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, 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 …
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By Bulldog Drummond OK I want to make this clear that this lack of preview at the proper time and all the blame being put on technical issues and people being in the wrong country is not my fault. Well, to be more correct part of it is my fault but I am not going …
Read More “Arsenal v Bournemouth: another bit of preview from afar.”
By Walter Broeckx With Tony away to foreign parts and our Bulldog seemingly not barking today it is up to me to write anything that can be regarded as a match preview. A quick look at the league tables shows that Bourmenouth is sitting in 10th position in the league after having gathered 15 points …
By Tony Attwood Sincere apologies for the lack of Untold today. Walter is hopefully now making the 24 hour round trip from Antwerp to the Emirates, while I am on a dancing holiday in Spain, and currently trying to persuade my back that it does actually want to operate after a marathon jive night on …
By Tony Attwood An article on the Swiss news service 24 heures has raised issues which for the moment the media in the UK are ignoring. The original article (in French of course) appears here. My rough translation is beneath. The Zurich-based firm Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte has filed a complaint with the Zurich Commercial Court …
Read More “The parents of a 17 year old African player sue Fifa over the transfer rules for minors”
by Andrew Crawshaw Our Matchday Officials this week are :- Referee – Mike Jones Age 48 from Cheshire Assistant 1 – Adrian Holmes from West Yorkshire Assistant 2 – Mark Scholes from Buckinghamshire Fourth Official – Graham Scott Age 48 from Oxfordshire This will be the first time this season that Mike Jones will have …
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By Walter Broeckx At last. At last. At last. It took me a while this season but finally I can come over to see my beloved Gunners play in the flesh. Okay I have been to Lens in our first pre-season match and have been walking around for hours with a few hundred other Gooners …
Read More “Every advantage has a disadvantage, Arsenal Belgium on the road”
by Arvind Its been a long time since I did an article for Untold. So this year, I thought I’d try something a little new. Instead of relying on all those rating systems everywhere, I figured I’d re-watch every single game and rate all the players as per my own eyes. The other thing I …
By Tony Attwood If you don’t live in the UK there is a chance you might not be aware of the issue that is starting to engulf English football. If you do live in the UK, then I imagine you can’t but know – but I hope you will allow me a moment to recap. …
By Tony Attwood As we saw in the last article, Mr Mourinho is complaining. And we are not the only people to have noticed this. For the Guardian noticed it too, and wondered if “M” was really right to call his team “unlucky”. In an article “Are Manchester United really the unluckiest team in …
By Tai Emeka Obasi… He called himself the special one and ever since has been living in the Utopian world of truly being the best. He still sees himself as not only the best coach in the world but also the most important personality in the business, if not ever created. The ex-Chelsea coach …
Read More “While others mature with age Mourinho gets more idiotic.”
MANCHESTER UNITED vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 12 DATE: 19th November 2016 VENUE: Old Trafford (Manchester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Garratt 4th OFFICIAL: Michael Oliver First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:38 Ander …
By Walter Broeckx A number of changes compared to the team that started at Manchester United last weekend. In goal we have our CL keeper Ospina as expected. Jenkinson stayed at right back but at left back we had Kieran Gibbs in the place of Monreal. In midfield we had the pairing of Ramsey and …
By Tony Attwood On the injury front we know that Héctor Bellerín and Santi Cazorla are still out along with Perez and the three January returnees, but there are also doubts about Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey. Ramsey has a broken toe it seems, and both could be given a day off. On the Santi …
Read More “Arsenal v PSG: the team and the formation, plus other guess work”
By Tony Attwood The timescales aren’t exactly the same of course, but there is an interesting parallel between Tottenham’s experience in the Champions League and Arsenal’s in 1998 and 1999. In those years, as I am sure you will recall, Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, and for what I think were the …
By Tony Attwood I know this story has suddenly started to appear everywhere, and since this is Untold I wouldn’t normally run such a piece, but it really does raise an interesting question: how far are the newly emboldened British border agencies and their chums in the Home Office going to go to keep our …
Read More “Serge Aurier has been refused permission to enter the UK. But would we let in the Trump?”
By Tony Attwood In 1936/7 Man City won the first division. They were one of only three teams other than Arsenal to win the League in the 1930s (the other two were Everton and Sunderland). Man City had been jogging along as a mid-table team for several years, and had finished ninth the year before …
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by the Referee Review Team 1: Referee Appointments and Results Matchweek #11 Bournemouth vs. Sunderland [1-2] Referee – Mike Dean 1st Assistant Referee – Simon Long 2nd Assistant Referee – Ian Hussin Fourth Official – Lee Mason Manchester City vs. Middlesbrough [1-1] Referee – Kevin Friend 1st Assistant Referee – Richard West 2nd Assistant …
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By Walter Broeckx Okay I hope my wife doesn’t read this and gets in to wrong ideas. No I still am the same my dear, still love you in the husband and wife life we live. But most football supporters have a player that they love as if it was their own son or brother. …
By Walter Broeckx Over the last 10-15 years we have seen many different players play for Arsenal. Some were great, others ended up somewhere else because they didn’t want to be with us anymore and earn more money somewhere else. Others were not so great in the long run and found that Arsenal had other …
Read More “More options up front than we had over the last seasons”
By Tony Attwood I never really expected to have much in common with Santi Cazorla. He’s one of the very few players around who is actually shorter than me by an inch or two, and he can play football rather well, which I can’t. But it turns out that Santi has just toddled off to …
Read More “Arsenal prepare for PSG; Santi Cazorla off to Barcelona”
By Tony Attwood Recent studies in psychology and sociology have put forward the idea that when people feel they’ve lost something, then they are willing to take any sort of risk in order to get it back. Even if it never existed in the first place. This is the simple explanation as to why the …
By Tony Attwood Just how bad are we in November? Not just this November but each and every November. Year after Wengerian year after Wengerian year… Curiously, given that this year this has been the topic there hasn’t been any real analysis of this. Indeed I have seen commentators writing that this is the …
Read More “Arsenal in November. Exactly how bad are we year after year? You might be surprised.”
By Walter Broeckx Sorry for the delay but as I had to be in the TV studios with our supporters club I couldn’t get to a computer earlier. Lots of doubts before the match about the fitness of Alexis. But he started. So was he fit? Probably yes in the way that Alexis always is …
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By Bulldog Drummond All runs end… except of course the run that means that Olympiakos win the Greek League. That goes on for ever – although even that might be affected by the cancellation of games by the government this season. So the run against of results against “M” and the run of results …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal – the teams, the pizza, the telepathy, the result”
