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
Arsenal vs Shakhtar By Phil Gregory The first mistake most fans seem to be making in regards to this game is taking their ignorance of Eastern European’ to mean that those teams aren’t up to much. Shakhtar aren’t a soft touch, by any means. There’s a lot of money in certain Eastern European countries, of …
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by Billy the Dog McGraw assisted by his nurse So, our beloved Underlord, Cesc Fabregas will be at ‘full fitness’ for the Champions League kick around, but the Overlord says he may not start. Theo has stubbed his toe, and may not start. Laurent Koscielny, Thomas Vermaelen, Robin van Persie, and Manuel Almunia are all …
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by Walter Broeckx We all have seen the time wasting performed by Birmingham City last weekend at the Emirates. Well those who were in the stadium saw it, that is, because for us at home sitting in front of our TV or PC it’s much more difficult to follow this. Because mostly the director uses …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 8 By Dale Higginbottom In the last injury round-up we were hopeful of an improvement on the injury status of our beloved club. There was the glimmer of a belief that for the first time in a while we might come out of an international break with fewer injuries than …
By Bogus Cheese It’s hard not to feel sorry for Sir Alex F-Word… sorry, I seem to have put an extra word in that. Let’s start again. It’s hard to feel sorry for Sir Alex F-Word. Despite his much vaunted socialism and his shop steward background he has consistently failed to criticise the owners of …
By Walter Broeckx, referee With the visit of Birmingham came also ref Atkinson to the Emirates. Since the Eduardo incident a very tricky game and with from Arsenal’s point of view games where the casualty list was high in the past seasons: Eduardo, Walcott, Cesc…just to name a few. Just take a look at the …
By Tony Attwood After about ten minutes of this game the question arose – can the ref do anything about a playing who feigns injury, and then, when the other team pause to see if he is ok, leaps up uninjured and tries to get the ball back. We debated it, because that’s what we …
By Phil Gregory Birmingham come to the Emirates sitting a single point above the relegation zone, while our own title bid has taken a bit of a beating with recent defeats against West Brom and Chelsea. West Brom showed that no team should be underestimated when they travel to the Emirates, so despite a Birmingham …
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The Untold Invincibles: Genesis & End of FC Start During the half-time interval, an SS officer entered FC Start’s dressing room. In a stern tone, he darkly said: “You really cannot expect to win, however. Just consider for a moment what will happen if you do.” The FC Start players knew what this meant. Lose …
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by Tony Attwood Sometimes it is hard to recognise all this stuff as football. There’s so much off the pitch, that there hardly seems any room for the old ball kicking thing. Just consider some of the stuff doing the rounds… Arsenal: injuries, injuries, but a few returnees. A tunnel with light in it for …
by Walter Broeckx In a supporters life there are moments that you never forget. Like the first time you see your favourite team live. I even still have a photo taken from the old North Bank somewhere in a photo album that my wife once made of the big events that happened in my life. …
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw Never before in the history of Arsenal has it happened. We have… a team. More than a team. And team and then some. And most of them are… shhhhh, say it softly, fit. In goal: well we have a goalkeeper. We don’t talk about them. At the back we have: …
Who is Arsenal’s Talisman? Cesc? Van Persie? Both? Or neither? – “Victoria Concordia Crescit” By Dark Prince I’ve always been asked by many of my friends – Who is more important to Arsenal- Cesc or Van Persie? Do we need only one of them in our squad to ensure a victory? Or do we need …
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By Bogus Cheese, chief correspondent. Now I am going to have to make a bit of a confession here. You see, I ought to have put one of those question mark things in the headline, but I forgot, and well, you know, then I fancied a pizza, and by the time I got back it …
by Tony Attwood Arsenal, in terms of any player of any age, who is thinking of getting a transfer, has a number of attractions. One is obviously Arsène Wenger, who is so highly regarded worldwide as a coach. Another is the training facilities. Another is the ground. Then there’s the year after year of Champions …
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By Tony Attwood It was gruesome for the start of the season. Played four, won one, lost two, drawn one. Worst of all a horrible 2-5 defeat to Manchester City (not their Elite – that’s the reserves – but their under 18s). We are used to dominating the under 18. Only team ever to retain …
Sir Alex F Word talks… sometimes. He talks with Ed Miliband, and he talks to Manchester United’s own TV channel (mostly) but because he didn’t like the way some of the media reported his comments after the Man U/ Liverpool game he stopped talking to the press. He already doesn’t talk to the BBC, and …
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Feck! Girls! Arse nal! By Belfast Kiwi Ambrose is aptly named after his Patron Saint and is a bit of a character that drinks down at my local Irish bar, The Shuck and Shamrock, seemingly he lives there. There is more than a bit of Father Jack about him. Wild grey hair and fascinatingly long …
Celebrating the remarkable honesty of Danny Murphy. By Ian Trevett It doesn’t need me to point out that Arsenal have been kicked around a fair bit over the last few years. Three smashed legs in five years isn’t a co-incidence, as everyone knows that ‘the only way to play Arsenal is to get in their …
Back to the Future – Arsenal 201 By Paul Blythe As I stand here, piping hot coffee mug cupped in chilled hands staring out of the living room window through the distorting condensation, into the languidly lifting mists of the street beyond. I catch a glimpse of the lovely Christine, a woman of indeterminate age, …
The new consortium looking at Liverpool could back out if the court action currently going on allows Hicks and Gillette to stay in control. The banks would then take action to put Liverpool in admiistration, and that would result in the club losing nine points. It is now said that the American buyers would then …
by Walter Broeckx As we have yet another international break in front of us I just wanted to take on two international matters and talk about my beloved friends from FIFA. Yesterday in my paper it was said that Fifa has suspended Nigeria because Fifa thinks that the political regime in Nigeria is interfering with …
By Tony Attwood If you have an exceptionally long memory you might recall that during the summer the England team in the Bent World Cup didn’t do very well. And the question arose as to why. Untold Arsenal did a bit of research and came up with a reason: we didn’t have the same number …
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By Tony Attwood & the research team of the 10th best blog in Northamptonshire (and other places). Tottenham’s new stadium plans have been accepted by Haringey council’s planning committee. But… While the committee in fact got quite excited, bubbling over with enthusiasm for what it calls “an overhaul of north Tottenham”, in a £400m project …
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A little note from the Ed before you start. Last time around the Wikio rankings of blogs of a footballing nature had Untold at number 88 in the world. A derisory number and one that caused much gnashing of the teeth. This time (in figures about to be released) we have risen to number 10 …
