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 Walter Broeckx In a way it is strange that in the season that has seen us being top of the league more than any other team that so many fans suddenly have turned desperate. I have no problem in admitting that things haven’t gone well the last weeks. But this is how things go. …
A comment came into Untold a few days back which basically said that all the stuff about the systematic errors by referees which favour some teams and harm others, and all the analysis of injuries and how Arsenal get more on-field contact injuries than others, is all nonsense. The clear fact, it was said in …
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Don McMahon The actions of FIFA against Barcelona and the Spanish FA got me to pondering a delightfully mischievous idea that has been bandied about the blogosphere and Europe since the early 2000’s. What would be the consequences of the following teams breaking away from Fifa and Eufa and …
Read More “For whom the bell tolls: the future prospects for Fifa and Uefa”
By Walter Broeckx Apart from when it comes to refereeing matters I don’t have a really in-depth knowledge about football. If you read my articles I rarely go in to things like formation and tactics. Because as I have said a few days ago even in my playing days I never took notice of them. …
By Tony Attwood On 14 March various newspapers carried the story that Arsène Wenger had ordered an internal enquiry into why Arsenal have suffered such a disproportionately high number of injuries to the first team squad. Nothing more was heard of this until last Friday when several papers carried reports on a further interview with Mr …
Read More “The question no journalist asked at the press conference.”
By Walter Broeckx We will see some happy faces trying to come around at Untold in the next days. Those who want us to do bad. So they can say told you so. Well it wasn’t the best performance of the season. That is for sure. But I will take a few talking points that …
D-Sanchez-Cabello I’ll begin with the good news. Ramsey is back, with a chance of featuring today. It would seem slightly premature to start him, but you never know. Ramsey’s importance is hard to overstate. To my mind we haven’t had a more complete midfielder since Vieira. His early season form was magnificent and as a …
By Tony Attwood Just when I thought that we had done with the issue of Tottenham and their stadium, thinking that any minute now the massive presence of Eric Pickles would shake the world about and give permission for the compulsory purchase of parts of the High Road so the development of the new stadium …
Read More “Tottenham on tour: the stadium mystery deepens again”
By Walter Broeckx Whenever we publish an article about referees and we tell it as we see it, we get called paranoid. Or get called other ‘nice names’ by people who put it all down to honest mistakes. Refs are holier than Jesus Christ, Mohammed the prophet, Buddha, God, the Dalai Lama, and whoever else …
Read More “So match fixing doesn’t exist? Untold Arsenal removes the tin foil hats”
Everton v Arsenal 6th April 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson Assistants – P Kirkup and D Bryan Fourth Official – M Jones Before I start about our game, the other key teams Man City v Southampton – Chris Foy – I can’t see past a win for …
by Tony Attwood Now here’s a thing. The supporters of Real Madrid jeered Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale during a 5-0 defeat of Rayo Vallecano. Carlo Ancelotti then pleaded with the Real Madrid fans to unite with the players. Both events were strange to my mind. Strange to boo such talented players in a …
Read More “Real Madrid fans see the AAA as a blueprint, rather than a dire warning”
By Walter Broeckx Hush, hush, whisper it softly. But there might be some good news from the injury front. Let’s not jinx it by shouting it out loud but the news filtering through about some players sounds like music to my ears. We know that Kallstrom has been fit for 2 weeks and has played …
Read More “Don’t say it out loud, but we might have some good news”
By Tony Attwood I didn’t find this year’s April Fool’s day (a day of practical jokes across Europe – which I seem to recall is called April fish in France – perhaps Walter can tell us what it is called in Flemish), not especially amusing. The essence of an April Fool story is that at …
Read More “Tottenham’s new ground still a matter of mystery”
By Walter Broeckx Just over a year ago I had the good fortune to be able to talk with one of the most important people at our club. And just before you get too carried away with thinking who, let me say at once that it wasn’t Wenger. The meeting happened in December 2012. And …
Read More “Keeping the faith: the view from inside the club.”
By Walter Broeckx In my first article about the words spoken by the head of the PL I pointed how all was in place to set up some kind of calciopoli in the PL. A head of the most powerful and important club in the PL defending his own legacy and interests, a head of …
By Tony Attwood The fact that Fifa have actually found against Barcelona and Spain’s Football Association in the issue of the transfer of minors from outside of the EU has come as a bit of a shock. At least in this office. Fifa actually taking action? Against Barcelona? It all seemed so unlikely. Of course …
Read More “Barcelona’s ban from signing anyone gives hope that other regs will be upheld”
By Walter Broeckx At Untold we have done a lot of work in dismantling the old expressions that are used such like: it evens out at the end. We have proven that it didn’t even out at the end for most clubs. Our referee reviews have brought enough evidence of this. And it has given …
Read More “How the fall of Man U helped us understand how refereeing works. Part 1”
By Walter Broeckx Regular readers will know by now that from time to time when there is no Arsenal football around the regular writers will go to the end of the world to see some local football and report about it. This time my travel didn’t take me to the end of the …
By Walter Broeckx NOTE: As Untold Arsenal is again under some kind of cyber attack we might experience some troubles with posting articles. Or you might have troubles entering the site or posting comments. We hope that the IT people can sort this out as soon as possible. When we look at the league table …
By Walter Broeckx After 12 articles about injuries it is time to add another parameter to the numbers we have had. Links to these articles can be found here the introduction part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 and part 5 and part 6 and part 7 and part 8 …
Read More “The Untold injury records – Part 12 Including the number of games”
By Walter Broeckx Last week was a bit of a hectic week. Our defeat at Chelsea was the chance for the moaners to come out in full force again. So let us try to do a little analysing of this first. We know the simple analyzing that is usually done by the non-existing part of …
