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The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal ————— By Tony Attwood The BBC has just released its survey of the price paid to watch League football and the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association (AISA) has responded, pointing out some …
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The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal —————— By Walter Broeckx After having looked at the keepers, defenders and midfielders we end up with the strikers department in the PL so far. We started the games this …
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal —————- By Tony Attwood Senegal have been disqualified from the Africa Cup of Nations 2013 after a crowd riot ended the play off against the Ivory Coast. According to reports …
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Arsenal have been named the ‘club of the year’ for providing the best customer service to fans under a new awards scheme being run by the Premier League and tourism board VisitEngland. Clubs were monitored for customer service for the past two seasons. A panel of industry experts voted Arsenal the club of the year …
By Tony Attwood From day one, Untold has taken the view that most of the stuff written by journalists is best kept for wrapping up cod surrounded by a rather overwhelming load of gunge. But if that was the case back then, what now? Half of the country’s footballers and all of the country’s journalists …
Read More “Football journalism and player comments: It has all got totally out of control”
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal By Walter Broeckx If we look at the engine room of the team and as far as I know this still is the midfield area we can see that we have …
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Coming very soon – “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” Making the Arsenal By Tony Attwood We are so used to seeing the Football League and Football Association as mindless monoliths that never change until it is far too late, that the thought of …
Read More “Premier League changes ahead – and they could all come in a rush.”
There’s a story that regularly does the round, that Arsenal introduced the first £100 ticket for a football match. It is untrue, for there is no £100 ticket (in that the very odd combination of events that would lead to a £100 ticket have never come about, and are unlikely to) but there’s no doubt …
Read More “Why the German approach in football can’t work in England”
Farman Salmanov, Who? Ask any Chelsea or Zenit fan who Farman Salmanov is and they really ought to know because he had such a huge impact on both clubs. But more than likely neither will remember him. So they won’t tell you, “top bloke”, “knew him well”, “Shame about his passing”, “Made Chelsea who …
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Making the Arsenal Coming next week our latest publication: “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” ——————————— Match Review: Mike Dean – Manchester City Vs Arsenal (1 – 1) [23/09/2012] If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: …
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By Tony Attwood If you have ever studied physics you will know that there are two types of time: proper time and improper time. Proper Time is experienced by the traveller, and Improper Time by the person who is not moving. In normal everyday events it is hard to see any difference. Start travelling at …
Read More “Proper time, improper time, Fergie time, PGMOL time. Time to stop timewasting”
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Making the Arsenal By Walter Broeckx WENGER OUT! Yes, you read it right. I spell it again if you want: W E N G E R O U T!!!! It has taken me a while but I do …
The club that changed football Coming soon: The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal FC Making the Arsenal By Tony Attwood This weekend Ian, Ian’s two young sons, and I, will travel the three miles from my house to the ground of Corby Town of the Conference North. We’ll park in the free carpark, pay our £10 …
Read More “Do we need the little clubs? Does anyone care about their local side?”
The club that changed football Coming soon: The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal FC Making the Arsenal ——————— By Walter Broeckx With not much news or Arsenal games to look forward too, we could have a look at our defence and how it has been doing this season. The starting line up in our defence in …
The club that changed football Coming soon: The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal FC Making the Arsenal This year last year by Stuart Higgins In this article, I would like to have a look at the top teams from last season and compare the results and standings for this season. I know this has been covered …
The club that changed football Making the Arsenal By Tony Attwood When the transfer regime changed so that instead of being able to transfer players at end time from May to March the following year, over to the current two-window system, I wondered how all the papers that thrived on daily transfer rumours would cope. …
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Making the Arsenal Coming very soon: “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” —————————————— HOW DOES ONE VALUE FOOTBALL CLUBS VERSUS PLAYERS? Don McMahon I am beginning to think that partisan insanity and owners’ fiscal irresponsibility have become a fashionable, Football-wide tradition where master negotiators …
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Making the Arsenal Coming next week our latest publication: “The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal” ————– By Walter Broeckx If we go back to last year December 6th…. Arsenal went to Olympiacos in the knowledge we are already first in our group of the …
By Tony Attwood – a man of a certain age. When I played for Benelux in the annual five aside competition held on the Emirates pitch some 15 months ago, I learnt a hard lesson. While the Swedish contingent all ate their bananas dead on cue so that the energy hit would come just as …
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Making the Arsenal By Walter Broeckx With yet another international break to pass by we take the opportunity to have a look at how things stand when we compare last season and this season. Last season after 7 games we were 15th in …
Arsenal Reserves are not having it all their own way in the new under 21 league (they are currently second in the league by my calculations – the Arsenal.com league table page won’t load on my machine so I can’t be sure) but they are certainly gaining more interest than ever before. Part of the …
Read More “October becomes Rebotco, Keown’s son plays, as trends reverse at Arsenal”
The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Making the Arsenal Does Barcelona pay their players to speculate in the transfer market? Darsei Canhasi Transfer rumours usually start from speculation. The stronger the speculation the more credible the rumour is considered. Nowadays with all …
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The club that changed football Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire? Making the Arsenal —————————– So far, suggestions that something is not quite right with the English Premier League have been carefully managed and kept away from the gaze of the media. Our work here last season (which can be seen in summary in …
Read More “Maybe the money model in football is flawed after all.”
By Tony Attwood I’ve only been given a formal reprimand once during my working life. Obviously I have been aided by the fact for much of my life I have either owned the company I worked for, or worked as a writer (where the publisher can just say “no thanks”) or a musician (wherein rock …
By Tony Attwood I normally hold back for Walter to make his comments on matches – and he may well by typing away as I type this, but I am going to stick my neck out and say that I thought the ref made one atrocious decision today. Vaz Tê signed for West Ham in …
Read More “Ref disaster, ESPN laughable, Arsenal magnificent”
