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 I must admit when I looked at the team sheet before the match I did shake my head a bit. Ok no Per Mertesacker that was great. Also no Cazorla as I think he also was given a breather. But for the rest a rather strong line up with Özil and Ramsey …
By Walter Broeckx It seems only a moment ago when we lost our first home game of the season against Anthony Taylor back in August and here we are at the end of the season already. To come back to this exceptional performance I would like to note that this was even a bridge too …
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By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – R West & A Holmes Fourth Official – A D’Urso Before I start on our game – here is my take on the officials for City and Liverpool, one of which will end up champions unless there is an Act of God. Liverpool are at home …
Read More “Norwich v Arsenal 11 May 2014 – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood Gilberto Silva – what a player. He played for us between 2002 and 2008, and became captain of Brazil. He’s recently given an interview in relation to the upcoming world cup. He said, among other things… “It’s still hard to believe that I won the World Cup for my country, I …
Read More “Gilberto Silva speaks about homelife and winning the World Cup.”
By Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has a few talking points that we have been exploring for many years. In fact ever since Tony started this blog. Things we have been saying for years and that have been brushed away or laughed away. We have been front runners in showing the media for what they are …
Read More “Media defending the limitless spending of City: shame on you”
By Walter Broeckx With the season nearing its end we have another look at the injuries that has been suffered by the teams in the PL this season. The table you will see is based on the numbers from the injury league website. It gives you the ranking, the name of the team, the total …
An open letter from a worried supporter, man, father,… Dear Ludivine, First of all I want to apologise for using your first name. As I know that you probably will not know me but for me you are a more familiar person. I follow you on twitter and so I have learned to know you …
By Walter Broeckx Talking about twists and turns, the PL surely is living up to that for the moment. Since the moment we lost our key players at the same time and our PL title challenge was halted the media has ran at full speed in admiration of some teams only to see them hit …
Read More “Getting it wrong, Untold predicting things years ahead of the rest”
By Walter Broeckx We all know that the Bosman-ruling has changed football a lot. One could summarize it like this: Prior to the Bosman ruling, professional clubs in some parts of Europe (but not, for example, in Spain and France) were able to prevent players from joining a club in another country even if their …
by Don McMahon This weekend we play our final EPL game of this season at Norwich. Imho it is a meaningless game to us but to them could mean relegation or survival. While the AAA bitches, whiners and gloomers have bemoaned our horrible season from the first game to the last and persistently lamented our …
By Walter Broeckx If we can believe the media the first consequences of the FFP rules and first punishments will be put upon a few of the oiler teams. The punishments as they are being spread in the media are for Manchester City to pay a fine of £50M and a squad limitation in the …
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By Walter Broeckx I remember from last summer that on more than one occasion I was told that I was a complete fool. The reason was that I didn’t scream out loud that we should spend the f*cking money and trusted Wenger. And because I had the balls to say at that moment in time: …
Read More “What a difference a year makes or is it what a difference a manager makes?”
By Tony Attwood . There are many in this world who would like Arsenal to have a new manager. I am not sure that many of those people visit Arsenal for each home game, but still they have their view, and they express it. . However management change can be a problem – as Tottenham …
Read More “The rather difficult business of changing managers each season”
By Walter Broeckx Over the last seasons I have always tried to be at the Emirates in our final home match. As the way things went this time I once again had the luck to be there. People who have been there at such occasion know that after the match the players do a lap …
By Blacksheep This year Tony and I (plus assorted others) embarked upon a fairly random tour of English (and Channel Island) football grounds. It was largely unplanned (past the ‘do you fancy a game this Saturday?’ level of planning) but I have managed to see games at a variety of levels of the football league …
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By Walter Broeckx Before the match when talking with Marcel, Andrew and Drew we agreed that with the results going our way the day before we should rest a few players. The general feeling was also that with nothing really to play for this could go both ways. We could play without pressure at all …
Read More “Arsenal – WBA, after the beginning now on to the match…”
By Walter Broeckx First of all sorry for us not being able to post anything immediately after the match. But with Tony away on holiday and myself away in London it was just impossible. Unless I would have typed an article on my phone… My god it would have taken me a few hours to …
By Walter Broeckx At the end of one of the most hectic weeks of my life with one of my sons leaving the house to start a new life with his girlfriend, a wedding on Saturday I will visit Arsenal. So this means another early out of bed time for me on Sunday. Well before …
By Tony Attwood Football matches are fixed either by bribing players or slipping favours to the ref. It has happened all over Italy, and in many other places too. There’s even be arrests of players in England and everyone knows we are cleaner than clean. But now, it seems, even the World Cup is …
Read More “If they can fix league games, why don’t they fix the World Cup? Oh…”
by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Michael Jones Assistants – G Beswick & M Mullarkey Fourth Official – P Dowd Second time this year for Mr Jones and Arsenal – one home and one away as it should be. In terms of bias, on the basis of last season’s reviews, he was firmly at the …
Read More “Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion 04 May 2014 – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood Stadia are pesky things. They cost a lot, they take time to build, and ultimately they go out of date. Of course it used to be so much easier. Henry Norris built Highbury in about four months, the Emirates took rather longer. But I don’t think it is the construction time that …
Read More “Building a new stadium is not just to make fans more comfortable.”
By Tony Attwood Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott. Three major players missing from our squad at the moment – and judging by the results at the moment by and large we can live with that. What we can’t do is live with that list of absentees plus Ozil and Ramsey. Five major players out …
Read More “If we qualify for Champs League, who on earth will we have available?”
SERENDIPITY …..Don McMahon Some fans have claimed that luck doesn’t exist in football and that all is ordained and organized so that the best win out but…..there is a more accurate word to describe unforeseen events that positively interfere with an expected outcome….it is called serendipity and it means: ¨fortuitous happenstance” or “pleasant surprise”. Take …
By Bootoomee Anyone who has read any my previous rants on Untold Arsenal may know how much I hate common wisdom and clichés, especially illogical ones. But boy, football pundits and fans love clichés. They can’t have enough of them. Somebody, usually somebody (considered to be but not necessarily) important, says something about the game …
