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
The debate can wait. There is a league to win By Ian Trevett Sometimes, when my judgement for good taste fails me, I will listen to 606 or TalkSport while I’m driving. The best bits are when you get a Spurs, United, Chelsea or Liverpool fan ranting about how their manager has lost the plot …
Self Help Guide to dealing with defeat. By Dr Brian Right all you whining doom mongers and nay sayers read no further. Just lie back and luxuriate in the masturbatory self deception that you were right all along. For the rest of us there is another game this week end so we cannot afford to …
By Walter Broeckx, also in cup games your untold ref We had ref Foy today. And as I said before the game even with 3 wins in the league a ref with some serious low scores with always the same problems coming back. Let us see if they also came back this match? Min Type …
by Phil Gregory The usual Untold match preview comes with a twist – United fan Mark Butterworth has given me his thoughts throughout (text in italics). If you want to read my interview with him on general title run-in and United, check the article that was posted on Friday afternoon. Before launching into the preview …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory As part of the build up to our FA Cup tie away to Manchester United on Saturday, I posed a few questions to Manchester United fan Mark Butterworth. He’s also going to co-write the match preview for the game but here we wanted …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx Coming to London is always a pleasure. It is like a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage to the Emirates. So last weekend it was once again very nice to come over or under as we go under water to reach London. The one thing that …
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By Walter Broeckx So ref Busacca has made a report about the behaviour of Wenger and Samir Nasri after the game in Barcelona. And now Uefa will charge them both with improper conduct and they could face a ban. In a way this is good news. Because this now gives us the chance to show …
Read More “Whatever Wenger and Nasri said, it was the truth and nothing but the truth”
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref When someone on this site said it was Busacca as the ref I felt bad. I remembered him from our game in Shakhtar and felt he was a home ref in that game. So how was his game? Just take …
By Johnny Deigh, another Untold ref So once again Johnny has taken the immense task upon him to review a Manchester United game. I can barely watch them once so looking twice at their games is a hell of a job. And as the ref was our dear and beloved friend Phil Dowd it was …
By Walter Broeckx Losing to Barcelona could be a blessing in disguise. We defended rather well I think in the first half and only a black out from Fabregas allowed them to score. I think Cesc will put this right for us in the next weeks. Come on Cesc, make up for this will you. …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 29 By Dale Higginbottom Back to a full league programme this weekend and we start what is a massive 8 days for Arsenal. With two important knock-out cup games coming up we needed to have the league campaign still in good …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Phil Gregory Arsenal go into this game off the back of a disappointing 0-0 draw with Sunderland. Leading after the first leg, we know that a similar result against Barca would see us through to the quarter finals and the favourites knocked out, but I …
By Tony Attwood We have been talking in my company about Ashley Cole – and one thing came up. Why did he take a gun to work? It is an interesting question because it is one that is laden with pre-meditation – unless of course Mr Cole always takes a gun to work. I agreed …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref on the crime scene Hello you Gooners in the Emirates. I was there to see how ref Taylor did his job. Er… well no let me rephrase this how he did what he did. So let us see how this …
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Snooping Around ManPoo, errr… ManU, Blogs By Sammy The Snake So we rebooted with a nice 5-0 win after our FA Cup Final crash, which is always nice. Couldn’t have asked for more, although our good friends at Le Grove have found many faults with the team’s display! They don’t like the first goal, saying …
By Phil Gregory Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here A 5-0 victory was one of the better ways to react after losing in a final, even if it was against lower league side Leyton Orient. I was impressed with the manner of the victory, having expected a cagier victory with a stronger …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Arsenal v Sunderland (05/03/2011. 15:00) By DogFace Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistant 1: Dave Bryan Assistant 2: Andy Garratt 4th Official: Peter Walton Good morning stat-fans and welcome one and all to the now [im]famous RefWatch! This week is seems that the PGMOL (in …
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By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref in the FA cup I can now understand why we couldn’t find the ref of this game on the websites until it appeared on Arsenal.com. Ref Mason from the Everton game came back to the Emirates. But this time no Everton involved. Could he now show he can have …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 28 By Dale Higginbottom Bit of a disjointed review this week as a result of the Carling Cup Final. I don’t want to go too much into that game (this being a round-up of league games) but I do want to …
Dirty Internationals by Alek Pan What would you say if you were given evidence that overseas players (ie those from outside the UK) make the EPL harder, dirtier and more unfair than it would otherwise be? Quite probably you would want to look at the evidence twice. Maybe you would suggest that the person who …
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By Tony Attwood My answer is yes we did learn something. First, and most important, we (as in those of us who didn’t get to the away version of this fixture) saw what an incredibly assured play Ignasi Miquel is at the centre of defence. He signed for us aged 15 from UD Cornella in …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After the disappointing result in the Carling Cup, we have an opportunity to get back to winning ways in the form of our FA Cup replay. Held to a draw after Leyton Orient’s late equaliser, you’d hope that a tie versus lower league …
by Walter Broeckx As I mentioned in my ref report I noticed a strange thing about the way Dean finished the game. In this post you can find a few links. When you click on them you will see windows media player opening and showing some very short clips. Most refs have a very typical …
Tapping up, Cesc Fabregas and what’s happening this summer By Phil Gregory With Barcelona’s pursuit of Cesc Fabregas never out of the news (largely thanks to the rent-a-quote that is Xavi Hernandez) Gunners worldwide have been getting more than a little annoyed and anger at “tapping up” is commonplace. The Ashley Cole saga is surely …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Thanks to our regular reader, Johhny Deigh, who has been so kind to take on the the Wigan- Manchester United game we got a ref review of Wigan – Manchester United. So I do wish to thank him for taking the trouble to go through the whole …
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