Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Editorial what-not. The series that we have been running on referees and corruption takes a breather for a moment as we focus on the forthcoming game with Birmingham. The next article in the series will follow in a day or two. Meanwhile we are still on …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Part 2 of our series on refereeing. (If you have not seen the previous article it might be a good idea to have a read through, to see where these statistics are going). By Walter Broeckx, the ref detective When I was doing my ref review …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the ref review-reviewer Blaming the ref when your side doesn’t win is part of football. It is what many supporters do. Indeed it is so common that anyone who starts to make such an argument seriously is just laughed at by the media, …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, your un-enigmatic ref Lee Probert was the ref in Wigan today and let’s not waste any time and have a look at his game. OTHER/CARD: A cross goes to the second post and the Wigan striker tries to score with his hand. The …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory With renewed confidence for our title tilt after a comfortable win over Chelsea, it’s off to Wigan after a mere day’s rest for the Arsenal. The Christmas fixture list is crazy at the best of times, but a single day between games is …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the happy ref. For the third time we had Clattenburg this year and the last one hardly a month ago. A very bad situation for the ref. In fact it is shameful for the FA to always have to send the same refs over …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx But first, The Prologue (by Tony) Kevin sits two rows in front of me, in the increasingly famous block 99, just above Red Action. At half time we were standing at our seats taking in the glorious goal, debating extraordinary ability of Nasri …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After the last game was cancelled against Stoke, the snow has thawed sufficiently for our home game against Chelsea to be given the go ahead. (It’s deep snow where I am Phil, and I’m struggling to get the car dug out of the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Arsenal v Chelsea (27/12/2010 20:00) By DogFace Referee: Mark Clattenburg Assistant 1: Scott Ledger Assistant 2: Martin Yerby 4th Official: Lee Probert Good morning stat-fans. I have dog-flu… Christmas has not been relaxing; it’s a time for children (especially if you have them) and …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood The Premier Academy League Table: don’t look at it unless you are feeling strong. We are sixth in the league out of ten, with a goal difference of minus 4. Won six, drawn two, lost seven. The last three games were a 0-3 …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here In the day before Christmas each year, the worldwide staff at Untold Arsenal come home to the editorial hub and join with the local hacks and associates from the Toppled Bollard – famed drinking den run by Billy the Dog McGraw – for a fun day …
By Walter Broeckx On all radio stations you hear songs with words like: ‘It’s Christmas time’ and all deejays are pretending to be father Christmas and are shouting ‘Hohoho’ between every Christmas song they are playing. We hear the word peace every five minutes and with the snow so much present we are heading for …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Eibaad Ahmed Butt Arsenal; a team that excites me to my very core, a team that has defined the word passion to me, a team that made football more than a sport to me. Now; I live in Asia (Pakistan) and there isn’t much of …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Dear Father Christmas, We think we have been good boys all season long and now we want to ask you if you could bring our friends and ourselves some nice Christmas presents. Of course we know you have already done so much for us this year. …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Predictions of Arsenal’s imminent downfall are always interesting, and 2010 gave us quite a few of them. The most amusing one, and the one that was talked about the most I guess, was the complete failure of the season ticket sales, and a …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood Who made Arsenal the club of world-wide renown and stature that we now have the privilege to watch? Who was the visionary who transformed us from being an ordinary club into being one of the great clubs? Of course many answers are possible, …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Blue Sky Blogs By Sammy The Snake My father’s most favorite comment while I was growing up was “money doesn’t grow on trees”. As my childhood was spent mostly on and around trees, this was quite obvious for me, but that didn’t discourage the …
by Tony Attwood It is hard to find many people in football who don’t have a bad word to say about Arsène Wenger, and Arsenal FC. In the current era it seemed to start with the journalists who tried to run the original paedophile story when Arsène Wenger first arrived (and who now conveniently forget …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx I can only remember one game before that was postponed in the Emirates and this was also with some snow but even more with the prospect of the police of having a difficult evening with a lot of travelling fans that could meet …
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw Watching Stoke City is rather like dancing the night with a girl with no rhythm Only to wake up with a hangover and find She won the dance competition. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, Zen Tse Province, 537 BC It has been a matter of some debate among academics how Lao …
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RefWatch – Arsenal v Stoke City (18/12/2010 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Lee Mason Assistant 1: Mick McDonough Assistant 2: Patrick Keane 4th Official: Keith Stroud Good morning stat-fans and welcome to what is a rather threadbare RefWatch. The reason being that we have on our hands a couple of new(ish) boys – the up’n’comers and …
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by Walter Broeckx People are sometimes comparing the invincibles with our current squad and then they mostly end up with saying that we are not as good and that they never will be as good as the invincibles. Well there is a big chance that the invincible-achievement will never be repeated ever in the EPL. …
Share hosted by Wikio When you hear that Peter Ridsdale says your club is in real trouble then you probably are in trouble. Having left Cardiff City and now seemingly refused to help (I use the word lightly) Plymouth Argyle, he is now making comments about Blackburn and saying that he worries for their future. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Walter Broeckx After a sleepless night I was waiting for the sun to come up again. I was sure this was not going to happen again. This was the ultimate doomsday. The end of the world. And when my alarm clock told me it was …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Snooping Around Nude Cuban Football Hotties On The Beach By Sammy The Snake You simply had to click on this one, didn’t you?! The title just jumped out of the page, and you couldn’t resist, right? In fact, I was only referring to fat old men …
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