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 and Tony Attwood The story is that Arsenal can’t do transfers. The manager won’t spend money, the club dithers, there is an overarching level of gross incompetence. We’ve heard it often, and of course it is difficult to prove or disprove without having closer access to the club than any of us …
A very personal odyssey, by Tony Attwood It started with three of us from AISA having a meeting at the Emirates with the club’s chief exec discussing how the area around the stadium could be made more Arsenal-like. Never having been a retiring sort of fellow I immediately pitched in telling Mr Gazidis in no uncertain terms …
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By Max Kerr One of the saddest stories for me to have emerged from football, is that of Justin Fashanu (1961-1998). A talented striker, who played for England, scored the goal of the season while playing for Norwich in 1980, and was the first black footballer to command a million pound transfer fee (to Brian …
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By Walter Broeckx As you may have read I was not able to do my usual life match report. The reason was that we had a supporters club meeting straight after the match. And as I am the president of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club I had to be there of course. But I must say that it …
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By Tony Attwood Watching the game on Sky and listening to the studio conversation after the match there seemed to be a general consensus that a) the Ox did not touch the ball, it was Kos who kicked it forward, and b) although the ball his Kos’ hands it was not handball. Of course if …
Read More “A goal or not a goal? Burnley v Arsenal – the first reactions.”
Continuing from this morning’s preview… Meanwhile the Burnley manager has been making the usual positive noises about how wonderful Mr Wenger is but he has added to that, “As managers we all understand the fan mentality, the thirst and desire to win and be successful, but from a manager’s point of view you have to scratch …
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By Bulldog Drummond “Seven and a half?” I hear you shout… well all the papers are doing their “five things” this and “ten things” that, so Untold, being Untold likes to go somewhere else. Seven and a half seems about right. 1: Style and efficiency Leading up to today’s games Mr Wenger said, “In recent …
By Tony Attwood On 24 November 1996 Arsène Wenger took charge of his first derby. It ended Arsenal 3 Tottenham 1. It was a victory those of us there celebrated at considerable length as I recall, because Arsenal had not beaten Tottenham in over 3 years and Tottenham were unbeaten at Highbury in the league since …
Read More “A reminder of how things have changed and why top four finishes are not to be decried”
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start on the preview for this week a quick look at how the refereeing compares this year with previous years. In our six games this year the basic figures are :- Wk Game Score Referee Link to Referee review Overall weighted score Bias H/A 1 Arsenal Liverpool 3 …
By the referee team Danny Makkelie of Netherlands was the referee. Incident 1 – Minute 5 Foul on Sanhcez A possible trip by the Basel player ignored by the ref. Very difficult to see on this replay. I give the benefit of the doubt to the ref. If he played the ball first there is …
