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
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Peter Walton (we think) Assistant 1: Dunno? Assistant 2: Umm… Nope!? 4th Official: We’ll have to wait and see! Good morning stat-fans and welcome to a new season of your favourite RefWatch – I knows you loves it I do! Well where do we start… or stat …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory So it’s a new season but the story is very much the same as what has gone before: a smattering of injuries, and a “will they, won’t they” around Cesc and an attacking midfielder. Such is the life of an Arsenal fan, but we’re a courageous lot, …
By Tony Attwood Last year, as we all know, Barca effectively went bust and in June were unable to pay their players. This year, equally famously, they have said they are saving money by stopping colour photocopying. So how can they spend £30m or more on Cesc? The answer is that Barca will more than …
Read More “Revealed: the trick Barca are pulling to pay the fee for Cesc”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx A new season is upon us. But as the rules are so silly with regards to transfers it could well be that any team that starts the season could be a completely different team come 1 September. I think Fifa and Uefa should do something about this. …
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood In Lequipe they are saying that Arsenal are talking with representatives of Shakthar and with their Brazilian player Jadson. This is the player who supplied the winning goal for Shakhtar to with the UEFA Cup Final in which he was made man of the match. He has also scored four …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Some people who are not happy with the current way of things over the last seasons dismiss sometimes the impact of the new stadium on Arsenal. They use lines like: “we are Arsenal so we are entitled to win things” and that is the end of it. …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Marc Bénier At the end of last season it appeared that Arsenal was a club in crisis. Injuries and a lack of mental strength, combined with some seriously flawed defending horrified fans, and even AW appeared to be promising major changes – including transfers in and out of the …
By Tony Attwood There’s a review of the Q and A session that Ivan Gazidis had at the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association AGM this weekend on the AISA web site and I won’t try and expand on that here, save to make one comment. Mr Gazidis confirmed that once again season ticket renewals had held …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx, the Untold ref wakes up With the new season only a few days away from us, now is the time to act. And for possible new readers I will give you a short resume of what lead us to where we are now. As a qualified ref …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx I was going to write an article about how much pre season friendly games have an impact on the season. Of course as the season is not yet underway we cannot know what the impact will be of those games we have been playing so far. Looking …
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By Tony Attwood I don’t know if Southampton like Arsenal or hate Arsenal, but they are making some money out of Arsenal. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, a winger whom Untold (and the rest of the world) predicted would sign, is undergoing a medical. Arsenal are paying £5m now and the same again later depending on appearances. Alex …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx. A first defeat in pre-season and the media are all over Arsenal I can imagine. And of course a part of the fans will be doing what they like to do: moan without looking at the facts. And in the last game, and in all the other …
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By “Arsenal Forever” (ok its Tony really, but there’s a point to the name) I’m currently working on a book with two esteemed Arsenal supporters Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews called WOOLWICH ARSENAL: THE CLUB THAT CHANGED FOOTBALL. Now don’t run away at this point thinking “its another one of those history things, why doesn’t …
Read More “From Woolwich Arsenal to Ignasi Miquel. Be a partizan, but smile at the same time”
By Tony Attwood More than 17,000 people voted in a poll about the midfield of Bar Bar Barce this season. It appears (I have to say this since my Spanish is next to non-existent) that El Mundo gave its readers 12 alternative midfield line ups and people had to vote on the ones they liked …
Read More “It was Mr Wenger who bankrupted Barca – and he can now destroy them with Cesc”
By Tony Attwood It may not be the biggest game in the forthcoming season but we are going to be without a few of the top players for the match with Udinese. Robin Van Persie and Samir Nasri are both suspended for the first leg, so they are definitely out but can return for the …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Curiously that headline is quite possibly true, although it is written in the misleading manner that many journalists use. Football coverage in the press could end soon because talk between the football organisations over what rights newspapers, reporters, photographers and agencies have, have indeed broken down. And …
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Viral video by ebuzzing By Tony Attwood In 2014 Blatter will still be in charge of world football. The FA will still be in charge of English football. Uefa will still be there introducing its financial fair play rules – maybe. Now you might think that football supporters everywhere might welcome anything other than that …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal by Tony Attwood Wikio publish regular reports on the top football blogs, based on readership, comments, validity of comments (ie are they “Hey I’m first” or are they something slightly more serious?), Tweets, regularity of postings, and the like. Untold Arsenal is currently joggling around in 12th position, as you …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Antony Kastrinakis Goes Missing! (and Untold Media Watch Update) By: Anne As a follow-up to my last article, Antony Kastrinakis: defacing the Arsenal, in which I detailed the exploits of a certain Arsenal-hating journalist employed by the Sun, who publishes under the name of “Antony Kastrinakis,” I thought I would …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx The questions surrounding Cesc and to a lesser part Nasri are very important issues for Arsenal. Some supporters are ready to drive them to the airport themselves. I can understand them for a part. After all the tapping up from his Spanish team mates Cesc is in …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx What a big chance the refs have missed on Sunday. The plan was that Thierry Henry would have played the last 5 minutes for Arsenal in the game between Arsenal and New York Red Bulls. But the refs didn’t allow this as it was against the rules. …
Love and Football Narendranath Pingle . “Does my bum look big in this one?” “Oh no, honey, you look gorgeous!” “Why on earth did they bring in this one? Were he good, they wouldn’t have sold! Obnoxious!” The man who lies to the wife at every turn, With his Club seems to be only most …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx The Arsenal game is very much based on trying to score more goals than the other team. We are a very attacking team and this also leads to the fact that our defenders are under more pressure than defenders in other teams. If you look at a …
