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 Tim Charlesworth This is the first of two articles on the issues facing Arsene Wenger this summer. Part two, which deals with attacking players and the players whose positions are guaranteed will be published shortly. As the new season approaches, I cannot remember ever being so uncertain about our ‘first choice starting eleven’. …
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By Tony Attwood Reading through the headlines on www.goonernews.com there are in fact only two football stories around: who we are buying, and who we are selling. And it is all exciting stuff, except it doesn’t really have too much to do with who will win the league next season. In fact it has as …
By Tony Attwood As I occasionally have reason to mention, my day job is running an advertising agency, working on the creative side of things. And sometimes when we are looking at the work of our competitors, or pitching for a new account, I look in admiration at what others have done, knowing that we …
Read More “The Tottenham Experience and the Cathedral of Football”
By Walter Broeckx A bit of news that went a bit under the radar (well for me it was but that could have been because of other things on my mind and so initially missing it) is the fact that we signed a player. Signed, sealed and delivered and he is ours as the old …
By Tony Attwood The Transfer League web site has produced a table of the amount of money spent by clubs in the past five seasons. They take the amount of money spent in total minus the amount received in total and from that generate a total outflow or inflow of transfer cash. Divide the total …
Read More “How much did each club spend on transfers for each trophy won?”
THE FUTURE……………..Don McMahon In my most recent post on Untold Arsenal, I briefly outlined and proposed a series of actions which could help bring Football into the 21st century. I will now attempt to elucidate how I know they could be applied practically speaking : My first proposal was that a draft system be created and …
Read More “THE FUTURE… how football could be dragged into the 21st century”
By Tony Attwood On 8 July Untold ran a little piece about Tottenham and Chelsea and their plans for a new stadium, mentioning that there had been quite a bit of talk about Tottenham going to Wembley for a season. The thought was raised in that piece, that this could be an issue if …
Read More “Tottenham told by the League to forget Wembley and move into the Emirates for a season.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things you can be sure of with football journalists is that they always behind the times. If you’ve been reading Untold for a little while, you’ll have read so many stories where we have pointed out that the world doesn’t quite work in the way they say. Things move …
Read More “Arsenal: the atmosphere changes as the journalists wake up”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Star Arrives For Medical, Arsenal To Make OFFICIAL Announcement Tomorrow Now that headline looks like business as usual for the spoof sites of whom I have writ in the past, but in fact I spy a significant change. Untold has been making a bit of a thing about how the sites …
Read More “The deal is almost done, star arrives for medical, picture proof of shocking move”
By Walter Broeckx A rather interesting team that started the finale of the Barclays Asian Trophy against Everton. Cech making his first start for Arsenal and for the rest as expected lots of changes from the team that started against Singapore XI. The only player to start again was Jack Wilshere. A complete new back …
By Bulldog Drummond So what’s the news? Sanogo has gone to Ajax, as Bellerin signs a long term contract. (Mr Wenger said, “Hector is a very mature, very focused player, and I am confident he will have a good season again.”) Elsewhere, Jenkinson goes back to WHU, Cech to make his first appearance today, Dortmund …
Read More “Everton v Arsenal. The Untold match preview. Wooopeeedooooo…”
by Walter Broeckx During the barren years the moaners came out will all kind of mantra’s that had one thing behind them in fact: Wenger out. They said that Arsenal would never win anything again as long as Wenger was in charge. 2 FA cups and a Community shield in 12 months time buried that …
Read More “Another myth has been busted as Arsenal continue to progress”
By Tony Attwood I have created a first draft of the list of readers of Untold who were kind enough to donate towards the cost of the Untold banner which has now been designed, printed and delivered to the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal has confirmed they have it, so we are just waiting for confirmation from …
Read More “The Untold Banner – preliminary list of supporters”
By Tony Attwood The press has been having its usual fun whipping up storms: Arsenal are not buying everything that moves shock horror and there is already discontent in the camp most notably around the issue of Jack Wilshere seeking assurances. “I will talk with the manager,” announces Jack. Well, not exactly. But the …
Read More “Arsenal’s shocking player strategy for 2015/16 revealed”
Scouting for talent: a report from one of Untold’s intrepid reporters There has been a lot of speculation here and elsewhere about who the Arsenal should sign this summer. Big names such as Vidal, Higuain, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger (let’s face it they don’t get much bigger than those two!) have been bandied about in the …
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THE 1%……..Don McMahon Many of us have recently heard of the 1% in society, representing the richest, most influential and powerful elites who, in their greedy benevolence, deign to provide us mere mortal commoners a marginalized living. Since UA is definitely NOT a political forum but rather a democratic and highly specialized Football blog …
Read More “The One Percent – the tiny group that controls our game”
By Walter Broeckx So by now we should be in panic mode if we should believe the media. When I write this not a ball has been kicked by an Arsenal player in a league match and yet the end of the season is near. Once again we are doomed and lost. Why? Ah because …
Read More “Don’t Panic Don’t Panic! How to not worry but instead look forwards”
By Walter Broeckx It seems like only a few weeks ago that I was writing the match report of Arsenal matches (Sorry Tony…) and here we are again. First thing first the match between Stoke and Everton was a very boring 0-0 affaire and in the end Everton won the penalty shoot-out and so qualify for …
Read More “Barclays Asia Trophy : Arsenal – Singapore XI – Live match report”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems like only two months ago that I was writing the preview of the Cup Final [it was only two months ago, stop mucking about – Tony] but here we are again, off on another jolly adventure and we haven’t even had the summer yet, just drizzle, drizzle, drizzle and a …
Read More “Singapore v Arsenal: The first Untold Match Preview of the new season. Yipeeee.”
By Tony Attwood The activity of a group of Chelsea supporters who were in Paris in February this year for the PSG v Chelsea game, and who, on the Métro in Paris, stopped a black man from getting onto a train, were horrific. Almost as horrific is the fact that from what I understand very …
Read More “Chelsea supporters involved in Paris Métro incident still resisting all punishment”
By Tony Attwood The Independent headline writer has been quick off the mark with this one, claiming that Arsenal fans (whom they always like to assert that they know intimately) are getting edgy because the boss has suggested that there may be no more signings. Headlines about a backlash and passing comments such as “But …
Read More “Newspaper claims an Arsenal fans anti-Wenger backlash is at hand”
Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – 12 July Meadow Park BorehamWood Match Report and Thoughts By Andrew Crawshaw. This was the first game following the interruption to the Women’s Super League caused by the World Cup in Canada where, as I’m sure you are all aware, England came third and were the highest of all …
Read More “Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – awful ref, awful facilities.”
By Tony Attwood Ask people who don’t really follow Arsenal but like to make a noise about Wenger being useless, who our breakthrough player was last season and they will say Alexis. Ask them who else we brought into the team and they have to pause for a while before remembering Coquelin and Bellerin. Because …
Read More “How all the DONE DEAL sites have missed the biggest Arsenal transfer of all.”
By Walter Broeckx With the real thing finally coming closer I thought it would be nice to have a look at the first match of the season and to have a look at our opponents and the venue where the match will be played. The Barclays Asia Trophy is a tournament that is held every …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Well! It seems that my job was on the line there, but thanks to a massive, (ok, not massive but still a couple of people wrote in) vote of thanks, I get to write one more. And what a story I have for you today! For it seems while Manchester …
Read More “Not done deal CONFIRMED! Wenger reveals we are not going to buy anyone YET shock!”
