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 Andrew Crawshaw The WSL recommences next weekend and Arsenal travel to Kingston to play Chelsea, on the 7th. Then on the 14th they travel to Wycombe to play Reading in the semi-final of the Continental Tyres Cup (the Ladies equivalent of the League Cup). Neither ground is especially near the Club’s main ground – …
By Walter Broeckx Özil back was the main news before the match. As a result Iwobi dropped back to the bench. None of the other injured players made it for this match. Arsenal starting line up : Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Holding, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Xhaka, Wilshere, Özil, Alexis, Lacazette. On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Coquelin, Elneny, …
By Bulldog Drummond What all the teams in the top section of the league do is touch the ball more than the other teams. Here’s the table of touches this season Position Club Touches 1. Manchester City 20,085 2. Liverpool 17,233 3. Arsenal 17,212 4. Tottenham Hotspur 16,168 5. Chelsea 16,116 6. Manchester United 15,371 …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the teams, a match fixing update and the latest from Paul Merson”
By Bulldog Drummond As we often do with these games, we can have a look at the results Chelsea and Arsenal have had in playing matches against each other and against Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United. Here to start us off are Chelsea’s games… Date Match Result Score Competition 06 Aug 2017 Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea; top six comparisons and the growing injury list”
by Bulldog Drummond Throughout this season we have been comparing the home and away form of the clubs we’ve been playing, and it has proven to be one of the most straightforward and reliable indicators of what might happen. Not perfect of could – we would need to factor in the referee at the same …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea: the indicators that tend to be the best predictors of the result”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our fourth game in a row with our ‘favourite referees’ and this is the one I’ve been dreading most. We have :- Referee – Anthony Taylor Age 38 from Cheshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Adam Nunn from Wiltshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Lee Betts from Norfolk …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea Wednesday 3 January 20018 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx 2017 is behind us. A moment to look back. And with the last minutes of the last match being the perfect PGMO/Dean horror show we all have been too familiar with over the last 10 years or so these images stay in my mind a lot of course. 2017 was the year …
Read More “Looking back at 2017: you will never be able to take that year away from us!”
by BRICKFIELDS GUNNERS As the new year begins I look back a rather good year personally as well as for the Arsenal. A third FA Cup win in 4 years is a great record, and that too against the Champions of the EPL . I like to think that we have progressed in many ways …
Read More “The Predictions for 2018 from Brickfields Gunners”
By Walter Broeckx I remember some 9 years ago one of my first articles I wrote was about Dean. It is out there somewhere and it was after the match at Old Trafford where Dean did his usual biased tricks to cost Arsenal points. Since then I have written umpteen articles showing the bias from …
Read More “The view of the Video Assistant Referee about the WBA penalty”
By Walter Broeckx A very very short match report as this match falls right in our new years eve party. Arsenal starting line up: Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Bellerin, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Wilshere, Iwobi, Alexis, Lacazette. On the beach: Ospina, Mertesacker, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin, Elneny, Walcott, Welbeck. Kolasinac off with an injury after a foul on him …
By Bulldog Drummond This will be match number 140 between these two teams, the first such game being 23 February 1901, a 0-1 home defeat for Woolwich Arsenal in the FA Cup. Since then Arsenal have won 71 of the games, West Brom 38 and 30 have been drawn. The bulk of the WBA victories …
Read More “WBA v Arsenal. Past events, match overload, present team, have a great party.”
By Bulldog Drummond Today is the day that Mr Wenger takes the record for the number of Premier League games handled by a manager. Of course there are people who wish it were not so, but that’s the sort of thing that always happens and some people will acknowledge a remarkable achievement. There are more …
Read More “West Brom v Arsenal: there are more exotic places to take a record”
By Bulldog Drummond West Brom are in deep trouble at the foot of the table… Pos Club P W D L F A GD Pts 15 Newcastle United 20 5 3 12 19 30 -11 18 16 Crystal Palace 20 4 6 10 18 32 -14 18 17 West Ham United 20 4 6 10 …
Read More “West Bromwich v Arsenal: this could be dangerous”
by Andrew Crawshaw Well the PGMO are certainly ensuring that they do everything in their power to ensure that we remain well out of the Champions League places. After Martin Atkinson on 22 December, Michael Oliver on 28 December we have Mike Dean on the 31st. And in case you thought it couldn’t get any …
Read More “West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal; Sunday 31 Dec 2017 – The Match Officials”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Before I start, I want a name or phrase to describe a really silly transfer rumour. Any ideas? Anyway, here’s a little test for you to try out while you are thinking. Consider this headline. 1: Three centre-backs Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger should sign in the January transfer window Now, what …
Read More “After comments like this, it is amazing any player ever wants to come near Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood We used to have lots of people writing in saying that the start of one season was the worst start ever for Arsenal. In the end it went on and on so much, and I started to be accused of “not facing facts” and “trying to cover up Wenger’s failings” so much, …
by Tony Attwood Jack’s pass to Alexis last night was a moment to behold; a moment of sublime football which can be viewed over and over again (at least by me, even if by no one else); an utter delight. To my mind (and of course it is just my view) it is the sort …
Read More “Back from the palace and its the same old same old: Knock, knock, knock, kncko, konck”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Bellerin, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Wilshere, Özil, Alexis, Lacazette. On the beach : Ospina, Walcott, Holding, Iwobi, Welbeck, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin Crystal Palace pulling themselves around their penalty are from the start and speculating on the long high ball. Arsenal trying to pass the ball forward …
by Bulldog Drummond Continuing our review of the stats from games this season, Palace have 38 yellow cards this season (Arsenal have 27) and neither club has had a player sent off yet. But they are third in the table when it comes to tackles – they undertake 18.1 tackles per game – only Chelsea and …
Read More “Palace due for a long wait before beating Arsenal again”
By Bulldog Drummond In the last eight games (all in the League) Palace have pulled themselves together under Roy Hodgson… Date Game Res Score Competition 18 Nov 2017 Crystal Palace v Everton D 2-2 Premier League 25 Nov 2017 Crystal Palace v Stoke City W 2-1 Premier League 28 Nov 2017 Brighton and Hove v …
Read More “Crystal Palace v Arsenal; what the stats of this season predict for the result”
by Andrew Crawshaw We have our first three timer this season for this game. Referee – Michael Oliver Age 32 from Northumberland and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Simon Bennett from Staffordshire and FIFA accredited Assistant Referee 2 – Daniel Cook from Hampshire Fourth Official – Graham Scott Age 49 from Oxfordshire Michael Oliver …
By Tony Attwood Very sorry for lack of anything on Untold today, and delay in clearing comments held in moderation. If you’ve followed us for a while you might recall I live in the East Midlands, where not only have we had a tiddly bit of snow but also a total snarl up on the …
by Tony Attwood Rumour mongering used to be a world of shadows – suggestions, ideas, half-hidden notions. But now, not only is everything out in the open but also we have a hierarchy of rumours. All the journalists and bloggetta scribblers know how this works, but they like to keep it quiet from their readership so …
Read More “There are no more shadows: your guide to the ways in which journalists predict transfers”
By Sir Hardly Anyone And what a fabulous night at the Sweet FA it was. As the representative of Oakham and Rutland Football Association, one of the oldest FAs in the country I was delighted to join in the big bash at Wembley Stadium. The speeches, although largely incoherent were spectacular. And the entertainment supplied …
Read More “A report from the FA’s Christmas Eve party at Wembley Stadium”
By Tony Attwood You might know that aside from publishing Untold Arsenal I also publish the website of the AISA Arsenal History Society. That site began in 2009, and it has over time worked to correct some of the errors and omissions that appear in various books and websites that deal with Arsenal’s history. Indeed …
Read More “Perhaps this a moment to pause and contemplate where we have come from”
