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 How strange things can go in life. A few weeks ago I was counting how long I have been an Arsenal supporter for. And the first time I noticed the name Arsenal and felt something for them was in 1970. The day that Arsenal beat Anderlecht. Anderlecht, the biggest club in Belgium …
Read More “Mr Chairman it is, but you can still call me Walter”
By Tony Attwood Fifa has announced that it is enquiring into “improper conduct by Mexican fans,” as well as considering discrimination by fans from Brazil (homophobia), Russia (anti-Semitism) and Croatia (racism). Under the recently introduced rules the first racism offence by fans or players gets punished with a game in a closed stadium. Subsequent offences, …
Read More “Homophobia and racism. Let’s see what Fifa really do”
By Walter Broeckx If we look at the right attacking spot in our team I think we all will agree more or less that this is the best place for Theo Walcott and that in him we have one of the best players for that position. A look at his numbers in the last seasons …
Read More “The Season’s impressions: attacking the right flank”
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF FOOTBALL By Don McMahon One thing is evident. All bloggers and posters, whether dyed-in-the-wool AAA, AKB believers or those falling along the spectrum of these two extremes desperately need a basic ten commandments when posting on UA or any other website dedicated to Football. So here is my basic code of …
Read More “Football is sport not war. The 10 commandments of football”
By Tony Attwood In the past week we have learned that the FA, when running England’s bid for the world cup, laid on a banquet. The cost of the dinner was around £35,000. This was part of the £25m that the FA spent on the bid, which ultimately got two votes – one of …
Read More “The grassroots of football needs supporting. Is the minister waking up?”
By Walter Broeckx Next in our series about last season we move on to the left flank. A bit of a difficult flank last season. At the start of the season one would have thought that this was the spot of Podolski. But in the first match of the season Wenger started with Oxlade-Chamberlain on …
Read More “The Season’s impressions: attacking the left flank 3”
By Tony Attwood The transfer window isn’t actually open yet, but of course you wouldn’t know it as everyone publishes all their transfer rumours, all day, every day. If even half of them are true we’d have a complete new team – which of course is what we need because everyone signed for us is …
Read More “All the transfers (PS some of these may even be true… or not)”
By Walter Broeckx If it wasn’t so sad, it sure would be funny. We all know about Fifa and about how rotten and corrupt some of their members are. This is not invented by Untold; we only see how other people who have examined Fifa and their top dogs came to this conclusion. It is …
Read More “Fifa see North Korea not as a warning but as a blueprint”
By Tony Attwood . You can just imagine the anger and frustration in the sports editorial rooms of England’s national press. Red faced editors scream and rant at picture editors, desk sub editors, tea boys and cleaners. “Where is the knocking copy?” they shout – by which they mean, “we haven’t done an Arsenal melt …
Read More “At last we are laughing at the media commentators.”
By Walter Broeckx After having spoken about Santi Cazorla and Özil I now will try to say anything that hasn’t been said already about Ramsey. I mean where do you stop saying how great he was for us last season. And from when on it gets boring? Well his Arsenal career surely hasn’t been boring …
Read More “The Season’s Impressions: midfield wizards 2. RAMSEY!!!!”
WE HAVE FOUND OUR SECOND STRIKER……by Don McMahon Well I am fresh from having watched tiny Costa Rica literally embarrass the mighty Uruguay of Suarez,Cavani, Caceres etc. And what was interesting was that Costa Rica were ill done by when the referee, who otherwise had an excellent game, missed a blatant handball from a Uruguayan …
By Tony Attwood So what we heard after the goal against Man U last season in the Champions League, is now confirmed, Campbell is part of Arsenal once again and will be with the squad in pre-season training. After that Arsène Wenger will decide what to do. Campbell has done his time at Lorient, Real Betis and …
Read More “Arsenal’s youngest league players and the return of Campbell”
By Tony Attwood The mantra. An oft repeated word or phrase which is trotted out as a truism but which is often anything but. Such as…. Arsenal desperately need a new striker It’s eight years since Arsenal’s won a trophy The Highbury Library. Arsenal have now had 50 red cards under Wenger. The point …
Read More “Arsenal’s greatest enemy are the mantras, and with one down, others pop up.”
By Walter Broeckx Moving slowly due to a lack of time in this off-season (how silly that might sound) we continue our review of last season and we continue in midfield. And the main person I will talk about in this article has somehow got a big lift in the last few days. More on …
Read More “The Season’s impressions: midfield wizards part 1”
By Tony Attwood Untold, being as strongly anti-corruption as it is, is anti-Fifa, and hence not particularly interested in the World Cup, or WC as I prefer to call it. (Actually that joke doesn’t work unless you are fully conversant with colloquial English, but WC is the standard abbreviation for “water closet” the Queen’s English …
Read More “Joel Campbell, the futility of the media at the WC and Gary Lewin’s injury”
By Tony “I never watch it” Attwood When people write in with information about a book that they have published independently I have sympathy – I remember what it was like when I set up the publishing company that I now run. It was quite a struggle. Anyway, I’ve had an email from the author …
By Tony Attwood One of the great things about the World Cup is it allows reporters to forget all sorts of other things. Like why does Arsenal.com have nothing on its web site about the Community Shield fixture? Are we not playing? They don’t even list it as a forthcoming match! There’s more about this …
Read More “Is Community Shield cancelled? Is Liverpool’s stadium plan on track?”
By Tony Attwood Niko Kovac, coach of Croatia, said after his side’s defeat that they might as well pack up and go home now. It’s a sentiment that many of us as Arsenal fans have felt over recent years as referee decision after linesman influenced referee decision has gone against us. And I suppose because we …
Fans travelling as away supporters this last season have been asked to rate their experience with a mark out of ten. All the marks for each club were then added together and an average score out of ten given. It is no surprise that Cardiff came top of the league from the point of view …
Read More “Want to watch Arsenal away? Here’s where to go and where to avoid”
by Mahdain Well the news is out and its official; Cesc Fabregas has signed for Chelsea in a reported £30m deal for 5 years. Now in the most predictable outcome ever, Arsenal twitter verse exploded and not in a good way. The same old bullshit that has been recycled over and over and over again …
By Tony Attwood My view on injuries has remained the same all season – if we had not suffered the injuries to Theo, Ozil and Ramsey and had them out all at the same time, we would certainly have finished higher than fourth and quite possibly won the league. Not certainly won, but possibly. The …
By Walter Broeckx In the first article I wrote about the ECA I made it clear that the FFP rules are not an invention of Arsenal’s that we are forcing upon the oiler teams. Arsenal have supported the new rules but the idea was carried by the majority of clubs in Europe. The majority of …
Read More “The plans of the ECA for football – part 3. Third Party Ownership, Agents etc”
By Tony Attwood In Walter’s last article, published this morning, the phrase is used “Doing an Arsenal”. It reminded me of the phrase “Doing a Leeds” which is the absolute contrast, and I thought I would write about the two. But in doing so I found myself diverted into thinking about where Leeds is …
Read More “Doing an Arsenal, Doing a Leeds. Different clubs, different paths”
By Walter Broeckx In my article about how FFP rules came along I pointed at the ECA or the European Club Association. They have their own website http://www.ecaeurope.com where you can find a lot of details. And some details are rather interesting. They have different subcommittees and one of them is the Finances committee. Where …
Read More “The ECA and FFP punishments -2. “Doing an Arsenal””
By Tony Attwood The entity known as “Blatter” has of late made several things clear. First, that no matter what the documents that the Times has obtained show in terms of corruption by Fifa, they will not be considered by Fifa. Not now, not ever. There is an investigation going on into the awarding …
Read More “Fifa is a country, Blatter is a race, Arsenal the dumb supplier”
