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 Walter Broeckx Last summer was a bad summer. Well that is kicking in an already open door as they say in my mother language. We lost our top scorer. And we lost our main assist provider. And because of the European championship a few of our players couldn’t join in pre-season from the start. …
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By Tony Attwood Chaos rules, we sign the man we want; we don’t want Rooney. That seems to be the order of the day. Everywhere you turn clubs are falling out with their management. Today’s story (that the Brighton manager has been suspended) is not top of the headlines as they are a Championship club, …
Are the Play-offs fair? Adam Brogden. We have had in place a system of achievement in football ever since the very first cavewomen drove her man to kick a rock in anger, and that system is referred to as the pyramid system. OK not from the very start of time, nor the very start of …
by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Howard Webb next. And this is the final article in this series. We have talked about teams and then showed how each team did with each ref. And then we did the ref articles …
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OUR NEIGHBOURS DOWN THE ROAD Don McMahon It will be possible to take this article as an insult and a disloyalty to the Arsenal. It is possible to shrug it off as the ravings of a senile senior citizen. I hope however you will understand the motives behind this opus. What started my train of …
By Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Anthony Taylor next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing you see in the last row. This is for new readers of course. Regular readers can skip this …
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By Tony Attwood If there is a moment that we might one day eventually look back to, as being the time when we achieved a breakthrough in Untold’s constant highlighting of referee problems in the Premier League, it could just be Arsenal v Wigan 14 May 2013. Of course there is nothing so sad as …
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By Walter Broeckx So what do I know? I wrote about bad omens and bad signs. And there the Arsenal proved me wrong. Thanks guys. Don’t mind feeling a bit stupid with my predictions being so wrong. In fact the most important thing I tried to do was try to make us all aware that …
By Billy the Dog McGraw Arsène Wenger has said it would be “sad” if Wigan Athletic are relegated, as they almost certainly will be if we win tonight. A draw hands the advantage over to the Tottenham H team but would still probably not be enough for Wigan. When asked if he saw similarities with …
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By Walter Broeckx Most of the time I am of the more optimistic kind of Gooners one could say. But there are a few reasons why I want to warn you that our game against Wigan will not be an easy ride. If we look at the omens, the calendar and, well, you know, the …
By Tony Attwood There are so many ways to look at Wigan’s cup victory in respect of Arsenal’s game on Tuesday. Here are just a few 1. Wigan’s motivational response is good. They take great heart from their unlikely achievement in winning the FA Cup and from the off play with commitment combined with careful …
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by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average, we have referee Swarbrick next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing you see in the last row. This is for new readers of course. Regular readers can skip this text …
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By Tony Attwood If you keep a regular eye on the blog, TV, radio and newspaper headlines you may have noticed that there is a new game in town – although perhaps game is the wrong word, because the perpetrators of it are hoping that it could tear Arsenal apart in September. Go back a …
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by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Lee Probert next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing you see in the last row of the table below. This is for new readers of course. Regular …
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By Tony Attwood Between 2004 and 2011 Sir Alex Ferguson refused to talk to the BBC, after the Corporation ran a story about his son Jason. It was just one of a series of spats that the man had during his career, and one of a series of occasions when football clubs and the people …
For the last few transfer windows, the AAA have stated that we need half a dozen players to turn the club around, and have criticised the club when, inevitably their expectations have not been met. As a result the media have played the game with the AAA, taking them to be representative of the club’s …
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Match Review: Phil Dowd – Arsenal Vs Manchester United (1 – 1) [28/04/2013] If you are new to this site and this is your first visit then please: Read this to fully understand our reviews. Today’s referee is Phil Dowd MATCH REVIEW DETAILS – Phil Dowd (2013-04-28) Period 1 Min Type From On C/NC Reviewer …
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By Walter Broeckx In the past when the website of the PGMOL was still alive and whistling we found a few things over there that told us the criteria that are used to appoint referees. Lucky we did some copy and pasting in those days. I quote from the previous information we could find on …
The Arsenal Anniversary site has been growing and growing for nearly two years now, recording interesting events that happened on each day of the year as we pass by. The whole file of events day by day is available here You will find that for a few days we have nothing recorded – simply …
By Stephen Queen PGMOL Headquarters, may 7, 2013; in the head man’s office Mike Riley is sitting behind his desk. So what is still to be decided in the PL? Ah the battle for 3rd and 4th spot. The battle between Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham. And then Mike Riley dreams away. Dreams of his “heroic” …
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by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee Michael Oliver next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing that you will see in the last row. This is for new readers of course. Regular readers can …
By Walter Broeckx I was planning to write an article about the death of the referee in the US but then I saw that Don McMahon had already written a great article about this. I then was starting to write a comment but found out that it was something that was both involving the un-red …
Read More “Kill the referee: who has blood on their hands? The implications of RVPs push of a ref.”
By Tony Attwood As we’ve mentioned on Untold before the issue has not been whether someone will take Uefa to a European court, but whether it would be a club claiming that Uefa has gone too far in laying down the code of practice, or another saying that Uefa has not gone far enough in …
by Walter Broeckx In our series to find out with which ref some teams perform better than average we have referee John Moss next. But first let me explain in short the average, under and over thing you see in the last row. This is for new readers of course. Regular readers can skip this …
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IN MEMORIAM Don McMahon It is rare that I post such a sad and choleric post on UA’s generally positive website, but the news of a referee’s death from a punch recieved during a youth Football match in the US has triggered my rancour, anger and disgust at what is happening more and more …
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