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 Hush, don’t say it too loud, but articles have begun to appear saying that there is something wrong with the Premier League. And this is utterly remarkable. First off, a few years ago, the English press stopped suggesting that England were going to win international competitions – and indeed would if it …
Read More “Apathy, frustration and vitriol spread across the league”
By Walter Broeckx Earlier this week the news came out. Bad news. Well for Tony probably. Because from now on he will be certain that he will be called a racist whenever he doesn’t spell the name correctly of what seems will be our goalkeeper for the next few years and beyond. Wojciech Szczesny has …
Read More “Szczesny: signs new contract, spelling checkers go crazy, Tony becomes desperate…”
Untold doesn’t do international matches, except to decry them as being a source of pain as already injured players are used by national managers and thus injured even more. Oh, and we have done our article (9 June 2010) – now oft copied from by the national press and others, but with Untold rarely cited …
Read More “On the eve of the internationals it is time to ask, “Who needs nations?””
What is the role of the football fan? There’s only one Baron Davis! By Ian Jenkinson. @Gooneriano As you may have read in Walter’s article on the Dortmund match, I too was very lucky to be in attendance at the game with two friends. I was looked after by some very good people with the …
Read More “What is the role of the football fan? The view of a superstar…”
By Walter Broeckx A quick round up of the fortunes and misfortunes of Arsenal players when taken away from our club to their respective countries. We are half way through the international games and so far no real disaster has happened to an Arsenal player, when we look at it from an Arsenal point of …
Read More “Internationals: Nail biting times for Arsenal supporters, plus a visit to Venus”
By Andrew Crawshaw In Part 1 I looked at which referees delivered unbiased refereeing based on a series of criteria I defined. I noted that nearly 1 game in five met the criteria for unbiased refereeing or to put it the other way 4 out of 5 games didn’t – which is not a very …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx While doing my round of the internet I stumbled in to an interesting table. It was a table that was showing how many players that were more or less raised at the club on average play for that club. They called it club trained players. And a club trained player was a …
Read More “Arsenal top of the league: project youth at work”
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 …
by Don McMahon There is no mystery to our ¨sudden¨ solidity and cohesive team spirit which, in my humble opinion, dates from last January and therefore isn’t so novel: 1)Our Germans have a long tradition of loyalty and sacrifice for their comrades. The Wehrmacht’s slogan during the war, despite their horrible reputation, was …
By Walter Broeckx Amazing things happening in the world of football these days. Of course we at Untold have been writing for years about strange things in football. Strange things in referee land. About gambling. About match fixing. About money laundering. About dodgy transfer dealings that could be connected with money laundering. We have …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx When reading arsenal.com today I found this article to be very interesting. http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wilshere-team-spirit-is-massive-now I will quote parts of it in the article for those who don’t want to click on the link (and if you do make sure you return) and give my thoughts on what Jack has said. …
Read More “Wilshere explaines the most important reason of our good results this calender year”
By Walter Broeckx Of course we cannot really blame the countries that have to play for a place in the Fick Fufa world cup for having to play the games they have to play. This will mean that the 3 French Arsenal players will have two big games to play in the next …
Read More “All Arsenal players injured and out or will be soon”
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 …
By Andrew Crawshaw What constitutes unbiased refereeing? A simple question, the answer depends to a large degree on one’s viewpoint. To me the answer comes in three parts. 1- Games where the referee made no mistakes – and yes there were some last year. 2 – Games where there were so few referee mistakes that …
Read More “Unbiased refereeing in 2012/13 – Part 1 the Referees”
By Walter Broeckx Last week I went to see the match between the U19 from Dortmund and Arsenal played a few hours before the real CL match between both teams. Now I’m not going to pretend to have more knowledge about the youth players than anyone else for this. I was lucky to had …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx As we are facing another dull period in the season when our players might get injured when playing for their respective countries I thought it would be a nice moment to have a look at the season and compare this with the last season. So I took the league table based on …
By Arvind I’m slowly getting through all the games that we’ve played. Hopefully sooner rather than later, I will get through them all and be able to write about the recent league games instead of older ones. Until then, bear with me and I do think all these games offer some interesting insight into how …
By Colario. Introduction. I wrote a comment in the blog ‘The Anti-Wengerians have not gone away, they are just hiding.’, defending Arsene and his attitude to defence. This was in response to the claim made by a caller to Talk Sport and supported by the two presenters that the difference between our home defence against …
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 …
By Walter Broeckx The last person I wanted to see ruled out for this fixture was Per Mertesacker. Alas he was sick and the same happened to Rosicky. Both out with a virus. I don’t know if it affected other players also but we looked a bit flat. Maybe there was another reason to it. …
Dominic Sanchez-Cabello My intentions were to watch the Man United game midweek. You know, get a feel for their team, gauge their strengths and weaknesses… I watched for 20 minutes, realising they had many weaknesses, Madrid were playing Juve and these minutes watching Fellaini recall how to play football, I’d never get back. You could …
Read More “Away to United | ‘Old Wayne’, RVP and the Extras…”
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 …
