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Matchday 3 By Arun As the transfer market is coming to a close today, the hit hungry media is busy hosting live 24 hour blogs for the ‘frantic Friday’. At the time of the writing, it seems that Bendtner has gone on loan to Juventus, and Park has also gone on loan, while we might …
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The club that changed football —————————– By Cameron Wolfe. It is just coming up to 1pm UK time, and so far all that seems to have happened on transfer day is that Nic Bendtner is in Turin to have a medical with Juventus. So perhaps we will have to look elsewhere for signings… such as …
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- 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 …
Read More “REF REVIEW 2012: Mark Clattenburg – did Man U say “not again”?”
By Tony Attwood So now we know: Schalke, Montpellier, Olympiakos – not too bad at all in my view. And we can watch Man City play Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund with some interest. Schalke reached third place in the Bundesliga. They have won their first match this season (a cup match against lower …
———————- Woolwich Arsenal: the club that changed football For two years now we have been reviewing the performances of referees in matches involving Arsenal. Last year we introduced reviews of non-Arsenal matches. Now we have once again expanded, and we have set up a separate site to review the non-Arsenal games: Referee Decisions. Links to …
Read More “Ref Review: Arsenal vs Sunderland (0 – 0) [18/08/2012]”
By Tony Attwood If you want a review of the Next Gen under 19s game against Marseille there is one on the Arsenal.com site – and it is absolutely purring about the quality of the performance. Here are the players – the two marked * also played in the last under 21 game for Arsenal. …
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- 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 …
Read More “REFEREE REVIEW 2012: Lee Probert – a total anti-Arsenal bias.”
By Tony Attwood One of the problems we face with our younger players is that for every one who comes through the system and plays for the first team there are a dozen or more who get to the reserves or go out on loan, and then are deemed not good enough. Because of that …
Read More “Arsenal v Marseille tonight. Football starts to reform as Next Gen launches”
By Walter Broeckx As you might have noticed the new season is already 10 days old and no referee review has been published. No, don’t worry we didn’t gave up. We didn’t call it a day and gave a free pass to the PGMOL to further ruin our beautiful game. We didn’t start what we …
Read More “Who referees the referees? We do, and we’ve got a new service this season.”
By Tony Attwood There was a lovely moment in the debate about PSG in which a rather annoyed reader wrote in and told me in no uncertain terms not to write about PSG (whom, he implied, no one cared about, despite their being the richest club in the world) and instead talk about real clubs …
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- 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 …
Read More “REFEREE REVIEW 2012: Chris Foy – footballing teams beware!”
Are Stoke fans the saddest in the League? By Cameron Wolfe Going to Stoke in the last few seasons has normally been difficult to say the least. It used to be Bolton that the media would pick out as the team that we were constantly being bullied by. Now it seems that Stoke have picked …
Read More “If you’re going to boo then at least boo for the right reason.”
By Tony Attwood There were two 0-0 draws of interest on Sunday. One of course you will know all about, and undoubtedly the AAA are setting out their new stall. Last season it was all about how many goals we let in. Now realising that we don’t let in goals any more they are talking …
Read More “What would Arsenal look like if Mr Usmanov had taken control this summer?”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Lee Mason Assistant 1: Simon Long Assistant 2: Ron Ganfield 4th Official: Howard Webb Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch. Today we face Stoke City and this is never an easy game. Stoke are a team who play a brand of football and play it very …
Read More “RefWatch – Lee Mason, Stoke City Vs Arsenal (26/08/2012 – 13:30)”
Arsenal Vs The Premier Leagues Rugby Team By Miles Rackham Firstly fellow Arsenal fans, we are not in a crisis. Ok so we drew with Sunderland, but, they are a strong team, and I personally think they have a great manager, and they are going to have some good results this season, so I think …
Are salary caps and contract trades in football the way of the future? By Cameron Wolfe I read an article years ago which compared football transfers with transfers in North American sports ( NFL, NHL, baseball etc) and in which the question was posed: Would an alternative transfer approach work here in football? The fundamental …
Read More “Is it time for a wage cap in the Premier League?”
By Tony Attwood Consider a midfield that looks like this: Cazorla Oxlade-Chamberlain Diaby or Diaby Oxlade-Chamberlain Arteta or Oxlade-Chamberlain Arteta Wilshere or Oxlade-Chamberlain Wilshere Cazorla or Wilshere Arteta Rosicky or Wilshere Diaby Ramsey or…. It goes on and on, and I have not even put the fast developing Coquelin …
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- 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 …
Read More “REFEREE REVIEW 2012: Michael Oliver; excellent but an occasional bias”
By David Lane The story below is just one of a collection of over 40 tales that are contained in a fantastic book by the name of ‘Arsenal ‘Til I Die’. The book tells many stories – supplied by the full spectrum of our club’s supporters. Some will make you laugh, others will make you …
Read More “Moving tales of Arsenal past: Sammy to the Rescue”
Our Woolwich Arsenal book nominated for an award By Cameron Wolfe Back in 2008 Uefa introduced its extra officials: one behind each goal line. The extra officials were initially tested in European Under-19 qualifying competitions in 2008 before being trialled in the 2009/10 Europa League group stages. Subsequently, trials were then expanded to include the …
Read More “We need two refs and two extra linesmen, as well as more technology”
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- 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 …
Read More “This, I promise you, you will not believe. REFEREE REVIEW 2012: Peter Walton”
——————— Ordinary is Pointless By Tony Attwood Now if you just support Arsenal and no one else, you may be forgiven for not noticing that the FA Cup started before the Olympics finished. In fact it started with the Extra Preliminary Round the same weekend that the Community Shield thing happened. In fact if you …
Read More “Ray Parlour and Martin Keown back playing this weekend.”
———————— Ordinary is Pointless By Tony Attwood Looking at a league table after one match is rather like looking at a chest of drawers where only the knobs that help you open each drawer has delivered. Not much clue to what the overall picture is going to be. In France however, unhampered by the Olympiks, …
Read More “Why bother with international matches when countries can now own clubs?”
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- 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 …
Ordinary is Pointless By Tony Attwood I recently saw this post come through at Untold. “yea ofcouese sell RVP for measly 15 mil to our greatest rival does make sense.How on earth anybody let such situation to build up in the first place…..now i am hearing song is about to go too….fk our self sustaining …
Read More “How come everyone else spends billions and we don’t?”
