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 Walter Broeckx No it isn’t my birthday this weekend. But my second oldest son is celebrating his birthday today. And as we were invited with the rest of the family I couldn’t do my match report. My family knows me of course and so they arranged that we would have our meal before the …
Read More “State Aid United – Arsenal 1-5: Oh what a birthday gift”
By Bulldog Drummond. It appears that each UK taxpayer has paid about £27 towards giving the club previously known as West Ham a new home for free. Given the number of taxpayers in the country, that is quite an alarming figure. But of course we just get on with it, and let the government treat …
Read More “WHU v Arsenal. The teams, the tactics, the injuries, the cost.”
By Bulldog Drummond Interesting reports today that even though Héctor Bellerín and Mathieu Debuchy, are out injured Carl Jenkinson won’t play at the Tax Payers Stadium (TPS) because Mr Wenger feels Carl is suffering a crisis of confidence. Traditionally psychological reasons for not playing players have been scorned by the pundits and sneered at by …
Read More “State Aid United v Arsenal: no Jenkinson, no Santi, and the problem of moving home”
By Tony Attwood Arsene Wenger has established his most formidable squad for five years – Arsenal will win honours So says Steve Stammers in the Daily Mirror, and just in case you don’t quite believe it and think it is a spoof he goes on… The Gunners crashed out of the League Cup in midweek …
Read More “When the press start saying Arsenal will win honours it is time to start worrying”
by Andrew Crawshaw Well last week Mike Jones displayed his form from the previous two seasons rather than his much better form from the Premier League this season – must have been an Arsenal game I guess. This week our officials are:- Referee – Craig Pawson – Age 37 from South Yorkshire and FIFA accredited …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal Saturday 3 December 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood Commander BJ Harrington, of the Metropolitan Police, one of the police’s most senior football match officers has been talking about the difficulties of keeping law and order outside the Tax Payers Stadium. He did this in giving evidence to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, saying, “If you are intent on disorder, you …
Read More “Three times as many arrests at Arsenal as at State Aid Utd? Up to a point Ms Copper”
By Tony Attwood Santi is out for three months, during which time he will have an operation and now the news has broken the media is packed with speculation, because speculation is what the media does worst (at least in terms of predicting the future). In essence there are three possibilities over what to do. …
A kinder Arsenal world…….Don McMahon Recent UK media and press criticism of the Arsenal, after a few uninspired ties and lacklustre performances in the EPL and the CL, exaggerated and exacerbated by our very own aaa trolls, brought me to a point where I questioned the sanity of the aforementioned accomplices. I have adapted an …
By Tony Attwood There is a Marina Hyde article in the Guardian today about the sexual abuse of footballers. It is an article which is so powerful, so insightful, and so very much getting to the key point, that if it would not be a breach of copyright I would reproduce it here. Instead, here …
Read More “As darkness descends on the football world what can the response be?”
