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 With the season over it is time to have a look at the new players we brought in last summer and see how they did in their first season. And of course in case you bring forwards it is something that you do with looking at how their involvement is when it …
By Tony Attwood Below is the table of under 21 appearances for last season for the players with over 10 games played in that league last season. Traditionally most of them move on to other clubs, but one or two do occasionally step up. Jack Wilshere has come through the ranks, and last season saw …
Read More “The players who will join the first team next season from the Under 21 league”
By Tony Attwood During the course of the morning of 3 June several UK newspapers changed their web sites to reflect an interview with Arsène Wenger. The Daily Telegraph piece is by Nick Pearce and runs with the headline Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger hints at shock moves for Wayne Rooney and Cesc Fabregas and then …
Read More “Wayne Rooney and Cesc to Arsenal, suggest British press after Al Jazeera interview”
By Tony Attwood I’ve written a few times that although RVP left, we didn’t do as badly as some predicted, and our goal tally this past season was, in the end, quite reasonable. But of course like most Arsenal fans I felt bad as good players left for pastures new. Nasri, RVP, Cesc… and then …
Read More “Arsenal have suffered with forced transfers, now it is someone else’s turn”
With all the talk of Mr Wenger having all the money he wants to buy, buy, and buy again the usual round-up of the loanees seems to have passed by the wayside – perhaps because several of them (Bendtner is one name that comes to mind) don’t seem to be ready for a return to …
Read More “Where have all the loanees gone? And who is coming back?”
By Tony Attwood It may be a taboo subject in England, but Uefa are taking it seriously. “It” being what Michel Platini calls the “scourge” of match fixing. And although if it is ever mentioned in the English media it is mentioned as something that those untrustworthy foreigners do, but English gentlemen don’t, slowly, very …
Read More “Are corruption stories being censored, or did corruption just stop?”
