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 Billy McGraw With Arsène Wenger approaching 1000 games as manager, as I write this piece, I wondered what the odds might have been if one had predicted that he would reach that amazing number when he first signed up for the club as manager, and the press wrote their infamous Arsène Who? commentaries, (and …
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By Ian Jenkinson @Gooneriano One of the last articles I had written, So Far So Good, But Why?, was in September. We had only played 5 league games, two Champions League qualifiers, and an away Champions League group game at Marseille. Life was good, we sat top of the Premier League, top of our Champions …
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 we now are going to have a look at some of the injuries in detail. And remember this is based on the injuries since 2002. Now as I have said before we have some …
By Walter Broeckx This part of the injury series could be written from the injury view but also is standing in a very strong relation with the constant anti-Arsenal bashing and anti-Wenger bashing from the media. In the light of the hamstring injury that Mesut Özil suffered early in the match against Bayern the media …
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By Tony Attwood Another week, another set of revelations about how utterly corrupt the racist homophobic organisation known as Fifa is. This time we have been shown how bent the bidding process for the Qatar world cup was – as if we hadn’t guessed. Now there is a lot of hand wringing going on, which …
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By Algi Fitzgibbon. Head of Certain Things, Untold Arsenal. As expected Aarson Ramsey’s contract extension has been announced, and he has signed a new deal along with Santi Cazorla and Gedion Zelalem. And Abou Diaby got in on the act saying that he could be playing again before the end of the season, adding in …
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UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL…..Don McMahon We all love our teams and clubs with a passion that rivals our other emotional relationships and often drives us to distraction. It often reaches a level of partisanship and tribalism that exceeds the bounds of rational human behaviour….but that, it appears, is what being a supporter is …
By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 we now are going to have a look at the non contact injuries. Now the interesting thing is that this could shed some light on the way Arsenal do with injury management. As for the contact injuries …
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A million apologies for the down time overnight and this morning (UK time). We are (as you can see) back up now. A new post will appear shortly. Deepest thanks to Anne and Dee who worked to fix this problem. Tony
By Walter Broeckx The day after the North London derby can be a great day. As it is today. But we all have to look back just over more than one year to know how miserable it can be. I must say that I was a bit baffled by the fact that it was our …
By Tony Attwood There is a section in the Observer newspaper (a Sunday broadsheet published in London) called Said and Done in which the ludicrous things that are said within the world of football are contrasted with what actually occurs. It could be very good – indeed lots of other journalists give it awards for …
By Walter Broeckx If Wenger said before the match: ‘catch them cold’ it worked. What a wonderful way to start the North London derby. Hardly one minute played and Rosicky played the ball in to the path of Oxlade-Chamberlain who controlled it half and then the ball came back to Rosicky who did this time …
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By Tony Attwood We screwed up today, and I have a team from GCHQ looking into it. Dominic’s preview was written and ready to go, and it didn’t go. But since Untold always goes where others don’t it is published below. Sorry dom. But, here’s the thing. After four episodes of the new major series …
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Untold Injury Analysis part 4. By Walter Broeckx After the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 of the series on injuries in the Premier League we now are going to dig a bit deeper in the numbers we found in that part 3. We now are going to try to show how …
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By Walter Broeckx After the introduction to our survey of Arsenal injuries and the next part where we looked at the total number of injuries per club we now are going to try to find out if Arsenal suffered more contact injuries than the other teams. To find out we tried to look at each …
By Tony Attwood Imagine this scenario. A big business takes over a little club – or even two little clubs which it merges (against the fans’ wishes). Two clubs playing in leagues so far down the pyramid that 99.999% of football fans wouldn’t know the names of the leagues, let alone the names of clubs …
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Tots v Arsenal 16 March 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw “We’re Doomed I Tell you Doomed” Referee – Mike Dean Assistants – J Collin and M McDonough Fourth Official – A Marriner So the return of the ‘Dark Lord’ – is his reputation really justified? Our overall record with Mr Dean compared …
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By Walter Broeckx After my introduction that can be found here we now go in to the injury database itself. Again I would like to thank Steve Kelly and Pete for giving us this database. The first thing we are going to do is to have a look at the general numbers. How many injuries …
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. Prison News, by Billy “the Dog” McGraw, our man on the inside. If it’s not a funny old game it is at least a sometimes rather droll and occasionally annoying pastime. Robin Van Persie (a man familiar with the inside of a Dutch prison) is reported as saying that not only does he want …
By Walter Broeckx I think the fact that Arsenal has a lot of injuries is something that has various effects. And these effects not only include the obvious hampering Arsenal in a way that the club might end up short of players, and thus might be forced to overplay players to the extent that they …
Read More “The Untold Injury records: every Premier League injury since 2002 analysed.”
By Walter Broeckx The laws of the game and the interpretation of the laws of the game are two totally different things. And certainly the interpretation given by the pundits. Anyone who thinks that pundits know the rules are people who believe in Santa Claus, the fairy tooth even when they have gotten to an …
By Walter Broeckx The phrase “Arsène knows” has been used at Untold a few times. Both by writers and readers. As most of us believe he really knows a bit about football. But after picking the match Arsenal-Sunderland to unveil the Dennis Bergkamp statue as I was there I had the pleasure of another nice …
By Tony Attwood I’m not sure how much reporting there would have been concerning Uli Hoeness, president of Bayern Munich, and his admission of tax fraud had we not been playing in Munich. But even with that spotlight, it just got a mention in most of the media and was then passed over as some …
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By Walter Broeckx What a regret we have now. During the first half hour we should have gone well ahead in the first leg but failed to convert our chances. Then the injury from Gibbs made us lose our concentration a bit and Bayern then got a penalty and most importantly we lost a player …
D-Sanchez-Cabello Bayern Munich are a behemoth and behemoths are rarely attractive. They are the leading club in the largest market in Europe. Ally that to the distinct national feeling in Bavaria and you start to see why Bayern are able to bludgeon their competitors each year. I’m torn on the Bundesliga, there are bits of …
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