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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Walter Broeckx No changes in the starting line up from Arsenal but one change on the bench. The return of Jack Wilshere on the bench for the first time this season after his injury sustained in August on the training ground. Arsenal team: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Elneny, Ramsey, Iwobi, Ozil,Alexis, Giroud On …
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By Bulldog Drummond . Well now it seems like only Thursday when we were playing a game and here we are once more. 12 goals in our last five games, three wins and two draws – not so bad overall. . Sunderland’s home record is not that magnifico – in fact in the tables helpfully …
Read More “Sunderland v Arsenal, the teams, what will happen and other stuff.”
By Tony Attwood It was last month that the Guardian ran its article “Why are Premier League referees silenced – even into their retirement?” – an article which picked up on a lot of the work by Untold and by Referee Decisions, although they didn’t credit either site. What would the rest of the media …
Sunderland v Arsenal Sunday 24 April 2016 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No new referee reviews since the last preview so Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 16 Penalties 3 29 Goals 1 11 Total 7 100 Possible Cost in Points …
OH GOD FORGIVE ME WHEN I WHINE………….Don McMahon Recently I came across a poem, whose provenance I could not trace, but which, for me summed up the aaa’s perfidy and those plastic fanboys who sport homemade banners, tear up their season tickets and in general make fools of themselves when they whine about the Arsenal, …
By Walter Broeckx Regular readers know that we have a table of shame in which we compare wrong decisions from referees going in favour of Arsenal and going against Arsenal. Below a repeat of the latest standing in this table. Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 …
By Tony Attwood Before the match four writers of Untold gathered in the Swimmer for a pre-game chit-chat and the occasional noggin. (Tim joining regulars Blacksheep, Andrew and myself). We were, I think it is fair to say, in lively, positive mood, despite the awful car crash, the aftermath of which Blacksheep and I had witnessed …
By Walter Broeckx We had 3 changes from the team that started against Crystal Palace. Per Mertesacker came back in the team in the place of Gabriel. In midfield we had Ramsey and Coquelin dropping to the bench and upfront we had Giroud and Welbeck also found a place on the bench. Starting team: Cech, …
By Bulldog Drummond. Arsène Wenger stands firm but Arsenal are standing still and close to meltdown shouts the Guardian and of course alongside it is another very tatty banner held up by a very tatty supporter, or at least he would be if we could see him. So since the press won’t ever acknowledge that some of …
Read More “The media don’t recognise there is an Arsenal game tonight. Fortunately we do.”
By Zuruvi The season is coming to an end and it is time for some introspection and reflection. Why didn’t Arsenal win this league title or any trophy this year? Wasn’t this league title there for the taking? Will the present squad provide us the fans with confidence that we will do better next season …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of the West Ham Game here is the updated Table of Shame and yes the wrong Important Decisions against Arsenal have now reached 100 and the cost in points is 27 Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 44 Red Cards 2 …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone It is extraordinary to think that no one has ever put together a cumulative list of players who, according to the bloggettas and their chums in the rapidly declining newspapers, have signed for Arsenal this summer – or at least are very close to doing so. [Incidentally, before going on, vis …
Read More “The 29 players signed by and linked to Arsenal 10 weeks before the transfer window!”
WEST HAM UNITED vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 32 DATE: 9th April 2016 VENUE: Boleyn Ground (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Craig Pawson 1st LINESMAN: Lee Betts 2nd LINESMAN: Darren Cann 4th OFFICIAL: Jon Moss First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 03:08 …
Read More “REF REVIEW WEST HAM – ARSENAL: A new entry in the table of shame”
This is the third in our occasional series about the next manager at Arsenal. The first two articles were… The task facing the next manager, what he has to achieve, and how can he do it? The task facing the next manager: tactics, referees and candidates review Now we move on to Group 2 of our …
By Walter Broeckx As I had a board meeting with my fellow members from the Arsenal Belgium supporters club I wasn’t close to a computer during and after the match. So not the usual match report this time. More a combination of the match and some after thoughts. Arsenal started with the same outfield players …
Read More “Arsenal – Crystal Palace: 1-1 : A come back from catenaccio”
By Blacksheep If you live and work in Britain (and much of the English speaking world in fact) then you will probably know recognise Thursday as the 4th day of the week. It comes after Wednesday and before Friday. I associate several things with Thursday: it is my heaviest teaching day during term time, it is …
Read More “The importance of Thursdays (and not playing football on them)”
by Andrew Crawshaw WEMBERLEE, WEMBERLEE – WE’RE THE FAMOUS ARSENAL AND WE’RE GOING TO WEMBERLEE was the cry ringing out at Borehamwood just a few minutes before the men kicked off at the Emirates. It hadn’t looked that way an hour and a quarter earlier when Arsenal had Emma Byrne sent off for a second …
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By Billy “le chien” McGraw, visiting professor of psychology at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Dijon, Dijon, France. Well mes amis here I am at the University of Burgundy (I chose it because of the wine) and yet still keeping up with the ins and outs and roundabouts of the world of football. And casting my …
Read More “We cannot have a situation like the Summer of 2015”
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the Referee review of Anthony Taylor’s performance in the Watford game – here is the updated Table of Shame. The performance had only one wrong Important Decision when in Min17 Prodl clearly pushed Welbeck in the Watford penalty area with Taylor seeing it quite clearly and deciding not to give a …
By Tony Attwood Whatever the scenario there is always someone worse off than you. (Ok, not always, like, not when you are having your head eaten by a wolf, but most of the time). Not that I think we are that badly off. I know there are a lot of people around who are tearing …
Read More “Are Arsenal fans the only fans who are endlessly miserable? It seems not.”
By Walter Broeckx With taking away the match between Stoke and Tottenham from referee Friend next Monday the PGMO has opened a can of worms it seems. Because for the first time the PGMO has openly admitted that not all refs are completely and always impartial. And well… it is rubbish to believe they are. …
By Tony Attwood “The trouble with this club is that it has no plan B.” We must have heard that so many times over the years about Arsenal. They always play the same way, no matter what the opposition are up to, no matter what the referee and assistants are doing. “Arsenal have no plan …
by Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud has scored 20 goals in 42 games this season, and that is clearly not enough. I know this because everyone tells me so. But this week an article turned up on the Goonernews blog that suggested that maybe this wasn’t so bad at all. It showed me that in 1998 …
Read More “The figures that show that a 30+ goalscorer is not always the answer.”
By Tony Attwood My company rents an office block and behind it, a warehouse block. In each case we pay the landlords a fixed rent, and every three years the landlords have the right to put the rent up. They do this in accordance with the rents that are being charged elsewhere in the …
By Tony Attwood Well, I have tried, I have really tried, to explain what I mean by evidence. And I have failed. Yet I still think my point is simple: there are opinions and there are facts. Opinions are interesting, although if one hears the same opinion over and over, that is a bit …
