By Walter Broekx The Arsenal team at the start: Cech, Bellerin, Holding, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Xhaka, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alexis, Iwobi. The subs Debuchy, Gibbs, Ospina, Walcott, Cazorla, Chambers, Martinez, Campbell, Reine-Adelaide, Akpom, Elneny, Bielik, Zelalem, Willock. A first match for Alexis and Ramsey this season after their 5 and 4 weeks holiday after the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Talk of the new season being just around the bend means talk of injuries – but this time not so much of Arsenal injuries but of Manchester Airport. For quite amazingly, in the few days after Untold’s complaints that the media are still banging on about Arsenal’s side being decimated year after …
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By Tony Attwood You can be forgiven for either a) not knowing that the player loan system has changed or will change, or b) thinking it has all been by-passed by a crafty FA outsmarting Fifa. But new regulations there are, and as far as I can see the story that England would not be …
Read More “The changes to the loan system, how they relate to the under 23s, and how the Telegraph said “no”.”
by Andrew Crawshaw What? – The Premier League 2 will replace the Under 21 Premier League from the start of the 2016/17 season. According to the ‘powers that be’ the competition will have “a greater focus on a level of play in terms of technicality, physicality and intensity to bring players as close to first-team …
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By Tony Attwood It was just over a month ago that Untold published the first article in what became (somewhat to my surprise) a long running series. The headline was “Why so much hate?” and it reflected upon the language used in football. In a later article we picked up on the phrase “toxic rhetoric” …
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By Tony Attwood There’s a big problem with pre-season friendlies. Win easily and those people who very sadly (for them) are unable to find joy and happiness in football (or perhaps in life) denounce it as only a friendly. Unexpectedly lose, and all hell breaks loose as suddenly instead of it only being a …
Read More “Viking FK 0 Arsenal Lots. Time for the anti-Arsenal to say you can’t judge anything from friendlies.”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal to start this match against Viking: Ospina, Debuchy, Bielik, Gabriel, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Cazorla, Walcott, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain. Subs: Cech, Martinez, Holding, Iwobi, Monreal, Bellerin, Adelaide, Akpom, Zelalem, Willock. Despite Walcott saying he sees his future on the flank he starts in the centre of the attack in the first half. …
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By Bulldog Drummond Article corrected at 6.40pm; the original line ups got mixed in editing and one team got placed inside another. Sorry. So here is where we have got to. Two fixtures over the weekend and then its downhill all the way, at least according to those with emotional contagion. I think that phrase …
Read More “The Vikings vs The Arsenal. They have Thor and the longboats. We’ve got the gunpowder.”
By Walter Broeckx At the start of last season we had a fairly good run of results. Arsenal was creating most chances in the PL and converted them very readily and to win some matches. But then came the moment we lost both Coquelin and Santi in two weeks and both were out for a …
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By Tony Attwood I’ve been trying to unravel the issue of why football journalists and pundits constantly publish or say either misleading or on occasion wholly untrue statements about football and in doing this I’ve given a range of examples. But yesterday I was reminded just how far away I am from explaining to many readers …
Read More “Why the notion that Arsenal desperately need to buy a centre forward is nonsense.”
By Richard Morgan Arsene Wenger divides opinion among Arsenal fans, with those who want him out and those who support him. The real question should be: what has Wenger done for Arsenal football club? In this piece on Wenger I will outline what Wenger has achieved and put them side by side with those …
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By Tony Attwood Here is the story published by the Telegraph on 3 August 10.30pm UK time. It was written by Jeremy Wilson Deputy Football Correspondent of that august newspaper. Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey rushed back by Arsene Wenger in bid to make Arsenal’s opener v Liverpool The story below reads… “Arsene Wenger is preparing …
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By Jacko Jones The transfer market is getting into full swing as the Premier League advances towards opening day. As seems to be an annual theme, Arsenal are staring down the barrel of a new season with a number of squad requirements unfulfilled. Speaking after the match against the MLS All-Stars Wenger confirmed he is …
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. Surely it can’t be hard for Xhaka to top Shaqiri? Ok, so we all know about our huge summer signing and his potential to be the best thing to happen to the Gunners’ midfield since Patrick Vieira. It was frankly about time for Arsene Wenger to splash the cash on a recognised world-class …
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By Florian This article concludes the series covering Arsenal’s visit to the U.S. Due to reasons that would take more than one article to explain, I was only able to attend Arsenal’s match vs. Chivas de Guadalajara. Here is the trip’s story. After posting in the match preview (Arsenal vs the Goats) a beauty sleep …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone. Welcome to the all new approach for the last month of the jolly old fenêtre de transfert. Today we introduce the amazingly new and unprecedented episodic approach as the event horizon draws ever closer. For what we now have is the The ever dependable rumour list The not getting him, not a chance …
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By Tony Attwood Head on over to Free Betting Online if you want to put money on any of these transfer rumours.” When you think about it, it is utterly bonkers. 92 players have been put forward as either having been transferred, or are about to be transferred to Arsenal, and the club has actually …
Read More “Transfers, sackings, injuries… most of it is untrue, and we can’t go on like this. But what happens next?”
. By Andrew Crawshaw The Durban Cup is turning out to be a tournament that it is really difficult to keep in touch with. The main mention of it so far on arsenal.com has been of a social visit the players made to a local school. There is the shortest of reports on the game …
Read More “U19s qualify for the Knockout Phase of the Durban Cup, and a plea to Arsenal for more information.”
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Penzance. Hi and welcome to the totally reformed Arsenal Transfer Index. Two big changes you will see now I’ve taken over: Last time around we had a competition in which the idea was to use the letter S P U R S in …
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Alexandre Lacazette: the title-winning, world-class striker that Arsenal are missing Without a shadow of a doubt, Arsenal have one of the strongest and most complete squads in the Premier League. From reliable veteran goalkeeper Petr Cech to assist king Mesut Ozil, the Gunners have talented players in more or less every position and many believe …
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By Bulldog Drummond I know that in the past, previews have been written either on the day of the match, or at earliest the night before, but now it seems they have to be written weeks ahead of the game. So as that is what the media are playing at, that’s what we will do …
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Best Sites to Place a bet on Arsenal By Dave Jackson With the season so close at hand, it’s hard to think about anything else than watching football and placing some bets, especially now when it’s so easy to do it with all the mobile bookmakers around. With so many betting choices, it finally feels …
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By Tony Attwood In recent weeks I have been trying to point out that the commonly accepted truths of football are not truths at all. To take one simple example of this from this past weekend when Stewart Robson held forth on Talk Sport about how Arsene Wenger had presided over a continuing injury crisis …
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By Walter Broeckx Hi Florian, hope you are enjoying yourself in The StubHub Center in California. The starting eleven for Arsenal in this match against Chivas were Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Holding, Monreal, Xhaka, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Iwobi, Walcott. Santi and Xhaka making their first start for Arsenal. The match started at high pace from both …
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. By Florian, with special thanks to Francisco Chimal, Chivas fan. After the victory registered against the MLS finest, it was natural that Arsenal would take their chances against one of Mexico’s most popular clubs. C.D. Guadalajara is our opponent, today or tomorrow, depending on which side of the world you live on. At the …
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