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 Tony Attwood Sometimes you have to wonder about the level of knowledge football journalists actually have about the people who pay to go into football matches (as opposed to journalists who get paid to be there, for some reason that I have never quite fathomed). Jack de Menezes in the Independent recently wrote the …
By Our Man In Black If you’ve been looking closely you may have noticed that in the past weeks we have published a few rumours that are doing the rounds amongst referees. If these rumours are true then this paints the PGMO and their big boys as a not really nice and reliable organisation. Of …
Read More “Referee Rumour: Who will pull the lid off the activities of PGMO?”
Negative & Positive Stereotypes – Don McMahon Some Arsenal supporters have always considered themselves a cut above other fans, especially the Totts and other London clubs. However, after starting to follow AFC in 2002, there seemed to be a repeated pattern evolving from many comments posted on the net from Gooners, which, to say the …
Read More “How Arsène Wenger and some players have become the victim of stereotyping”
By Walter Broeckx In his articles that you could read on here in the last days Tony painted an accurate picture on the dealing that goes on behind the scenes. The secret things, the spreading of rumours and more importantly, and far more extensively, the spreading of false rumours. And as he said lots of …
By Tony Attwood I am increasingly reluctant to use the phrase “transfer window”. A window, at least in my office, as in my house, is a fairly stable thing which has a purpose and, among other things allows the light in, and enables me to look at trees. In fact I am lucky because I …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s transfer of Yaya Sanogo on a free (as he had let his last contract run down) was met with a torrent of abuse from a number of members of the AAA writing to the BBC web site. They basically made the point that Mr Wenger was once again buying in young …
Read More ““Arsenal never buy proven players”. Well, not quite…”
By Tony Attwood Distraction, Deception and Destructive Expectation. Three ways in which the transfer market is run – I mentioned them a year ago during the crazy transfer window expectations, and hoped that maybe the situation was getting so out of control that maybe in the end the whole system would fall apart. It didn’t …
Read More “How agents create transfer myths and use the press to advertise their players”
By Walter Broeckx So what was already know a few weeks ago is now made official. Yaya Sanogo will be an Arsenal player. Of course the ones who are waiting for big names will be disappointed but surely even they must realise that we are only on the first day of the transfer market and …
Read More “Yaya Sanogo, the postman always scores twice (plus lyrics to his official song.)”
By Tony Attwood It is amusing to look down the stories running on the news accumulator services which report on each day’s action on a) who is Arsenal going to buy b) who has Arsenal just missed out on c) who are Arsenal going to lose because someone is making a bid Just look at …
ENGLAND’S EASY MOVING TARGETS Don McMahon This post is about impending corruption, probable slavery and definite destruction of a professional’s career and personal life. I felt compelled to write this after watching a series of Interpol educational modules available online This website outlines the ease and perfidy with which criminal elements, profiteers, ruthless mafia con-men …
Read More “How corruption within football works, and how the players and refs get hooked”
By Walter Broeckx Apparently there has been some kind of Fifa tournament going on or has just finished in Brazil. At first I thought I had slept for more than a year and that is was already 2014. But no it was 2013. Now I wonder when will it ever be enough for FIFA? When …
