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 Tony Attwood Every football journalist and most of the bloggettas have told us throughout November that ARSENAL ALWAYS DO BADLY IN NOVEMBER. I wrote it in capitals just in case you hadn’t caught it before. After all it must be very important to know this because they have told us over and over …
Read More “We all know November is Arsenal’s worst month. But what about December?”
By Walter Broeckx The only thing that is predictable when it comes to football is…that it is unpredictable. Now anyone that follows football a bit knows this but for some strange reason the people who are paid to follow football or who make a living out of following it and writing about it …..tend to …
Consistently wrong but never in doubt by Don McMahon While surfing various Arsenal and Football websites this week I was impressed and astonished by the number of spurious and unsolicited, unsupported and undeniably wrong posts that misnamed supporters feel it is their democratic right to publish. There are numerous memes that filter through the Ethernet …
By Tony Attwood “Did the new stadium force Ogbonna to misplace a pass that handed Arsenal an early lead? Was the new stadium responsible for West Ham’s half-baked recruitment over the summer?” These questions are posed by the Daily Telegraph, and their conclusion (without of course considering any evidence, for that is never their way) …
Read More “Just how much impact did the stadium have in Arsenal’s 5-1 win on Saturday?”
By Tony Attwood The English papers (other than the Sunday Times) are making little of the financial scandal that erupted across Europe yesterday – perhaps because they were not part of the group that put the research together, perhaps because in their superior manner they think their readers won’t be able to follow the details. …
Read More “What exactly is the finance scandal surrounding Mourinho and C Ronaldo?”
By Walter Broeckx No it isn’t my birthday this weekend. But my second oldest son is celebrating his birthday today. And as we were invited with the rest of the family I couldn’t do my match report. My family knows me of course and so they arranged that we would have our meal before the …
Read More “State Aid United – Arsenal 1-5: Oh what a birthday gift”
By Bulldog Drummond. It appears that each UK taxpayer has paid about £27 towards giving the club previously known as West Ham a new home for free. Given the number of taxpayers in the country, that is quite an alarming figure. But of course we just get on with it, and let the government treat …
Read More “WHU v Arsenal. The teams, the tactics, the injuries, the cost.”
By Bulldog Drummond Interesting reports today that even though Héctor Bellerín and Mathieu Debuchy, are out injured Carl Jenkinson won’t play at the Tax Payers Stadium (TPS) because Mr Wenger feels Carl is suffering a crisis of confidence. Traditionally psychological reasons for not playing players have been scorned by the pundits and sneered at by …
Read More “State Aid United v Arsenal: no Jenkinson, no Santi, and the problem of moving home”
By Tony Attwood Arsene Wenger has established his most formidable squad for five years – Arsenal will win honours So says Steve Stammers in the Daily Mirror, and just in case you don’t quite believe it and think it is a spoof he goes on… The Gunners crashed out of the League Cup in midweek …
Read More “When the press start saying Arsenal will win honours it is time to start worrying”
by Andrew Crawshaw Well last week Mike Jones displayed his form from the previous two seasons rather than his much better form from the Premier League this season – must have been an Arsenal game I guess. This week our officials are:- Referee – Craig Pawson – Age 37 from South Yorkshire and FIFA accredited …
Read More “West Ham v Arsenal Saturday 3 December 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood Commander BJ Harrington, of the Metropolitan Police, one of the police’s most senior football match officers has been talking about the difficulties of keeping law and order outside the Tax Payers Stadium. He did this in giving evidence to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, saying, “If you are intent on disorder, you …
Read More “Three times as many arrests at Arsenal as at State Aid Utd? Up to a point Ms Copper”
By Tony Attwood Santi is out for three months, during which time he will have an operation and now the news has broken the media is packed with speculation, because speculation is what the media does worst (at least in terms of predicting the future). In essence there are three possibilities over what to do. …
A kinder Arsenal world…….Don McMahon Recent UK media and press criticism of the Arsenal, after a few uninspired ties and lacklustre performances in the EPL and the CL, exaggerated and exacerbated by our very own aaa trolls, brought me to a point where I questioned the sanity of the aforementioned accomplices. I have adapted an …
By Tony Attwood There is a Marina Hyde article in the Guardian today about the sexual abuse of footballers. It is an article which is so powerful, so insightful, and so very much getting to the key point, that if it would not be a breach of copyright I would reproduce it here. Instead, here …
Read More “As darkness descends on the football world what can the response be?”
By Walter Broeckx Lots of changed of course in the starting line up. In fact apart from the man with 3 lungs Elneny we have 10 other players compared to last weekend. So here is the team that started: Martinez, Jenkinson, Holding, Gabriel, Gibbs, Coquelin, Elneny, Reine-Adelaide, Ramsey, Iwobi, Lucas On the beach today: Macey, …
By Tony Attwood So for the second match in a row we play the team in 10th position. Here’s the home and away table Home Away W D L F A W D L F A GD Pt 1 Chelsea 6 0 1 20 4 4 1 1 9 6 +19 31 2 Liverpool 5 …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: you can prove anything with figures (or not)”
By Walter Broeckx I don’t know what is the next step after madness in English. Bonkers? Crazy? I think someone has to invent a new word to describe the craziness that has taken over at Fick FUFA headquarters over the years. If you thought that after having had two summers with no rest at all …
By Tony Attwood Lucas Perez is being tipped to play again in the League Cup quarter-final against Southampton tonight; Olivier Giroud has an injury – either hamstring or groin depending on the source of information. The Giroud injury is said not to be too serious and that omitting him tonight is just a precaution. Chuba …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton: the preview, plus Bellerin’s quick recovery”
By Walter Broeckx I think it must have been 7 or 8 years ago I wrote on Untold that if you appointed me as the ref of a match between let us say Manchester United and a 3rd division team I maybe could force a win for the 3rd division team. I said “maybe” because …
Read More “How a referee can bend a match to fix the result: the inside story”
By Walter Broeckx This morning when I drove to work I heard on the radio that in Colombia a plane had crashed and that on this plane was the selection of Chapecoense. A Brazilian team that was on its way to play the final of the Copa Sudamericano. What we would call the Europa League …
Read More “And then suddenly football is not that important anymore”
By Walter Broeckx After a few matches in which we didn’t play that well we managed to get back to winning ways with the 3-1 win over Bournemouth. One would think that everyone would be happy and satisfied in Arsenal circles. But after having had enough sleep I went on the internet and searched for …
By Walter Broeckx When our oldest reader and probably oldest Arsenal supporter in the Arsenal internet world kindly asks me a question I cannot but give him what he asks. To say I had a tough 24 hours is a bit of an understatement. Being the president of an official supportersclub in a country is …
Read More “Arsenal – Bournemouth: the travels, the catering, the laughter and fun”
By Walter Broeckx Sorry to have been keeping you waiting for this match report. But as you know I have been travelling a bit and so was in the stadium and not in my comfortable seat at home. So no seeing things and typing with looking further at the match. So the events may have …
Read More “Arsenal Bournemouth 3-1: the view from block 110”
By Tony Attwood Of all the many things I have never ever imagined myself doing dancing in a bar with a group of friend at 2am to a Showaddywaddy tribute band must be right up there on the list But thus it was in the early hours of this morning, and now of course …
By Tony Attwood, sitting by the swimming pool in Spain, as the rain patters down Watching Sky’s overseas service (Bein Sports) with the awful Richard Keys and Andy Grey is a very dispiriting experience. They as their independent commentator in the studio Clive Allen – obviously a very balanced middle of the road man when …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: the view from Spain; match details as it happened”
