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, the speachless ref As some supporters had a lot of questions about the ref I tried to be as complete as I could. So I did try to count the numbers of fouls not given during the game from both sides. I did not include the correct given fouls as this is …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Snooping Around Everton and Tot Blogs By Sammy The Snake (plus a little meander from his friend) Taking cue from President Hosni Mobarak of Egypt, and in line with all our Untold efforts to avoid an uprising around this strategic corner of the …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Yes I think it is Wenger his fault. Every time we lose a game. Oops we didn’t lose the game, we actually won the game. So every game people come out to tell us how poor we are. People come …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Billy El Dog Phil Gregory sends his compliments but he has got yet another French virus, and has retired to his bed. So the cleft stick has been used, the messagers have made their way through the jungle and here I am. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony The return of Diaby – just like a new signing? By Ian Trevett The shutters of transfer window are preparing to slam shut, and in all probability there will be no marquee signing at Arsenal. Now we have three fit centre backs, I …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx After my first article on fouls I went a step further and have a look at the yellow cards the teams have received in the EPL this season. The first thing I did was see how many yellow cards were …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx As you will know by now I love numbers. I probably have bored you to death with all my numbers and to make a chance I will give you another set of numbers. This time I will try to tackle …
By Tony Attwood It didn’t make much of an impact in the news when he said it, but S Blatter, head of the discredited Fifa, has demanded a reduction of the number of teams playing in the top leagues in some countries including England. The man who has presided over the massive growth in meaningless …
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Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the celebrating ref The Ref in this second leg of the Carling Cup semi final was Mike Halsey. Second time we had him this season and let us take a look at his game. PENALTY/CARD: Cesc goes down in the penalty area. There was an arm from the Ipswich …
By Tony Attwood Over the years I have become increasingly bemused by the stats that are put out after each game, either because I just don’t believe they relate to the match I have just seen, or because I don’t understand what the hell is going on (which is of course my normal state of …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Where do you start when you just have seen Arsenal booking a place in the Carling Cup final? I think this is just the time to enjoy the final result. This is just the time to sing a Song even …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory Well, the second leg our first semi final this season has crept up on us, or at least it has on me, having thought it was being played tomorrow. Not the best of timing really, considering I’m balancing big shifts …
Read More “Arsenal v Ipswich – teams and all that sort of stuff”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory, Righto, here we are with the final part of my musings on the general state of football finances for the Commons Inquiry. Since starting this report, I’ve decided to do my dissertation along similar lines, so if you have enjoyed …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx Scoring goals the most important thing in football. Without scoring goals you just cannot win games. We could rely on other teams to score own goals as United did last season when the own goals was their second best striker. …
Read More “Goals, goal scorers and who is the best finisher ?”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx The last thing you want to happen when you go to a football game is to miss the goals. It is what happened to me when I first came to London and fell in love with Arsenal. After that Saturday …
Read More “We gonna score in a minute, but in which minute?”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Tony Attwood As you will know, we’ve signed one player this transfer window: Ryo Miyaichi, who is 18. Now it seems we are on the edge of getting the second: Alexander Mark David Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton. In case what we all …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the surprised ref Today we had a débutante in the Emirates for Arsenal as Dog Face announced in his inimitable column yesterday. Was ref Kevin Friend still my friend after the game? Let us start our search. OTHER: Song gives …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Tony Attwood In the papers this morning the Lord Coe (he of running, Olympics and the Conservative Party) announced that “it would be very difficult for us to be taken seriously in the corridors of world sport and arguably beyond,” if the …
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RefWatch – Arsenal v Wigan Athletic (22/01/2011 15:00) By DogFace ————– Today’s RefWatch is dedicated to Phil Gregory (although Dogface hasn’t approved this because we didn’t have time to tell him). Phil writes on economics and does our match previews, and today joins the refereeing clan by taking his first match. Everyone at Untold and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory – our man with a computer It wasn’t long ago that we last played Wigan, dropping two points in disappointing fashion. That day was even more disappointing if thanks to a delay on your Virgin trains you arrived sufficiently late …
Read More “Step aside Ms Cheese; Phil’s got his computer going. Arsenal v Wigan.”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony by Bogus Cheese Hey ho one and all. Phil says his email has screwed itself to a fire hydrant and he can’t get it out for the moment. If he can he’ll send in another piece, so this is a quick holding pattern, …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Snooping Around 18, 19 & 20 By Sammy The Snake Sammy The Snake runs a company. Well, you got me! Sammy The Snake pretends to run a company while he day-dreams about Arsenal. I have a huge football pitch in my head, and …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Phil Gregory Following on from my last article, looking at the debts of United and Arsenal, we go onwards with this piece where I’m going to have a look at whether football should be treated as a totally unique business. The deadline …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony By Walter Broeckx, the OH MY GOD referee When I saw that Mike Dean was the ref I felt something bad in my stomach. I do admit that I don’t like him. He has a style of refereeing which I absolutely don’t like. …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory through Harmony by Tony Attwood We all know that sometime around June the financially discredited Barcelona will start their annual whimpering about Cesc wanting to leave Arsenal and join them. They were going to do it this month, but then one of their number started …
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