SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A REFEREE

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A REFEREE……..Don McMahon Recent events have convinced many football supporters that too many officials in the EPL are at the least, incompetent and at worse corrupt and manipulated by a cabal of PGMOL managers intent on preventing their Club from winning. In this post I want to invite UA …

Fans will love this newest addition to Arsenal

by Brickfields Gunners As Walter goes through his 12 part  ‘  Looking back at 2015 ‘  series over the next few days (he’s at present  on  – part 3. Özil, Alexis, Bellerin, Coquelin,) [actually Brickfields – it was just a three part piece – do try and pay attention – the editor],  I on the other hand …

Arsenal were the best performing team over Christmas – at least for the moment

By Tony Attwood Christmas – all done and dusted for another year.  So what happened? The teams that did best over Christmas were both in north London – and indeed if Tottenham win or even draw their game in hand this afternoon they will be the most successful club this Christmas / New Year.  Tottenham …

Arsenal – Newcastle 1-0: A hard fought win against stubborn opposition

By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made 3 changes compared to the team that started the last match. Flamini came back in the team in the place of Chambers and Koscielny took back the place of Gabriel. At left back Monreal came in the team again in the place of Gibbs. The team that started: Cech, Bellerin, …

Arsenal welcome Newcastle at the start of the Year of the Dangerous Nutters

By Bulldog Drummond May I begin by saying how much I like our “Insult of the Day” today.  In case you missed it, we’re delivering a series of insults back to the aaa, after having to take all their rambling nonsense for seven years.  But being Untold we do it with class, so every insult …

Arsenal v Newcastle Saturday 2 January 2016 – The Match Officials. Beware the phantoms, it’s Anthony Taylor

Arsenal v Newcastle Saturday 2 January 2016 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Following Usama and Walter’s latest two Referee reviews here is the Table of Shame updated to matchweek 16 Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 1 9 Penalties 1 14 Goals 0 5 Total …

You thought you knew Arsenal, but … 7 weird Arsenal facts and the 12 players the BBC think Arsenal might sign

By Josif with additional bits culled from the nation’s newspapers Did you know: 1:  That Arsene Wenger has won all three titles in even-numbered years (1998, 2002, 2004) 2.  That Arsenal have beaten Manchester clubs four times in five attempts in 2015, with a draw that was essentially a victory in the 3rd place battle. …

Why “We support our local team” is such a silly song and why I’m coming home to football

By Blacksheep When I was a teenager I used to go to watch the Arsenal with a few mates from school (Christ’s College in Finchley). We’d meet up at the underground and take the northern line south, changing onto the Piccadilly to arrive at Arsenal about 30 minutes before the game. From about 1977-81 Adrian, …

Untold reaches 1.17 million readers and other ups and down of 2015.

In the first part of Football Winners and Losers for 2015  I nominated Man U – Loser Jose Mourinho – Loser The Anti-Arsenal-Arsenal – Loser Arsene Wenger – Winner The Premier League – Winner So here’s some more. 6.   Mesut Özil – WINNER He was a winner at Real Mad, but now he is up …