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 Andrew Crawshaw As this is a cup weekend, I’m not going to update the Table of Shame or Hall of Shame till League games resume on 19 March. The Match Officials are :- Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – Simon Long, Matthew Wilkes Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell In order to prepare this preview …
Read More “FA Cup Quarter Final 2015-16 Arsenal v Watford – The Match Officials. He’s ok-ish.”
. By Tim Charlesworth Human beings talk a lot of nonsense. And nowhere is this more true than football (hello Robbie Savage). We are basically ‘pattern seeking-apes’. We are genetically programmed to look for causes and effects. This is actually our finest feature. It drives things like curiosity, reflection, imagination, and ambition. Basically, these are …
Read More “Nonsense, imagination, form, Theo, fragility and hope”
by Andrew Crawshaw Unlike the men, the Ladies season starts on Sunday 20 March and runs through summer to early November. There are thee competitions, the WSL (Womens Super League), the FA Women’s Cup,and the FA WSL Continental Cup. Our first game of the season is in the FA Women’s Cup where we are away …
By Usama & Walter Untold note: In case you have not seen this before, this is part of a series of referee reviews that goes back a number of years, which provides the data from which is used for the referee previews. Also, given that PGMO have stopped providing their own publicly available analysis of …
Read More “Ref Review: MU – Arsenal: again no penalty for Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood Ten reasons why I remain sweet and serene in relation to Arsenal and don’t want Wenger to leave was published this morning. And so the other side of the coin. The ten things that make me really, really, totally flaming mad and red faced about football. 1: The personal view leading to the …
By Tony Attwood OK sweet and serene might be a bit much, but even so, I am fairly calm, I smile quite a lot and enjoy my life, including Arsenal. Here’s why. And to some degree how. 1: I didn’t come here to win things. As you might have realised I’m old. My dad took …
. By Fishpie Ok, gotta admit the third quarter of the 2015/16 season did not, in any way whatsoever, turn out like the script. Much anger, abuse and “told you so’s” have been hurled at our team, and mainly by us. And really Untolders, who can blame us? I know that every single one of …
by the Untold Team Before we start picking up again on all the crazy transfer rumours that the newspapers and bloggettas are starting to invent, in order to save them doing any reporting, here is our first stab (created by Andrew, who writes the ref previews and reports on under 21s and under 18s) at “what …
Read More “Arsenal Squad – 2016/17 and Chelsea’s youth problems”
By Tony Attwood One of the key points about Untold Arsenal is that we try and look at football by considering the evidence. Unfortunately we are rather on our own in doing that, and as a result when a dozen or so supporters make one of their banners and hold it up at the end …
Read More “It’s time for positive supporters to take on the clowns”
By Walter Broeckx No fewer than 6 changes in the starting line up for Arsenal. Giroud came in the place of Welbek and Iwobi also started in midfield with Flamini and Elneny. Chambers came in at right back. On the bench experience and young Gunners. Monreal, Ramsey, Özil and Alexis but also Reine-Adelaide and Willock. …
Read More “FA Cup Hull – Arsenal 0-4 : Olivier and Theo score two each”
By Bulldog Drummond In an interesting snub against Arsenal, the Guardian refused today to publish a match preview of the FA Cup game tonight, on its web site. At least there was nothing there at 1630GMT. Following their lead the Independent has done the same. The Telegraph however is running Is Arsene Wenger guilty …
To HULL and back By Proud Kev So tonight we are on the trail of our third FA Cup on the spin. A remarkable achievement, despite what those who seem to object to Arsenal winning games make out. The FA CUP win against Hull City in 2013/2014 broke the long spell without a trophy, a …
By Walter Broeckx There is something moving in the referees’ world other than the legs and arms of the referees. Finally! At Untold we have been asking for change since… well since I started writing for Untold. And now… As a referee myself my only and main concern has always been to make the correct …
. By Tim Charlesworth I am starting to reflect on how lucky I am in life. I am blessed with a wonderful family, living in a world without war (my bit of it anyway), my health, the privilege of education, living in an age of prosperity, absent of pestilence, famine etc. This is not usually …
By Walter Broeckx As I have written in my first article about my experience of being in a live show I now will go a bit deeper in to how such a few hours go for special guests. And I added a few pictures in to this article. As anything outdoors these days it starts …
By Walter Broeckx As I wrote last week I was invited to be one of the guests in the TV studios of our Flemish sports channel to give my view on the NLD from last weekend. I went and I survived. Here’s a short resume of a day with the chance to have a look …
By Tony Attwood You might remember the old tales that Arsenal were never serious contenders for winning the league because they didn’t beat enough of the other teams in the top four. In this argument beating other top four clubs was defined as a clear indicator of the club’s power and progress. This year’s …
By Tony Attwood Investors are being urged to put money into building networks of football coaching academies across the country. That opening sentence may have taken you by surprise. Unfortunately this is not in England, where investment in grassroots football is now in total terminal decline due to FA bankruptcy and government starvation of …
Read More “How football could be part of the solution of a nation’s ills.”
By Tony Attwood At 1653 GMT yesterday Jason Burt, the Deputy Football Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (an English newspaper) published a story on the paper’s web site with the headline How did Arsenal escape with a draw at Tottenham and does Arsene Wenger have a discipline problem? It was a totally pro-Tottenham piece of …
By Tony Attwood As you will know if you are a regular Untolder, Walter normally does a post match report, generally within about 15 seconds of the match ending. But Walter is today becoming a TV star, being called upon to work for Belgium TV, so what with me not being at the game in …
Read More “The Tiny Totts v Arsenal. As it happened, and indeed as it didn’t. And stuff like that.”
By Bulldog Drummond We’ve just lost three successive games. The last time we lost four successive games was in October 2002. Now if the aaa had had their way then and called for Wenger to go, then there would have been disruption in the club and eventually a new manager would have been found. I …
By Walter Broeckx Tony recently posted an article celebrating 6000 Untold Arsenal pieces on this web site. 6000…. six thousand….That really is an amazing number. Let us keep it factual first… 6000 articles in more or less 8 years or in some 2928 days is an average of just over 2 articles a day. As …
Read More “Up to the next milestone; the continuing growth of Untold.”
The following is a press release from Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association, of which I am a member, and which I am happy to pass on. Tony. ———— Ahead of the coming weekend’s North London Derby, organisations representing supporters of both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal are making an unprecedented move to speak with one voice …
Read More “Arsenal and Tottenham supporters share a rare moment of unity”
by Andrew Crawshaw No referee reviews so an unchanged Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 33 Red Cards 1 11 Penalties 3 26 Goals 0 9 Total 5 79 Possible Cost in Points 0 17 Wall of Shame (also unchanged) Ref Game Weighted Score Bias against (h/a) …
By Tony Attwood The Sun ran it first. The Big Clubs around Europe are planning to break away. A new Euro League. Shock horror. Evil money grabbing swine. Etc etc, you know how it goes. Or maybe they were just talking about the International Champions Cup series, the pre-season competition in which clubs fly to …
