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 As you will now by now I am chairman of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. And as with any other official supporters club we have to hold regular board meetings. Check the finances, look at where we can improve and on where we are doing a good job. Now I must say …
By Tony Attwood Funny ol’ game. When we win we are lucky, because the other team had lots of illness – a virus swept through the Aston Villa camp prior to the game. When we lose it is our fault for not being prepared, and no excuses will help us. Ah well, we won, with …
By Bulldog Drummond Now I’m more of a solider than a sailor, but even so it didn’t escape me that Friday was “Talk like a pirate day”, so in the Drummond household we had a fair smattering of “Arghhhh” and “me hearties”, not to mention “Why are pirates called pirates?” (Because they Arghhhhh – I …
Read More “Villa v Arsenal preview, meanderings, and talking like a pirate.”
Aston Villa v Arsenal 20 September 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the wrong Important Decisions Table updated following Walter’s reviews of the Leicester City and Manchester City games so the numbers are for all four games played so far. In the Leicester game there were three wrong Important decisions; …
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By Tony Attwood Every now and then, football rules change. If you are of a certain vintage you might remember the introduction of the “no back pass” rule to stop defenders wasting time by passing back to the keeper. Indeed over time the offside rule has had a lot of tinkering, with the biggest recent …
Read More “Stadium issues, FFP… for QPR it has all gone wrong at once.”
The Football Association currently revealed as breaking even the ludicrously lax Fifa rules about accepting gifts, has sought to deflect attention by pushing through the idea of reducing the number of non-EU players who can play in England. The new idea is that Football League clubs would not be allowed to sign non-EU players at …
Referee: Mark Clattenburg Week 4 13/09/2014 A somewhat confusing match from Clattenburg to be honest. Looking at the numbers his first half was rather poor. A score of only 70% and a weighted score of only 63% are very low for his standards. His score on the important decisions with a result of only 37,50% …
By Tony Attwood The UEFA Youth League – an under 19s competition – is now in the second season of its two-year trial – it is the European governing body’s first youth competition at club level. Access to the competition is reserved for the youth teams of the 32 participating clubs in the UEFA Champions …
Read More “Arsenal start their Uefa Youth League campaign with a win”
By Tony Attwood There has been a little agitation in some quarters concerning our league position at the start of the season. – won one, drawn three, lost nil. And it made me ponder what other season starters had been like. It is hard to think about the opening to seasons, once the season is …
Referee review Leicester – Arsenal Referee : Anthony Taylor Date 31/08/2014 A referee we feared and he lived up to the expectations. The good thing is he didn’t turn up to the extreme bias he showed in the Aston Villa match last season. But he sure didn’t give us anything at all. Not even the …
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, University Hospital of the North Circular Road. There is a saying which is often, but wrongly, attributed to Albert Einstein that says that one definition of madness is doing something, seeing it fail, and then doing it again, and again and again. Of course like all …
Read More “If repeatedly doing something that doesn’t work is madness, then what is this?”
By Walter Broeckx Note: this was written down just when I came back from Dortmund in the middle of the night (3.00 am). I haven’t seen any images on Tv, heard no talks from media, pundits or whoever feels free to say what I ought to think. Because of this I could have missed 3 …
By Bulldog Drummond Time once again for all good supporters to stand up and be counted, whether you can make it to Germany or not. One, two, three, four… hang on this could take a while. Picking the team is a bit difficult this time, because we could have Chambers – fit and ready to …
Read More “If everyone is injured can we call the match off?”
By Tony Attwood I don’t know if Jurgen Klopp is being called names by supporters of Borussia Dortmund but if not, he can be happy that he is working for a club that doesn’t have an Anti-Dortmund Dortmund movement. For his Dortmund team have injuries to seven players with just three games played in the …
Read More “Everyone is injured. Quick, let’s call the manager names. That ought to help”
Dear Tony and Untolders, It has been a while since you heard from me. Tony wrote a nice summary of our match against City and published it on the site. I really liked it. As Tony said I was on the beach. Not the Arsenal beach where the subs are placed as we do like …
By Tony Attwood Another day another crisis. “Arsene Wenger’s gamble” it is called. Mathieu Debuchy out for a couple of months, and OMG that’s it, its all over. So who exactly do we have who can play in defence now the irreplaceable Mr D has gone? Calum Chambers can play right back Hector Bellerin can …
Read More “Hey I’ve got to write about Arsenal. Quick, what’s the crisis?”
By Tony Attwood Lots of writers love the notion that there are “five things we learned over the weekend,” but if I ever read them I am left with the notion that two of them I already knew, two of them I disagree with and one of them might well be a new thought – …
Read More “Five things we learned this weekend and a few we didn’t.”
By Tony Attwood It may be the result of Sunday Thinking (Sunday being a notoriously dodgy day on which to contemplate the world, given its propensity for being a day in which one takes in too much rather unhealthy food with the family, and spends far too much time pontificating on life, the universe and …
April 6 2011 Sammy the snake wrote an article, Groundhog day for Untold. Earlier this month Jonny Cooper the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Men tried rather unsuccessfully to re-use the story and we covered that on Untold. Now Groundhog Day stands for the same thing happening over and over again, so today Amy Laurence in the …
Read More “Groundhog day in the media is here again, and again, and again…”
Dear Walter, I hope you are having a lovely break away from it all. Today we went to see Arsenal take on the International Petroleum Investment Company’s Works’ Team. It was a bit of a curious affair, with some of the company’s team appearing to be what I believe are called “hearty roughs” – at least …
Read More “Arsenal 2 International Petroleum Investment Company XI 2”
By Bulldog Drummond So with the Almighty Wenger meeting with his holiness the pope, and then claiming devise intervention for the signing of our Danny, while Sky whipped up a load of passing yobs on deadline day and got them to boo when they announced the deal to sign Welbeck was on, and cheer when …
Clairvoyant’s Wanted (but you already knew that) By Psychic Brian, Professor of Applied Frotteurism at the Tamakeri Institute In order to satiate my thirst for matters Arse brought about by this interminable Arsedrought ©™ I found myself rambling through the cavernous catacumbal archives of Untold, down paths seldom trod, prying into the dustier corners. …
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Arsenal v Manchester City 13 September 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw A quick reminder before I start that parking at Cockfosters station is unavailable until June 2015, if you normally use it then you need to use either Oakwood or Arnos Grove instead. There are also disruptions to trains south of …
by Tony Attwood If you know your Arsenal history, you’ll know of the profound link between Arsenal and the Glaswegian club Rangers. In the early days of the 20th century when it looked like Arsenal would be no more, Rangers bought shares in Arsenal which they held until just a few years back. And it was …
Read More ““Rangers current position is the envy of many English Premiership clubs.””
By Tony Attwood Quite what Mr Wenger meant with his comment about the fact that if he had not been going to Rome on transfer deadline day we wouldn’t have signed Welbeck, is a matter for conjecture. It is certainly something that seems to be causing a bit of debate with different people quoting …
Read More “Mr Wenger’s joke, Mourinho, bombastic shallow times, Barnstoneworth.”
