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 Billy the Dog 1: Mr Wenger did not invent the notion of Arsenal playing reserve teams in Cup games. Newspaper reports (soon to be reprinted on the Arsenal History site) actually called our cup side Woolwich Arsenal Reserves in 1893/4. 2: Although the press like to make the point that Mr Wenger no longer …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Ibrahima Fode NDIAYE After one third of the season gone, lessons can be learned and remarks can be made. The biggest lesson is injuries can wreck any team’s form. Indeed we have seen a Chelsea team that looked unbeatable with the A team, going through …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory Carling Cup action is the order of the day for Tuesday evening, with Wigan coming to the Emirates. Wigan at home fits the bill of what I’d call an “ideal” Carling Cup tie: a lower Premier League/decent Championship side, good enough to pose …
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Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 15 By Dale Higginbottom As winter well and truly hits Britain, we enter a busy period of football. The cold weather coupled with the high frequency of games could have a big impact on injuries to players and we plan to report all these injuries here on Untold. Gameweek 15 …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Sometimes around 1615 Galileo Galilei invited an emissary of the pope to look through his telescope at the four little discs moving across the face of Jupiter. The emissary refused to look, saying that he did not need to look through a telescope …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Background: In response to the penultimate article which suggested in what was meant to be an ironic manner that the EPL would investigate Arsenal’s win at Villa because it was impossible for a team so awful as Arsenal to win any game, a correspondent under the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref So for our visit to Birmingham and to Aston Villa we had ref Clattenburg and he leads the ref table so far with his performance when we played at Manchester City. Could he have the same almost faultless game? Let …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Billy “The Dog” McGraw The Premier League has announced that it is to carry out what it calls a “major and significant” enquiry into match fixing at the Aston Villa vs Arsenal game today. “It is self-evident,” said Sir Hardly Anyone, president of the EPL, …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Whenever we lose a game some of our supporters go into “worst ever” mode. The manager has to be sacked, the players are useless. Well we all know how they go around the internet with their slogans. And let us just take a …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Aston Villa v Arsenal (27/11/2010 – 12:45) By DogFace • Referee: Mark Clattenburg • Assistant 1: Ron Ganfield • Assistant 2: Adam Watts • 4th Official: Phil Dowd Good morning (afternoon) all… Can I first just say what a horrible …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around: ManU Blogs by Sammy the Snake So the Lord of Untold is looking for a few typing monkeys to write a regular pro-Wenger column. Pro-wenger, I am. The main reason I started supporting Arsenal was the way the club was run, and that is …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Ibrahima Fode NDIAYE If we are so bad why are we being copied ? I hear Arsenal are so bad they can’t win a cup in God only knows how many years. Some say it’s five other six but the general consensus seems to be …
I am not a religious man, and indeed all I ask from those who are religious is that they leave me alone. If they don’t tell me how to run my life, I’ll quite happily let them get on with their own. Yet I try to be respectful of others’ beliefs no matter what I …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. And with sad I mean the fact that we lost on Saturday and Tuesday in games that we shouldn’t have lost. And with funny I mean the fact that this Arsenal is not only …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Is football going to change in the near future? If it depends on the European Club Association it will. The ECA is an organisation from the biggest clubs in Europe and Arsenal is a member of this organisation as are most of the …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx The ref for this game in the stone pit of Braga was from Hungary. His name was Viktor Kassai. And when you pronounce his name in my local tongue you can translate this in to a cobblestone. So was the ref rock solid? …
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by Tony Attwood Maybe its because I am getting old. Maybe its because my nature these days is to see the pot half full not half empty. Maybe it is just because I find it utterly laughable to read the comments about how Wenger has lost it when we are two points off the top …
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By Tony Attwood There are no secrets in football any more. Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin are having a little break from the rigours, and Gaël Clichy has hurt his back – everyone knows. Henri Lansbury has gone on a short term loan to Norwich (a small island just off the western coast of …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx Time to look forward to a visit to Os Arsenalistas as they are called in Portugal or Braga as we and most of the world know them. I’m not going to take over from Billy the Dog or from Phil who can do …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 14 By Dale Higginbottom In the cold sobriety of an equally cold Monday after a two-day football hangover I can’t help but feel still a little unsure and unstable as I write this. The first home defeat to the Tiny Totts …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx, the SM ref Sometimes I love doing the refs reviews. And sometimes I hate it. But if a dirty jobs needs to be done, someone has to do it. So I try to switch off my Arsenal heart and try to switch my …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here The Lost Weekend Directed by Arsene Wenger Produced by Arsenal Football Players Screenplay by Everygooner Story by Don Birnam Starring Ray Milland & Jane Wyman Running time 95 Minutes Release date November 20th 2010 By Paul Fowler I sit and …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Walter Broeckx We all could see that Arsenal was totally in control of the game against Tottenham in the first half. And then we ran out of steam as it was visible that some players were struggling to keep up the pace. Did the international games …
By Walter Broeckx Ouch. I think this sums it up rather nicely. And maybe I could stop it right here. Go to bed early, pull the blankets over my head and try to forget this day ever existed. As it wouldn’t change a thing I will try to act as a man and accept the …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ———————————————- by Phil Gregory Tottenham head to the Emirates on Saturday for a game that has more than a few sub-plots to it. Struggling somewhat in the league off the back of their Champions League commitments, Spurs are in a position where they need to get …
