By Walter Broeckx This is the fourth and final part of our series on Arsenal’s training centre. The earlier articles were: Untold Arsenal (and Arsenal Belgium) get the VIP treatment at London Colney Arsenal players exposed to temperatures of minus 160 degrees. London Colney Arsenal training centre: virtual reality and tales of past recoveries …
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By Tony Attwood I don’t get to see that many under 23 games since every Arsenal first team home match involves a 175 mile round trip in the car, plus a train journey at the end, but when the game is not too far away and there’s someone else to go with then yes, I …
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By Tony Attwood Two of us went off to watch Arsenal at Coventry recently in the Checkatrade Trophy. Now its time to go and see the club in the under 23s league, known as Premier League 2 as tonight they are playing at Leicester. I occasionally use these games as a riposte to people who …
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Recently Walter Broeckx, Untold’s regular correspondent and chair of Arsenal Belgium was invited by Arsenal to look around London Colney. The first parts of his reports appeared here Untold Arsenal (and Arsenal Belgium) get the VIP treatment at London Colney Arsenal players exposed to temperatures of minus 160 degrees. London Colney part 2. Now the …
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By Marianna Trench, our in depth investigator What anyone reading a report of a match in a newspaper or on a blog has to realise is that football reports contain a lot of editing. And the editing is not so much of the copy that is published, but of the reality that preceded it. “Arsenal …
Read More “How Arsenal’s win v Watford was re-written to fit with an alternative reality”
By Tony Attwood As you will know we have won seven League, Europa League and League Cup games in a row. Or just in case you didn’t know here’s the list… Date Game Res Score Competition 25 Aug 2018 Arsenal v West Ham United W 3-1 Premier League 02 Sep 2018 Cardiff City v Arsenal …
Read More “Bonkers drivel, start of World War III, and a load of complaints. What the papers say.”
By Walter Broeckx Walter Broeckx, chair of Arsenal Belgium and regular contributor to Untold recently visited London Colney. Part one of the story of his visit is published in Untold Arsenal (and Arsenal Belgium) get the VIP treatment at London Colney Now the story continues… As the rain was falling we didn’t really go outside …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi, Holding, Monreal, Torreira, Xhaka, Ramsey, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette On the beach: Leno, Lichtsteiner, Kolasinac, Guendouzi, Iwobi, Mkhitaryan, Welbeck. Cech had to be attentive and come out on time to smother a ball before Watford could become dangerous. Lacazette being clipped in the penalty area but Taylor being …
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By Bulldog Drummond There are some newspaper and blog headlines that are so bonkers it is hard to know if they are deliberately funny or just the result of a bot going haywire. Take this for example Arsenal v Watford preview: Gunners can leapfrog high-flying opponents Now this whole notion of leapfrogging the high-flyers raises …
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By Bulldog Drummoind Here’s a commentary from a newspaper reporter about Arsenal. “Things are not quite clicking with the ball and for now they may have to be grateful for flourishes like Alexandre Lacazette’s super goal against Everton or Granit Xhaka’s free-kick at Newcastle. Watford will hope their run of good fortune does not last; …
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by Bulldog Drummond So let’s have a look at Watford’s flying start that got all the chattering bots chattering away with much excitement. Date Match Res Score Comp 11 Aug 2018 Watford v Brighton and Hove W 2-0 League 19 Aug 2018 Burnley v Watford W 1-3 League 26 Aug 2018 Watford v Crystal Palace …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As ever here is the official list courtesy of premierleague.com Saturday 29 September 12:30 West Ham United v Man Utd Referee: Michael Oliver Assistants: Stuart Burt, Simon Bennett Fourth official: Paul Tierney 15:00 Arsenal v Watford Referee: Anthony Taylor Assistants: Gary Beswick, Neil Davies Fourth official: Martin Atkinson Everton v Fulham Referee: Roger East Assistants: Simon Beck, Andy Garratt …
Read More “Referee preview Matchweek 7 – The same ref twice in a month is utterly ridiculous”
By Bulldog Drummond Watford, as you may recall if your long term memory is still functioning in this hyper-active full speed non-stop go-go-go world, started off with a real flourish this season, winning four league matches and a League Cup game all in a row. As they roared towards the top of the league (“roared” …
Read More “After the Bees, the Hornets. Arsenal v Watford and that home and away thing”
By Walter Broeckx As the chairman of Arsenal Belgium supporters club I had the honour of visiting the Arsenal training ground at London Colney. Our liaison person at the club had organised this trip in order to give the official supporters clubs a bit of a bonus for all their hard work. I cannot thank …
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By Tony Attwood Trying to get to Arsenal during a Piccadilly Line strike is fortunately not to hard for us since Blacksheep lives near one of the overground stations on the line into Finsbury Park. But what we did spot which was interesting (if you are a long time Londoner and remember these things), was …
Read More “Arsenal v Brentford: a tube strike, a pitch invasion, the moon, a hyperactive manager, the draw”
By Walter Broeckx Dean the ref today let us see how he does in the post Wenger era. Former gunner Yennaris captains Brentford. Arsenal team: Leno, Lichtsteiner, Mustafi, Holding, Monreal, Elneny, Guendouzi, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, Welbeck, Smith-Rowe. On the beach: Martinez, Bellerin, Kolasinac, Ramsey, Torreira, Nketiah, Lacazette My stream starting really bad but I think Leno …
Read More “Live match report League cup Arsenal – Brentford : 3-1”
by Bulldog Drummond Sometimes the morning headlines are just so depressingly predictable, it seems impossible to know what to say. Take this morning with the statement “Qatar migrant workers are still being exploited, says Amnesty report. Charity says promised government reforms to ‘kafala’ system have not taken place.” You’d have to be blind and ignorant …
Read More “Arsenal v Brentford: the team, the news from Qatar, and the issue of moving seats”
By Bulldog Drummond Last season as you will recall we toddled through to the final of the league cup and then fell over at a time when we couldn’t win our away games. Playing the billionaire champions at the home of Tottenham Nomads all proved a bit too much. Date Game Res Score 20 Sep …
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Arsenal Women v West Ham – Post match review and a look forward By Andrew Crawshaw Arsenal Women played West Ham with a 14:00 kickoff on Sunday at Borehamwood prior to the Men’s first team game at the Emirates with a 16:00 kickoff. That gave me a quandry – which of the two games would …
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By Tony Attwood Here’s one to give you a laugh… “Arsenal sensationally in the running to re-sign Manchester United star Alexis Sanchez.” Oh these journalists! What wags they are! Always there with their jolly japes. Although I can’t believe that anyone programmed a bot to write that. That looks like a spanner in the works. …
Read More “The seven phases of Arsenal, plus PSG and some funny financial doings”
By Walter Broeckx Last weekend saw Carine and myself once again on the way to London. Not just to see the Arsenal play against Everton (which meant the result would never be in doubt) but to see other things as well. And to see a part of Arsenal not many of us will ever have …
Read More “What’s it really like to make a 235 mile trip each way for home games.”
By Bulldog Drummond Of course you don’t actually need to know anything about Brentford ahead of the Arsenal v Brentford game but since no one is writing much about the match I thought I’d jump in a bit early and add a few comments before the “all you need to know” articles start being plastered …
Read More “Arsenal v Brentford: the things you don’t need to know, like the fact they keep beating us.”
By Tony Attwood Now here is a surprising statement. “Two-thirds of Arsenal fans are urging the club to take the unprecedented step of rescinding the season tickets of those who regularly fail to attend home matches.” Surprising because it seems a fairly draconian measure. And surprising to me because none of the people I asked …
Read More “The problem of empty spaces and wild claims made by a fans group”
By Tony Attwood The media in general has an approach to refereeing which runs like this. On occasion they will spot an offside decision that is not given, and make a fuss about it. That’s it in one line. They don’t ask why. They don’t ask if it happens against one team more than another. …
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By Bulldog Drummond After our array of bits and pieces about the game, we’re now on the road to the game, and here are out last bits and pieces. One interesting snip is the number of tackles by each club before this weekend’s games. Pos Club Shots so far 1. Watford 105 2. Huddersfield Town …
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