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 Just a quick one from me, as I’m supposed to be building fences this morning… Arsenal travel to QPR to face a fairly mediocre side struggling to avoid relegation. QPR are a great example of the logic that spending doesn’t necessarily improve a side as you would expect, and that too much …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Mike Dean Assistant 1: Stuart Burt Assistant 2: Adam Watts 4th Official: Lee Probert Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… before I get started I would like to talk a little bit about confidence – it’s a bit of a subject that’s bouncing around at the …
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Premier League Preview: Week 31 by Arun Last week proved to be very good for us as Chelsea and Tottenham played out a ‘bore draw’ and we are now 3 clear of them but still we must keep our feet on ground. Man C was undone by a magnificent strike by Crouch and Man U …
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By Tony Attwood It is always difficult to be sure just how much influence our blog has. We are now getting around 400,000 hits a month – which is a fair old number – but for most of our existence there has not been any sign that the newspapers and broadcast media have the slightest …
Today’s referee is Martin Atkinson – Well it has been a while since Atkinson has done a United game if my memory serves me right. MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Martin Atkinson (2012-03-04) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment Weight 2 OTHER Jones Ekoto NC Jones comes in frontal and blocks the ball …
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Below is the ref review of the Chelsea v. Man Utd match in which Howard Webb awarded United two controversial second half penalties enabling them to claw back from a 3-0 deficit to split the spoils with a 3-3 scoreline. MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Howard Webb (2012-02-05) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC …
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By Tony Attwood If you have a good memory, or study your Arsenal history, you will know that Arsenal hold the record for the most consecutive wins in the Premier League: 14 wins between 10 February and 24 August 2002. You will of course also know that we have just won our last 7 games …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Playing in the Champions League is part of our ability to …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Seeing the game live has a special appeal but seeing the …
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Today’s referee is Phil Dowd – We have just seen him at the Emirates but how did he do this game? MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Phil Dowd (2012-03-13) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment Weight 1 OTHER Kelly Anichebe N/C “Push in back, blatant but Dowd misses it” 1 4 OTHER Distin …
By Tony Attwood I love watching Alex Song play. Not just because he is a wonderful player, but also because way back (2007 I think) he was one of the players attacked by the anti-Wengerians, who claimed that Song was not fit to wear the shirt. Today we can only look and marvel at those …
Today’s referee is Phil Dowd – MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Phil Dowd (2012-03-24) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment Weight 1 OTHER Heskey Djourou N/C Heskeys timing was so far out,he was so under the ball,only one outcome,Djourou got clattered 1 1 YELLOW Heskey C I felt at the time it was …
Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– By Walter Broeckx Living near Antwerp as I do I normally watch Arsenal …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————————————— Are Barcelona and Fifa involved in corrupt practice within football? By: Anne The …
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————————————————————– Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————————————————————— By Darsei Canhasi A Story of supporting Arsenal After the …
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By Tony Attwood The transfer window for loan players closed on Thursday 22nd March, and as far as I can see, this is who we have out on loan. Ryo, having become a star in the Netherlands and his native Japan now seems to be the star of Bolton and must surely be in line …
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By Walter Broeckx Going to the Emirates on our pilgrimage to our spiritual home of football is a long journey for us. But having the sun shining continuously from the early hours in Antwerp till the moment we left London was a very welcomed bonus. I remember April games when we almost froze out of …
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By Arvind That was a nice comforting win and while I was nervous till the end, logically we never looked like losing it. So lets try and see how we played this game, tactically. Starting off, there was a dreadful challenge by Heskey on Djourou. Isn’t that at least a yellow card? Why are …
————————————————————– Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” ———————————————————————— By Tony Attwood While my trip of just under 100 miles each way to home games …
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Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Phil Dowd Assistant 1: Stuart Burt Assistant 2: Adam Watts 4th Official: Darren Deadman Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… it’s another shamefully bare bones edition of RefWatch – work has been a demanding mistress this week and to top it off I was dragged away …
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By Phil Gregory Arsenal host Aston Villa in one of Saturday’s 3pm kick offs, but no doubt some eyes will be on the earlier Chelsea vs. Tottenham game. The pre-match chat about that game has been covered excellently in our new game week preview by Arun, but I will just add that should Spurs slip …
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Premier League Preview: Week 30 By Arun A lot of things have changed since last weekend in the race for the remaining CL spots. One of the ‘title challengers’ is trying to save their berth for the CL spot and the Untold analysis of referees suggests that one team in particular is getting a lot …
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Today’s referee is Lee Mason – Well we had the same ref as in last season’s game at the Emirates. The offside goal from Everton was very controversial and was the start of a very bad string of ref performances against Arsenal. How did he do this time? MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Lee Mason (2012-03-21) …
———————- Approaching money time in the Premier League. Which clubs get the most wrong calls against them by the refs? By Walter Broeckx In my earlier article about how Arsenal and the other teams are being treated by the refs and where I presented not only the evidence our Ref Reviewers team has gathered …
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Today’s referee is Michael Jones – Alias Smith and Jones was a western series from my child hood days, but this Jones is the man with the whistle and not with the smoking gun. But who knows one day… MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Michael Jones (2012-02-25) Period 1 Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment …
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