Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Walter Broeckx A few changed compared to the team from our last match. No Santi Cazorla so he will not have been completely fit and maybe a bit of rest for the Spanish midfielder. Elneny taking his place. Cech back in goal for Ospina. Monreal came back at left back. And Iwobi came in …
Read More “Arsenal – Middlesbrough : 0-0 too slow and not precise enough in the passing”
By Bulldog Drummond. “If God exists and one day I go up there and He will ask: ‘Do you want to come in? What have you done in your life?’ And the only answer I will have is, ‘I tried to win football games.’ He will say, ‘Is that all you have done?’ And the …
The “Striking Department” By Tim Charlesworth After recent forays into writing about the Labour Party and the US national anthem, I was jerked back to reality by the pure joy of Mesut’s hat-trick, and decided to write about football again. There are lots of things that annoy me about football – my darling wife has …
by Andrew Crawshaw Our match officials are :- Referee – Mike Dean – 48 years old from Mersyside First Assistant – Simon Long – from Suffolk Second Assistant – Ian Hussin – from Mersyside Fourth Official – Tim Robinson – from West Sussex Well Mr Dean needs no introductions – disliked by the entirety of …
Read More “Arsenal v Middlesbrough, 22 October 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx Are you still buzzing from Wednesday evening? I am. That surely was one hell of a match. One of the most interesting matches even I thought. Not just because we won with 6-0 but because it was a team performance that needed all players to be at their best. Oooooooospina was magnificent …
Read More “Özil responsible for a new word in the English dictionary”
ARSENAL vs. SWANSEA CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 8 DATE: 15th September 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jon Moss 1st LINESMAN: Harry Lennard 2nd LINESMAN: Marc Perry 4th OFFICIAL: Neil Swarbrick First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 06:16 Jordi …
Read More “Ref review: Arsenal – Swansea, lots of decisions to make”
By Tony Attwood There is something strange about the way the media treats the Arsenal. Like the Telegraph giving a rating of Arsenal player performances in the game and giving everyone seven out of ten except Ozil with nine, Alexis with eight, and the two central defenders with six. And why? Well, we don’t quite …
By Tony Attwood Last night as I drove back to the Midlands after the Arsenal match there was a piece on the radio about a guy who, before each game, bets on Exeter winning 4-1. For each match he gets different odds, but he never changes his approach, and keeps betting. Apparently he is £600 …
Read More “Why the predictions of Arsenal’s season have thus far been soooo wrong”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes for this match against Ludogorets. Xhaka paying the price for his red card maybe and Coquelin takes his place. We have Ospina in goal as expected with Cech sitting on the beach. Furthermore one change in the defence as Gibbs comes in the place of Monreal. And up front …
Read More “CL Arsenal – Ludogorets: 6-0 with an Özil hattrick”
By Bulldog Drummond OK, enough of those Ludo jokes. Let’s move on to the question… does Mr Wenger play the regular first team including Granit who isn’t yet debarred, or does he think this is fairly straightforward and give players a rest? Given that we haven’t been unbeaten in the opening three Champs League games …
By Bulldog Drummond Oh where are the old days? The days when you could safely click onto a football web site and read about Arsene Wenger’s dithering and predictions that this will be the season when Arsenal get relegated, thus putting a stop to the celebrations in 2019 of 100 years in the top …
Read More “Time to get the old board game out as Arsenal play Ludo”
By Tony Attwood I’ve noted before that Arsenal have this season nominated the full list of 25 players that they are able to make available for games – something that most clubs have not been able to do. And we have five under 21s who are also very much part of the first team squad …
Read More “Players used vs league position, and the range of top scorers so far in the league.”
By Tony Attwood Most people who watch Premier League matches do so on TV – and the TV companies make much of this. Back in the early part of the 21st century Man U v Arsenal games were hyped as the “most watched on the planet” and Sky spoke of global audience of 1 billion. …
Read More “How the media twisted Arsenal v Swansea and Liverpool v Man U”
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal lost to Liverpool on the opening day the knives were out. Losing on the opening day was a disaster said the doubters. That’s it. All over. But just as people have said that only teams that spend loads of money do well, (the stats show that there is little relationship …
By Walter Broeckx On August 6th Arsène Wenger said this about Theo: “Theo is intelligent, he analyses well what’s happening to him and he’s mentally very strong, and the way he practises, the way he works since the start of the season, I think I’m very positive that we can get a great season from …
Read More “How Arsène Wenger’s faith in Theo Walcott is paying off this season”
By Tony Attwood The news from the press on Granit X is that Arsene Wenger thought the tackle that led to him being sent off was a “deep yellow” which I suppose those who look at rainbows would call orange, and so the club will not appeal. So Granit gets a three match ban, effectively …
Read More “Granit gets 3, and what would it have been like if we had signed Icardi?”
By Tony Attwood One of my eternal rants, with which I have bored you stiff in recent years, is that the FA is guilty of a multiplicity of misdemeanours, ranging from ineptitude to the failure properly to investigate corruption, from the refusal to accept the proven fact that England do badly because of lack of …
by the Referee Team 1: Details of the Match Referees and Assistants Everton vs. Crystal Palace [1-1] Referee – Jon Moss 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Bennett 2nd Assistant Referee – Richard West Fourth Official – Kevin Friend Swansea City vs. Liverpool [1-2] Referee – Michael Oliver 1st Assistant Referee – Gary Beswick 2nd Assistant …
Read More “Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #07 complete with video evidence”
By Walter Broeckx No changes to the starting line up compared to the team that won at Burnley. Mesut Özil celebrating his birthday today so let’s hope he can make a very happy day of it. Also Cech celebrating his 50th appearance for Arsenal. On the bench a few changes. Coquelin back on the bench …
Read More “Arsenal – Swansea 3-2, good play, nasty tackle and character shown”
By Bulldog Drummond And so off we go again after another unwelcome interruption. And once again the press are struggling to find something negative to say about us. Here’s the Guardian’s latest attempt Four consecutive clean sheets leading up to the international break suggests that defensively Arsenal have found an encouraging solid platform, …
By Bulldog Drummond The general chit chat is that Arsenal should win this at a stroll, but Arsenal will always let you down just when you expect them to win. But we must note that Swansea change managers as regularly as Tottenham, and the Untold view that this doesn’t normally work does include the word …
By Tony Attwood So off we go on our run of four consecutive home games starting this week with Swansea and then with a game against Ludogorets Razgrad on Wednesday. And the associated need to finish top of the Champs League group to avoid the child molesters in the next round. And the good news is …
by Andrew Crawshaw Well Mr Pawson nearly managed to completely cock up the game at Burnley scoring a (to date) season low of 38.2% on our weighted performance chart. I have now had to add a ‘Wall of Shame’ table to my season spreadsheet which I had hoped to avoid this year. Here is the …
Read More “Arsenal v Swansea Sat 15 October 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood On the afternoon of 13 October 2016 two things happened. First the other Untold site, Untold Dylan, started to get hits like it has never done before. Untold Dylan is doing ok with an audience of over 300,000 page views a year, but its subject matter is a bit esoteric. It deals …
Read More “How Arsene Wenger’s spending on players has given us a team to marvel over”
The Yanks are coming! By Tim Charlesworth The American influence has been growing in the Premier League for many years now. Two of Arsenal’s directors are American citizens, and our own Silent Stan is the wealthiest of the Americans to buy a Premiership club. This Americanisation is more than just skin deep – the statistics …
