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 Sir Toby Belch Roberto Mancini has become the latest manager to tackle the growing problem of unwanted pests about the ground, and his actions have put journalists on high alert. He has taken what insiders call a “stance” and what those in the know call “a hardline stance” over what footballing journalists call “The …
Ordinary is Pointless Which club has the most debt? Editorial prelude [well we’ve never had one before, so why not? On the History of Arsenal site, linked at the end of this article, you’ll find a page from the programme for the first ever league match at Highbury in 1913, reprinted. It is part of …
By Walter Broeckx As promised, Untold reports from the first and last real preparation game of Arsenal in Europe. Let me start with the parking report first. It is unbelievable maybe but there is an amazing lot of parking lots in the very near neighbourhood of the stadium of 1.Fc Köln. There are 2 parking …
Read More “Köln:The untold game, food and parking report; How to say goodbye to a hero”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Before the match my chums and I generally frequent one of the many watering holes around our sacred ground in North London and exchange the news. Now next week that is simple because we are at home taking on the North, so plenty of time to do the deed and place …
Read More “Pest Control: A quick pre-match snifter for those unable to get to “the game””
Arsenal vs FC Cologne, or 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V. If You Prefer, Former German Champions By Miles Rackham Arsenal finished their Asia pre-season tour with a draw against Kitchee Sports Club. This was the first time Arsenal had played in Hong Kong for seventeen years. Wenger opted to field a youthful side, although …
Read More “Arsenal vs FC Cologne, or 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V. (just to be precise_ )”
NOTE: We have decided to put the referee review of our 50th game in our unbeaten run on the history site. As it is very much history of course. You can read it by clicking on this link By Walter Broeckx When I heard the news about Arsenal signing Santiago Cazorla or Santi Cazorla …
By Tony Attwood It was in all the papers so it must be true. Sir Alex F has said his club “have hit a brick wall in their attempts to sign Robin van Persie from Arsenal.” “We have made a bid and they [Arsenal] have been trying to negotiate with other clubs. I don’t …
Read More “We must be doing something right if we are annoying Sir F-Word”
10 Ways in which football (and Arsenal) are changing. By Tony Attwood Beyond any doubt Arsenal have now changed their tactics in order to face the New Football. The problems of last summer were not just seen through, but rather they were the basis on which discussions were held, matters were raised, processes refined. I …
Read More “Welcome to the New Football; welcome to the New Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Is the game we play in the Cologne the most important game for Arsenal this season? Or is it just the most important game for one player in particular: Robin Van Persie? And in fact it is maybe not even down to the people on the pitch or on the bench to …
Read More “The most important game of the season: Cologne – Arsenal (should we boo RVP?)”
—————————————- 1: Ordinary is Pointless (click) 2: The Great History of Arsenal Competition – with prizes (also click) 3: @UntoldArsenal on Twitter (follow) —————————– by Arvind I guess a lot of fans are pleased with this transfer window. After all, 3 established internationals coming in, giving the squad a major boost, is not to be …
Read More “Who is replacing whom – and what will we do with the kids?”
Transfers. Staying within a budget? Or bottomless pockets? By Cameron Wolfe Mancini was airing his views (ie. complaining) the other day that Man City hadn’t signed anyone this summer. And it made me wonder if he would be spending the money that’s been spent in the last few seasons so freely if it was his …
By Walter Broeckx One thing that I like about our new pre-season build up is that Wenger has chosen Germany to do the final preparations for the season. A few seasons ago we went mostly to Austria but last season it was in the neighbourhood of Köln and this season they have taken the same …
Read More “My first game of the season: Zuruck in die Heimat (Back home)”
———————— Ordinary is Pointless The Great History of Arsenal Competition – complete with prizes ————————————————— 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 …
By Tony Attwood At the end of last month it was found by an employment tribunal that Barbados international player Mark McCammon was unfairly sacked by Gillingham FC after being racially victimised. The club then said it was “staggered” by the finding of the tribunal and suggested it would appeal. The hearing was interesting in …
Read More “If Gillingham FC are guilty of racist behaviour, what will the FA do about the club?”
————— Ordinary is Pointless ————————————————— 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 …
Read More “Only 1 in 5 red cards was right last year. Ref League Tables – the important decisions.”
—————————— Ordinary is Pointless —————————- Player lists by Godge; commentary by Tony Attwood With a 3rd new player now added to our first team squad it is time yet again to update the list of players that we will have this season. The list known as the 25. Part 1.1, 13 overseas players aged over …
Read More “The full Arsenal squad for 2012/13. Now we just have to work out the first choice team.”
————————- Ordinary is Pointless ———————— Arsenal. On the decline? Or still a top team? By Cameron Wolf When I think about Arsenal and our successes and the exciting teams I’ve been privileged to watch at Highbury and the Emirates, I always start at 1996. The beginning of the Wenger era. It’s for me …
Read More “Arsenal. Starting from Zero. On the decline? Or still a top team?”
—————– Ordinary is Pointless ————————————————— 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 …
Read More “REFEREE LEAGUE TABLES 2012 – The competencey of the refs Part 2”
————————————————————– Ordinary is Pointless ————————– By Tony Attwood We were speaking yesterday about changes in management at the clubs, and what would happen after Mr Wenger leaves. If I were the chairman of a football club, or maybe the man charged with making the club run smoothly for the chairman, one thing I would …
Read More “After the manager leaves what then? (Or “Redknapp: more of a menace outside than in”)”
———————————- Ordinary is Pointless ———————————- By Cameron Wolfe WE all know that Arsenal’s manager has been around for a long while – just as Sir Alex F. But what about the other managers? Arsène Wengerjoined the club back in October of 1996. He brought with him new ideas of how the game should be played …
Read More “One managerial change a month for the last 16 years – and Arsène Wenger is still there”
The media’s agenda behind the transfer sagas; what really happens when a player decides to opt out of Arsenal By: Anne One interesting aspect of this Robin van Persie “transfer saga” is that it has made clear to me, as never before, the specific agenda of these “transfer saga” media campaigns where Arsenal fans are …
Read More “Opting out of Arsenal. The media’s agenda behind the transfer sagas”
———— Ordinary is Pointless ————- ————————————————— 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 …
Read More “REFEREE LEAGUE TABLES 2012: The competence of the refs”
By Tony Attwood In the dim and distant past I was told by the best historian I ever had the pleasure to meet (Arthur Hicks, Head of History Poole Grammar School), that there were three approaches to understanding what happened in history. These three approaches, he added, were also a good way of understanding what …
Read More “Football as a series of cock-ups – and what this means for the future of RVP”
————————————————— This article is part of the series : REFEREE REVIEW 2012 —————————————————- By Walter Broeckx Every now and then we have received some comments from people about our numbers. I don’t refer to the just abusing comments but people who tried to make a point. And one of the points was and I …
Read More “REF REVIEW 2012 : Are we biased because Arsenal is included in the numbers?”
By Tony Attwood Man U has got Chevrolet as a sponsor. Big news. Lot’s of shouting. Lots of puffed out chests. But what you don’t read in the football press or the blogs is that behind the scenes all hell is breaking loose. And the story is getting rather, well, fishy. Chevrolet is owned by …
Read More “Man U’s sponsorship deal with Chevrolet starts to unravel. What on earth is happening?”
