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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
A philosophical analysis by the Untold Department of Certain Things The inevitable recap from the start of the season Goalkeeper – we must buy one – this is a major problem Bringing back Flamini shows how useless Arsenal’s management is. We need to buy not scrabble around with the free transfers Mertesacker is simply not …
D-Sanchez Cabello So after a painless Tuesday night in which ITV wasted no chance to talk nonsense, we return to the Premier League to play Cardiff. As you may have seen: a Cardiff player had the nerve to be kicked by Ol’ Wayne last week! He escaped punishment, but I must implore, as an Englishman, …
Read More “Cardiff Away | Mad Ol’ Wayne | Ozil the Quiet: its the Untold Preview”
Cardiff v Arsenal – 30 November 2013 – The Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – L Betts & M McDonnough 4th Official – R East I’m beginning to get bored this year with the repetition of referees for our games – this is the fourth time for a repeat …
Read More “Cardiff v Arsenal – 30 November 2013. Arsenal v 11 men and the ref.”
Way way back on October 12 last year Untold ran the story that Greater Manchester Police officers had apprehended Dean Mohareb, the national referee development manager of the FA. This followed a complaint by Janie Frampton the former national referee manager for education and training, who was dismissed from her FA post for professional misconduct earlier …
Read More “FA email hacking and misuse of tickets case – arrests and forthcoming trial”
By Tony Attwood I’m in London through most of today (Thursday), and not able to do any editing of Untold, so this article and (if it appeared when it should) the previous one by Blacksheep, have been set up to publish automatically at set times. If this one hasn’t appeared you won’t be reading it …
By Walter Broeckx Most of the times writing articles for Untold is fun. I also have found much joy in the referee revciews we have done. I can say it is something that I once started all those years ago and that has grown in to what you can see over here on this site …
We have published a number of comments about Qatar of late. This was sent to me, with the aim of correcting certain misunderstandings. ——————- I was originally commenting on your latest FIFA article. I got caught up on the keyboard writing a much longer comment than I had set my mind too, I could write …
By Walter Broeckx I know in Belgium they make a lot of fuss about the fact that Vermaelen isn’t able to get in to the Arsenal team this season. And they say it might ruin his chances for the Belgium national team. Now to be honest I don’t give a fuck about that national team. …
Read More “Monreal – Gibbs, the best left back pairing in the PL”
By Tony Attwood We’ve often noted here that whether one supports Tottenham or Arsenal is often just a matter of chance. For me, my parents and both sets of grandparents were Arsenal fans, my dad went regularly and my grandfather was at Highbury in the earliest days. making the journey from the family home in Stoke …
By Walter Broeckx What a start of the game that was. We got the ball tried to do a spud start by almost losing the ball too easy, then slapped ourselves in the face, shouted: wake up and that is exactly what we did. Within seconds Sagna released Wilshere on the right flank and after …
Read More “Arsenal – Marseille 2-0 : Pulling up the handbrake after 32 seconds”
By D-Sanchez Cabello; with additional reporting from the Untold team lurking in the club carpark. In our last article Walter explained each of the nine possible outcomes of tonight’s two group games. Now we’re at it again trying to find out who’s going to play – and that’s not so easy either… Carlsberg is the …
Read More “Marseille playing at squad rotation, for Arsenal a win takes us almost there.”
By Walter Broeckx What might happen in the Group of death. Standing now after 4 matches: Arsenal 9 Napoli 9 Dortmund 6 Marseille 0 Let us first look at the Arsenal win scenarios: Arsenal win + Napoli wins Arsenal 12 Napoli 12 Dortmund 6 Marseille 0 Arsenal and Napoli are qualified but have to decide …
Read More “The Champions League group of death, possible scenarios, all the outcomes.”
DISNEYWORLD AND FOOTBALL – by Don McMahon Many football aficionados are mystified about Qatar and how it ¨won¨ the 2022 WC bidding, as well as FIFA’s seemingly incestuous relationship with these people. Having lived and worked in the Middle East, I know a little about how the social and economic dicta are applied there: 1) …
Read More “Qatar, the Emirates, Disneyworld, football, religion, heat”
By Walter Broeckx We are at this moment in time around about 1/3 of the season. I know that if you look at the maths thing it isn’t correct but if you do your maths then you will also know that next week we will be over 1/3 of the season. It is difficult to …
Read More “A round up of the weekend; the joy, the utter disgrace”
By Sammy the Snake Yesterday we tried to take a broader view of Tottenham’s defeat to Man C, comparing it with Arsenal’s 8-2 debacle against Man U two years back. That’s one way of looking at it. One commentator gave us an alternative vision, saying that Arsenal were stagnating and that Tottenham were reforming, and so …
By Tony Attwood Heavy defeats hurt – and the defeat to Man U on 28 August 2011 was one of the most hurtful moments I’ve experienced as an Arsenal supporters of many years. Letting in 8 was atrocious, and it came on the top of a 0-0 draw away to Newcastle, and a 0-2 home …
Read More “Man C 6 Tottenham 0; Man U 8 Arsenal 2. Which was worse?”
By Walter Broeckx Our win against Southampton yesterday was not just a win. We were playing a team that could come level with us on top of the PL. Now I do wonder how many pundits would have predicted this scenario at the start of the season? Do I see any fingers raised? …
By Walter Broeckx We are under way after a delay of some 15 minutes because of some underground disturbance. This will have its affect on this article as you will be invited to update it in the comment section once it is published. This is because of the delay I cannot see the final minutes …
Read More “Arsenal – Southampton, the now completed incomplete match report”
by D-Sanchez-Cabello The international break was as droll as expected and watching England left me colder than this weather. Not to mention: when an Englishman celebrates a German scoring a header against his country – what bloody hope is there for international football? Not much, I watched both games with about as much interest as …
Read More “Arsenal – Southampton | Jack Wilshere | Benzema y Zizou”
Arsenal v Southampton – 23 November The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Mark Clattenberg Assistants – S Beck, A Holmes Fourth Official – A D’Urso A game between First and Third in the league, and also between the two teams least favoured by all of the referees. Second time this year for …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: how will ref Clattenberg treat to the Arsenal?”
By Tony Attwood The media is talking positively about Arsenal and the Untold Editorial Board is in total panic. This weekend is of course THE BIG ONE. 50 years since the launch of Doctor Who! (OK, so I got thrown out of the editorial meeting this morning for bringing that up, largely on the basis …
Read More “Injuries diminish, media talk positively, something’s not right.”
By Walter Broeckx Look who’s talking. Joseph Blatter the big boss of the organisation that is out there in order to make as much money as possible out of football, uses all means including overloading players as much as possible with meaningless games on every occasion, (also known as Fifa) has spoken. He has said …
There is something a little strange going on at Arsenal in terms of the youth and reserves. I’m writing this, not because I fully understand what is happening, but because I am hoping that you will be able to fill in the gaps in my knowledge (not for the first time). In the Uefa Youth …
Read More “What’s the point of going on loan – is this the end of youth policy?”
By Walter Broeckx For years I have been wondering what it takes to become a pundit. Now maybe I am myself not the smartest person around but I think that I have finally found the answer to it. What makes you suited to become a person is to have the most simple world image possible. …
Read More “Pundits and their simple world image; Per Mertesacker and his total brilliance.”
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. __________________________ After having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the refs and this leading to the best ref of the season according to …
