Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————– Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered By Walter Broeckx A rather interesting remark was made after one of the ref reviews and when trying to comment myself I just thought it might be interesting to shed some more light in to …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Ref Reviewer 02 First win of the season for Arsenal. Was the ref also a winner in his game? Only one way to find out how ref Attwell did on Saturday: read the ref review Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 2 Other N/C Ref gives …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here ——————————————– The Royal Bank of Football by Brent Peugh Many people have commented on this site on why Arsenal receives such negative media attention on so many levels. For many of us it’s as though there’s a black cloud following the team around with every …
————————————————————— Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————————————————— The Emirates serves Mud; the campaign against price hiking in the Triangle gathers momentum. By Billy the Dog McGraw I met very few Swansea fans on my way to the ground – but walking down St Thomas did have a little group behind me. They were studying the …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Ref Reviewer 03 As we work from across the world sometimes there are delays when doing the ref reviews and before we can get it published. So here we have a review of Chelsea – Norwich and the ref in charge was Mike Jones. Min Type Foul from On …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Stuart Attwell Assistant 1: Simon Bennett Assistant 2: Andy Halliday 4th Official: Jon Moss Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… guess what – we now have an official release of data for referee appointments… (possibly due to the fact that we were all getting the data …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Billy the Dog McGraw The last time I saw Swansea play Arsenal I seem to remember that the ground was overlooked by a prison, and that those spending time at the pleasure of Her Majesty would lean out between the bars and shout abuse at us alien visitors from …
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By Tony Attwood Here’s two things: the world of football finance could be turned upside down later this year; and I want you to buy two things at the Emirates this Saturday if you are there. An odd combination you will think but there is a link. One reason to go shopping is to buy …
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————- Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered ————- By Michael Shelly and Tony Attwood Unwarranted criticism emanates from ex-Arsenal players and managers (Bob Wilson, and Charlie Nicholas generally excepted) all day every day. From Paul Merson to Ian Wright, those who have nothing better to do now their playing days are over, …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here —————————————– Arsenal History …… Making the Arsenal …… Arsenal Uncovered —————————– By Tony Attwood It is strange that the “25” is announced after the first few games – just as it is odd to have a restricted transfer window which overlaps the season. But that’s …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Dream or nightmare – A European super League? by Don McMahon, Like it or not, we are almost certainly headed in that direction and as the train, which has just left the station, picks up speed, even Arsene Wenger’s prediction that a merit-based European Super …
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Following Tony’s articles about the problems in the EPL for Everton and in the SPL for Rangers I think maybe we should also take a look at other clubs who we are competing with in Europe. It has been said on this website Barcelona and Real Madrid are what …
Read More “Are Spanish clubs fighting back at last against Barca and Real Mad?”
By Walter Broeckx After 3 days in the PL we cannot say much about how the refs will do in this season. But with the little data available we can try to have a look at some different things we have seen so far. First of all let us start and try to see if …
By Nick Tolhurst Is the “Media” out to get us? – No, it’s even worse than that. Explaining how the media got so negative and what it means for Arsenal. For many Arsenal fans perhaps the most disappointing development of the last few years has been the increasingly negative media on arsenal related issues. Every …
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by Tony Attwood I wrote over the weekend about Everton – a club with a long history and tradition, and a huge support, but who are struggling on the very edge of financial survival. Continuing the analysis, I want to look at Rangers, but before I do let’s consider the analysis in England as a …
Read More “Untold Economics: Rangers like Everton are going to the very edge”
By Walter Broeckx In another article about one of our new signings I would like to present you our new left back Rudolph André des Santos but you can call him André Santos. And I will call him like that from now on. He was born in Sao Paulo on 8 March 1983 and is …
By Tony Attwood Phil’s comment in his Man U match preview that his boss was offering a bet that Everton would end up higher than Arsenal this season made me smile. Of course my smile vanished in the light of the result in Manchester, but that did not change the fact that Bill Kenwright has …
By Tony Attwood, on a wet Sunday morning… It is rare that one can draw up three full Arsenal teams without any overlap of players. And it is impossible (at least for me) to do it without making a muddle of it all especially as one moves down to the second and third eleven. But …
Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 3 (Back on top) By Dale Higginbottom It’s game three of the Premier League campaign 2011/2012 and as clubs have been looking to get late transfer deals done, they still had games to be played and points to be won so as you can expect, quite a stressful time for …
By Walter Broeckx As on Untold we do like to make the new players feel like home it is important that you get to know the players a bit more. So I will try to give you some impressions on Per Mertesacker to start with. To start with he was born on September 29, 1984 …
By Nick Tolhurst Does Arsène Still Know Best? – Clear Thinking “Post Old Trafford”. Self criticism is nearly always beneficial, a mad orgy of doom, gloom and self destructive Scapegoating less so. As those who read my last “Harsh Truths” article here while I may not be optimistic regarding Arsenal’s chances of lifting the Title …
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UM BACK ON THE CASE: AS THE PLOT SICKENS by bob What now seems a hundred years ago, just after our (recent) Udinese victory, our own Wojciech Szezsny told the Guardian: “The only people who questioned the team and the manager were the media. Inside the team, we don’t do that at all.” After Arsene’s …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx When all the dust will be settled of the last day of the transfer window our team should look something like the names I will give you below. Because of the squad rules it is important to know how many homegrown and non homegrown players we have …
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By Phil Gregory Well, that was one hell of a deadline day for Arsenal fans, and it brings to a close our summer of transfer activity which has resulted in six additions. Those are, of course: Mertesacker Jenkinson Santos Arteta Benayoun Campbell Gervinho Oxlade-Chamberlain Young Park You could also potentially include Miyiachi onto that list …
Walter Broeckx looks at yet another triumph for Arsenal Ladies Who suffered the most of the defeat on Sunday? Was it the manager? The players? The supporters? Well in fact I think the one who suffered most are… the Arsenal Ladies. Right on the day that Arsenal suffered their heavy defeat the Arsenal Ladies clinched …
