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 Strong words for Untold one might say. A call for the mythical beast also known as defensive midfielder? Let us try to bring in some facts. A quick reminder of the results so far this season. CS a 3-0 win over Manchester City. Arteta starts and around the hour mark we bring …
When Untold started using the phrase “Football Betrayed” it was with one meaning in mind. That the journalists who are instrumental in shaping opinion – particularly of those who don’t make it to many matches – have fallen short of their duty of investigating what is going on in football. Too often they just do …
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By Walter Broeckx When we published the referee review from the Arsenal – Burnley match it was obvious that the non decision for the handball from Burnley player Boyd in his own penalty area was the most important item. To make it clear I will try to link to a vine where you can see …
By Tony Attwood and the Wizard of Oz Of late I have been having a little dig at journalists and AAA people who seek to tell us that Mr Wenger is a useless manager, that the solutions to Arsenal’s perceived problems are obvious. While I don’t expect any newspaper to have read, let alone take …
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By Walter Broeckx This was a match between two teams who try to play the same style of football. And when you get two teams who play a similar style you get or a great open match or two teams cancelling each other out for most of the time. The latter was surely what happened …
10 Questions to while away the hours before or after kick off. Set by Tony Attwood 1. How many goals has Alexis scored a) in his last 13 games and b) in his last three games for Arsenal? 2. Name the player who was transferred to Swansea with the initials LJ 3. In what year …
Do not go gentle into that good night. by Bulldog Drummond There is a rule within the Fifarian kingdom that all clubs should play in the league of the country they have their base in, except when they don’t. Thus Swansea being in Wales does not play in the League of Wales. Nor do Cardiff …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter’s referee review of the Burnley Game, I have included a Second Yellow Card and a Penalty for the not given deliberate handball at Min 20. No other wrong Important Decisions. There is still no signs of these decisions evening out, now nearly 5 to 1 against Arsenal and nearly …
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By Insideright I thought Walter’s excellent analysis of Mike’s data table last month deserved a little more attention. Firstly the figures show that, across the EPL as a whole, it’s no good spending big, as did the likes of Spurs and Liverpool, when others like City, Man Utd. and Chelsea are spending very big. You …
By Walter Broeckx The downfall? Why? Against popular believe inspired by media propaganda we have shown that the PL has lost its glory in the last 5 season. You can read the numbers in the articles part 1 and part 2. But why did it came that far? Lets look at some possible explanations. Money? …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know by now I met Walter and the other Belgian Supporters at the North Greenwich Station on the London Underground Jubilee Line and accompanied them to the Emirates Stadium. This is an easy start for anyone coming from the near Continent, good road access from the Ferry or Eurostar …
Welcome to the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Swansea at the the Liberty Stadium, brought to you by Arsenal’s Official Car And Van Rental Partner Europcar. The Gunners suffered a small hiccup midweek in the Champions League but return to action in the Premier League this weekend off the back of a convincing 3-0 …
By Walter Broeckx Part 1 can be read here If we go back and have a look at the last 10 seasons in the CL we can see that we had the following finals in order as they have been played starting from the season 2004-2005. Liverpool – AC Milan Barcelona – Arsenal Ac Milan …
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By Tony Attwood in Oz We all know about Hector Bellerin who has made a breakthrough into the squad this year. Also coming through (but currently injured for about six weeks) is Isaac Hayden, along with Gedion Zelamem, Serge Gnabry (who of course made his break through last season before being injured) plus Chuba …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal losing a 3-0 advantage against Anderlecht was painful. And if it was painful for you out there you should take a moment to consider how painful it must have been for Arsenal supporters in Belgium. That was a real kick in that part of the body where you don’t want to …
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By Tony Attwood in the land of OZ. There were two articles on the Telegraph web site as I emerged this morning, hopefully one step nearer shaking off the wretched jet lag. One is the inevitable daily attack on Arsenal: “Arsene Wenger’s six-point programme to follow to get Arsenal back on the right road this …
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Referee : Craig Pawson A new ref, a new opponent so for our referee previewer it was new territory as it was for me as a reviewer. So what can we say about the ref his performance. Let us go over the match in a chronological order. Only 2 small fouls in the first 15 …
by Don McMahon Following Arsenal’s rather late capitulation to Anderlecht and in anticipation of the negative bloggers bound to assault UA with their gloom and doom scenarios I felt it salient to provide some upbeat and encouraging observations about being positive in all things Arsenal. Now some will surely argue that wearing rose-coloured glasses won’t …
By Tony Attwood Travelling to Australia is exciting, is a pain, is a back ache, is lost sleep, is wondering if they are going to let me into the country with my supply of herbal tea bags (they did) and for me most of all is one long long hug with my youngest daughter on …
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By Walter Broeckx As I wasn’t at home for the match and had other obligations right after the match I couldn’t get to write this earlier. And when I came on to the site I had to get rid of the usual rubbish posted by people who had been waiting for a few weeks to …
By Walter Broeckx Let me start this review in the absence of the rest of the Untold crew with a personal note. This match could have made me a TV star. Well at least in Belgium. Last Sunday I was called from the sports redaction of the channel that has the rights to show the …
By Walter Broeckx Last Saturday with our first group trip to London with the Arsenal Belgium supporters club we had an amazing day. Arsenal winning 3-0 helped of course. But apart from that it was fun. We had a nice group of supporters and for a handful of them it was their first match in …
As Tony and I made our way back from the Emirates last night we made our usual dissection of the game, our players, the officials and the opposition. I think we came to the general conclusion that Burnley were well organized but never posed a threat, the win was welcome, and Alexis is awesome. It …
By Walter Broeckx After last weekend publishing the fastest match report in history I now will be the writer of the slowest match report. As most of you know I was in the Emirates this time in person and with coming home only very late at night and having to do a match as a …
By Tony Attwood Setting aside my packing for the trip to Australis tomorrow I have just watched the recording of Sky’s Saturday Night Football of the game. And would you believe it, they slipped in a mention of time wasting. Not in any detail, and with no film illustration, but the co-commentator said, “and there’s …
