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 In the comment section the other day someone said that the oil money was responsible for Arsenal not winning as they did before. And one of our other readers wrote in with this remark about winning and oil money: “On the oil money subject, much oil money did Porto get, or Ajax …
By Tony Attwood A little while back Arsenal Supporters Trust allied itself with the equivalent groups at Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool to write to the FA about the importance of maintaining the rule that says 15% of tickets for FA Cup matches be reserved for away supporters. In Arsenal’s case this means 9,000 tickets, and …
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By Walter Broeckx For the replay of the FA cup final of 2014 we saw the next team from Arsenal at the start Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Cazorla, Walcott, Campbell, Alexis. As substitutes we had Martinez, Debuchy, Koscielny, Zelalem, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Maitland-Niles, Akpom. So a lot of changes compared to the Southampton match. …
Welcome to the FA Cup third round clash between Arsenal and Hull City at the Emirates, brought to you by Arsenal’s Official Car And Van Rental Partner Europcar. It’s the most magical weekend in English football and fortune has brought these two sides together at the first opportunity since their memorable meeting in last year’s …
By Tony Attwood. So it seems we have made or are making or are about to make our first signing in terms of Teddy Bishop from Ipswich. It is not announced yet, so this could be another total error in reading the ancient runes and tea-leaves on my part. Man U want/wanted Bishop but the …
By Tony Attwood Since we won the FA Cup that question has been more puzzling than ever. It used to be that winning a trophy was doing well. But although the victory over Hull and the subsequent beating of Man C in the Charity Shield gave Mr Wenger some respite, it lasted little more than …
By Tony Attwood If you have not read the excellent article about supporting Arsenal from a distance, I would urge you to read it now, before moving on to this, my epilogue to that story. I was first told that Arsenal were going to target India as a market about five years ago, but at …
By Tony Attwood When I was a young writer, trying to break into the business full time, I adopted the tactic of writing articles and books that by and large no one else was trying: different approaches, different styles, different ways of looking at issues. As a result I got a lot of rejections from …
Ref on the day was Lee Mason Referee Mason surely got off with a bad start. Tiote deliberately putting his studs in the chest of Alexis and he completely ignored or missed it. If as some say he couldn’t see it, it was down to a technical error from the ref. Bad positioning it is …
Southampton v Arsenal 01 January 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated table of shame following Walter’s review of the Stoke game Untold ref Review: Stoke – Arsenal, the Anthony Taylor horror show. “Shockingly bad”. Twenty two wrong decisions in that game, eleven yellow card or worse and all against …
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Un-important Gooners. A rant. A whine. A cry…. distant gooners. by Arsenal 13 This is what happened during the West-Ham game. Comments section of the Untold. Most people know this. BUT compiling it again to show the person and for the people with similar views where they are wrong. For generalization, lets name him X, and …
By Tony Attwood The FA has a section on its web site called “Media comments and Social Networking cases – Charging guidelines” It says in part, The following types of public media comment, including on social networking websites, may be considered to be in breach of FA Rule E3: Comments which are improper, which bring the …
Read More “After the game, it all depends on what you do with the comments”
By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the team who was level on points at the start of this match we had these players Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis. And on the beach we had Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom. Gibbs came in the place of …
Read More “Southampton – Arsenal, defensive errors paid in cash”
By Bulldog Drummond That headline sums it up – we get our defence back in one piece and then the attack falls apart. At least that is what the papers say. But of course what the papers say is an exaggeration as always. Yes we have, for the defence, a choice of any four …
Read More “Southampton v Arsenal: all the defenders available, all the forwards injured”
By Tony Attwood According to the Daily Mirror and several other newspapers the transfer window is now open. But no! Woe! Woe! and Thrice woe! (which is really only meaningful to British readers who remember Frankie Howerd). The window is jammed shut. It will not open. Pliers, crowbars and ratchets have been ordered. But it …
Read More “Panic ensues as transfer window fails to open; Zelalem goes US”
