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 Tony Attwood “Arsenal’s prudence is an open invitation to be gazumped on players” read the headline in the Guardian newspaper in the UK. It was not a balanced piece – it was opinion. Nothing wrong with that for newspapers print “news” (occasionally) and “opinion”. But the Guardian seems to be doing a lot of …
By Walter Broeckx Leaving the defence behind us we move up to midfield and have a look at Alex Song. Some people still call him our defensive midfielder but I do think that this is a term that no longer is used at Arsenal anymore. I don’t think Wenger wants to have a midfielder who …
Read More “Let us sing our Song – but could it be the final chorus?”
————————————————————– . Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. —————————————— By Tony Attwood I’ve just finished reading the autobiography of Wally Barnes – Arsenal’s post war hero, and captain of Wales. There’s a review of the book on the Arsenal History blog. I …
Read More “A bird table on the terracing. No one ever said football had to make sense.”
. ———————- Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ————————- There is a clear regional bias among the refs. The previous article in this series can be found here. The index of this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx …
Read More “There is a clear regional bias among the refs. The EPL Referee review analysis”
————————————————————– . Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. —————————————— By Shard This is a continuation of yesterday’s Untold Economics article: “Red and White are planning a takeover using non-dividend equity. Beware!” The first part related to the Red and White Open Letter, which …
Read More “How Mr Usmanov wants to use a rights issue to take over Arsenal”
———————— Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ———————- This article concludes the piece about RVP and his website statement. Part one of the article appeared here. By Anne Now let’s take a look at some of the media response to the RVP web …
Read More “All the things Robin did not say: what the media said in return”
——————————- Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ——————————— By Walter Broeckx Who will take on the left back position next season? Well I think this is the most open position in the whole team maybe. If we look at last season we can …
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———————— Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ———————- By Shard This article is in two parts. This first part relates to the Red and White Open Letter, which is available here Part two which will be published shortly relates to the issue of …
Read More “Red and White are planning a hostile takeover using non-dividend equity. Beware!”
———————— Publication on July 20th: Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. The book that re-writes the Arsenal story. ———————- Untold Media: All the things that Robin Van Persie did not sa By: Anne Well readers… I guess that all I can say to open this article is “welcome.” Welcome to a brand new age …
The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
Read More “REFEREE REVIEW 2012: The London Clubs. And now we find the bias.”
A FAR FROM COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF MODERN FOOTBALL APHORISM, SYNONYMS, TERMS, PERSONALITIES, AND WHATNOTS FOR THE UNINITIATED. Don McMahon It all came to me in a flash like a blinding inspiration, but less reliably. Why not create a ¨dictionary¨ or compendium of terms,sayings and common words/names regularly used to describe Arsenal in particular and Football …
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By Walter Broeckx Moving away from the man who was our captain last year to the man who was our vice captain last year – and the man who could be our captain next season: Thomas Vermaelen. Let us start right away with the remarks he got when we bought him – the same remarks …
(Editorial note: I changed the title of this article at the last moment, and in so doing so mis-spelled the name of Flamini. I have now corrected it. Apologies). By Tony Attwood During my week off in Cornwall I spent a pleasant hour outside a pub on Porthleven harbour thinking about players who had left …
Read More “The Flamini Fallacy: why selling Robin van Persie is good for Arsenal”
By Phil Gregory Talking to my mate Mark during England’s match against Italy, we both found it baffling that a team such as Ireland played ten games over two years for the chance to come to the Euros and play three group matches before being sent packing. It got me thinking about a way of …
Read More “If Fifa had a brain: how to improve international football”
The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
Read More “EPL REFEREE REVIEW 2012 – REGIONAL – Other (and amazing)”
By Walter Broeckx Who can still remember the laughter and angry reactions in some parts of the Arsenal fanbase when Wenger paid a nice sum of money for Laurent Koscielny now two summers ago. Another unknown and unproven young Frenchman. He was too short, too small, too thin, too not good at all. We should …
The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
By Walter Broeckx Only 2 days ago I decided to write something that was meant to be funny in a way. Something that I thought was so silly that most people who understand English and certainly those who know me would realise that I was just having a laugh. I was having a …
Read More “Usmanov & Kroenke, RVP & Dein: Who is who, what is what?”
By Tony Attwood Next season we have the Youth Cup and Next Gen for our young players. Next Gen In 2012/13 Arsenal will enter Next Gen – the European Trophy for under 19 year olds (plus three over age players). Arsenal have been drawn against Athletic Bilbao, Marseille and Olympiacos in Group Four of next …
Read More “Next Season: Next Gen. Arsenal’s youth in the European and the FA Youth Cup.”
The previous article in this series can be found here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
By Walter Broeckx We all know better than the board. That is for sure. Certainly now with the RVP situation it seems that if we had about 2.326.413 other people in the place of Gazidis or Wenger it wouldn’t have happened. One of the most used sentences these days is: we shouldn’t have let …
Read More “How to prevent such final year contract situations like with RVP”
By Walter Broeckx If you think staying with us has no meaning any more, Then just go If all your yesterdays words had no content, Then just go If you think time is passing you by the words of the manager don’t mean anything any more The values of how the club is …
By Critic So it happened again. The guy who single footedly led arsenal to third place(with valuable contributions from his teammates), the guy who became the new face of Arsenal FC, it’s new found spirit and wore the cursed armband of captain has all but said he intends to leave arsenal FC as soon as …
By Phil Gregory Having just read that our talismanic striker and captain isn’t renewing his contract, a summer that has been positive to date now looks like like a mixed bag. There’s a few different scenarios where we might end up with this now. The most unlikely is an about-turn from Robin and him renewing …
The previous articles in this series can be read here By DogFace and Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a team of qualified referees who have reviewed more than 40% of the EPL games from last season. The reviews themselves were based on full match video footage with the advantage of video technology features such as …
