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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Editorial whatnot: Just so you know that we know, there’s contradictory messages here there and everywhere about this player coming to Arsenal. Or not. Or perhaps. By Walter Broeckx Live can be funny sometimes. Last week I sat staring at my TV and as there was nothing interesting on any …
By Tony Attwood The Premier League has changed their rule on ‘weakened’ teams, probably the most insane, inept, stupid and crazed rule in the history of football. (Well, ok, maybe not the most – the ability of countries to insist that all players – except those named Giggs – must play in friendlies for the …
FIRE SALE – EPL CLUB UP FOR SALE AND CHEAP AT HALF THE PRICE Don McMahon Well its finally happened. AFC have been put up for sale to the highest bidder. Messrs Kroenke and Usmanov have thrown in the towel and decided to get out while the going is good. Why may you ask is …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood In the novel “1984” by George Orwell (the book that gave us such phrases as “Big Brother” and “Room 101” and the notion that newspapers exist to make up news that fits a particular political viewpoint), one of the features of the regime that runs the UK …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx In a few articles (maybe more than you could bear) I have been talking about referees. And I have even written a complete series on all different kind of reasons why a referee can be biased in some games. I think I wrote it down in some …
Untold Arsenal Making the Arsenal Arsenal History By Tony Attwood A team of Austrian scientists have undertaken a study to find out if swear words have predictable effects on football referee. The work which has been undertaken within the University of Austria has been published in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. Fifa’s law …
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By Walter Broeckx Okay forget all the transfer rumours, forget all the gossip, forget it all. As from today the only thing that really matters in football has restarted: the game on the pitch. I am fully aware that you don’t win anything in pre-season games. Apart from the Emirates Cup maybe. But after sitting …
By Tony Attwood If you have read any of my ramblings on the FFP issue you’ll know I did hope that it might have an impact. I was encouraged by Chelsea pulling back on expenditure, until last January when they went wild. I have been discouraged by the way Man City is spending its billions …
Read More “Financial Fair Play, yes, no, maybe? Málaga, Man C & the rest”
Introduction by Walter Broeckx Arsenal traveling to Malysia is something that doesn’t happen every year. Certainly not the last years as we mostly went to the hills of Austria to hear the sound of music. And then we played a few local teams there which we didn’t know. But now we have gone on the …
By Tony Attwood Gian Piero Gasperini has become manager of the Milanese club Inter. And just as he has, so Stefano Palazzi, who works for the Italian football federation (FIGC) has published a new 72-page report on the match-fixing of 2006. After looking at transcripts of phone-tap recordings, Palazzi has reached the view that Inter, …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood There is a continual theme that emerges from those people who like to call themselves Arsenal supporters but who criticise virtually everything the club does, and it goes something like this: The club is being run as a money machine, not as …
Read More “How the transfer market has been utterly screwed this year”
By Walter Broeckx Last year I wrote a bit of a funny article being angry at Wenger for having bought some players with difficult names as Szczesny, Koscielny… well luckily our new signing has an official nickname which is rather easy to write down. With the signing of Gervinho a lot of things can be …
By Don McMahon For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness, Ralph Waldo Emerson The plethora of angry, hyper-sensitive, choleric, distressed, fitful, and fickle fans bombarding cyberspace with their tryst lamentations and predictions of imminent doom and unmitigated disaster for all things Arsenal, eagerly abetted and aided by the xenophobic British …
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Re arranged Arsenal Squad Announced!!! By Countdown Brian Ahh Jaeeeysus I am tired of all the rumour and intrigue and gossip and scandal surrounding my glorious club and fresh from imagining what it would be like to take some well earned rest nestling in Sara Beeny’s glorious décolletage I have decided to rearrange the squad …
Untold Injury Review of the Season – Part 3, Adding Value By Dale Higginbottom Last time out on the Untold Injury Review I listed the total injuries and a few general observations of the totals and came to the conclusion that we were one of the worst hit this season. The following table gives the …
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Does the Sun Have an Editorial Bias Against Arsenal?: A Look at “Talking Points” By: Anne In recent comments on this blog, a great deal of discussion has centered on whether or not certain media outlets have a “bias” against Arsenal. As a result, I, along with some of my fellow commenters, have agreed to …
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by Ian Trevett I am a full-paid up member of the AKBs – otherwise known as the Arsene Knows Best brigade – which is why I always come back to this site. But I also belong to the trickier to pronounce AKBBKEMWDIA grouping, although to be fair, I have just invented this. I don’t think …
By Phil Gregory The Arsenal Supporters Trust isn’t happy. A few weeks back they had a Q&A session with Ivan Gazidis that was feisty to say the least. Despite some of the usual football fan penis measuring “I’ve been a season ticket holder for TWENTY FIVE YEARS …” (therefore my view is more valid than …
By Tony Attwood I recently wrote about an idea for a series of articles through the season on ex-Arsenal players who are now in senior management anywhere in the world. A lot of names were submitted – although many of these are not managing now, and I was looking for current people. The list is …
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By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood A group of fans have been calling for Dein to be reinstalled at Arsenal again. Now I don’t know much about the inner kitchen at Arsenal so I have to rely on what I read and hear. I think it is fair to say that Dein has done a …
Don McMahon Being an Arsenaloholic Season after season, week after week, month after month, Cup after Cup, run-in after run-in I stay glued to the TV or computer alternately surmounted by euphoria or equally often pummeled into an abyss of despair. Where does this Gooner addiction come from and what are its consequences? Take right …
By Walter Broeckx Yesterday I wrote an article about the 3 young left backs we have in our squad and the options they bring to fill the gap that has been made after the departure of Clichy. But today I want to give you another possible solution also in our team available. Because with Thomas …
Read More “The left back situation Vermaelen and Vertonghen”
By Walter Broeckx Lots of the fans are unhappy because we haven’t signed anyone yet. Mostly the “we want it now” brigade. The ones that only look at now and this hour. But running a team and bringing a squad together is more than now. It is looking forward for some time and weighing up …
Read More “The left back situation: maybe Arsène doesn’t need to buy”
By Tony Attwood The Turkish Organized Crime Department have moved in on individuals seemingly involved in a match-fixing scandal. Around 40 people have been arrested including three club presidents – one of them the president of Fenerbahce. Two Fenerbahce players, Emmanuel Emenike and Sezer Öztürk, have also been held in custody. Other footballers arrested include …
By our undercover reporters M. Adeup and T. Ruth Following revelations that Tottenham Hotspur FC have applied to the government for a non-refundable grant for the redevelopment of their White Hart Lane “ground” we decided to seek an interview with the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, the Right Hon Jeremy Richard …
