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 This article is part of a series pulling together the huge number of referee reviews we did last season. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————— In this article we reveal how competent the referees have been in the games we reviewed in the season …
Read More “Referee Review 2012-13: How competent were the refs?”
By Walter Broeckx Tony asked the question in his article about Arsenal beating Vietnam with 1-7 : what we learned? Well I will try to answer that. First of all I think the conditions in Vietnam were terrible to play a game of football. You could see even after a few minutes time that …
Read More “Let’s Ged-i(t)on! Oh come on. We can do a better headline than that! Can’t we?”
By Insideright One of the great things about Untold is that it looks outside of the matters immediately concerning the Club and seeks to absorb lessons from elsewhere – whether those lessons be related to referees, FFP or the business affairs at other clubs. Three recent quotes from such other clubs might be helpful to …
By Tony Attwood Two games 14 goals. Lots of good PR, and a bit of football. Plus a few puzzles. This time I was ready for ESPN, and encouraged by a fairly sensible commentary for the Indonesia game I left the sound on. But, poor ESPN, they never learn. After several years of alienating much …
Read More “Arsenal get 7 again. And this is what we learned…”
Dominic Sanchez-Cabello Like many a young Englishman my footballing upbringing was spent learning to run a lot and learning to kick the ball/player hard. I was taught ‘to get stuck in’, and to ‘if in doubt – kick it out’, the latter piece of advice being particularly important, as I was often in doubt. Technically, …
By Walter Broeckx This is the second article in our annual referee review. Links to the earlier articles can be found at the bottom of this article. ————————————————- So after revealing how many games we reviewed last season we now will try to see how competent the refs were in general in the games we …
Read More “Take 28,038 referee decisions during the course of one season. And what do you find?”
Yesterday the Guardian reported on a conversation between Mr Wenger and Mr Gazidis. Unfortunately they failed to report on the conversation in their office later the same day – a conversation that has certain similarities with that which they did report. Fortunately our bug was on the spot. —– Gazing into the sunshine the languishes …
Read More “This summer’s transfers for Arsenal – the complete story.”
By Don McMahon There have been constant reviews of officials performances and personalities on UA, since I first began following this blog 4 years ago. I thought it might be educational and enlightening to present, to our cultured readers, a ¨typical¨ day in the life of a professional referee preparing for and officiating a league …
Read More “A day in the life of a top referee; the inside view”
By Tony Attwood Just how much hard work does our national media put into its reporting? We have had two occasions recently in which both the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian have taken highly speculative tales from Untold and reproduced them as “credible accounts” of what is happening. Very nice and jolly and a case …
Read More “Oh look, all the papers are running the same story, with the same words!”
By Walter Broeckx So the Asia tour is well on their way and one thing is for sure : it is amazing to see how the supporters from over there react to the appearance of our team. After seeing the way the Indonesian fans were filling the sides of the road where the Arsenal bus …
Read More “The anticipation, the smiles, the fun, the laughter. Some of us have it all”
By Tony Attwood A nice stroll in the park, with a chance to update our views on the up and coming talent, and what do we find on the blogs? Well, some quite creative ways of ignoring reality actually. I quite liked “Arsenal and Chelsea woes as defensive target signs new contract.” Clever …
Read More “Woe woe and thrice woe. Arsenal miss out on another top target.”
By Walter Broeckx The First game of Arsenal in the 2013-2014 season was a game against the Indonesia Dream team. For Arsenal we had the following starting line up: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Mertesacker, Miguel, Gibbs, Arteta, Ramsey, The Ox, Theo, Apkom and Gnabry. So a mix of some older players and a few youngsters upfront. Arsenal …
Read More “Indonesian Nightmare Team 0 – 7 Arsenal, a nice work out”
THE EUROPEAN SUPER-LEAGUE CONSPIRACY THEORY Don McMahon We all love a good conspiracy theory, right? Everyone wants to believe that the government, the authorities, the illuminati, the papacy, the police, the rich et al have been covertly manipulating every aspect of our miserable lives and in particular, during this current transfer window! Well here comes …
By Walter Broeckx After having counted the games and the decisions we gradually are getting ready to start publishing the referee review of the season 2012-2013. The first thing is to show you how many games we did. And those who have been with us from the start will have known that the objective was …
Read More “Ref Review 2012 – 2013: What we did and what happens next.”
By Tony Attwood It is the bottom of the list that makes interesting reading. Arsenal’s tour list was published in alphabetical order by surname, to indicate the first teamers included. Looking at our recent previous deliberations on Untold as to who would be making his way up to the first team this year it is …
Read More “It is the bottom of the squad list that makes interesting reading on the tour”
By Tony Attwood It seems a bit like a free-for-all in terms of Arsenal bashing this week. The Guardian, a little slow off the mark compared to other clubs, have made up for it with an eccentric piece by Sachin Nakrani. Not a journalist I am that familiar with, but someone obviously out to be the …
By Tony Attwood Comments are often made to the effect that Arsenal always leave things to the last minute in transfers. Of course we do sign players late in the transfer window sometimes, but it is odd to insist it is always thus. Here are a few transfers from recent years. I’ve only included the …
Read More “Why do our transfers come at the end of the window? (Err, they don’t)”
. By John Ball . Greg Dyke running the FA and thinking that he is going to gather some power back from the Premier League is a bit like the island of Sark taking on the United States and thinking that the USA will give in. . Feudal states, which have overlordship and demand that …
Read More “Why the FA should remove itself from Fifa and ally itself with the Premier League”
. By Tony Attwood (on the fringes of reality) . Leonardo, Paris St Germain’s Brazilian sporting director has decided to resign from his position at the end of the transfer window. . On their web site (www.psg.fr) PSG said “We regret his choice but respect his decision.” . He left AC Milan as manager after …
By Walter Broeckx And now for something completely different. Forget all the transfer talk. Forget all the rumours. Let us focus on the Asia tour 2013. And on who will travel. First of all the players who will not travel : Cazorla and Monreal. Because of the stupid *************** (self censoring) of Fifa who wanted …
Read More “Shock, horror: Untold Arsenal criticises Arsenal FC!”
By Tony Attwood Chosun Media in South Korea are reporting that Park Chu-young will be released by Arsenal this summer, having completed his loan to Celta de Vigo last season, and will be used as part of the transfer arrangement with Real Madrid over Higuain. Park is currently completing a month of combat training at …
By Tony Attwood I doubt that it was in lecture number one that I was told it, although it feels like it. “There is no such thing as common sense,” said the lecturer who looked hardly any older than me. But he was at the lectern and I was sitting in the lecture hall, so …
Read More “The psychology of transfers; why common sense and rumour don’t tell it like it is”
All the reasons why Arsenal did not make a bid for Suárez By Tony Attwood For a few hours the story was everywhere. Then as quickly as it appeared, it faded. Arsenal have made a £30m bid for Suárez. It was on the BBC website, in the supposedly more serious papers like the Guardian and …
Read More “All the reasons why Arsenal did not make a bid for Suárez”
By Walter Broeckx As you may know we have been doing referee reviews for a while now. And just in case you don’t know may I add that it all started through people asking questions on Untold Arsenal after I revealed that I was a referee. First there were questions about some incidents in some …
Read More “Referee review : The report of the season 2012-2013”
By Tony Attwood While Untold has been basking in the glory of picking out the Higuaín transfer from all the other rumours as the one that was going to happen some weeks ago (and as you can imagine we’ll be making something of this in the next few days), the limits to my inside information …
Read More “What Coquelin’s departure tells us about forthcoming transfers”
