories of the …
by Walter Broeckx Yes this is Untold Arsenal but to start this article I will have to turn your eyes to one our rivals in London as Ajax will loan their Serbian striker Miralem Sulejmani out for one season and give him to West Ham United. A fairly modest headline in the transfer period. The fact that …
by Phil Gregory With the new Financial Fair Play rules all over the papers along with a sackful of misconceptions of how they’ll actually work I thought it’d be worthwhile to have a look at them and see what’s what. Without further ado…. The new Financial Fair Play (FFP) criteria assess the financial situation of …
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For England, that was the Golden Generation. Actually the last two world cups and the euro thing in the middle were the tournaments of the Golden Generation. England were about to win everything. After it was all over in South Africa, Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA’s director of football, made a statement. He comes across …
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By Walter Broeckx I really would like to know how much the average IQ is at Fufa’s headquarter. Reports mention the score above but I’m not sure it is really that high. But I’m sure they know a lot more about making money and on corruption than I do. But when it comes to things …
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By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Our man in a spot. Arsenal are sending a witchdoctor and exorcist to Wembley to help the three players picked for Wednesday’s game. It appears that Arsenal are worried both about the influence over young players of such malign forces as A Cole and Fabuloso Cappuccino and so will be …
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