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 In the run up to the Tottenham game in the FA Cup I made the point that the game was not sold out – on the basis that I had offered my season ticket seat for sale via the club’s official ticket exchange, and had no takers. OK, that was one example …
Aston Villa v Arsenal 13 January 2014 – The Match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Neil Swarbrick Assistanta – S Ledger and A Haliday Fourth Official – M Atkinson Hello Neil Swarbrick and Mr Haliday – first time in an Arsenal game this season. S Ledger was with Mr Taylor for the Villa game and …
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Arsenal like being on Top? Don McMahon Many stalwarts on UA and elsewhere have begun to express doubts that AFC can or will maintain their heated pursuit of the EPL and CL titles over the next 5 months. However there are a few factors to take into account here before we permit such pessimism to …
Tony Attwood At the moment there are three different fights going on between Premier League clubs and the FA over referees and their actions: battles at Manchester United, Liverpool and Southampton. And at the moment there is no sign that the three clubs have started talking to each other, or to other clubs in the …
Read More “Are the clubs finally uniting to fight against the referees organisation?”
By Walter Broeckx The injury to Walcott has been the start of some people freaking out. The cries to buy no matter what cost has been seen back. Probably at the first not win result people will hold up signs saying to buy, buy, buy. People will scream to sack the manager and rubbish all …
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Tony Attwood I wrote the other day about a legal challenge to the transfer fee policy within the EU. It’s quite a big deal – easily a deal the size of Bosman. But there is another legal battle on the horizon, and just as the Bosman case involved a player you’d probably not heard of, …
Read More “How Fifa’s autocratic rule is being threatened by a third division German side”
By Walter Broeckx I just read an interesting article about the injury that Theo Walcott sustained in the North London Derby last weekend. And as it was mentioned in the comment section earlier by one of our readers I think it would be interesting to have a closer look at this. Now I must warn …
Read More “Is there still hope for Theo to make the world cup?”
Tony Attwood Much has been made of Arsenal’s resurgence in 2013 being to do with their newly found wealth, which at the end of August resulted in the purchase of Ozil. What hasn’t been noticed quite so much is that this has coincided with a bit of a collapse in the financial fortunes of Manchester …
Read More “Manchester Utd. The ultimate football Ponzi scheme”
Tony Attwood I do try to keep up with the murky world of Fifa and Uefa, but I must admit, sometimes I miss something. And it seems this Christmas I missed a big one for FIFPro launched a legal challenge to the whole transfer system and I let it slip by without my noticing. FIFPro …
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By Ian Brookes I had the pleasure of watching the Peterborough vs Arsenal U18s in the FA Cup on Monday night. It was a 7pm kick off and as I have family that are Season ticket holders at Peterborough I thought it would be a nice evening out. As the players came out the teams …
Tony Attwood I’m not sure that many of the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal – the grouping of people who claim to support Arsenal while always attacking the club, players, staff and fervent supporters – are readers of the Guardian newspaper in the UK, but if they do take a look they’ll be finding some ammunition today. For …
Read More “Bringing in a replacement for Theo and believing everyone thinks the same way”
By Tony Attwood We seem to have a few injuries and I have been trying to put together a full picture of the situation. My aim here is not to give a complete and accurate list of injuries and return dates, but to stimulate you into writing in and saying that I have missed x …
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WHY OUR FANS WAFFLE….Don McMahon In response to Bootoomee’s excellent article about some of our fans here is my take on those waffling and fickle supporters he complained about: There is a psychological behaviour or attitude known under the clinical term of ¨incipient divestiture¨ and is usually considered the opposite of ¨delusions of grandeur¨. Basically …
By Walter Broeckx I think it will be somewhere around the start of next season when we will be able to start our Theo, Theo, Theo chants again. The bad news that filtered through yesterday was like a punch in the face. When I first saw the incident the first thing that struck me was …
Read More “Losing Theo: Tottenham celebrate, AAA smile, humanity cries.”
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. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “REf Review 2012/13: bias per team home and away games”
By Don McMahon Despite the unceasing and apparently increasing criticism of officials doing Arsenal (and other Club’s) games, based on Walter and his elves’ excellent match reviews and some live observations from those at these games, I felt that we also needed a balancing perspective to understand what officiating a professional game can be like. …
By Walter Broeckx Even in the darkest hours we have faced in the last years as Arsenal supporters, on Untold we have never stopped supporting the club, the manager and the players. All of them. Many a article has been written asking the fans to do the same. Support them at the games and in …
Can Footy Fans Do Their Jobs and Just Support Their Teams, Please! By: Bootoomee It’s another transfer window; the most annoying periods in the football calendar. Footy fans are now busy watching Youtube 30 second clips for the names of the next saviours of their clubs, which they will then spam their online support forums …
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Arsenal v Tottenham was pretty much a disaster for everyone. In terms of the supporter issues,for Arsenal it was a a match that didn’t sell out. For Arsenal fans it was a match where they could not get rid of unusable tickets. For Tottenham is was another occasion in which due to police pressure the …
Read More “Arsenal v Tottenham; all that we feared from the FA Cup and worse”
By Walter Broeckx Let us start with the thing I didn’t like at all. That was only one thing in fact. But a moment that could haunt us for a few week if not months. I mean the injury from Theo with some 10 minutes to go. What is the matter with our central strikers …
Read More “FA cup Arsenal – Tottenham: That’s the way I like it but not all…”
Dominic Sanchez-Cabello A pub quiz one for you all: “Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?” was the question asked by Blackburn owner Jack Walker back in 1992. Lets hope that in time, Levy comes to ask: “why do you want this Klopp bloke, when we have Tim Sherwood? Tottenham …
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By Tony Attwood Now we will see if the Premier League clubs that are messed about by the awful refereeing and the intransigent PGMOL will stand up and demand change. For now is the moment we have waited for. A club is standing up to the PGMOL – the organisation that handles the affairs of …
Read More “Southampton is the club to tackle PGMOL; but will others stand with them?”
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. __________________________ On this site we have published all kinds of reports over the season 2012-2013. We have dealt with the different teams. We have looked closely at …
Read More “REf Review 2012/13 : The bias that teams can get playing at home”
Arsenal v Tottenham FA Cup Third Round 4th January 2014 The match Officials Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Mark Clattenburg Assistant Referees – Peter Kirkup & Simon Bennett Fourth Official – Martin Atkinson I’m not sure how the referee performance in a FA Cup game will compare with that in a league game but on …
