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. . There is something curious going on at Manchester City. The club is, as we all know, rich beyond the dreams of all rich clubs. It not only has a ground that it got from the taxpayer free of charge in return for a promise from its sponsor to fly …
Read More “The curious problem of Man City’s squad, and Arsenal’s resolute answer”
By Tony Attwood There has been, on the internet, You Tube footage of armed US soliders marching down streets in American cities. It is presented as evidence that President Obama and his cohort are indeed doing what many have said, and let’s face it, what many actually believe: the administration is about to wage war …
Read More “Creating the football myth, and how American troops are being used against Texas”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made a lot of changes,for this match. Most noticeable one was was the first start of Welbeck in 10 months. Ospina started in goal and Cech was given the weekend off as Macey was the keeper on the bench. Team that started: Ospina, Chambers, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Flamini, Elneny, Campbell, Iwobi, …
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw. Mr Wenger has been doing his normal chat to the media which has as always been grossly misinterpreted. He said that if we had lost in the final to Hull in the season before last he might have considered leaving – which by my book is two steps away from leaving. …
Read More “Over and over and over again. Every year we play Hull City in the Cup.”
By Tony Attwood The issue of state aid in football won’t go away. The amount of effective aid given to West Ham United over the Olympic Stadium is still a matter of contention and a legal battle. The question of how much aid the city of Madrid gave to Real Madrid in the land deal …
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I move on to the main event here are The Table of Shame and the Wall of Shame both updated to matchweek 25. Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 32 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 3 22 Goals 0 8 Total 5 72 …
THE ARSENAL CREDO……..Don McMahon Our heart-stopping win against Leicester/Atkinson made me reflect on why the Arsenal have turned a corner in their efforts to provide the Beautiful Game with Beautiful Football. In my humble opinion it is down to a sort of Arsenal creed that remains immutable, regardless of what fickle plastic aaa fanboys, corrupt …
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by Andrew Crawshaw So far this year these are the referees that we have had Week Date Opponents h/a Referee Score Weighted score Bias against h/a 1 9 Aug 2015 West Ham H Martin Atkinson 0 – 2 54 100/0 2 16 Aug 2015 C Palace A Lee Mason 1 – 2 66 10/90 3 …
Read More “Does a Referee’s performance at Arsenal affect the chances of him returning?”
By Tony Attwood There are around 6000 articles on Untold Arsenal, and I am not sure which one of them first contains the notion that Fifa ought to be abolished, wound up, excommunicated, abandoned or anything else along those lines. I know it was way back in the early days that it was first said, …
By Josif In a dimly lit room, deep in the bowels of Wembley Stadium, a secret group meet. A group known by a set of first names. A group’s whose address is only ever simply given as Wembley Stadium. No room number, no department section, no office block zone. They don’t have to say. …
Following on from our publication of “Arsenal: The Long Sleep” for which Bob Wilson wrote the introduction, we are genuinely honoured today to have an article today from John Radford on Untold Arsenal. John joined Arsenal in 1962 and over the next 14 years made 475 starts for Arsenal, scored 149 goals, and won the …
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By Walter Broeckx An amazing trip to London once again for the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. When we look at the fixture list at the start of the season we (the board) of our supporters club always take a look at where we could get as many tickets as possible. It is all nice to …
Read More “The trip, the catering, the ripped trousers, the grin…. a great day at the Emirates”
by Andrew Crawshaw I have had a request from one of our readers to add a ‘WALL OF SHAME’ to my referee previews showing exactly how bad it gets sometimes. The referee reviews analyse all of the decisions made (or not made) by the referee and his team of assistants during the course of the …
By Walter Broeckx We normally publish the match report within an hour of the conclusion of the game. However last Sunday, Walter and a number of other utterly dedicated fans from Belgium left their homes at 2am local time to be at the match – the match you’ll recall, which courtesy of Sky was suddenly …
Read More “Arsenal – Leicester 2-1, the delayed match report”
From The Brickfields Gunners Blog – Fantasdy Football Series . The Asian lunar year of 2016 began on February 8 and will end on January 27, 2017. Known as The Year of the Fire Monkey, it is supposed to be filled with mischief, clashes and success in the workplace and at home. “The monkey always …
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By Proud Kev . So West Ham fan and Daily Mail sports journalist Martin Samuel has continued his love affair with Arsenal. His target this time is not Arsene Wenger but Matthieu Flamini. Apparently his two footed tackle against Bournemouth was one of the most heinous crimes in football. Martin Samuel seems oblivious to the …
If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that over the weekend there was nothing published after the ref preview. Things went wrong, and it being the weekend I didn’t have the technical resources to sort matters out. Obviously we try hard not to have this happen, but if you value Untold …
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By Usama & Walter AFC BOURNEMOUTH vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 25 DATE: 7th February 2016 VENUE: Vitality Stadium (Bournemouth, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Kevin Friend 1st LINESMAN: David Bryan 2nd LINESMAN: Peter Kirkup 4th OFFICIAL: Neil Swarbrick First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
By Tony Attwood On 28 December 2015, Crystal Palace were talked up on the radio and TV as being serious challengers for a Champions League place. Not Europa mark you, Champions League. On that evening they were fifth, above Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool etc. Today I have just read an article about them being dragged …
By Tony Attwood Yes, yer actual football revolution has started. I know this because the press are shouting it out. “Liverpool fans’ successful walkout protest over ticket prices is a “game-changer”, according to the Football Supporters’ Federation.” The Daily Mail. Wow. “Power to the people: Liverpool fans’ ticket price victory may be just the start”, …
Read More “How the removal of a price increase at Liverpool actually means nothing at all.”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. SOUTHAMPTON COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 24 DATE: 2nd February 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Lee Mason 1st LINESMAN: Andy Halliday 2nd LINESMAN: Matthew Wilkes 4th OFFICIAL: Craig Pawson First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
By Andrew Crawshaw Travel was by Eurostar which was trouble free. I had booked about three weeks in advance via the Eurostar website and got my tickets for £29.00 each way. Walter was impressed as he said he could never get them for anything like that. The only delay I had was on my local …
Read More “Anderlecht – The Travel and Catering Report; and all you need to know about Brussels”
by Tony Attwood There is not too much talk of it on TV, for the simple reason that when TV discusses football it is never neutral. TV buys in football, and anything that threatens its position as the dominant distributor of football is an absolute no-go area. Thus discussion of something being wrong with …
By Tony Attwood There’s an article by Ed Aarons, Guardian Sport’s deputy news editor, in which he says that “Even Lineker, who describes himself as “a proper boyhood fan” who went home and away to watch his hometown team from the age of seven, could not have dreamed what has happened to Leicester over the last few …
By Walter Broeckx For the first time in more than 35 years I went to Brussels and to the Anderlecht stadium. An American politician called Brussels a place in hell a few weeks ago. I wouldn’t call it hell but it sure has some very depressing neighbourhoods and I seemed to pass through them the …
Read More “Uefa Youth League : Anderlecht – Arsenal 2-0, the match report”
