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 Once upon a time the mainstream media was there to tell us some news. In football terms that meant giving the football results and having a factual run-down of the match. Now we don’t need that because we have the internet, so instead the mainstream aims to hold its position by telling …
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. STOKE CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 5 DATE: 12th September 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jonathan Moss 1st LINESMAN: Harry Lennard 2nd LINESMAN: Adrian Holmes 4th OFFICIAL: James Linington First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
“He can do what he wants and he stays on. Everyone else that responds to him has to be sent off. It’s unacceptable. But he always gets away with it. He will do the same again next week, and the week after, and he always gets away with it…. “If you look at the pictures …
By Tony Attwood The season before last I watched a Chelsea shot going away from the goal, and then be handballed. The referee sent a player off, which is the wrong punishment because the punishment for deliberate handball which does not prevent a goal is a yellow card. But worse, his lack of vision of …
Read More “PGMO 2 Arsenal 0: why on earth should we even bother to play the matches?”
By Walter Broeckx Chelsea with an early shot but Cech saved. Then Arsenal with the most attacking in the first minutes. Walcott just couldn’t get round Begovic to get an angle to shoot. A few shots from distance but no real opening chances. Chelsea leaning backwards most of the time trying to play the counter …
Read More “Dean 2 Arsenal 0: Useless, bent, both or even more? 3 more points robbed as predicted”
by Bulldog Drummond Jose Mourinho, hero of the aaa, said recently,”Normally when bad results happen the first thing that comes into your laptops, iPads and pens is to find a dramatic story: ‘Somebody punch somebody in the dressing room’, ‘The manager doesn’t want to speak with this guy’. “‘Diego Costa fought with John Terry and …
By Tony Attwood The Untold Banner is now on display at the Clock End. I must immediately thank Mark Brindle of Arsenal who encouraged and supported our efforts to bring this to fruition, and of course Blacksheep, who travels with me to Arsenal games, and whose idea this was. One day, in a desperate move …
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Chelsea v Arsenal 19 September – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No referee reviews to report this week so straight into the business for the weekend Referee – Mike Dean Assistants – S Long & S Burt Fourth Official – M Oliver All well known to us. Here is the table of last year’s …
Read More “Chelsea v Arsenal 19 September – The unacceptable face of Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood England close to losing Champions League spot screamed the Telegraph Why the Premier League is on the brink of losing the fourth Champions League spot – the Daily Mirror added helpfully. England in danger of losing a Champions League place as UEFA co-efficient continues to slide and Italy catch up said the Mail …
Read More “We’re gonna lose places in Europe, and it’s all Arsenal’s fault”
By Walter Broeckx While I was lying around on the beaches of South France Mike Riley took this opportunity to release a few numbers. I must admit I had to wait a while before I could react to them but now being back I found the time to see how the PGMO numbers look compared …
Read More “PGMO admit there is a problem, but they are still hiding the scale of the problem.”
A disappointing night by Tim Charlesworth Two days ago, I eyed a tricky looking set of upcoming features and wrote an article for Untold about it. My article tried to focus on the really important things to look out for, other than the obvious ones of whether we scored goals, and whether the opposition did. …
Read More “A disappointing night, but plenty more to play for.”
By Walter Broeckx I couldn’t do my usual match report form for this match and will not be able to do so for the next matches because of other obligations. But I did see the match live on a stream not of the greatest quality and with a few times it going down so I …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal won the under 19s game against Dinamo Zagreb 2-0. The team was Keto Moore Bola Pleguezuelo (C) Bielik Willock Nelson Iwobi Sheaf Hinds Mavididi Chris Willock and Ben Sheaf scored the goals, to win the under 19s first Uefa Youth League game this season. Arsenal.com report the first goal thus: “Willock collected …
Read More “Dinamo Zagreb vs Arsenal: under 19s report and full preview of the evening match”
By Tony Attwood Getting information the Uefa Youth League match that kicks off at 3pm is tough, but I’ll offer what I can. If you have more please do let me know. Arsenal.com is making much of the inclusion in the squad of Tolaji Bola who played for the under 18s last season, and is …
Read More “Dinamo Zagreb v Arsenal: the under 19s game and prelims about the big boys.”
What can we learn in the next three weeks? Tim Charlesworth As we head into a tricky looking run of fixtures, us Gooners are torn between optimism and fatalism. On the one had Walcott is coming good, the team looks solid, three clean sheets, and the form of the second half of last season looks …
Read More “Four away games in succession pose Arsenal some problems.”
By Tony Attwood On 6 August Untold ran quite a long article about the way the new West Ham stadium is being financed with the club paying little towards the transformation of the ground into a football stadium, and the state financing the building costs, and the day to day running of the stadium. Then on …
Read More “Campaign to fight against State Aid for WHU stadium wins a victory”
Exclusive, read all about it – Arsenal in crisis By Proudkev Media reporting has always been short on facts and agenda driven but since the advent of the Internet it has gone from bad to worse. It seems anyone can write an online article; all you have to do is have something negative to …
By Tony Attwood “Why do you keep on talking about the media? Surely an Arsenal blog should be about football.” That is a fair point which was made to me last week, and one I fully accept. But there is a contrary argument which says exposing the tricks of the media is utterly about football. …
By Tony Attwood, and no this is not a picture of me Ah the Liverpool dilemma. Or to put it at its most succinct Insipid, confused and lacking direction, this Liverpool side makes no sense That is the Telegraph, and I have left the link in this time, just to prove we don’t make this …
Read More “The Chelsea Fabregas conundrum; the Liverpool Vampire problem”
By Tony Attwood At the start of this month we published a really interesting article by Tim Charlesworth, “What’s going on with English refereeing“. Not only did it get a very high readership it also got over 100 comments – which is a particularly encouraging since Untold has pioneered this type of discussion. Walter …
Read More “Why we should be deeply worried about refereeing in the Premier League”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It has been on my mind and troubling me somewhat: after the fearsome battering that Untold gave the blogettas and their allies at the Metro, Daily Excess, and other fish and chip holders, would there be any change now the window of transfers is dusted and done? Would they perhaps stop …
Read More “Arsène begs board to make bid, serious injury rumour, Mourinho next Arsenal manager.”
By Tony Attwood Every now and then a story arises that Arsenal are looking to build a new stadium. The idea is that it could be used for the home matches of Arsenal Ladies, Arsenal Ladies reserves, and Arsenal men’s under 21 and under 18 cup and league games. The story that has circulated is …
By Tony Attwood As one might expect, the press harped on and on and on and on about not buying a striker and Danny Welbeck being injured. No mention that quietly Campbell has been restored to the squad, and is said to be looking very sharp in training (hence his place on the bench). No …
Read More “Arsenal v Stoke and the spending league table (and banner update)”
. By Bulldog Drummond , Now with added betting odds – see end of article! . [I think I should explain that it is the article that has the betting odds, not our regular pre-match correspondent! – Tony] . Fans who thought the transfer window was shocking enough have been outraged to find that the …
Read More “Arsenal’s shock fixture change leaves fans confused. AST demand Wenger’s resignation.”
