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
UNTOLD: I am pleased to have with me today Tony Attwood, a man who of late has been telling anyone who will listen, and quite a few people that won’t, that Arsenal isn’t quite the Arsenal that we know. What’s it about Tony? Tony Attwood: In essence the club that we thought we knew isn’t …
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————————————————— 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: Lee Mason. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.”
By Walter Broeckx Well the silence from Arsenal is deafening and that is usually a great sign. But on the internet and in the English papers, the rumours are spreading like mad that Nuri Sahin will join Arsenal on a one season loan spell from Real Madrid. If those rumours are to be believed he …
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By Tony Attwood At last, the agent Darren Dein no longer has any influence in the world of Arsenal. It is something that has taken a lot of time to accomplish, and of course we must say from the start that there is no evidence that Arsenal directors have deliberately sought to sell off everyone …
Read More “Darren Dein now has no more players to represent at 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 technology …
Read More “REFEREE REVIEW 2012: Anthony Taylor – something very curious is happening here”
The Scandal of EPL Match scheduling – some things never change By Jerome It is a little known fact that EPL clubs every summer submit scheduling requests to the PL. They are only requests and the powers that be finalise the schedule after consideration of the respective requests which naturally will have several clashes, and …
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By Arvind I know this is an Arsenal site and largely one is supposed to talk about football. In light, however, of what has recently transpired with RVP and now Alex Song as well, I feel compelled to write a very brief piece about why what these 2 did was wrong, in my opinion. I …
Read More “Whatever happened to the notion of loyalty to the club?”
————————————————— 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 …
Of Loyalty (with apologies to Francis Bacon) Paul Fowler Loyalty is the state or quality of being faithful to one’s commitments or obligations. It can comprise faithful adherence to one’s club or cause notwithstanding circumstances. With all due respect to the numerous, plausible opinions out there in both virtual reality and the real world, the …
Read More “Of Loyalty (with apologies to Francis Bacon). RVP RIP”
By Walter Broeckx Well it was bound to happen of course. If you can win the CL with parking the bus, then you can get yourself a point if you are lucky. Apart from one chance early on in the game Sunderland produced nothing going forward. Szczesny could have stayed in the changing room at …
. The Great History of Arsenal Competition – complete with prizes and now with hints . . Editorial note: With Phil Gregory now entering the real world of work (its a bugger isn’t it Phil) we now have a new matchday previewer in Miles, who has been covering the pre-season games. . So, off we …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland – the Untold match preview (it seems ages since we did this!)”
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Chris Foy Assistant 1: Simon Beck Assistant 2: Stephen Child 4th Official: Trevor Kettle Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch and my gosh – it’s been a while. In fact time seems to have stretched over the summer (RefWatch wise) due to the quite excellent Referee …
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Week 1 – The Beginning; by Arun The intro… After the drama on the last day of the season, club football is back on the cards. Transfer has been the word since last season ended but Euros and then Olympics helped a lot in avoiding the boring, repetitive, non-sense and self-contradictory imaginations of the football …
Read More “In the beginning… the top teams’ games previewed. Man U, Man C, Chelsea, and Arsenal”
By Phil Gregory Right, so, to follow up on my articles over the summer looking at the various teams competing against the mighty Arsenal at the top of the table, it seems reasonable to put it all together and see where my guess is of the final table. Without further ado… First up, United are …
Read More “Top of the table predictions – the gameweek 0 edition”
Ordinary is Pointless Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx This week was for some unknown reason put on the calender for playing some friendly international games. I think by now you know my view on those crap friendlies. Who on earth comes up with the idea of just days before the start of …
————————————————— 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 …
By Tony Attwood I appreciate that to many Arsenal fans of a younger vintage, or perhaps converted to the cause by the success and high profile brought to the club by Arsène Wenger, might not remember or even know that once upon a time we had a forward called Nic Anelka. But Anelka is important …
Read More “RVP – it’s just that Nic Anelka thing all over again”
By Phil Gregory Following on from my other assessments of our likely rivals at the top of the table this year (Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham), I thought I’d turn my attention to Manchester United before looking at City and making some “top of the table” predictions before the season kicks off this weekend. Until the Van …
Read More “Van Persie has gone to Man U – can the Arsenal expect to push past them this season?”
Ordinary is Pointless The Great History of Arsenal Competition – complete with prizes and now with hints Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Carb O’Hydrate, our Irish correspondent There are two types of football clubs. Type A clubs buy in players whom the manager and his team think will turn out to be brilliant players …
By Tony Attwood I have mentioned previously that the Guardian newspaper in Britain, although never Arsenal’s best friend, has through the course of this summer, taken a sudden and dramatic turn towards the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal movement. This is odd since basically the Guardian is a middle-class intellectual paper – and these are attributes that I …
Read More “The Anti-Arsenal (and Guardian) vision of Arsenal in the coming season”
————————————————— 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 …
By Billy The Dog West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has been warned by pest controllers that he is in their sights, and that he could be relocated to the slug department of London Zoo if he doesn’t behave himself. Last season Sam Allardyce ran what the prudish press like to call a “foul-mouthed attack” on …
By Tony Attwood In case you don’t live in the UK, or in case you do but don’t listen to the radio, I should explain. BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC station which covers sport. In fact there are two Radio 5’s – there’s also a second digital-only channel which carries commentary on events …
Read More “BBC Radio 5 is losing its audience. Why? And does it matter?”
By Dominic Sanchez Cabello With the weather like this, the economy like that, and the shop relatively quiet. We in Parade Antiques look to football for the answers. The Olympics simply doesn’t do it for us – it’s far too sane. Apparently, as soon as you stop paying someone 200,000 a week, they just become …
Read More “Football as an indication as to the source of madness in the modern world”
By Tony Attwood What chance of Robin VP to Juve? From the moment it was first mooted I thought it unlikely (although as many correspondents to this blog point out, what do I know?), and followed Mr Wenger’s vision that RVP would not fancy Italy. He didn’t say, “too much corruption” but he sort of …
