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 Walter Broeckx How depressing to see teams win titles that are solely build on the money from the owner of the clubs is something that we have experienced the last weeks. Manchester City, Chelsea…two clubs that have been spending money that is not theirs. And winning things that way. Their fans won’t mind it …
Read More “It is possible to beat teams like Man C and Chelsea. But it takes care and patience.”
By Abdulaziz Alfarhoud (Follow me on Twitter @azizalfarhoud ) “Including all the penalties that refs denied to the Arsenal” Two months ago I wrote an article about referees. Now in this article I want to focus on Penalties that Arsenal should get and the ref denied it. I can talk about other teams & …
By Walter Broeckx We should have dealt with it earlier. If people talk about our last season they sometimes use this sentence to criticise the way Arsenal has handled the Fabregas and Nasri situation and the first weeks of the season. But I really don’t think it is that simple to deal with the situation …
Read More “Looking back at last season : dealing early is what we should have done…could we?”
In our Untold Awards we have looked at which Arsenal players will break through next season and hold down regular first team slots. So let us start trying to get the list down in size… We are talking of players who will really make some sort of impact next season who were not central this …
Read More “The 10 players who will make a real impact next season: the short list”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Newcastle United 2 – 2 Wolverhampton”
By Tony Attwood I have tried to get this article written five times, and each time something else happens. It is as if there is more action in the Premier League out of the season than within it. The idea of the original article was to do a quick review of a few clubs in …
Read More “The fallout: Villa, Tottenham, Man C, Liverpool, Newcastle, Arsenal etc next season”
By Walter Broeckx At the start of the season we have all kind of specialists telling us who will win at the end of the season. One could compare this with the AAA who in August and September predicted we will fight relegation and then say it means nothing when we finish 3rd. So how …
Read More “Man U to win the league, Man C 2nd, Chelsea 3rd, Liverpool 4th. Ooops!”
By Mike Urbanski Let me preface this piece by letting you all know that I was once a journalist. A sports journalist at that. And, while I might not have had a national readership like such luminaries as John Cross, the website I worked for did charge a monthly premium fee, people paid to read …
By GF60 and Walter Broeckx This weekend we Gooners have to make a serious decision…Do we support Bayern or Chel$ki? There are massive advantages both ways. Bayern win and nothing but Europa for Chel$ki. And that’s worth a laugh even if de Matteo will probably need a bit of sympathy. And of course, the thought …
Read More “Bayern or Chelsea, chosing between two bads or goods?”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Bolton Wanderers 1 – 4 Tottenham Hotspur. Dean stars as… “Dean””
by Mahdi. “We haven’t won anything in X years. Sack the manager as he has lost the plot and is not ambitious enough and won’t spend any money. I don’t care about finances but trophies. That is what football is all about.” Now how many times in the last 7 years have we had the …
Read More “Is football all about trophies? Not any more it isn’t.”
By Walter Broeckx The Arsenal season is over. Right in front of us is that most dreadful period of the year: the dead season. So let us take a look at a few numbers and try to judge if the season was good or not. If we take the league position we finished in 3rd …
Read More “The good, the bad and the great of last season, plus the buy of the season”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Newcastle United 1 – 0 Queens Park Rangers”
By Tony Attwood As we all know, Arsenal goes to great lengths to work with its local communities, and to involve its players in work with young people. Indeed if you are a long term reader of Untold you might remember me raving on about Arsenal Til I Die – a book that was produced …
Read More “See Bacary Sagna as never before – and learn some French too”
At the final home game of the season Walter, Ian and I bumped into two fellow supporters (and regular readers of Untold) who had travelled to the game from Ireland. After a very pleasant half hour exchanging stories (as you do) I dropped the inevitable question – “why don’t you write something for Untold?” I’m …
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Chelsea 0 – 0 Tottenham Hotspur”
———————– As Untold Arsenal has steadily increased its audience, we have started to attract many comments on the site from fans of other clubs. Now, for the first time, we are publishing an article by a non-Arsenal fan. ————————- Living Legend or Past his Sell by Date? – By Rob McCauley, a lifelong Norwich City …
Read More “Living Legend or Past his Sell by Date? A Norwich fan’s view of Mr Wenger”
This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: West Bromwich Albion 2 – 3 Arsenal”
I’ve Been Supporting Arsenal for 27 Years, and … by Gord 1 Introduction I’m sorry, I am getting tired of crap comments. What got me into this state was someone who wrote in (who I am calling Super-brain) and who said (on the night the 2012 season ended) something to the effect that Arsenal …
Read More “I’ve Been Supporting Arsenal for 27 Years, and …”
By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Of course we are not happy that Manchester City has won the title. By and large Untold doesn’t like it when teams like Chel$i and Manchester $ity win titles. They can go out and buy every player under the sun and pay those players with money that never was …
Read More “A change in politics at Manchester United as we approach the £1bn league win”
By Tony Attwood I was seriously expecting Tottenham to do something this past weekend – not on the pitch but off it. Last time they were trying to go above us in the league and matters came down to the last game we played the final match at Highbury against Wigan we got the result …
Read More “No recriminations from Tottenham this year – which makes a change”
By Walter Broeckx Many of us kept the faith during the season. We hung on to our dream. Today our players and our manager completed one of the biggest exploits in recent years done by any Arsenal team. It is no real trophy, it is no real title. But against all odds, against the refs, …
By Phil Gregory Just a quick preview from me today, as I need to be heading over to the library soon, with finals looming. Arsenal travel up West Brom today looking to tie up third place and with it guaranteed Champions League football, complete with no tricky qualifiers in August. Such a league finish would …
Read More “Premier League finale – Previewing West Brom vs. Arsenal”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Michael Jones Assistant 1: Mick McDonough Assistant 2: Richard West 4th Official: Andy D’Urso Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… Here is it – the last day of the season and here am I saying it doesn’t matter. You heard me right – it doesn’t matter. …
Read More “RefWatch – West Bromwich Albion Vs Arsenal (13/05/2012 – 15:00)”
By Tony Attwood This series of articles is based around players whom the press in Britain suggest Arsenal are interested in, going to sign, about to sign, have signed… It doesn’t mean I know what’s going on behind the scenes. Just an attempt to provide some background and then allow me to say “told you …
