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 ………..Don McMahon Following recent comical attempts by a few hundred plastic fanboys (mostly kids) to agitate for an alternate reality at AFC, it became apparent to most true Gooners that change for the sake of Russian Roulette style improvements is comical at best and tragically shortsighted at worst! These fickle fairweather, moaning plastic fanboys want …
By Mike I shall start by making it clear that I’m 99% behind Usama , Walter et al in their referee analyses (well nobody’s perfect) and the article on the Crystal Palace game triggered me into doing a little more research. In that article, the question was asked, “But still has there ever been a …
Read More “The shocking figures revealed when fouls, penalties and cards are compared.”
By Josif We have been running an occasional series about the task facing the next manager of Arsenal, whenever he might take over. First we looked at the overall problem and presented the first group of candidates: Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Jose Mourinho and Roberto Mancini This was continued in the second article which continued …
By Andrew and Tony Arsenal beat Blackburn 2-1 to progress through to the Under 21 play off final in a game which saw Santi Cazorla make his comeback as Arsene Wenger, Ivan Gazidis and Petr Cech all looked on. Santi was indeed, by a distance, the best player on the pitch even though he was …
Read More “Arsenal under 21’s progress to play off final, Leicester contemplating relegation”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 33 DATE: 17th April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Roger East 1st LINESMAN: Richard West 2nd LINESMAN: Mark Scholes 4th OFFICIAL: Mike Dean First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
Read More “Ref Review: Arsenal – Crystal Palace: again no penalty for Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx What we mustn’t forget is that when Tony started his blog in 2008 he did so in reaction to the Wenger out brigade who hardly four years after the invincible season was already demanding the head of Wenger on a silver plate. So it is safe to say that the Wenger-out brigade …
Read More “Wenger is a better supporter than some who pretend to be supporters”
by Andrew Crawshaw On Tuesday evening at 19:00 the Arsenal U21 team who promised so much at the beginning of the season have a final chance to secure promotion to the first division of football for that age level. A month ago we were looking good for winning the second division outright and gaining automatic …
Read More “Arsenal U21s v Blackburn U21s – The Last Chance Saloon”
By Tony Attwood On 20 October 1990 Arsenal beat Man U 1-0 at Old Trafford. In the second half, Anders Limpar (who scored the goal) tangled with Irwin. Winterburn then got embroiled with Irwin, and there was what the BBC used to call a bit of argy bargy but which now some call a melee …
By Tony Attwood The media never fails to surprise me. Just when I thought that the anti-Arsenal pro-Liverpool! hate/love in would last forever, suddenly voices arise to suggest a moment of change. Will it last? Could the media turn and knock the exclamation out of Liverpool’s self-perception? Could they actually admit that P. Morgan Esq …
. By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes it is the ever growing Great Transfer Index – the absolute list of all the players already linked with Arsenal – which you can only read here. Or maybe somewhere else if they have nicked it. The one “done deal”, according to “reports” remains the same: Granit Xhaka. But …
Read More “One player in, three to leave, one coaching deal. All Arsenal’s summer transfers”
By Tony Attwood Sitting in the north bank always made me feel part of the action – being at the heart of Arsenal support. But this season being in the front row of the East Upper, facing the 18 yard line at the North Bank end, I get a panoramic view of what the North …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started with the same XI as in the last match. But the most important change was on the bench where Santi Cazorla was present for the first time since getting injured in the first match against Norwich in Novembre last year. Welcome back Santi. Starting team: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, …
By Bulldog Drummond I recall a time when (I think I must have been around 13) I learned about Matthew Hopkins. He was originally from Great Wenham in Suffolk, but moved on to Norfolk spending a fair amount of time in Norwich during the Civil War. He was responsible for the deaths of over 200 …
Read More “Arsenal v Arsenal. Welcome to the Witchfinder Stadium.”
By Walter Broeckx As I am the president of an official Arsenal supporters club I have to deal with lots of different fans. Now I must say that I feel blessed to be the chairman of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. Why? Well because in general we do have a big number of supporters who …
by Andrew Crawshaw As I write this on Wednesday there are no new published Referee reviews so both the Table of Shame and the Wall of Shame are unchanged from last week Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 29 Goals …
Read More “Arsenal v Norwich Saturday 30 April 2016 – The Match Officials”
By Walter Broeckx So after the protest during the WBA match there will be another protest during the Norwich match. If this continues like this Arsenal fans will not be known as Arsenal supporters but Arsenal protesters. Now I am all for free speech and all for having the right to express ones opinion. But …
. By Tim Charlesworth The world of football is full of talk of, ‘the good of the game’ and other meaningless epithets. Football is mostly, however, what economists describe as a ‘zero sum game’. Every winner creates a loser. If you get together a group of Arsenal devotees and a group of Tottenham devotees and …
. From The Brickfields Gunners Blog . . I started writing this at work as a comment to Blacksheep’s fine “Don’t shoot the messenger but we’re in a funk” article, but it mutated and became this . And in the meantime Tony had posted his article on the same subject . So without further adieu …
By Danny Karbassiyoon I’ve had a bit of a crazy past couple of weeks. With the book finally launching, I’ve been on an endless run of podcasts and have spoken to a good number of journalists about the story, my time as a player, and of course my time as a scout. The AISA event this …
By Sir Hardly Anyone . According to the newspapers and the bloggettas, the transfer window is full steam ahead, while the wheels that have come off the bus are going round and round. Or something like that. When it comes to transfers it is rarely a piece of cake.However amidst the inevitable turmoil of rumour …
Read More “Arsenal’s good name secures first transfer but two top stars may have had enough”
By Tony Attwood A recent article by Harry Pearson in When Saturday Comes came with the headline “If you think referees can ‘ruin’ matches, perhaps you’re not watching them right”. Much of the article isn’t about referees or refereeing as such but towards the end it does get there, and asks, “Why everybody in English professional …
Read More “When Saturday Comes the enquiry line is switched off.”
By Tony Attwood I didn’t intend to cover the end of the court case relating to the Hillsborough tragedy on Untold, not out of any lack of compassion or respect but rather because I couldn’t think of anything to say that hadn’t been said a thousand times, and said much better, by others. But then …
Read More “What the papers don’t want to say, what they can’t bring themselves to admit”
By Tony Attwood Last week I was doing some research on an Arsenal player from the 19th century – Stanley Briggs. It turned out he was an amateur player who played for Tottenham, then for Woolwich Arsenal in the League, then for Tottenham. Several Tottenham web sites mention the player and speak of him as …
Read More “Be like Chelsea only more so? Is that what the lynch mob want?”
By Tony Attwood Last night, in a most magnificent setting by London Bridge, overlooking the Thames, ex-Arsenal player, Arsenal scout and Untold columnist Danny Karbassiyoon spoke to members of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association about his life in football – from being a wonderkid with the Gunners to making a faux pas at Burnley by mentioning …
Read More “Why don’t clubs take care of their prize assets?”
By Tony Attwood I got interested in how the media works way back in my late teenage years when I started playing with various rhythm and blues bands. Rather obviously (since my name is not known in musical circles) my attempt to make the big time (or come to that even the little time) failed …
Read More “The endless assault on Arsenal. Now it is started I doubt it will ever end.”
