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 Following a convoluted series of events I was able to invite Walter to come over from Belgium to join me at the Cup final. Regular readers will know that Walter in the house is always a good luck charm (particularly when accompanied by a larger group of Belgian Gooners). I sent the …
Read More “The Cup Final: what was it like to be there? Part One: pictures from the upper tier.”
By Tony Attwood If we do nothing, next season will be like this: the anti-Arsenal and their media allies shutting up during the good runs, and then coming out and attacking the manager viciously and remorselessly after any defeat or perceived poor performance. Yes, the media and the aaa’s combined propaganda efforts this season were …
By Tony Attwood, floating somewhere in the wide blue yonder… I got a bit of stick for my chart published in the early hours of this morning showing number of victors of the FA Cup and not including Arsenal. I’ll re do it at the end of this little piece with Arsenal included. One …
by Tony Attwood A shame because quite a few of those people who were at the stadium yesterday rather thought it a jolly experience, and worth going. Anyway, below is a list of wins of the FA Cup. Club Wins First final won Last final won Manchester United 12 1909 2016 Tottenham Hotspur 8 …
Read More “It is such a shame that the FA Cup is not a trophy, because…”
By Walter Broeckx When I was some 8-9 years old my parents bought our first TV. An old black and white TV that took ages to warm up before you first could hear a voice coming out of it and then the image would load where you first would see the face in all kinds …
By Tony Attwood It happens sometimes, but not that often, that the media and their bloggetta camp followers make out that the cup final is so obviously a one-sided affair that it is hardly worth even writing a preview of it. Of course what they forget each time is that occasionally the underdogs come out …
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by Andrew Crawshaw I posted after our Semi-final win that I believed Anthony Taylor was the strong favourite to be given the FA Cup Final this year and so it turned out. I claim no special skill to make that prediction – referees are only ever given one FA Cup Final and of those who …
Does a player acquired as a big-money transfer perform well in the first season? Let’s look at recent history. By Zuruvi There is school of thought shared by some Arsenal fans here on this Forum that says that big-money transfers don’t work in the first or second seasons after the transfer has taken place. …
By Tony Attwood As I guess we all know, no club has won the FA Cup three times running since Blackburrn Rovers in 1886. Before them, one team, Wanderers, also did it three times in a row. In the past 131 years (or to be more accurate 122, to account for the war years) no …
Read More “Which is the most successful team in the FA Cup and in FA Cup/League doubles?”
By Tony Attwood Jack Pitt-Brooke of the Independent recently wrote an article in which he said, “…it was impressive and surprising that Wenger’s reaction on Sunday evening, in his post-match press conference, was to take all the blame on his own shoulders. By admitting that his season of silence over his own future had damaged …
Read More “Will anything change at Arsenal next season? Sadly it seems unlikely”
By Tony Attwood What we do seem to know (although I use the word “know” in its footballing sense, meaning “according to reports” Gabriel will not be playing. He has been ruled out until August with the medial knee ligament injury. Danny Welbeck is reported to have said, in relation to his injury, “It’s just …
Read More “Arsenal cup final team news – it is all looking a bit grim”
by Andrew Crawshaw By my reckoning Arsenal should have ended up with 17 more points than we actually had this season due to wrong Important Decisions called by the PGMO. A quick reminder an Important Decision is one of these – Second Yellow Card, Red Card, Penalty and Goal. There was one game we lost …
Does Arsenal have good players or great players? Is the current Arsenal squad good enough? By Zuruvi Arsenal is a great club. Arsene Wenger has proven over the years that he is a great manager. Arsenal has two or three great players. Arsenal however has too many average players. Arsenal also has a number …
Red Shirts White Sleeves: A Song for Arsenal fans by Fishpie I haven’t submitted anything to Untold in recent months and this piece is, I admit, a bit of a shameless plug. So forgive me. I am very grateful to Tony for agreeing to publish despite this. I guess I haven’t written for the site …
Read More “Red Shirts White Sleeves: A Song for Arsenal fans”
By Walter Broeckx Another last match of the season in the Emirates and again I was there. Just as in recent seasons. Alas that gave me no chance to write the fast as lightning live match report Untold readers are used to for most of the time. And so no real live feeling about the …
Read More “Arsenal – Everton : 3-1, the view from block 120”
By Tony Attwood I guess like most people, especially like most people who have children of their own, the notion of child abuse is ultimately incomprehensible to me. But it is there, and it has deeply entrenched itself within British society, and thus also within football. And from the off I have been extremely uncomfortable …
By Sir Hardly Anyone But first, before I get down to basics, since in order to write this column I am forced to look at the stuff the newspapers are producing, I wish to give you a spot of context, just so you know how difficult my job is. Here is a headline from the …
Read More “There is one Arsenal transfer that everyone is discussing, so maybe this is the one…”
By Tony Attwood You may recall – since I have mentioned it about 2000 times – last year the Guardian printed the comment that Arsenal had only two strikers who finished 2015/16 in double figures – in terms of goals. I took exception to the “only” in that comment since it implied that most other …
Read More “Who did the most this season for Arsenal and how much did it cost?”
By Tony Attwood As always Arsenal had a number of players out on loan through the year, and it has become quite common across the years for one or two of the loan players to come back to the club and make something of an impact. This time round the player who is being tipped …
Read More “Now it’s over, how did our players out on loan do?”
By Tony Attwood It has taken a while, but finally the move was made away from endless sniping at the manager and instead turning on a target, the removal of which could indeed open up a new era in the history of Arsenal. If there were banners and protests and aeroplanes flying over the trailing …
By Bulldog Drummond As we approach the time for the train to London here’s a quick look at the home and away form. Arsenal’s home form looks like this… Won 13, drawn 3, lost 2. Scored 36, conceded 15. Not as perfect as it might be, but still, not too bad. Everton’s away form …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton the teams, last minute injury update, top scorers, recent form”
By Bulldog Drummond Continuing the tale of the approaching events of Sunday, as we all know, Arsenal have to do better than Manchester City or Liverpool. A win while Liverpool draw or lose would do it, and a win by three goals while Man City lose by two goals would do it. Otherwise we end …
By Bulldog Drummond As I mentioned at the end of the last article, I asked psychologist Dr Billy “The Dog” McGraw about what drives people not only to protest, but what drives them to protest in particular ways. Why, I wondered do some indulge in violence, some march, some hold up banners, and some just pull …
By Bulldog Drummond In what the media would have called a “long-winded rant” if it came from anyone else, Ian Wright finally came out and backed the notion of a boycott of Arsenal matches by those who don’t like the current regime, rather than protests in the ground. “Something has to change, whether it is …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton: Usmanov bids, Ian Wright backs boycott, why only absenteeism works.”
by Andrew Crawshaw This is the last league game of the season and before I look in detail at the ‘men in black’ for this game, I would like to do a brief reflection. Here is a table showing the Referees, how many games they have refereed in the league and how many for Arsenal. …
