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 Andrew Crawshaw Following our Referee reviews of the United and Swansea games, here is an updated Wall of Shame and we see an entry in third place for Robert Madley. In his previous game this year he scored 90% and made only two mistakes in the whole game. Clearly he had been given a …
By Walter Broeckx Now let us for the sake of it pretend that time travelling exists and is possible. So if you are with me let us start travelling back to Wednesday’s match at Nou Camp. And let us have a look at the statistics as they are shown on some websites. Like the Uefa website. …
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. During the past few months Arsenal scout Danny Karbassiyoon has contributed an occasional series of articles about being a scout for Arsenal. Now, as publication of Danny’s new book, The Arsenal Yankee, approaches publication, Danny answers some of the questions that have been put to him in the correspondence following each article. (More details …
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By Tony Attwood Fifa has lodged a claim in the US courts for tens of millions of dollars for damages and compensation from the former executives who have been found guilty or accused of fraud. The reason is that they have “deeply tarnished the Fifa brand”. I bet the court case is going to …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal with some unexpected people in the starting line up. Flamini wasn’t really expected in the place of Coquelin and with Elneny as his partner this also wasn’t what one might expect. Per on the bench for Koscielny also not expected but as Wenger talked about speed in defence the choice for …
Read More “Barcelona – Arsenal 3-1 the final score not even with the number of shots”
. By Tony Attwood In 1975/6 we went six matches without a win under Bertie Mee. In 1976/7 we went 11 without a win including seven consecutive defeats under Terry Neill. In 1986/7 we went 10 leagues games without a win in which we scored a total of two goals, with Graham in charge. …
Read More “Barcelona v Arsenal; all the news you never knew you needed and probably didn’t”
by Andrew Crawshaw This semi-final is to be played over two legs, home and away. The first leg is at the Manchester City Academy Arena on Friday evening with a 19:00 kick off. The second leg is set for Monday 4 April 19:45 probably at the Emirates (this will be confirmed once it is determined …
Read More “2015-16 FA Youth Cup Semi-Final Preview Arsenal v Man City”
ARSENAL vs. SWANSEA CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 28 DATE: 2nd March 2016 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Robert Madley 1st LINESMAN: Peter Kirkup 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Andy Woolmer First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points 00:12 Stephen …
Read More “Ref Review : Arsenal – Swansea, when is it going to start to even out?”
By Tony Attwood It appears that Manchester United have either abandoned or put on hold any plans it might have had to build a small stadium for the club’s youth and academy teams. Apparently the top brass at Man U have reviewed whether to build a stadium now that Man C have at their City Football Academy …
Read More “Why it is so vital for a club not to take its youth programme for granted.”
by Ray Hobbs Thierry Henry has become a step closer to becoming a football manager after revealing that he has completed his Uefa A Coaching badges. The Gunners legend is now as a result able to take on a managerial role in any league below the Premier Division, or at any youth team in Europe. The …
By Walter Broeckx The aaa who are having a field day celebrating Arsenal losing their FA cup match has told us more than once that we support Wenger FC or Arsene FC and not Arsenal. Of course by showing their real colours and sending in (not published) celebration comments after our loss to Watford they …
Read More “Supporting Arsenal, Arsène FC or Wenger FC or all of them at the same time”
. Smash Them! – By Proud Kev As most of you know Manchester United are the biggest club in the World. We know this because we are reminded of it on a regular basis. This is a club that enjoyed domination of English football and the Premier League, using their financial wealth and their magnet-like …
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. By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw, senior psychiatrist at the university hospital of the North Circular Road. . A number of changes are needed I think. First off, the number of club psychologists needs to be enhanced, as judging by commentaries on some blogs there are a number of people around who find it very …
By Walter Broeckx As we all know or should know by now, the aaa are not real Arsenal supporters. They pretend to be Arsenal supporters but they are not. And today I got great proof of this. Because below is the comment that was in moderation and the person thought it would not be …
Read More “They are not Arsenal supporters, I don’t know what but not supporters”
By Walter Broeckx Alexis and Özil starting again and also Coquelin back in the team after his one match suspension. Starting team: Ospina, Chambers, Mertesacker, Gabriel, Gibbs, Elneny, Coquelin, Campbell, Özil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Macey, Bellerin, Monreal, Flamini, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck. Arsenal with most of the ball in the opening minutes. Alexis to …
Read More “Arsenal – Watford : 1-2, the day the FA cup became a real trophy again…”
By Bulldog Drummond Per Mertesacker and Gabriel are fit, which is quite a relief. Aaron Ramsey is out with a thigh problem that will keep him out for maybe a month. Laurent Koscielny is not ready for this match, but might make Barcelona away, but failing that will be ready for Everton away. Watford …
Read More “Arsenal v Watford, the teams, the beach, the injuries, the fair play league. Etc.”
. #By Bulldog Drummond As we already know we are the best club ever in the FA Cup. The semi final table, excluding the smaller clubs that have not made the 20+ appearance level looks like this… Team Appearances Won Lost Arsenal 28 19 9 Aston Villa 21 11 10 Chelsea 21 11 10 …
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. By Jerry Premier League teams participating in the Champions League in the last few years appear to struggle during the knockout phase of the competition highlighted last year with no PL team surviving the Round of 16 (Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal). This year, Manchester United was knocked out in the groups, Chelsea have …
Read More “Why are the FA/PL sabotaging English teams in UCL?”
by Andrew Crawshaw As this is a cup weekend, I’m not going to update the Table of Shame or Hall of Shame till League games resume on 19 March. The Match Officials are :- Referee – Andre Marriner Assistants – Simon Long, Matthew Wilkes Fourth Official – Stuart Attwell In order to prepare this preview …
Read More “FA Cup Quarter Final 2015-16 Arsenal v Watford – The Match Officials. He’s ok-ish.”
. By Tim Charlesworth Human beings talk a lot of nonsense. And nowhere is this more true than football (hello Robbie Savage). We are basically ‘pattern seeking-apes’. We are genetically programmed to look for causes and effects. This is actually our finest feature. It drives things like curiosity, reflection, imagination, and ambition. Basically, these are …
Read More “Nonsense, imagination, form, Theo, fragility and hope”
by Andrew Crawshaw Unlike the men, the Ladies season starts on Sunday 20 March and runs through summer to early November. There are thee competitions, the WSL (Womens Super League), the FA Women’s Cup,and the FA WSL Continental Cup. Our first game of the season is in the FA Women’s Cup where we are away …
By Usama & Walter Untold note: In case you have not seen this before, this is part of a series of referee reviews that goes back a number of years, which provides the data from which is used for the referee previews. Also, given that PGMO have stopped providing their own publicly available analysis of …
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By Tony Attwood Ten reasons why I remain sweet and serene in relation to Arsenal and don’t want Wenger to leave was published this morning. And so the other side of the coin. The ten things that make me really, really, totally flaming mad and red faced about football. 1: The personal view leading to the …
By Tony Attwood OK sweet and serene might be a bit much, but even so, I am fairly calm, I smile quite a lot and enjoy my life, including Arsenal. Here’s why. And to some degree how. 1: I didn’t come here to win things. As you might have realised I’m old. My dad took …
. By Fishpie Ok, gotta admit the third quarter of the 2015/16 season did not, in any way whatsoever, turn out like the script. Much anger, abuse and “told you so’s” have been hurled at our team, and mainly by us. And really Untolders, who can blame us? I know that every single one of …
