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 After 19 games Arsenal had 40 points and sat in third place in the table behind Chelsea and Liverpool and with City and the Tinies close behind, Team Points Goals W L D For Against +/- 1 Chelsea 16 1 2 49 42 13 +29 2 Liverpool 13 4 2 43 46 …
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By Tony Attwood If you read my ramblings on a fairly regular basis the is a chance that you may have picked up the fact that a) when I did play football in my younger days I was utterly useless at the game b) when I played the indoor five a side game in later …
Read More “The nine health benefits of playing football, and what to do when you get too old.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Our young Mr Cohen cost anything from £40,000 to £80,000, opinion varies, but in terms of his age there is an agreement he is 20, which makes him rather old for a youth signing for Arsenal. His position is best described as Bellerinesque. Well, ok not best described as Bellerinesque, …
By Tony Attwood Do Arsenal players really care about the club they play for? Do they care about how the results go? Are they properly prepared for each game? Or are some of them a bunch of highly paid guys who really couldn’t care less, and who simply turn up and go through the motions? …
By Tony Attwood Untold has a number of correspondents from around the country, and indeed from outside the UK, who regularly feed in thoughts and ideas relating to the issues that we cover on the site, and this week brought in an email on the topic of the way refereeing is undertaken in the Premier …
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by Tony Attwood Actually it was me that was in total meltdown as in the original version I wrote something, changed it, wrote something else and totally screwed up what I was saying about Messsi, Barcelona and Real Madrid (the last bit of which I then cut). Excuses are there many, but the key point …
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By Walter Broeckx A lots of changes in the team and some were already predicted in the last days. Ospina in goal and Martinez was on the bench. At right back we had Maitland-Niles and Jenkinson was on the bench, so Bellerin got some well deserved and needed rest. Gabriel and Mustafi in the centre …
Read More “FA cup : Preston North End – Arsenal 1-2 : Giroud, who else?”
By Bulldog Drummond. The fighting Just on a month ago Preston North End were forced to fine two of their “players” (Jermaine Beckford and Eoin Doyle) for fighting each other on the pitch during a match against Sheffield Wednesday. Both players were sent off, obviously, and the fines levied on the players were promised …
By Bulldog Drummond Once upon a time the FA Cup third round kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. Now if you get a match on a Saturday afternoon you are lucky. Our match this evening makes travelling back by train difficult – the last train back leaves at 2017, making it a tight …
By Tony Attwood This weekend’s match sees what has become an increasingly rare meeting between the two Invincibles – the only two sides in top division history to have gone through a season unbeaten: Preston North End and Arsenal. Indeed it is the first meeting of the pair since Arsenal joined the ranks of …
by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results matchweek13 Manchester City vs. Chelsea [1-3] Referee – Anthony Taylor 1st Assistant Referee – Stuart Burt 2nd Assistant Referee – Adam Nunn Fourth Official – Mike Dean Crystal Palace vs. Southampton [3-0] Referee – Neil Swarbrick 1st Assistant Referee – Scott Ledger 2nd Assistant Referee …
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By Tony Attwood During the last couple of days a friend of mine has received messages on her Facebook page telling her that Mrs Trump has filed divorce papers against President Elect Mr Trump Facebook is starting to charge everyone who has fewer than 10 friends, from midnight Stephen Fry has died The queen hasn’t …
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by The Referee Team In case you find the full weekly referee review to long/complicated/boring – or indeed in case you are about to leave home in order to buy fish and chips for the evening supper, here is a quick summary in bullet point form. The full detailed analysis will appear tomorrow. In Match …
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By Tony Attwood Some Arsenal supporters get very angry at any match that Arsenal does not win. This is true both home and away. I have often wondered why. Of course some of the people who were at the Bournemouth game might be saying that their moaning resulted in Arsenal waking up and scoring three …
ARSENAL vs. WEST BROMWICH ALBION COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 18 DATE: 26th December 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Neil Swarbrick 1st LINESMAN: Stephen Child 2nd LINESMAN: Constantine Hatzidakis 4th OFFICIAL: Keith Stroud First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 02:34 …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone Big news, we have just done a transfer. Or so we are told. We are signing Cohen Bramall who is a 20-year-old defender from non-league side Hednesford Town who play in the Evo Stick Northern Premier League. Newsbreak has this story: “Arsenal have almost completed the signing of Hednesford Town left-back, Cohen …
Read More “Arsenal sign their first player of the window, and it is quite a surprise.”
By Walter Broeckx In 2001 the news was made public that referees would become professional in the PL. In an article on the BBC website from 13 June 2001, we found these bits and pieces and we will only highlight the things that relate to the current working of the PGMO and the referees. It …
Read More “How the FA, PL and PGMO backtracked on the promises made by the National Review Board.”
By Tony Attwood 10 years ago Alan Green on Radio 5 would criticise referees regularly – not ever suggesting bias but rather their incompetence. 5 years ago Alan Green was silenced on the subject, and even the Wiki page about him now has no mention of his numerous run-ins with refs nor the controversy surrounding …
By Walter Broeckx A few changes at the start of this match in the Arsenal team. No Özil and from last match no Elneny who was off to Africa. Lucas dropped to the bench. Also Gabriel dropped to the bench. As a result Mustafi came back in the centre of the defence. Coquelin started in …
Read More “Bournemouth – Arsenal : 3-3 crazy match, great come back”
By Tony Attwood Everyone, it seems, (other than those at Chelsea) is now complaining about the way the football fixtures have been sorted out. Right at the start of the holiday period the bean counters at the Telegraph worked out not only how many days rest various clubs had but also how many miles they …
by Andrew Crawshaw We start the second half of the season with a trip to sunny Bournemouth on the South Coast. Our officials for the game are :- Referee – Michael Oliver 31 years old from Northumberland and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 1 – Stuart Burt From Northamptonshire and FIFA Accredited Assistant Referee 2 – …
By Sirs Hardly Anyone Before today we already had nine players and a manager (well the manager) who were all ready willing and able to quit Arsenal for pastures new if not pastures greener, at least according to “reports”. But now the bloggettas and journalists are getting themselves into a right lather – and when …
EVERTON vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 16 DATE: 13th December 2016 VENUE: Goodison Park (Liverpool, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Simon Bennett 2nd LINESMAN: Richard West 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Dean First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:27 James McCarthy …
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By Tony Attwood In every transfer window various newspapers do their own survey of what each of the PL clubs need. Some papers (such as the Observer – a UK Sunday paper) also do a review submitted by fans (what the Observer rather pompously calls its “Fans Network” – which is seemingly one blog or reader …
Read More “The players Arsenal need this January – compared with what other PL clubs need”
By Walter Broeckx First of all my best wishes to all Untolders and to The Arsenal for the New Year! As I think some players are a bit sick as Wenger said in his press conference a few days ago we had a bit of some unfamiliar names and some people not involved. Arsenal made …
Read More “Arsenal – Crystal Palace 2-0: a good win to start the new year”
