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 Phil Gregory A 1-0 defeat was certainly difficult to take from a valiant performance away at City. We went there with a multitude of defensive injuries but in fairness, a defensive unit that appeared fairly solid until changes were forced upon us. Indeed it is no coincidence that an injury to Djourou early in …
Read More “The City reaction: defensive analysis, Lawro and his pie and an Arsenal infiltrator”
By Tony Attwood I have the view that having started this blog a few years ago, and now having a fair old number of readers each day, I have a duty to try and keep the thing running, while living up to the original notions behind the blog: that it should be pro-Arsenal at all …
By Phil Gregory Arsenal are off to City tomorrow, and by a good stroke of luck, I am too. Through a contact, a friend has managed to secure a couple of tickets for what promises to be absolute cracker of a game. I’ll be in the City end however, so should I never post on …
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By Tony Attwood . In football there is a bit of a rule that says that you can lose money and win things, and that’s fine. But to lose money and not win things – that is called “doing an Everton”. . Of course the world has got more complex now that Manchester City and …
Read More “Untold Economics: Could Man U in trouble despite the huge income?”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Phil Dowd Assistant 1: Mick McDonough Assistant 2: David Richardson 4th Official: Michael Oliver Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… This match day we face Manchester City away and the Asian markets are showing an interesting ‘quarter ball’ market with Manchester City giving a ¾ of …
Read More “RefWatch – Manchester City Vs Arsenal (18/12/2011 – 16:10)”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site (immediate despatch) and in the Arsenal store. By Ref reviewer 04 Ref Friend did the game between Fulham and Liverpool. Let us take a look at his final game. Min Type Foul from …
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site (immediate despatch) and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– By Walter Broeckx So we know our opponent who will we play in the Champions League today. It’s always a bit of a tense …
Read More “Are you all in the hat? Ready for the draw? Here we go, it’s…”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. By Tony Attwood After Manchester City beat us 1-0 in the League Cup, having had one shot on target I suggested it was the most expensive shot in …
Read More “Man C, Chelsea and now PSG find out: money does not guarantee success in football”
By Tony Attwood It seems it doesn’t matter how many examples of media nonsense is printed about football, some people go on believing the press. Each day if you look on any of the news accumulator sites you will see article after article about the players that Arsenal are going to sign. We all know …
Read More “Untold Media: The press is not reporting issues – it is the issue”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site (immediate despatch) and in the Arsenal store. ——————– By Ref Reviewer 05 We had, for the 3rd time this season ref Webb in charge. What was his score this time? Min Type Foul …
Read More “How Arsenal are coping better with refs this season. Arsenal 1 – Everton 0”
Note: Because of the origins of the Arsenal Statues and because of their obvious historical context, the launch of the statues has already been covered in depth on our companion site the Arsenal History blog. But, I know that many readers of Untold don’t always pop along to the History site… and this was such …
Read More “Why the statues at the Ems mean so much to Untold and to every Arsenal supporter”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – the ultimate Xmas present is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site (for immediate dispatch Mon-Fri) and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– Untold Injury Index – Gameweek 15 – Crisis Time By Dale Higginbottom It’s crisis time at full-back. After …
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. Untold Media: Why did the Sun’s “humble pie” begin with a petty attack on Arsenal fans? By: Anne In our previous media watch report, we documented some surprising changes …
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Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. By Walter Broeckx This is the final part of my review of players who joined Arsenal in the summer. We have Yossi Benayoun to start with. The captain …
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– By Ref Reviewer 02 For the game between Wigan and Arsenal we had ref Clattenburg in the middle between the two teams. Was he the man in …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal brought in some new players in August. The word was out very soon by those who pretend to know a bit about football: all we had bought was utterly rubbish. So we continue to look at how bad they are. Let us look at the new left back, now sadly injured, …
Read More “The new ones: A goal scoring left back or a striking defender?”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. All the doings down the Lane By Tony Attwood “I never complain about referees’ decisions – I have not done it in 30 years of management, never. But …
Read More “Details of Redknapp’s attacks on refs revealed. So why does he claim he never does it?”
By Ref Reviewer 05 In the game between Manchester City and Norwich we had ref Webb in charge. Just take a look at his performance Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 1 Other Morison Richards C High leg 1 1 3 Other Tierny Aguero C Push in back, advantage played …
By Ref Reviewer 02 We reviewed the game between Blackburn and Chelsea. Ref was Mike Dean and let us see how he did this game. Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 3 Offside Samba C 1 1 5 Foul Formica Lampard C 1 1 7 Foul Lampard Lowe N/C missed by …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx So here we are at the end of period. A period of 125 year. And ready to have another 125 years to look forward too. Well I don’t think I will be there but when we arrive at that moment in time, I sure hope my grand …
Read More “Hip Hip Hurray for the birthday club and a bit about the game”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Howard Webb Assistant 1: Darren Cann Assistant 2: Andy Garratt 4th Official: Andre Marriner Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… if you are new to RefWatch or “just don’t get it” then fear not – I covered the basics last week in our rather prescient article …
Read More “RefWatch – Arsenal Vs Everton (10/12/2011 – 15:00)”
By Phil Gregory Before I kick off the preview proper, I thought I’d briefly mention the Commons Inquiry into Football Governance. As long-term readers will know, about a year ago I put together a submission for it, and wrote it up in a series of articles for Untold. What was great though was the recognition …
Read More “Preview: Arsenal, Everton (and the Commons Inquiry Comes Back to Haunt Me)”
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– By Ref Reviewer 04 For our last Champions league game in the group stages as the knock out stages still await for us we had a …
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – (a lovely present if ever I saw one) is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. ———————– By Walter Broeckx Well one thing is fore sure our defeat at Olimpiacos has caused some joy in some …
Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is the Xmas present for the Arsenal fan with everything (except obviously “Making the Arsenal”) Available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. ———————————– Untold Media: (snigger) The Sun admits to eating “humble pie” on previous Arsenal …
