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 Tony Attwood Liverpool’s position in football at the moment is of interest to Arsenal because the two clubs have done things very differently of late – and received different coverage in the press. Arsenal, endlessly accused of not spending, have continued to act with caution even when buying. The extra defenders that most people …
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By Walter Broeckx Today is the day that our beloved club becomes 128 years old. Not that becoming 128 years old is a special date compared to becoming 100 or 125. But still it is in human terms a very long time. And I don’t know how human beings will evolve in the future but …
Dear Santa – My Arsenal Wish List By Andrew Crawshaw 1. A new Centre Back, preferably with proven Premier League Experience – to provide support to Per and Kos and to enable Chambers to grow into the role gradually. Must be a battler and not prone to rushes of blood to the head. 2. A …
By Billy the Dog McGraw, Chief Psychologist at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road I received the call just before kick off. Something, I was told, was going to “kick off”. “Yes,” I replied, “I know, I’m a doctor. It’s called the kick off. It’s a football thing.” But the caller explained that Arsenal …
Read More “Hilarious Sky, Muddled Merse, Nervous Nicholas and Krazy Claude”
By Walter Broeckx We started with the strongest team we had available with some 11 players out for various reasons like injuries, carrying knocks around, feeling a little pain left or right. So the starting line up was: Szczesny, Debuchy, Chambers, Mertesacker, Bellerin, Flamini, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Podolski, Sanogo. And on the Turkish beach we …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsène Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of Tuesday night’s game against Galatasaray in Istanbul saying “To make it as simple as possible, I have 11 experienced players and six young players on the bench. That means I have nothing to hide. Debuchy is back and will play, Szczesny is …
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By B. Linded, your exclusive man from within the PGMO People on Untold have been asking what happened to Woward Hebb the former top referee from our dear PGMO. It was said that he would explain referee decisions in the future for the media. What nobody knew was that Woward Hebb was going to do …
By Tony Attwood Imagine just for a moment that you were invited by a country that is applying to be part of Uefa to help them put their footballing on a sound basis. You’d probably take the standard model of three or four organisations, one which ran the league, one (probably a trade union) which …
Read More “How we can show that refereeing in the Premier League has gone wrong”
By Walter Broeckx In this article we have put links to several video clips. I hope they work. If your internet connection isn’t the fastest you can click on the link and then download them on your computer and then play them with a media player. They are .avi clips so should work with windows …
Read More “Untold’s “not within 100 miles” preview more than spot on”
By Tony Attwood This is the month when we are supposed to see the first impact of the new Premier League Financial Fair Play rules but there seems to be a significant silence surrounding these – and I have wondered if the Premier League is taking steps backwards, or has simply decided to ditch the …
Read More “Man C, QPR, Leicester, Man U, Leeds… yes it is FFP season again.”
By Tony Attwood Following a football match at home by getting summaries from Sky every five minutes is not really very good for your health. Or at least I am not too sure it is very good for my health. The panellists on the show were bubbling with glee and joy at the demise of …
By Walter Broeckx I usually do my match report in a chronological way. But this time I will start with a message for those who will come on here to talk about how the manager should have put up his team and how tactical inept he is. And to do that I will go back …
By Bulldog Drummond What you should know about this game part 1: The referee “This man should not be allowed within 100 miles of an Arsenal game” Yep, you’ve got it. He is refereeing the Stoke v Arsenal game. Here’s what we said about this referee last season “From the first minutes it was clear …
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Stoke v Arsenal 6 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Anthony Taylor Assistants – J Collin and I Hussin Fourth Official – R East Anthony Taylor – Mr Taylor is a Cheshire FA referee, he was born in 1978 and (possibly for his extreme bias against Arsenal) is now FIFA …
By Tony Attwood There is of course transfer news and transfer news – much of it made up by drunken hacks meandering around parts of East London, unable to believe their luck at having a job in which they invent tripe, get paid for it, and find (amazingly) that people believe it. Indeed as one …
Read More “Benik Afobe – and others who might join Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx I think every person who follows football and who as a normal brain function will agree that the calender for football players is overfilled. Too much is too much. If you look at how many players have suffered injuries that have played on the world cup it is clear to see. The …
By Walter Broeckx A few words have been spoken lately about the Borussia Dortmund supporters. Come to think of that… we have mentioned them over the last years on numerous occasions. And most of the time as far as I can remember we only had nice and good words to say. For those like me …
By Tony Attwood Last night, for the Southampton match, I bought a ticket for the game for a friend, using my silver membership. It was a lower tier in the East Stand and cost £28.00. Personally I don’t think that was too bad – when you buy a ticket you don’t know what you …
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By Walter Broeckx Southampton had a great start of the season. And if my memory is still a bit what it was I remember that was also the case last season. Wenger pointing out that they lost a lot of players but kept the core of their team in midfield being important to keeping the …
By Bulldog Drummond In the good old days, the very good very old days, when a player went down injured on the pitch an old boy (usually a wizened guy who had finished playing 30 years before and who had no medical qualifications whatsoever) would trot onto the pitch carrying a bucket full of iced …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton; everyone’s injured (as always)”
By TommieGun I am writing this post in order to offer some of my thoughts about opinions being published here and in other media, regarding Arsenal, Arsene, what it means to be a fan (or a supporter), what is acceptable to say (or write), and what is not acceptable. I will lay out a few …
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Blacksheep63 Yes I know this is a football site, and an Arsenal football site at that, so what an earth am I doing writing about boxing? Well (tenuous link alert…) on Saturday, instead of finding somewhere to watch BT Sprot spoil another Arsenal away game with their cretinous commentary, I thought I’d avoid the match …
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Arsenal v Southampton 03 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated Wrong Important Decisions table following the United game (to be strictly honest it is updated from Walter’s post game report as I haven’t seen his full referee review so there may need to be further changes). One more …
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By Tony Attwood Thierry Henry (whose quote above is at the head of an article about him in L’Equipe) has played his final game for the New York Red Bulls and with that, it seems, retired from playing professionally – unless he flies out to India to join up with Robert Pires in Goa. Thierry …
Read More ““I will die with the love of the game. This will be a beautiful death.” Thierry Henry”
UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects by Andrew Crawshaw The UEFA Youth League is a tournament for players who were born on or after 1 January 1996 – i.e they must be younger than 19 on 1 January 2015. The tournament is played between the same 32 clubs that make up the group …
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