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
Avoiding Those Big Embarrassing (Away) Losses By Bootoomee Arsenal’s losses in the premier league for 2013/14 season: Arsenal 1 – 3 Aston Villa Manchster City 6 – 3 Arsenal Liverpool 5 – 1 Arsenal Chelsea 6 – 0 Arsenal Everton 3 – 0 Arsenal Manchester United 1 – 0 Arsenal Stoke City 1 – …
By Tony Attwood There once was a time when Barcelona were seen as a club with some positive moral basis. They represented the aspirations of a nation within a nation. They refused to sell the front of their shirt to anyone. The shirt, they said, was the symbol of their people. The shirt was sacred. …
Oh! We need a Dee ehM…. ARSENAL 13. The season has begun. After the 1st round of games we are placed 3rd, behind Chelsea and ManCity (champions elect). As per predictions we have no chance of the league title. The reason, well, we don’t have a DM. Or rather a beast of a DM. Now …
By Walter Broeckx If we compare this match with the one on Saturday it is almost unbelievable that the final score was 0-0. From the first second and you can take this literally: it was an open match. Ba trying to shoot directly at goal from the kick off and if it wasn’t for an …
By Bulldog Drummond Success and achievement are boring – at least if you are a journalist. If you have to write about success then personalise it, and make the person you write about be eccentric, self-centred, opinionated and if possible abusive. But most of all follow failure – especially if it involves someone who is …
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WHY DON’T THE REFS CALL ¨OBVIOUS¨ PENALTIES? By Don McMahon While watching the Arsenal struggle to dominate Crystal Palace on Saturday, there were at least 2-3 incidents against Arsenal players where many supporters claimed we should have had a penalty awarded. Having officiated for many years and been the target of such complaints from both …
Where Can We Improve? By Pete I am as much as a loyalist as anyone who frequents this site but I thought it might be interesting not only to review areas where there is room for improvement (after all nothing is perfect), but to do so constructively. Tony has already written a piece around …
By Bootoomee And so it begins, the 2014/15 Premier league season. Thank goodness, the long wait is finally over. We now have some football to take our attention away from the mind-numbingly ridiculous pastime known as “transfer speculation”. Kudos to Mr Tony Attwood for his valiant effort to help us make a good sense of …
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By Walter Broeckx As I couldn’t see the match live as I was appointed to do a match as a referee myself at the same kick off time as the Arsenal match I had to see the match already knowing the final score. So the tension then is missing a bit compared to seeing it …
By Blacksheep Untold Premiership (part one in a series of 19): Manchester United Sitting here this morning in the rain waiting for an airshow (at Sywell) and listening to Radio Five reminds me that I told Tony I wanted to write an occasional series of articles about the way the press treats other clubs. We …
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By Walter Broeckx Match: Arsenal – Crystal Palace Ref: Jonathon Moss Date 16/08/2014 So the PL is underway again and so are our referee reviews. Only of Arsenal matches this season. Another interesting fact is that the predictions in our referee review were again rather spot on. After a promising start ref Moss is …
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By Tony Attwood Having written up my rant about time wasting, last night, I puzzled over how it was that Sky managed to hide all aspects of goal keeper impropriety in the Palace match yesterday. In the commentaries that followed my little piece last night the point was well made: TV does sometimes mention time …
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By Tony Attwood, fresh home from the game. A 5.30pm kick off and Drew and I leave the ground as the match ends – and I enter my home just after 10pm. No stopping for a drink or chat on the way – its the walk from the ground to Archway for the underground, …
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By Bulldog Drummond Well my young rascals, writing these pre-match notes I discover I also have to give the award for the Untold Turnip of the Week – the much sought after prize for Rabid Journalism during the last seven days. And of course it goes to Ben Rumbsy for his piece “Arsenal announce …
Big new bigs news. Bendtner has signed with Wolfsburg. Meanwhile according to Caught Offside in an Exclusive! “Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is ready to make an offer of £27m for Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin having opted against pursuing Sporting Lisbon youngster William Carvalho and Real Madrid star Sami Khedira.” Simultaneously the Metro ran the rumour …
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Arsenal v Crystal Palace 16 August 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Jonathan Moss Assistants – L Betts & M Scholes Fourth Official – R Madley Welcome to the first Preview of the match officials for the 2014/15 season in which I look at past performance of the referee (and …
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This is part two of the review of how clubs have won the Premier League over the years. Part one is here. How to win the Premier League Part 2 By Tjekem DO YOU HAVE TO BEAT THE TOP 6? NO! Let us look at the past Champions of the modern era vs. the top …
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By a rather irate Tony Attwood. Some seven years ago I injured myself in the gym. It was a back injury. At first it seemed nothing. Then it was unbelievably painful, but I expected it to go. But it didn’t. I was unable to walk more than two or three steps, for a month. Then …
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HOW TO WIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE By Tjekem How does a team win the Premier League? Do you need the top goalscorer? The best offence? The best defence? What about goal difference? The only thing that we know for sure; is that you need the most points! But how many? For the purpose of this piece, …
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By Tony Attwood There are three clubs out of the five most fancied to win the Premier League who have to watch their financial footing. Man City, as we all know, made utter asses of themselves by not only failing FFP first time around, but then refusing to accept it, refusing to do what PSG …
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By Walter Broeckx Last year around this time the non-existing AAA were all over the place. Predicting their gloom and doom. The main point of their reasoning was: as long as Wenger is here we will never win another trophy. I remember that I even wrote a few articles about it. Saying that if you …
By Sir Hardly Anyone and Professor Billy “The Dog” McGraw, university hospital of the North Circular Road. On the day when we have been told that Theo is no longer our fastest player (it is now apparently Hector Bellerin) we are once again awash with transfer rumours. After all it is a while since we …
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By Tony Attwood When we look back from the perspective of history, season 2013/14 could have gone down as the year in which for the first time the owner of a league club admitted he lied about the status of a player in order to put another team off the scent. And that the captain of …
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Dear Arsenal, As we approach the new season I have left over in my notebook a few odds and ends from last season, which, I’d like to share. These are things I think you ought to do as a club. These items are not presented in an order of importance, and they are by no …
By Tony Attwood “I have more attacking options than I’ve had for a long time, that’s for sure,” said Mr Wenger the other day. “Three, four, five years ago every year we lost a big player. In the last two years we’ve added players, like Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez. “Of course that strengthens the …
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