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 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Read More “FA Ladies Cup Semi-final report Arsenal v Sunderland”
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 …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Of course it has been a great honour indeed to be awarded the right to publish the regular Official Arsenal Transfer List each week. Being “official” doesn’t in any way mean that the list is actually “official”, any more than a “£50m centre forward deal done, contract signed” headline means …
Read More “Exclusive: The Official Arsenal Transfer Rumour List”
By Tony Attwood Danny Karbassiyoon, the ex-Arsenal player, the Arsenal scout who discovered Joel Campbell and Gedion Zelalem, the occasional columnist on Untold Arsenal, and the author of the book “The Arsenal Yankee” will be the special guest at an Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association meeting in central London on Monday 25 April. The meeting is …
Read More “Come and meet ex-Arsenal player and Arsenal scout Danny Karbassiyoon on 25 April”
By Josif . This article continues from yesterday’s article The task facing the next manager, what he has to achieve, and how can he do it? . 8. At the same time as this we need tactical flexibility. How is that to be introduced at the same time as everything else? When you add a real …
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By Josif Arsenal FC have had quite a few great managers but Mr Arsene Wenger will have a special place in the history of the club regardless of when he is going to wave goodbye to all Arsenal fans at the Emirates. He has been our manager for almost 20 years which means that he …
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By Don McMahon Everyone involved in football, professional or amateur, has been intimidated or seen such events happen to others during their years in the sport. However, the art of intimidating the officials is something that has reached new heights and even influenced the FA and the PGMOL stuffed suits, to such a point that …
by Andrew Crawshaw Thanks to the requirements of Sky Sports, this coming Sunday I have to make a difficult choice. Our Mens first team game against Crystal Palace has been moved from Saturday 15:00 to Sunday 16:00 at the Emirates. Our Ladies first team FA Cup Semi-final against Sunderland is at Meadow Park Borehamwood on …
Read More “How the match fixing will pan out this weekend and then stop, leaving me with a choice”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. WATFORD COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 31 DATE: 2nd April 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Anthony Taylor 1st LINESMAN: Harry Lennard 2nd LINESMAN: Peter Kirkup 4th OFFICIAL: Andre Marriner First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
Read More “Ref Review : Arsenal – Watford, a game of two halves…”
By Walter Broeckx For many years Untold Arsenal have been looking at referee performances. When Arsenal lose a match and we point at the errors of the ref some people dismiss our analysis and call it sour grapes or say we are bad losers. But as you can see in our reviews we also don’t …
By Tony Attwood On 29 April 1995 Arsenal and Tottenham drew 1-1 at Highbury. An Ian Wright penalty gave him 18 for the season and left him top league scorer for the club. I’m sure he was pleased. But in the league Arsenal were 10th, 36 points behind a team that had not won the …
Read More “36 points behind the leaders. More wishes to be wary of.”
. By Blacksheep Yesterday’s disappointing draw – disappointing mainly because we seemingly threw away a 2 goal lead by allowing a clod hopper like Andy Carroll to score a hat-rick – led to the display of 2 banners at the Boleyn Ground. One read: Love Arsenal / Hate Kroenke and the other (sadly) had the …
Read More “If you love Arsenal, be careful what you wish for”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal started with an unchanged side for Arsenal’s last match at Boleyn Ground against West Ham. So still Ospina in goal and Cech on the bench. And Iwobi kept his place in the starting team. Welbeck still up front to lead the attack. And Elneny and Coquelin the midfield partners. Arsenal team …
