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
Who is the most effective attacking player of Arsenal? By Alek Pan Everyone can choose criteria to assess attacking abilities of players. So I do not insist that statistics say everything. But I think that stats can help us in understanding the issue of selecting a team. The main task of attacking player is to …
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By Walter Broeckx Sometimes you wake up in the morning and feel: this is going to be a bad day. And you cannot get rid of that feeling. And when you think: what could go wrong? You can only think of Arsenal. In fact last weekend the first bad feelings started on Saturday when I came …
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By Richard Bedwell All the talk at the moment is about what has gone ‘wrong’ and what can be done (mainly in the transfer market) to put it ‘right’. Opinions as to what should happen are of course, just that, opinions. Trying to predict what actually will happen is somewhat different and, when it comes …
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Quantifying the Bias of Arsenal’s Referees vs. The Rest of the League’s Clubs By Zach Slaton and DogFace This post can also be found at http://numbersgameblog.blogspot.com/ Author’s Note: Special thanks to DogFace for his co-authorship on this post. His voluminous data set, unending patience, invaluable insight and contribution, and constant editorial feedback throughout the creation of …
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Arshavin loses his pace Alek Pan One of the most constantly re-iterated mantra this season is that Arshavin has lost his pace. Lets take a look at the period when Arshavin began to slow down. Appearances of Arshavin on the beginning of the season 2010-2011: Date Team Opponent Comp Result Appear G A G+A 31/07 …
Manchester U are regularly seen as the richest club in the world. This, despite their debts, is once again the feeling of Forbes 2011 Soccer Valuation, in its latest survey. Manchester U have been number one on the Forbes list for seven years running, which is rather dull, and is now valued at something like …
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Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 34 By Dale Higginbottom Another weekend passes and another round of injury lists is here for all to see. We get another game closer to the end of the season and after the ups and downs of this season I think some of us are in need of a break, …
By Walter Broeckx In another article I tried to find out when we should win the league to keep up with our own history books and records. And I tried to do the same thing for the other teams in the PL. Today I will do the same but for the FA cup. As the …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By DC Arsenal – Everybody has an opinion! After we drew at Tottenham, the following evening I happened to find myself at a dinner that had drawn a wide variety of people. Somebody, whom …
By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref who is fed up with refs in the EPL by now The person executing the orders of whoever is doing the calls was Mike Jones. (Oh if you wonder: I wrote this line after I found out what he has done and after the review). Min Type Decision correct points weight …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here RefWatch – Bolton Wanderers v Arsenal (24/04/2011 16:00) By DogFace Referee: Mike Jones Assistant 1: Dave Bryan Assistant 2: Patrick Keane 4th Official: Chris Foy Good afternoon stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch. [Actually the …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory After Wednesday’s tumultuous clash with Tottenham at White Hart Lane we’re back to it with another away tie versus Bolton. Despite a shock result in the FA Cup versus Stoke, Bolton’s …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx What sometimes goes a bit unnoticed is the fact that Arsenal is currently on a run of unbeaten games in the EPL. It all started in style with a 3-1 victory …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 33 By Dale Higginbottom It’s a bit of a jumbled round-up this week. With just three of our usual teams playing last weekend it makes more sense to include …
Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref So we had ref Atkinson for this game and I think the final score will have pleased him. But does his own score pleases him? Or you? Just take …
By Walter Broeckx You know the Arsenal hasn’t won anything in X years mantra that the media and some desperate fans use every day to paint us as rubbish. And thanks to a remark of a reader on Untold I wondered: if you take a look at the history of a club how long does …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Phil Gregory. The Liverpool game was a big, big disappointment. A draw against Liverpool is no bad thing even given their relative fall from grace, so the result in itself is not the end of the world. The manner of the defeat is what stings. …
RefWatch – Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal (20/04/2011 19:45) Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By DogFace Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistant 1: John Flynn Assistant 2: Peter Kirkup 4th Official: Stuart Attwell Good morning stat-fans and welcome to the computer generated RefWatch… I just like press this button yeah and all this stuff …
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Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx We just are too clean and honest in this game. And as we are young we are also still a bit naïve at times. In a way it makes me proud because this means we are the good guys. But alas in the …
Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Editor’s note: this article appeared previously on Gooner Talk. When Untold published the piece we were unaware of this fact, and we do apologise to Gooner Talk for running their article without permission. Untold is very much against plagiarism in all its forms, and we do …
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By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref with a watch. We had ref Marriner yesterday and well he had a rather good game. That is IF we forget the last 5 minutes of Fergie time and if we forget some decisions earlier in the game. Just take a look if you still can stand it. Min …
By Phil Gregory With Manchester United crashing to FA Cup defeat this weekend, today’s match against Liverpool offers us a chance to close the gap further. Liverpool come into this game on the back of a great win over City, with a three nil scoreline not predicted by many. Carroll grabbed the headlines with the …
RefWatch – Arsenal v Liverpool (17/04/2011 16:00) By DogFace Referee: Andre Marriner Assistant 1: Ron Ganfield Assistant 2: Adam Watts 4th Official: Peter Walton Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch – this is another ‘stats only’ episode as I am working on another post with a proper stats man (The Number Game, he eats …
By Walter Broeckx Looking at different periods in our history to gain a little bit of perspective is something that I think every fan should do every now and then. In my article a few days ago I looked at the league position and the total points we got. Today I try to look at …
By Tony Attwood In 2008 Hampshire police announced the investigating of racial and homophobic abuse directed by Tottenham fans towards Sol Campbell at a Portsmouth v Tottenham game. The police said they would report the matter to the Football Association because it was not possible to make arrests due to the sheer numbers chanting. The …
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