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
13 September 2013 I’m running really late this morning, what with having been out dancing late last night, and with the anniversary section of the blog taking longer than normal (its the anniversary of Ian Wright breaking of Cliff Bastin’s record). So this is a quickie, before the posting of the first proper story of …
By Tony Attwood When you sign a new player and he says, “yes we can win the league this season”; when people associated with the club he is leaving express total shock that he’s going; when one of your ex-players, still held in high regard by many says the new guy will “kill” the opposition, …
Read More “Do we have to have more on Mesut Ozil? Err, yes.”
By Tony Attwood You may recall that in the dark gloomy days when we hadn’t bought a player for over £40m and the AAA were suggesting that we were about to get thrown out of the Champions League before it had even started, we had a little matter of a game in Turkey. I wrote …
Read More “Is Uefa upping its game on racism and match fixing? Let’s hope so.”
By Tony Attwood. Further research by Ian Brookes I have in the past written a few times about the development of Tottenham’s new stadium, and my ramblings on the subject have brought in a fair amount of “you’re fixated on Tottenham” and “you should worry about when the Emirates is half empty next season after …
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. __________________________ For the next ref in our series we have ref Jonathan Moss. Ref Moss came in to the PL I think two seasons ago. Not the …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Jonathon Moss. Over 90% right.”
Bendtner or ???? by Don McMahon The Arsenal have a history of improving average strikers and with Ozil now leading the midfield, any of our developing youngsters could fill in, in the striker’s role. However I think Bendtner could actually become a top striker for AFC as he has everything but the attitude and the …
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. __________________________ Next ref in our series that is being presented in alphabetical order we have ref Howard Webb. Howard Webb did 30 games in the PL last …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Howard Webb. An amazing score when it comes to goals”
Cambridge City 2-1 Chippenham Town (attendance 322); the second of Untold’s non-league games from the non-league weekend. Welcome to the Glassworld Stadium in Impington, near Cambridge, the temporary home of Cambridge City for a Sunday k/o in the CALOR league premier division. The Glassworld is actually Histon FC’s ground and Histon play in the Blue …
Read More “Untold Non-League: Lillywhites see off the Bluebirds”
Arvind It’s been a while since I wrote for Untold. So I thought it was a good idea to start writing again this year, and try to take a tactical look at Arsenal. No, this is not one of those 4-4-1-1, 4-3-3, 4-5-1 or 4-4-2 threads. What I’m going to try and do this year …
By Tony Attwood In this final part of the saga of the summer transfers we come to the moment that one or two writers (not the rabid Anti-Wengerian blogs and their mates in the British media, but one or two outsiders) started to smell a rat. The word got out; the events of the summer …
Read More “How Arsenal played the media over Özil: the smelling of the rat”
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. __________________________ Next ref in our series that are done in alphabetical order we have ref Chris Foy. A few seasons ago he was confused with Chris Hoy …
Read More “Ref review 2012/13: Chris Foy – very poor on cards and fouls, great on goals.”
By Tony Attwood Because of my little trip to Guernsey I missed doing Arsenal’s nominated 25 player list for the first half of the season which at first sight is looking a bit thin. In that it only contains 21 players Arteta Amatriain, Mikel Bendtner, Nicklas (English) Cazorla, Santiago Diaby, Vassiriki Abou Fabianski, Lukasz Flamini, …
Read More “A new under 21 cup, plus 8 other competitions, and Arsenal’s “25””
By Tony Attwood Sorry there was a slip in the first publishing of this, and then a computer glitch as I tried to correct it, over the Cavani story. Hopefully my brain and the technology are now at one. Too many notes on the desk, too much typing at 6.30am. This is part two of …
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. __________________________ Next ref in our series that are done in alphabetical order we have ref Anthony Taylor. Ref Taylor has done 24 games in the PL in …
Read More “Ref Reveiw 2012/13: Anthony Taylor – Disastrous when it comes to penalties”
By Tony Attwood This is the story of how Arsenal, a club derided by “fans” who had long before turned on Messers Wenger and Gazidis, ceaselessly criticised by the Arsenal Supporters Trust and the Black Scarf Movement, and endlessly found wanting by virtually every journalist paid for a comment, managed to pull off the transfer …
Read More “How Arsenal used the critics of Wenger to make the purchase of the summer”
By Tony Attwood A couple of weeks ago Drew and I went to see Grantham play FC United of Manchester – the team formed by disgruntled Manchester United fans some years back. We reported on the match and by and large I think it is fair to say we each had some admiration for the …
Read More “An alternative to moaning. (And a club manager wanted)”
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. __________________________ Up to now we have focussed on the decisions themselves and on the teams. With some shocking outcomes. Now we go further in our search of …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/3. Andre Marriner; a good ref but 10% of his goal decisions are wrong!”
The Case for an Attacking Midfielder By Tjekem We are all aware of Arsène Wenger’s penchant for playing football a certain way. And we all know that he shows significant zeal in his use of sports science and statistics to gain efficiency in his teams. So I thought it would be interesting to trace back …
Read More “What difference will Mesut Özil actually make to Arsenal?”
By Walter Broeckx People who have followed our blog a bit over the last years will have read on more than one occasion that I pointed in the direction of the decisions makers in the PGMOL when it comes to the things that went wrong in the PL when we look at the referees. We …
I’ve been thinking about doing this for some time but with the arrival of Mesut Ozil I’ve suddenly got more interested in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers on Friday and Tuesday, and how they affect Arsenal players.So her goes…the European fixtures * (I don’t think any AFC Players are involved any further afield..) Friday Czech …
Read More “Untold International review: the world cup qualifiers from an Arsenal perspective”
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. ———————————————— We have been doing articles about the teams in a separate way up to now. But with all the teams done, we will give you …
Read More “Ref Review 2012/3: The team bias league table – The horrible truth”
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 2012/3: Refs give opposition freedom to kick Arsenal off the park”
Regular readers of this blog (and those like ‘the man from Row 15’ who like to comment when things are not going so well), will know that occasionally I like to pontificate on the more cerebral issue of philosophy and what it has to offer us humble followers of the beautiful game. In previous posts …
By Walter Broeckx With Arsenal bringing in a real world class player to the Emirates in a record transfer we might look at a few things that might have helped this transfer taking place. It seems that PSG also was after Özil and even offered higher wages than us. But Özil chose us over the …
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 “Referee Review 2012/3: Aston Villa. A very significant bias”
