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 At last. At last. At last. It took me a while this season but finally I can come over to see my beloved Gunners play in the flesh. Okay I have been to Lens in our first pre-season match and have been walking around for hours with a few hundred other Gooners …
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by Arvind Its been a long time since I did an article for Untold. So this year, I thought I’d try something a little new. Instead of relying on all those rating systems everywhere, I figured I’d re-watch every single game and rate all the players as per my own eyes. The other thing I …
By Tony Attwood If you don’t live in the UK there is a chance you might not be aware of the issue that is starting to engulf English football. If you do live in the UK, then I imagine you can’t but know – but I hope you will allow me a moment to recap. …
By Tony Attwood As we saw in the last article, Mr Mourinho is complaining. And we are not the only people to have noticed this. For the Guardian noticed it too, and wondered if “M” was really right to call his team “unlucky”. In an article “Are Manchester United really the unluckiest team in …
By Tai Emeka Obasi… He called himself the special one and ever since has been living in the Utopian world of truly being the best. He still sees himself as not only the best coach in the world but also the most important personality in the business, if not ever created. The ex-Chelsea coach …
Read More “While others mature with age Mourinho gets more idiotic.”
MANCHESTER UNITED vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 12 DATE: 19th November 2016 VENUE: Old Trafford (Manchester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Garratt 4th OFFICIAL: Michael Oliver First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:38 Ander …
By Walter Broeckx A number of changes compared to the team that started at Manchester United last weekend. In goal we have our CL keeper Ospina as expected. Jenkinson stayed at right back but at left back we had Kieran Gibbs in the place of Monreal. In midfield we had the pairing of Ramsey and …
By Tony Attwood On the injury front we know that Héctor Bellerín and Santi Cazorla are still out along with Perez and the three January returnees, but there are also doubts about Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey. Ramsey has a broken toe it seems, and both could be given a day off. On the Santi …
Read More “Arsenal v PSG: the team and the formation, plus other guess work”
By Tony Attwood The timescales aren’t exactly the same of course, but there is an interesting parallel between Tottenham’s experience in the Champions League and Arsenal’s in 1998 and 1999. In those years, as I am sure you will recall, Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, and for what I think were the …
By Tony Attwood I know this story has suddenly started to appear everywhere, and since this is Untold I wouldn’t normally run such a piece, but it really does raise an interesting question: how far are the newly emboldened British border agencies and their chums in the Home Office going to go to keep our …
Read More “Serge Aurier has been refused permission to enter the UK. But would we let in the Trump?”
By Tony Attwood In 1936/7 Man City won the first division. They were one of only three teams other than Arsenal to win the League in the 1930s (the other two were Everton and Sunderland). Man City had been jogging along as a mid-table team for several years, and had finished ninth the year before …
Read More “Leicester, State Aid Utd., Man U; tales of decline”
by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #11 Bournemouth vs. Sunderland [1-2] Referee – Mike Dean 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Long 2nd Assistant Referee – Ian Hussin Fourth Official – Lee Mason Manchester City vs. Middlesbrough [1-1] Referee – Kevin Friend 1st Assistant Referee – Richard West 2nd Assistant …
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By Walter Broeckx Okay I hope my wife doesn’t read this and gets in to wrong ideas. No I still am the same my dear, still love you in the husband and wife life we live. But most football supporters have a player that they love as if it was their own son or brother. …
By Walter Broeckx Over the last 10-15 years we have seen many different players play for Arsenal. Some were great, others ended up somewhere else because they didn’t want to be with us anymore and earn more money somewhere else. Others were not so great in the long run and found that Arsenal had other …
Read More “More options up front than we had over the last seasons”
By Tony Attwood I never really expected to have much in common with Santi Cazorla. He’s one of the very few players around who is actually shorter than me by an inch or two, and he can play football rather well, which I can’t. But it turns out that Santi has just toddled off to …
Read More “Arsenal prepare for PSG; Santi Cazorla off to Barcelona”
By Tony Attwood Recent studies in psychology and sociology have put forward the idea that when people feel they’ve lost something, then they are willing to take any sort of risk in order to get it back. Even if it never existed in the first place. This is the simple explanation as to why the …
By Tony Attwood Just how bad are we in November? Not just this November but each and every November. Year after Wengerian year after Wengerian year… Curiously, given that this year this has been the topic there hasn’t been any real analysis of this. Indeed I have seen commentators writing that this is the …
Read More “Arsenal in November. Exactly how bad are we year after year? You might be surprised.”
By Walter Broeckx Sorry for the delay but as I had to be in the TV studios with our supporters club I couldn’t get to a computer earlier. Lots of doubts before the match about the fitness of Alexis. But he started. So was he fit? Probably yes in the way that Alexis always is …
Read More “Man United – Arsenal : 1-1 Our beach saves the day”
By Bulldog Drummond All runs end… except of course the run that means that Olympiakos win the Greek League. That goes on for ever – although even that might be affected by the cancellation of games by the government this season. So the run against of results against “M” and the run of results …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal – the teams, the pizza, the telepathy, the result”
by Tony Attwood According to José Mourinho, Arsène Wenger is afforded “more respect” than he (“M”) gets. He doesn’t explain why this is so, nor does he give any evidence, but he says it. Personally I don’t think it is true, but I do think it should be true, if nothing else because of the fact …
By Tony Attwood Even if you don’t know the exact numbers, you’ll probably recall from endless articles plus radio and TV broadcasts, that over a five year period from 2009 to 2014, Arsenal did rather poorly against other teams that ended up in the top four. Of course losing against a fellow-top-four team means zero …
Read More “Wenger v “M”. Tactical naivety, blaming the medics,”
By Andrew Crawshaw Our Match Officials this Saturday are :- Referee – Andre Marriner age 45 from the West Midlands and FIFA Accredited Assistant 1 – Simon Beck – from Bedfordshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant 2 – Andy Garratt – from the West Midlands Fourth Official – Michael Oliver – 31 years old from Northumberland and …
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By James Bailey We are still a few weeks away from the end of the year, but there is no doubt that it has been a great year for the team. Arsenal has been performing well in matches and the team is looking at what could be a thrilling Christmas league position. There are several …
Read More “Previews: A (Possibly) Thrilling End to a Great Year”
By Tony Attwood Yes, it’s that time again. The time when pontificaters in all the media will tell us that one team (usually Arsenal, but occasionally others) are having a crisis of injuries and that it is Arsene Wenger’s fault. Of course what they generally don’t do it compare Arsenal’s figures with those of other …
Read More “It’s November so it must be injury crisis time (and ticket price analysis time)”
By Tony Attwood Blimey! I say again, “blimey!” I take the day off to go and see “Kinky Boots” – the wonderfully funny feel-good musical in the West End, and return to open the computer the next morning and find not just one, but two football stories that made me feel good. One of …
