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 With a lot of visitors (including supporters of other clubs) visiting our site in the last days it was interesting to see how some of readers don’t get the idea of what we have been developing in the last couple of years. We also had many new readers who support Arsenal but …
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw OK I have had enough of this. I have been dutifully working for Untold Arsenal for four years, and never once have I had a penny. Not a cent. OK there have been a few pints of beer en route but now I want my share. I mean it now …
By Tony Attwood In September 2010 I wrote a little note about Tiago Manuel Dias Correia known as Bebé, the man Sir F Word signed for £7.5m for Man U with the statement that although he had not seen him play, and had not even seen a video, he had signed him because “sometimes you just …
The Updated Database of Arsenal Anniversaries Vote for Untold in the awards for blogs and bloggers We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx We are nearing the end of one of the strangest seasons in our recent history. If ever the expression the season was like a rollercoaster was applicable it must be for …
The Updated Database of Arsenal Anniversaries Vote for Untold in the awards for blogs and bloggers We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Whenever we publish an article which suggests that maybe, just maybe there is match fixing in England, you can be certain that the abuse will pour in. Some writers will just write …
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By Walter Broeckx I must admit that for many years I loved Gael Clichy. Maybe it was because of the fact that he reminded me of my oldest son. He also played left back and always played his heart out. He was rather small so had to be clever. He had a tremendous clean …
Read More “Boooo, sell him, he is not good enough…. the sad case of Gael Clichy”
By Tony Attwood Earlier this season I read that when one combines his football club salary, with his promotional earnings and his non-football income, Messi earns around £576,000 a week – which is just a little under £30m a year, and quite a bit more than I earn. At the same time there is the …
——————– 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 …
Read More “Untold Ref Review: Manchester United 4 – 0 Aston Villa. And the bias index shows…”
The Updated Database of Arsenal Anniversaries By Walter Broeckx There has been a little argument in the comment section about the fact that Sian Masey didn’t raise her flag for a possible penalty for Arsenal or for Norwich at some moment in the game. As I am a person who does both things (ref and …
Read More “Assisting the ref; but does the ref want your assistance?”
By Tony Attwood If you like to keep an occasional eye on the commentary columns of Untold you might have noticed that we have had something of an influx of comments calling the people who write for this site all sorts of names. Some just sneering, some rather unpleasant. Additionally there are few that you …
By Tony Attwood Adem Ljajić is a Serbian Born who joined Partizan as a 14 year old from Jošanica who plays attacking midfield or right side midfield. In October 2008 there was some confusion over his future with suggestions that he had left his club to go and have a trial with Man U without permission …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx The last home game of the season and for the past 3 years this is a moment for me to come to the Emirates. I’ve seen us win, I ‘ve seen us lose and so it was in fact written in the stars that we would have a draw this time. Looking …
By Walter Broeckx We have said it before that the PGMOL is an organisation that works in a strange way. They want to make us believe that the ref appointments are done randomly. And as I have pointed out the refs should be appointed in an open way with each time getting each ref only …
Read More “How random is random at the PGMOL? More questions to be asked.”
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the Emirates and watching the game from the upper level one sees most of the game once – the replays don’t show any controversial moments, fouls and the like. So one can take a view on a game which is later shown to be quite wrong, when one has the …
Read More “Arsenal Norwich: some serious questions to be asked.”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistant 1: Simon Bennett Assistant 2: Sian Massey 4th Official: Lee Probert Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch… If you don’t mind I will start with a flashback to last week’s RefWatch: The most interesting of the other fixtures, from a Ref Watch and …
Read More “RefWatch – Arsenal Vs Norwich City (05/05/2012 – 12:45)”
By Phil Gregory Arsenal host Norwich on Saturday in our final home match of the season, with the battle for the guaranteed Champions League spot of third place getting interesting with Newcastle in almost unstoppable form of late. I don’t doubt I wasn’t the only person who expected them to drop points versus Chelsea, and …
Read More “Arsenal versus Norwich: the Champions League battle just keeps on getting tighter.”
The Penultimate Weekend, by Arun A lot of things have changed in last two weeks. Chelsea scrapping past Barcelona setting up a day at Munich against the home side means that fourth is a dangerous place to be come 13th May. A draw at Stoke, which we could have won easily had we taken our …
Read More “The Penultimate Weekend: Untold’s guide to the coming top games.”
By Tony Attwood I am interested in how Arsenal will cope with the 25 rule for next season. So first, to remind you of the rules… All Premier League clubs must nominate a squad containing no more than 17 players who do not fulfil the Home Grown Player criteria. The remainder of the squad, up …
Read More “Arsenal’s “25” for next season – we still have space for new players”
—————– Help us develop a database of Arsenal Anniversaries. Vote for Untold in the awards for blogs and bloggers We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ——————— By Walter Broeckx This is just a first step. Not yet a real conclusion of the season. But a first preview of what the ref reviews have learned us about …
By Tony Attwood This was the fourth and final category in our Awards section and it is the one I love the most. I laughed and laughed as I saw them coming in, and did so again as I compiled the list of Awards. Here are some of them. I have changed a few just …
Read More “The 49 Football Awards You Would Most Like to See (but probably won’t)”
—————————– Help us develop a database of Arsenal Anniversaries. Vote for Untold in the awards for blogs and bloggers We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ——————– By Walter Broeckx For all kinds of reason this will be a season to remember when all the dust will be settled in a few weeks time. First of all Arsenal …
By Tony Attwood “City fans fury as Webb appointed for crunch Newcastle clash” That headline from the Sun was interesting, as it was something of a new direction for the “paper” (I use the word loosely). Of course they did not come out with any statistics about Webb’s predeliction for one team rather than another, …
Read More “Difficult choices await the media as they beat a rearguard action on refs”
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 – 1 Sunderland”
————————————————————– Help us develop a database of Arsenal Anniversaries. Vote for Untold in the awards for blogs and bloggers We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————— By Walter Broeckx I must warn you when you start reading that this starts a bit far away from the Emirates but we will end up there by the end. …
Read More “Arsenal and Berchem, two different worlds and yet so similar”
