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
Arsenal v Everton Saturday 24 October – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No new Referee Reviews from Usama and Walter so no update to this season’s table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 7 Goals 0 3 Total 0 27 …
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By Walter Broeckx Very soon now I will be singing my own version of an old song. I think it was from Willy Nelson and for those who know it, they will probably sing along very quickly. It goes like this: On the road again Just can’t wait to get on the road again The life …
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By Walter Broeckx Every now and then I get some interesting things sent to me from other Arsenal supporters. So with the death of Howard Kendall I got send a copy of a letter that someone sent to a newspaper. It was an Everton fan who expressed his gratitude towards Howard Kendall and thanked him …
By Tony Attwood That heading may have taken you a bit by surprise but it is true in terms of the parallel trophy that is played alongside the Champions League – the under 19s competition, once upon a time called Next Gen, but now taken over by the all-encompassing Uefa. The games are played in …
By Tony Attwood Being away on holiday while the season runs along its merry course is always an interesting experience. A chance to do the usual recharging of the batteries in the sunshine, and in this case, the opportunity to watch Watford v Arsenal in a bar on the island of Crete, with the landlord …
Read More “In 8 days Wenger retired and signed six players while Shearer ate his own tongue.”
By Walter Broeckx I think we can say that over the last months a few myths have been busted. Of course myths that didn’t really were believed at Untold Arsenal. But the repeating of the myths by pundits and the moaning part of our fan base turned these myths in to FACTS! (correct way of …
Don McMahon Following on a few articles and posts on UA, I decided to put together a sort of crystal ball, forecast for the short and medium term future of the team. The idea is to see who is getting on in years and will need to be replaced sooner or later and who can …
By Walter Broeckx I usually sit in front of my laptop during the match to write my match report ‘as it happens’. As this time I was in the pub to see the match I couldn’t do it. I try to keep the same format though but I might be jumping through the match back and …
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By Walter Broeckx With the whole Untold team still out on hollidays, finding the way back home from the AGM, from Watford if anyone went, I still am the only one left in the building to do a match preview. A match preview about a match that can be seen as a must win or …
By Tim Charlesworth During the summer, I speculated on the Walcott v Giroud choice at number 9. Walcott seems to have got the upper hand in this selection battle, but Giroud is now scoring lots of goals, so it will be interesting to see who is selected against Bayern. In my summer article, I …
By Walter Broeckx For as long as I can remember we have been saying that it is vital for a team (any team in fact) to feel support from their supporters. In a way this seems natural of course but with a part of our supporters not really being supportive for anything the club does it …
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By Goonermikey So we just had our annual bashing by the media for having the “most expensive tickets”. But how about we actually take a look at the real facts rather than the selective data we find the media using. For starters, the statistics are less than adequate since the media takes no account …
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By Walter Broeckx Of course I know that it is just a coincidence that in the last two matches we got the same final score. These things happen and in the long run they happen a few times but it isn’t written in stone now that each time we will win with this scoreline. Would …
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By Walter Broeckx A spokesman of the Austrian football federation said last Thursday against the press agency Reuter that Michel Platini can count on the full support of the whole Uefa. This was said after a meeting held in Nyon. An emergency meeting it was about the position of Uefa-president Michel Platini. As we all …
Read More “FIFA, Uefa and the national FA’s : the same pile of shit?”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made one change compared to the team that started our last PL match against Manchester United. Koscielny started in the place of Gabriel. Gabriel wasn’t even on the bench so probably he is injured. For the rest the team was unchanged. Arsenal team that started: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Cazorla, …
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By Walter Broeckx As it seems that the rest of the Untold Arsenal staff is out on holidays, finding a way home after having been to the Arsenal AGM and probably having drunk too much, it is up to me to do the stuff we do before the match: trying to say something sensible (or …
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Watford v Arsenal 17 October 2015 – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The Table of Shame – now up to date for all eight games played Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 7 Goals 0 3 Total 0 27 …
By Metalhead Recently Arsene Wenger called for the media to be held accountable for what they say on television and write up in newspapers/articles. One can imagine his frustration, considering how some of them get away with saying pretty much anything they like with no logic or evidence to back their claims. Prior to the …
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By Proud Kev Walters great articles on some of our unsung and ‘cheap’ young talent, should make people think. Why do we have this obsession on transfer values and spending money? Do you really have to spend big money every transfer window to have success? Now the FFM’s would state categorically that the answer to …
Read More “The Wenger narrative, defending, and the funny Kolo Toure trial.”
by Andrew Crawshaw The AGM is a shareholder’s meeting required by law to be held each year so that the Board of Directors can be seen to be accountable to the company shareholders. OK so who are the shareholders and how many shares do they each have? To answer this question I …
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By Walter Broeckx In the last years we have done a lot of studying and investigating on referees and referee behaviour. And the strange referee behaviour we have sometimes seen. Based on our numbers and having looked around we could come to the conclusion that there is/was some kind of similar system at work like …
By Tony Attwood Owen Gibson in the Observer has reported that the Football Association will save £12m a year after refinancing its Wembley debt. Another £18m is being saved by making about a third of the FA’s staff redundant as the FA tries to do something, aything, to redeem itself in terms of the world …
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Why are some of our players so dramatically improved By Tim Charlesworth My last article (yesterday) observed that a number of our players were showing some surprising improvements over the last twelve months. Why? There are a lot of things that, as supporters, we don’t see at a football club. Most of the real action …
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By Walter Broeckx The more news that comes out in the open about Fifa and Uefa the more I hate the internationals. I have never been a liker of these matches anyway but the way we are proven right about how corrupt these organisations seem to be the more I hate them. Of course anyone …
By Don McMahon Well the house of cards that was FIFA, EUFA and perhaps, soon the English FA seems to be finally tumbling down around their corrupt ears. Let us NOT forget that this is a tragedy for the Beautiful Game and we are the victims of this perennial fraud! The tragedy lies in the …
