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 Arvind I somehow missed the time of the game and tuned into it 15 minutes late only to see Koscielny hobble off with a terrible looking injury. Hope its good news. We lost the game though with a desperately unlucky goal, I thought. Not counting the second goal as that was always coming 1-0 …
By Ref Reviewer 02 Our home game against Liverpool has seen Atkinson coming to the Emirates. How did he do? Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on 1 Foul Walcott Enrique C 1 1 1 1 Foul Frimpong Agger C 1 1 1 7 Yellow Frimpong C Frimpong delays the restart 1 …
By Tony Attwood The demands of work took me away from this article after just describing Yann M’Vila. I also wanted to talk about the performance of Ignasi Miquel, Francis Coquelin and Marvin Martin But first a general point about the signing of kids, that seems to get some people very worked up. The simple …
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According to Sky Sports Yann M’Vila ain’t going nowhere. According to Sky SportsReal Madrid and Liverpool have been trying to buy him. According to Sky Sports he has a contract lasting until 2015 which he signed in May. According to Sky Sports the defensive midfielder believes he is better off continuing his development in France …
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By Walter Broeckx Well we have had our first week of ref reviews. And apart from some mistakes that were made while publishing a review your original ref reviewer is feeling a bit satisfied. Not all that came online this week was 100%. But this is the building process. And as Rome wasn’t build in …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Martin Atkinson Assistant 1: Peter Kirkup Assistant 2: Michael Mullarkey 4th Official: Michael Oliver Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… It seems that we may have caused a wee bit of a stink with our unfashionable interest in the selection of match officials last season; so …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory After a controversial opening-day draw with Newcastle, Liverpool travel to the Emirates with a squad laden with fairly pricey recent signings. That stands them apart from Arsenal FC, with our biggest outlay being Gervinho at around £10m. As Wenger argues however, the question is not money of …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Lucky the Arsenal – Udinese game was shown live on our sports channel. Because otherwise I would have thought that we would have been out of it already. Of course it would have been better if we would have won with a comfortable 5-0 or so. Yeah …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal KNOW THINE ENEMY: FROM A LONG WEEKEND IN THE UNTOLD MEDIA TRENCHES by bob Though it’s been hard to shake the “In X-Cesc” soundtrack in my head, news of Gervinho’s 3-match ban proved just enough to fast-track me back into exposing how some journos spun our first match. For full …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx, one of The Untold refs Well we had our first game and you have seen the model we are currently using. Perfection is difficult to reach, and when I was reviewing the review I found some part of the puzzle might be a bit too much to …
By Ref reviewer 03 Next in our reviewed games is the first game of Swansea in the PL. A visit to Manchester City and Mike Dean was the ref. Let’s have a look at how one of our favourite refs did this game. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on 2 OTHER …
Nick Tolhurst Harsh Truths about Arsenal’s “Decline” Forget debates about whether Arsène Wenger is too miserly, stubborn or just plain wrong in the transfer market – the truth is far simpler. So another summer ends and, despite the best efforts of Tony and Untold Arsenal; the media, the pundits and of course the assorted “collectible …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Ref Reviewer 04 Another day, another ref review. This time we took on the first game of the defending champions Manchester United who went away from home to play West Bromwich Albion. The ref over there was Mike Jones. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on …
By Peter D’out (our man with a bun) These days I tend to partake of my refreshments vis a vis matches either at the Auld Triangle (previously the Plimsoll) on St Johns Road, and within the Emirates itself. For the Udinese game I did both, sharing a pint or two with Ian and Mark. I …
By Ref Reviewer 04 The first game in Europe and we got ref Kevin Blom at the Emirates. How was he? Only one way to find out and that is to read further. Oh and my personal highlight of the game was in minute 11. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight on …
By Ref Reviewer 02 updated! (Due to my mistake we have been putting on a not finished review at first) For those who wanted more ref reviews and also of the other teams involved in the league we can let you have another one. We took the game Liverpool – Sunderland on and this is …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Gooners versus goners Don McMahon Every true Arsenal fan or supporter is known as a Gooner. The origin of this nickname is claimed to lie in the adaptation of the term used for AFC’s players, the Gunners-referring to our artillery badge. However there are now a new group of Arsenal …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory With Cesc gone, Nasri uncertain and rumblings of discontent in the stands during the Newcastle game there’s plenty to be talking about in this article. So much in fact, that I planned on writing a whole separate piece on the aftermath of the Toon game until work …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————————————————— The season begins: here’s the widest coverage of Arsenal imaginable: see the end of the article for details of how Untold is evolving… —————————————————————————— By Ref Reviewer 03 So here we have another ref review on Untold. And no Arsenal game this time. In …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————————————————— The season begins: here’s the widest coverage of Arsenal imaginable: see the end of the article for details of how Untold is evolving… —————————————————————————— Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 1 (A New Season, same old injury story?) By Dale Higginbottom Another season begins and …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————————————————— The season begins: here’s the widest coverage of Arsenal imaginable: see the end of the article for details of how Untold is evolving… —————————————————————————— Untold Defenders: how well did we do? By Arvind A few weeks back I had decided I would start off …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Joel Campbell has completed a transfer of a little under £1m from Deportivo Saprissa – a record for a Costa Rican player. I feel a little attachment to the lad already since I have actually been to the country, and loved every second of it – except …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx With the start of the new season we are once again facing a lot of problems. But we are not alone in this. But as we focus on Arsenal we don’t really bother the problems other clubs have. Because Cesc and Nasri are not the only ones …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal . By Rob Lackey . So Arsenal are dammed to finish outside the top 4 and we should not have wasted our time and money on youngsters like AOC, Miyachi, Jenkinson, and the pursuit of Campbell – when we should have been pursuing the worlds best established players. Add to …
By Ref reviewer 04 Dear fans and also those who are not such fans here it is the First ref review of the season 2011-2012. As you will see the review itself is now done by more than one ref. The words before and after are written by the old and original ref reviewer most …
