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 Bulldog Drummond Here’s the deal. Papiss Cissé brought forward his knee surgery scheduled for the summer after receiving a seven-match ban for spitting) and so can’t play. He’s one of many. Cheik Tioté, Steven Taylor and, and, and… lots and lots of zebras covered in stripes but not on the pitch. Fabricio Coloccini is …
Read More “Newcastle v Arsenal: Since we last played the zebras the win ratio is 80%”
By Tony Attwood When I used to play football (in a team somewhere near the foot of the 19th division of the local pub league) occasionally we didn’t have enough men and we might borrow one of the spectators. These days Newcastle is a bit like that. Well almost. They’ve got 13 fit outfield players …
Newcastle United v Arsenal Saturday 21 March 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Table of Shame Walter hasn’t published any more referee reviews since I updated the table last week Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 17 Red Cards 3 14 Penalties 3 15 Goals 1 6 Total …
Read More “Ref preview: The vast majority of wrong decisions will be against Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood It was way back in July 2009 that Untold ran its first article about money laundering, reporting that the Financial Action Task Force had issued a report saying that football is at risk from criminals buying clubs, often to facilitate money laundering, tax evasion and other fraud and all that sort of thing. …
Read More “Corruption in football: the issue spreads and spreads”
By Walter Broeckx I find it in a way intriguing when I read quotes from pundits who look down at the French league. Before the double encounter between two PL teams (Arsenal and Chelsea) and two French teams (Monaco and PSG) they just thought that the PL teams were stronger and would beat them French …
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EVERYTHING IS BORROWED……..Don McMahon Being in a rather philosophical mood after the Monaco game, I felt the urge to consider and ruminate on Arsenal’s rather repetitive and even predictable performance year after year in the CL, the EPL and other competitions, with the exception of the FA Cup. One thing that stands out for me …
By Tony Attwood I recently saw an article in the national press in which this sentence took me by surprise. Among English clubs only Chelsea would refuse to swap places with them right now. Not surprise because I don’t think it is true, but rather surprise because someone in the media actually wrote it. …
Read More “Ten reasons why Arsenal are the envy of English football”
By Walter Broeckx So we are out of the CL for this season. Time to try to make an analysis of what caused our exit this season. 1. The missed chances in the first leg. It was one of those days that even with a shot on goal from Welbeck going in, no defender able to …
Read More “Looking back a story of missed chances, bad luck and losing our head”
By Tony Attwood Put simply, I’m worried about what the press in England are up to. . Not the ordinary everyday biased stuff that we see all the time. Not the fact that today the press will be full of the number of years in a row Arsenal has gone out at the last 16 …
Read More “How football journalism puts all of us in danger”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal making three changes compared to the side that beat West Ham United. Bellerin came back at right back and Chambers dropped to the bench. In midfield Santi Cazorla came in for Ramsey. And up front Welbeck came in the place of Walcott. The team that started was : Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, …
Read More “Monaco – Arsenal 0- 2, the miracle didn’t happen… but only just”
By Tony Attwood Before the last game between Arsenal and Monaco we did a bit of a review of Monaco’s inglorious past, and their very limited number of goals. So they promptly went and scored three. Since then they’ve had a 0-0 draw at home with PSG, a 0-2 defeat in the French Cup quarter …
Read More “Santi C apologises to fans, Monaco bores everyone”
By Tony Attwood The FA is a dangerous organisation, totally unfit for purpose, run by people utterly out of touch with the fans who end of paying the mortgage on the FA’s most ludicrous enterprise: Wembley. OK we knew that. Tickets for the FA Cup semi-final and final are fairly hard to come by. OK …
by Andrew Crawsha The Arsenal Ladies team play in the FA WSL League, games start on Wednesday 2 April with the (current) fixture list as follows :- Match Date Time Location Millwall Ladies v Arsenal; Fifth Round FA Cup 22 March 14:00 The Den, Millwall Notts County v Arsenal 2 April 19:30 Meadow Lane StadiumNB …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal built the Emirates Stadium by adopting a four pronged strategy: a) Borrowing around £390m b) Selling Highbury and the bits of land around the new stadium they didn’t need c) Selling the naming rights to the stadium, and arranging other sponsorship deals, so that most of the money was paid up …
Read More ““4th is not a title”. How Arsenal survived the building of the Emirates”
By Walter Broeckx It sure was an interesting week of football. With most of the PL having a nice rest we were one of the few PL teams that had to play a match last weekend. Or last Monday. And what for a match. Going to Old Trafford is one of the most difficult places …
Read More “A great week for Arsenal and there could be more to come.”
By Tony Attwood You know that great thing that Arsenal do with the league cup – charging just £10 and £20 for tickets. It never gets coverage in the press, no one points out what a great deal it is… Now compare and contrast with the much wealthier Manchester United. They insist that season ticket …
Read More “Sometimes it is worth comparing Arsenal’s approach with those of others.”
By Tony Attwood And so, another step forwards, with the league table making rather interesting reading… Pld W D L F A GD Pts Chelsea 27 19 6 2 57 22 35 63 Man City 29 17 7 5 59 28 31 58 Arsenal 29 17 6 6 56 30 26 57 Man United 28 …
Read More “10 things that we’ve now got right, and 3 that are still problematic”
By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes for this match compared to our last game at Manchester United. Some expected some maybe not. David Ospina starting in goal is not a real surprise. Calum Chambers starting at right back is maybe also understandable because young Hector Bellerin having played a lot of games recently. Santi …
Read More “Arsenal – West Ham United 3-0, a good win against a stubborn team”
By Bulldog Drummond And so we march onwards. The results this year in domestic league and cup have been rather fine… Working backwards from last monday we see. Man U 1 Arsenal 2 QPR 1 Arsenal 2 Arsenal 2 Everton 0 Palace 1 Arsenal 2 Arsenal 2 Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 2 Leicester 1 Tottenham …
Read More “Arsenal v WHU: recent events and the match preview”
By Walter Broeckx The last 24 hours I have seen very different headlines being thrown around about young Hector. Headlines saying that he has signed a new 4 year deal. Of course if that would be the case I would jump up, pumping my fists in joy. I think regular readers know that I have …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following Walter’s review of Mike Jones in the Leicester game Ref Review : Arsenal – Leicester here is the updated table of shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 17 Red Cards 3 14 Penalties 3 15 Goals 1 6 Total 7 52 Possible Cost …
Read More “Arsenal v West Ham 14 March 2015 – The Match Officials”
By Joe Doe “What Alex Ferguson did to David Moyes and – subsequently – to Louis Van Gaal? Well, it wasn’t very original thing to do. It was the same pattern that had been established by Jose Mourinho. If Ferguson had implemented values (or, more precisely, lack of any) to Premiership that have been burdening …
By Walter Broeckx This week we had a few interesting moments that involved referees’ and players’ behaviour. Things we don’t like to see but that are used by some teams in order to gain an advantage. Unsporting things. Things that also make life difficult for referees. Let us have a closer look. The diver’s disease. …
Read More “Stopping diving and the harassment of referees. It can be done”
By Tony Attwood. Poor Man U. For so many years the darling of the media. A media so bewitched by what they are and what they might be, that not a word could be said against them. And now those naughty fellows in the newspapers can write such things as, “Referees are not the only …
Read More “The virus of the media turns on Man U with a vengeance”
. By Tony Attwood . A little while ago I experienced Arsenal’s facilities for the disabled first hand, and I must say I was amazed. Amazed because one only ever hears negative things about Arsenal, and everything I found was good. Good in the sense of the way carers go in for free, …
Read More “How Arsenal helped a Tottenham star, and our provision for the disabled”
