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
THE FEAR FACTOR by Don McMahon While pondering the mysteries and obfuscations of the universe and the AAA, I suddenly realized that there is a common thread running through life and professional sports, like football, that could help explain, in some small way, the strange goings-on that occur in our beloved Game. Let us start …
By Walter Broeckx Today is just another day in history. Not a day that people will look back at in 10 or 15 years time and say: remember 22/01/2014? That day …the earth stood still, the 3rd world war started, an atomic bomb exploded, a nuclear plant exploded, a tsunami washed away all live somewhere, …
By Walter Broeckx In this article I want to have a closer look at some numbers we can find if we look at all the different tables you can find on the internet. The first thing is the league table position we have found ourselves this season. And that is rather impressive I think. Anyone …
If you are a season ticket holder at Arsenal, and you can’t get to a game, you can try and sell your ticket on Arsenal’s Ticket Exchange which is owned an operated by Arsenal. It is not perfect, and as I found when trying to sell my ticket for Arsenal v Tottenham in the FA …
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By Sammy The Snake When I listen to my heart, I am fully confident that Arsenal will go on to win lift this season’s EPL title in May, even if it’s just by a single point as it stands today. But when I read or listen to “experts” on the subject, I get convinced …
Read More “Revealed: Exactly what sort of team wins the EPL!”
By Tony Attwood It’s the big thing these days in the press. Six things we learned about the Premier League this weekend. Five things we learned about Chelsea. Eight things we learned about Levy. Etc etc. So never afraid to copy what others have done before, here’s the Untold version. Nine things we just …
By Walter Broeckx Speculation is around that Wenger has agreed to sign another extension to his contract for another 3 years. Now it is needless to say that if this would be the case, Untold Arsenal would be a place where a wild celebration might take place. I heard Tony has ordered a lot of …
An Alternative View on Why Refs Are Now Biased in Favour of Man City and Not Man United By: Bootoomee The constant down-playing of Arsenal’s chances forced me to pen this earlier this season. At the time, the question on the lips of every football pundit and the media was whether Arsenal were contenders for …
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Tony Attwood I’ve suggested before that journalists and bloggers use language in a way that is intended to set the scene for their misleading interpretation of the news. The most obvious example being, “Arsenal fans were furious when…” If you accept that opening premise then everything else in the article seems true. The fact that …
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By Walter Broeckx With getting rid of the former moaner we had to endure at Arsenal Player we have made a major improvement. I must say that the new person they hired is much more to my liking. Adrian Clarke is the co-commentator now on Arsenal matches and he also does the analysis after the …
Read More “As Arsenal change was it really the AAA who did it, or UA?”
By Walter Broeckx From the first minutes you could see that the only thing Fulham had in mind was to prevent a defeat and if anything with an acceptable scoreline. The game could have opened up early on when a nice combination between Wilshere and Özil put the latter through on goal. His shot with …
D-Sanchez-Cabello Today is our 3rd London derby in a month that has consisted of straightforward London derbies. Seems an odd sentence that one, as though it ascends a perfectly symmetrical hill to immediately fall down the other side. Anyway. Little has changed for Fulham since they appointed Muelenstein, or at least that seems to be …
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By which, of course I mean Szczesny Sagna Mertesacker Koscielny Gibbs with the back up of Vermaelen, Monreal and Fabianski. I obviously don’t know about you, but somehow the emergence of this back five who don’t let in many goals sneaked up on me. Maybe I started to realise something was up when Koscielny made …
Arsenal v Fulham 18 January 2014 – the Match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Probert; Assistants – S Beck and A Holmes; Fourth Official – L Mason Lee Probert was born in 1972 so is likely to be around for a while. His home County FA is Wiltshire so is nominally a “Southerner”. …
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By Walter Broeckx We are over the half way point of January and I notice some people getting nervous. And yes they are getting nervous about Arsenal not having signed anyone yet. I see again phrases coming up like: spend the f*cking money. And each name we get linked with and as usual there are …
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By Walter Broeckx As you may know we have been making comparisons between last season and this season. So here is the next time we do it and now it is done after 21 matches. First we start with the league table of last season when all teams had played 21 games. 2012/2013 after 21 …
Read More “Arsenal top of the leagues, but you better are not on top of some”
By Tony Attwood “Thinking outside the box” is a phrase that has been so overused it has become virtually meaningless. Which is a shame because in football, perhaps more than ever before, there is a need for new ideas. In particular new ideas which on the face of it might look stupid, might look as …
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Andrew Crawshaw I have a very good friend who, for his sins, has been a Fulham supporter since he was knee high to a grasshopper. As a season ticket holder he is entitled to buy up to four extra tickets for selected home games before they go on wider sale so a while ago he …
Aston Villa vs Arsenal (from the Villa end) Ian Brookes It’s funny how things work out. I live in the midlands and have a lot of friends that are supports of Leicester City. So it wasn’t surprising that I received a text on Sunday morning from one saying “a local one for you tomorrow, are …
STABILITY IS PROFITABILITY & SUCCESS – by Don McMahon I recently read a very sensible article online about how stability and success can be partners in Football. The article illustrated SAF and Wenger’s influence as prime examples of how one can depend on the other. Here is my take on what AFC have going for …
Tony Attwood Finally, we seem to be winning the battle of Word Press and the site is starting to return to normality – at least as far as anything in football is normal. The picture that is back on the site is the one of Walter and myself taken while we played for the Benelux …
Read More “How to be stupid; Untold gets its picture back; longest run of defeats ever”
By Walter Broeckx This past weekend saw again another debatable/hilarious/angry making decision from a referee. A decision that helped Manchester City to the top of the league table. So of course a decision we do not like to see. Now on to the decision itself: it was the wrong decision. The laws have changed a …
Read More “Riley talks bollocks. When will football authorities take action?”
By Tony Attwood If you watched the game on Sky last night with the sound turned up (always a dangerous thing to do), you may well have started to feel part way through the game that the score was actually Aston Villa 3 Arsenal 2, rather than the Villa 1 Arsenal 2 that was played …
By Walter Broeckx The first moments of the game I thought that Swarbrick was out to prove us wrong. The first poor challenge coming in leading with the forearm against the head of Wilshere and immediately he gave the deserved yellow card. Wow I thought this is how it should be done. Letting you know …
D-Sanchez-Cabello (Comments about dustbins added by the Untold editorial team who seemingly have a fixation about them) The last time we met Villa – scandalous officiating aside – we lacked the sharpness our game needed. The rustiness that comes from a period of non-competitive football, affects a precise team more than it does a rough …
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