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 the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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By Tony Attwood Encouraging win against Manchester City in the final friendly, terrible game for the opener against a bent or incompetent referee, and then a good win away in Europe. What does that say about Arsenal? Whatever you want, of course. If we lose we can be rubbish, if we win we can be …
By Walter Broeckx A few minutes ago the ref blew the end of the game Fenerbache – Arsenal. Final score was a big 0-3 win for Arsenal. Goals scored by Gibbs, Ramsey and Giroud. And let’s be honest we should have won this game with 0-5 with a little better finishing. Now you might think …
Read More “For all those who cannot see: what a difference a day makes”
So it is all to happen in the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium,in Kadıköy district, Istanbul. A stadium that was built in 1908 (so it is even two years older than Very Old Trafford) and holds 50,500. We shouldn’t really be there, since the UEFA Emergency Panel has already decided once to replace Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü with …
Why do so many people want the Arsenal model to fail? By Ian Jenkinson. During the pre-season and now as the season has kicked off, millions of words have been written in the media, on the social networks and on the blogosphere about Arsenal and their transfer dealings or lack thereof. It has been a …
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By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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I have read the articles on this site, and the comments made after them (after all I am the publisher of Untold so you’d expect me to read them) and I really can’t say there is much more to be said that hasn’t already been said this season, last season, the season before… and indeed …
Read More “How Arsenal’s failure to act has caused the club problems”
By Walter Broeckx Two gooners meet in the pub last Sunday. One is a WOB.(Wenger Out Brigade). The other is a reader of Untold and called an AKB. I therefore put the W in front of the WOB and the A in front of the parts being said by the AKB. WOB: It clearly is …
Read More “A perfect example of a game played under two different sets of rules”
4 THINGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN AT THE END OF THIS EPL SEASON (2013/2014) Abu mansur Arsene Wenger finally gives up-after eight years without a trophy and a woeful start to the season, the immense pressure from the fans and media might be responsible for this being Wenger’s last season in charge of Arsenal. I feel …
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Football Transfer Economics By Pete Reading the ever more acrimonious debates over Arsenal’s summer transfer dealings (or lack of) has got me thinking a little more deeply over how the transfer market works – and whether the different participants are behaving optimally in a rational sense. To whit, I believe the following factors in terms …
Consolation in defeat: or how to keep calm when all seems lost It has been a difficult weekend so far. On weekend days off from working at the Gillespie Road University I attend each and every home game at Ashburnham Grove with my fellow doctors of philosophy. I admit that trying to make sense of …
Read More “Consolation in defeat: or how to keep calm when all seems lost”
By Walter Broeckx Apart from the fact that ref Anthony Taylor was having his usual anti-Arsenal bias performance and that played a big part in the final outcome of this game we can also look at other things where it went wrong. After scoring early we looked very much in control in the opening stages. …
Read More “Apart from the ref what else went wrong? Balance I tell you, balance”
By Walter Broeckx Sitting in front of my TV I couldn’t really remember seeing such a ref travesty for a long while. But then I remembered the PL has stopped some 3 month ago so it had been a while. Whatever 11 players we would have put on the pitch today wouldn’t have mattered. From …
By Dr Billy McGraw, Fellow of the Institute of Certain Things and Resident Psychologist at the North Circular Road Hospital, Southgate with special responsibility for football fans who want the club they claim to love to fail. “The human race, to which a number of my patients belong, has been playing children’s games from the …
By Tony Attwood If you are going to the Emirates today I do hope you’ll either buy a programme or look over the shoulder of the guy next to you at his programme, because after one year’s break, Arsenal History Society has its own page in the programme once again. This season, instead of doing …
Read More “Don’t forget the programme, and the new AISA revelations”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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Dominic Sanchez Cabello Right! It’s here again and it has come just in time for me not to be diagnosed clinically insane: Arsenal – Aston Villa at Home. First things first: the Villains are an odd outfit and are not to be taken lightly. They are the sort capable of winning 3-1 at Anfield (albeit …
Read More “Arsenal v Villa. The team, the analysis, the result, and kick off isn’t until tomorrow”
By Tony Attwood It is enough to make my mouth water. It fact it does make my mouth water. A midfield of remarkable talent and so many players at a mixture of stages in their careers it is hard to see how they are all going to fit in at different times of the season. …
Read More “This wonderful Arsenal midfield; when was it ever more varied?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
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By Tony Attwood Chelsea have just emailed me as if I were a subscriber to their newsletter. I wonder how they got my details. Since you are reading Untold there is a chance that you might know that I’m a regular contributor to, and the editor of, this web site. If you’ve paid attention you …
Read More “Have Chelsea misappropriated your email address? Watch out guys…”
By Walter Broeckx What is this with “having a plan”? The first “plan” is on the football field. It refers to what you do on the field when things are not working out – you have a plan B. Now I’m not going into that too much for now but I think that for 99% …
Read More “Of course Arsenal have a plan. It probably just isn’t the same as your plan.”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
How Can Any Sane Fan Not Be Frustrated After 8 Years without a Trophy? By Bootoomee I had a barbeque/garden party recently to mark an important milestone in my family. I had my friends and extended family over for the celebration and as anyone who knows my circle can take a certain bet on, the …
Read More “How can any sane fan not be frustrated after 8 years without a trophy?”
Chris Geczy and Tony Attwood How long without a trophy? We know how long the wait has been for Arsenal, but is this usual, or unusual? There are still some of us who remember a previous run – or at least the end of it. It ended in 1969/70 with the Fairs Cup. It started …
Read More “The fashions in statistics: how long do teams go between trophies?”
By Walter Broeckx This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article. ———————————————- In this part of the series we have a look at each team and see how the bias panned out for each team. This is based …
Read More “Ref Review 2012-13: Sunderland. A team with a positive bias.”
