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"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 …
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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?”
By Walter Broeckx Lots of changed of course in the starting line up. In fact apart from the man with 3 lungs Elneny we have 10 other players compared to last weekend. So here is the team that started: Martinez, Jenkinson, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Reine-Adelaide, Ramsey, Iwobi, Lucas On the beach today: Macey, …
By Tony Attwood So for the second match in a row we play the team in 10th position. Here’s the home and away table Home Away W D L F A W D L F A GD Pt 1 Chelsea 6 0 1 20 4 4 1 1 9 6 +19 31 2 Liverpool 5 …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: you can prove anything with figures (or not)”
By Walter Broeckx I don’t know what is the next step after madness in English. Bonkers? Crazy? I think someone has to invent a new word to describe the craziness that has taken over at Fick FUFA headquarters over the years. If you thought that after having had two summers with no rest at all …
By Tony Attwood Lucas Perez is being tipped to play again in the League Cup quarter-final against Southampton tonight; Olivier Giroud has an injury – either hamstring or groin depending on the source of information. The Giroud injury is said not to be too serious and that omitting him tonight is just a precaution. Chuba …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: the preview, plus Bellerin’s quick recovery”
By Walter Broeckx I think it must have been 7 or 8 years ago I wrote on Untold that if you appointed me as the ref of a match between let us say Manchester United and a 3rd division team I maybe could force a win for the 3rd division team. I said “maybe” because …
Read More “How a referee can bend a match to fix the result: the inside story”
By Walter Broeckx This morning when I drove to work I heard on the radio that in Colombia a plane had crashed and that on this plane was the selection of Chapecoense. A Brazilian team that was on its way to play the final of the Copa Sudamericano. What we would call the Europa League …
Read More “And then suddenly football is not that important anymore”
By Walter Broeckx After a few matches in which we didn’t play that well we managed to get back to winning ways with the 3-1 win over Bournemouth. One would think that everyone would be happy and satisfied in Arsenal circles. But after having had enough sleep I went on the internet and searched for …
By Walter Broeckx When our oldest reader and probably oldest Arsenal supporter in the Arsenal internet world kindly asks me a question I cannot but give him what he asks. To say I had a tough 24 hours is a bit of an understatement. Being the president of an official supportersclub in a country is …
Read More “Arsenal – Bournemouth: the travels, the catering, the laughter and fun”
By Walter Broeckx Sorry to have been keeping you waiting for this match report. But as you know I have been travelling a bit and so was in the stadium and not in my comfortable seat at home. So no seeing things and typing with looking further at the match. So the events may have …
Read More “Arsenal Bournemouth 3-1: the view from block 110”
By Tony Attwood Of all the many things I have never ever imagined myself doing dancing in a bar with a group of friend at 2am to a Showaddywaddy tribute band must be right up there on the list But thus it was in the early hours of this morning, and now of course …
By Tony Attwood, sitting by the swimming pool in Spain, as the rain patters down Watching Sky’s overseas service (Bein Sports) with the awful Richard Keys and Andy Grey is a very dispiriting experience. They as their independent commentator in the studio Clive Allen – obviously a very balanced middle of the road man when …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: the view from Spain; match details as it happened”
By Bulldog Drummond OK I want to make this clear that this lack of preview at the proper time and all the blame being put on technical issues and people being in the wrong country is not my fault. Well, to be more correct part of it is my fault but I am not going …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: another bit of preview from afar.”
By Walter Broeckx With Tony away to foreign parts and our Bulldog seemingly not barking today it is up to me to write anything that can be regarded as a match preview. A quick look at the league tables shows that Bourmenouth is sitting in 10th position in the league after having gathered 15 points …
By Tony Attwood Sincere apologies for the lack of Untold today. Walter is hopefully now making the 24 hour round trip from Antwerp to the Emirates, while I am on a dancing holiday in Spain, and currently trying to persuade my back that it does actually want to operate after a marathon jive night on …
By Tony Attwood An article on the Swiss news service 24 heures has raised issues which for the moment the media in the UK are ignoring. The original article (in French of course) appears here. My rough translation is beneath. The Zurich-based firm Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte has filed a complaint with the Zurich Commercial Court …
Read More “The parents of a 17 year old African player sue Fifa over the transfer rules for minors”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Matchday Officials this week are :- Referee – Mike Jones Age 48 from Cheshire Assistant 1 – Adrian Holmes from West Yorkshire Assistant 2 – Mark Scholes from Buckinghamshire Fourth Official – Graham Scott Age 48 from Oxfordshire This will be the first time this season that Mike Jones will have …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth Sunday 27 November 2016 – The Match Officials”
