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 On 29 April 1995 Arsenal and Tottenham drew 1-1 at Highbury. An Ian Wright penalty gave him 18 for the season and left him top league scorer for the club. I’m sure he was pleased. But in the league Arsenal were 10th, 36 points behind a team that had not won the …
Read More “36 points behind the leaders. More wishes to be wary of.”
. By Blacksheep Yesterday’s disappointing draw – disappointing mainly because we seemingly threw away a 2 goal lead by allowing a clod hopper like Andy Carroll to score a hat-rick – led to the display of 2 banners at the Boleyn Ground. One read: Love Arsenal / Hate Kroenke and the other (sadly) had the …
Read More “If you love Arsenal, be careful what you wish for”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started with an unchanged side for Arsenal’s last match at Boleyn Ground against West Ham. So still Ospina in goal and Cech on the bench. And Iwobi kept his place in the starting team. Welbeck still up front to lead the attack. And Elneny and Coquelin the midfield partners. Arsenal team …
By Bulldog Drummond And thus and so, verily, it comes to pass forsooth The last ever venture to the Boleyn Ground invariably wrongly known as Upton Park by those silly people in the media. Next time around we shall play at the Tax Payers Stadium, funded by those of us who live in the UK, …
Read More “State Aid Utd v Arsenal. Lots of stuff that might happen and some that won’t.”
Arsenal and The Quest for the Holy Grail By Jerry In my opinion, Arsenal have not been awarded a penalty in 2016 (last time Dec 13, 2015) due to a comedy of errors by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) men in the middle. Instead of just listing the multiple missed penalty opportunities and …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Mr Clattenberg in the Everton v Arsenal game here is a revised Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 41 Red Cards 1 12 Penalties 3 28 Goals 0 11 Total 5 92 Possible Cost in Points 0 25 No further cost …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal Sat 9 April – The Match Officials. Has the ref learned his script?”
By Tony Attwood To put people into boxes, there are broadly three types of football fan. Those who look at all the issues considered in the previous article about possible corruption in the Premier League and think, “this looks odd, there should be an investigation,” those who really don’t care about such matters and just like …
By Tony Attwood I’m sorry you’ve read it all before, but somehow I feel that if I give up now, all the stuff I’ve written before will be a bit wasted. The argument is still the same: that Uefa and Fifa are so utterly hopelessly corrupt that Football Associations around the world should withdraw, …
. . After receiving 7 million LIKES so far ( nb – each AKB’s LIKE is equal to a million!), for the first part of this Fantasy Football series, I’m suitably moved to present the next instalment of our sincere endeavours to clear the site, stadium, the Arsenal Universe and the world of those vermin, …
Read More “The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasy Football Series Part 2.”
by Tony Attwood Vicki Hodges in the Telegraph yesterday wrote “Atletico Madrid defender Filipe Luis accused Uefa of “protecting” Barcelona after their Champions League quarter-final first leg defeat at the Nou Camp and even questioned what it would take for a referee “to send one of them off”.” “Barcelona are protected. When you play against …
What is Wenger saying to us? By Tim Charlesworth It is always wise to take the words of football managers with a pinch of salt. When they talk to the press, they know that players and opponents are listening to what they say. Passing on accurate information may not be their top priority. I always …
Read More “What is Wenger saying to us through his team selections?”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Continuing the week by week guide to fortune telling which exists in order to give economics forecasting a good name. First off its The Guardian, and this is so good they needed two writers for it: David Hytner and Fabrizio Romano. Welcome guys. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a summer transfer target for Arsenal. …
Read More “Arsenal announce first transfer of the summer window, and it still only just spring!”
INTRO . Nearly every other day either a new and juicy scandal breaks or some allegedly well kept secret is revealed . How does this impact Untold Arsenal ? Well , UA and its inner core of reporters /investigators have been exposing the wrong doings going on in football for years . . As its …
Read More “The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasy Football Series Part 1 .”
EVERTON vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 30 DATE: 19th March 2016 VENUE: Goodison Park (Liverpool, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Richard West 4th OFFICIAL: Jon Moss First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 07:36 ??? (Arsenal) …
Read More “Ref Review: Everton – Arsenal, more of the terrible the same….”
by Tony Attwood It has become fashionable to knock Arsenal in general terms – with occasional reference to the fact that the club is not making progress. We’re not buying the right players. Wenger won’t spend. Every player who goes to Chelsea, Man C, Man U, Tottenham, and God help us even Liverpool! is …
By Walter Broeckx The Prelude As you may have read I went to the match with our supporters club from Belgium. A disastrous trip that resulted is us being late and missing a part of the match. Since then I have been writing angry letters to the bus company and wait for their reaction. But …
Read More “Arsenal – Watford : 4-0 the match report as late as the bus…”
by Andrew Crawshaw An Arsenal U17 team took part in an international club competition in Holland this past week playing against the likes of Anderlecht and Barcelona to win the ABN AMRO Future Cup in dramatic fashion via two penalty shootouts. The squad was a mixture of players from the U18, U16 and U15 teams. …
Read More “ABN AMRO Future Cup Report and FA Cup Semi-Final preview”
Online betting on games like football and other games now a days is very huge and worth of millions or billions in the online industry. When it comes to get the betting odds in your mind it would be so hard to invest in any sport. In past few years fast access to the …
Read More “Understanding betting odds online to be a good investor”
By Tony Attwood Over the past couple of days I’ve been working on an article about Leicester City and whether there is any link between the club and suspected match fixing. And then bang – out of the blue comes another set of scandalous financial revelations, and wouldn’t you know it, football seems implicated …
Read More “Football and the Panama Papers; you’ll never guess who’s in the mire (actually you will)”
By Tony Attwood President Barack Obama recently stated,“The appetite for information and data flowing through the internet is voracious”, yet “we’ve seen newsrooms closed. The bottom line has shrunk. The news cycle has as well.” He said that this resulted in pressure, “to fill the void and feed the beast with instant commentary and Twitter …
by Andrew Crawshaw One item of Ladies News, England international forward Jodie Taylor has joined the club from American side Portland Thorns. She played a major part in the England World Cup success in 2015 scoring the opening goal against Canada which ensured our first ever semi-final appearance. The Ladies season continues apace this coming …
Read More “Women’s FA Cup Quarter Final Arsenal v Notts County Sunday 3 May 2016 – Preview”
By Bulldog Drummond This is one of those footballing days when quite a few of the Untold writing team from across the world, well, across England and Belgium, get together for a match. Which in turn means that once the match is over there isn’t going to be anyone around to write about it since …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford and a little bit about the one man war zone that is Costa.”
By Walter Broeckx Finally back to football. After our good match at Goodison Park where we rather comfortably won 0-2 we have been deprived of real football for some 14 days. The international break didn’t cause any casualties so far as we know so we can hope that all the players are back and in …
Read More “On our way to London; the 24 hours round trip to see a home match.”
by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is the Wall of Shame Ref Game Weighted Score Bias against (h/a) Link to Ref Review Craig Pawson Stoke v Arsenal 34 5/95 Review Stoke v Arsenal Lee Mason Arsenal v Southampton 34 80/20 Review Arsenal v Southampton Robert Madley Arsenal v Swansea 38 93/7 Ref Review : Arsenal – …
By Tony Attwood Thank goodness – the interlull is just on over. And what a ghastly interlull it has been. Daily attacks on Arsenal by the media, the most appalling news on the terrorist front, and my super whizzo car has gone plonk and will not function at more than 20mph (30mph going downhill). So …
Read More “The rampage against reality and why having a nice stadium matters”
