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 Walter Broeckx Now that the group stage of the Champions league is behind us I thought it would be nice to see how the refs have done in total and how they compare to the refs in the EPL in global. So I took my table and tried to get an average percentage in …
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Here’s another one of these videos that I get 2.1p every time you click on it. You must be over 45 to watch it, or else your heart will stop beating with the excitement. It has nothing to do with the article below. Share hosted by Wikio Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 17 By Dale …
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by Walter Broeckx, the blind ref’s reviewer Howard Webb was the ref at Old Trafford. If I had to make a choice before the game between Dean and Webb it would be like choosing between the plague and cholera. Webb also has his own facebook group under the name: Howard Webb, United best player (or …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Manchester United v Arsenal (13/12/2010 20:00) By DogFace Referee: Howard Webb Assistant 1: Dave Bryan Assistant 2: Darren Cann 4th Official: Phil Dowd Good afternoon stat-fans and welcome to an all new stat-tastic RefWatch. Today we have the pleasure of Howard Webb (again) and, …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory and Mark Butterworth Somehow banished to Monday night football is the biggest match of the “weekend”, with top of the table Arsenal traveling away to Old Trafford for a top of the table clash. Already foolishly billed as a title decider in some parts …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood A while ago the excellent Swiss Ramble covered Bolton. Bolton, (generally known as Notlob in these august columns), a team symbolic of all that was previously wrong with football: rotational fouling, rotational time wasting, and the snarling antediluvian himself: the Fat Slug. But …
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By Tony Attwood Sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s my dad took me to see Cardiff City vs Arsenal. He had an old friend there – maybe even a pal from the war, I am not sure, and we went and the old friend’s house, before walking on to the match. I don’t …
By Walter Broeckx As I am on my normal computer now I will try to give a short view on how it works with offences against goalkeepers which came up in the last Ref’s Review. So again I start with the laws of the game. Offences committed against goalkeepers • It is an offence for a player …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx A few weeks ago Wenger told on Arsenal.com that this squad was the strongest he has ever had. After that we had 2 losses in a row and rather painful ones. One on a dreadful Saturday in North London and the other …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Sammy The Snake Snooping around Sp#rs Blogs Oh Lord… Not you Tony! Oh Lord… Not you Arsene! Oh Lord… Yes, you, Big Man! Oh Lord… Forgive me for I’ve sinned… I’ve been to the other side, and it wasn’t pretty… I’ve seen the darkness… I’ve …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the delighted ref. According to my match commentator our ref for today’s game was a débutante in the Champions League. So what more could we say at the start of the game at our ref from Italy besides: welcome. Or benvenuti as it …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Corley After the Fulham game, Arsene Wenger indicated that he had instructed Alex Song to play further forwards this season in an effort to open up more room in midfield. General reaction around the blog-o-net seems to be that Wenger must be crazy. ‘He’s a …
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Arsenal / Partizan By Phil Gregory Following on from Smair Nasri versus Fulham, Partizan come to the Emirates. After a tight game in Belgrade , which arguably marked the turning point in Fabianski’s Arsenal career, the final match of the group stage offers us an outside chance of first place in the group. It wouldn’t …
By Tony Attwood That headline does not represent my views actually but they are views that are expressed on the internet, usually accompanied by a list of players who clearly can’t play and should be dropped, or removed, transferred or just put out to grass. All the current back four usually get a mention somewhere …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 16 By Dale Higginbottom Monday comes around again and so does another injury round up. With only four games played at the time of writing there might not be so much to report but shall we look at the numbers and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood So what does England really do about this world cup stuff? There are some interesting options such as 1: Get deep inside Fifa and try to reform what must be the most corrupt sporting body ever seen on the planet. 2: Stay in …
Read More “England, Fifa, FA, corruption, incompetence. The ancien régime approaches its end.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Ticket previously announced for Wednesday has now gone – sorry. By Walter Broeckx When I did a very first and short attempt to analyse our defensive performances I got a lot of suggestions from people who asked me to dig deeper. So I took my shovel …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref with a sick note Today we had ref Chris Foy at the Emirates and we just have to see how he did this game. GOAL: Nothing wrong in the rule book and what a beauty. 1/1 OTHER: Offside given against …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Just look at the facts. We are supposed to be team that according to the pundits is really a bad team. We don’t know how to defend, we don’t know how to score, we don’t know how to deal with …
Read More “The EPL is the worst league in the world. After Arsenal/Fulham it must be”
By Phil Gregory Following on from the midweek Carling Cup action, Fulham travel to the Emirates . It’s been a disappointing campaign for Fulham: things can never said to be going well when you are near the foot of the table. They’ve consistently been picking points up over the course of the season but mainly …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Will Forest Help Ramsey Grow? Patrick Norwood, Upper90magazine. As an Arsenal fan living in Nottingham the story that has caught my eye the past few weeks has definitely been, Aaron Ramsey’s loan move to Nottingham Forest. Since moving to Arsenal at just 17, for £5 million, from boyhood club …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Arsenal v Fulham (04/12/2010 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: Darren Cann Assistant 2: Bob Pollock 4th Official: Mark Halsey Greetings pop pickers – and welcome to another all-new RefWatch… now – first of all; I know I’m in danger of being …
By Walter Broeckx One of our readers wrote a comment which got me thinking. And I would like to thank him for giving me some inspiration. And please don’t see this as some kind of attack, as this is certainly not the case. It just was the starting point of doing some research. He said: …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Phil Gregory So the news is in, Russia has the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022. Anyone who is connected to the Untold facebook page will know my thoughts already, but I decided to elaborate on them and put together a quick article. There …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood As I have made repeatedly clear I was never a footballer, but even after I gave up my pointless escapades on grass after finishing as a student, I continued to play (I use the word in its most childish sense) five a side …
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