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 Travel was by Eurostar which was trouble free. I had booked about three weeks in advance via the Eurostar website and got my tickets for £29.00 each way. Walter was impressed as he said he could never get them for anything like that. The only delay I had was on my local …
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by Tony Attwood There is not too much talk of it on TV, for the simple reason that when TV discusses football it is never neutral. TV buys in football, and anything that threatens its position as the dominant distributor of football is an absolute no-go area. Thus discussion of something being wrong with …
By Tony Attwood There’s an article by Ed Aarons, Guardian Sport’s deputy news editor, in which he says that “Even Lineker, who describes himself as “a proper boyhood fan” who went home and away to watch his hometown team from the age of seven, could not have dreamed what has happened to Leicester over the last few …
By Walter Broeckx For the first time in more than 35 years I went to Brussels and to the Anderlecht stadium. An American politician called Brussels a place in hell a few weeks ago. I wouldn’t call it hell but it sure has some very depressing neighbourhoods and I seemed to pass through them the …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone During the last transfer window approximately 450 different players were touted to be coming to Arsenal in January. Since only 25 could be registered in the team – and that only if the current 23 were all shunted out – it seemed a little unlikely. And interestingly, until the move …
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By Walter Broeckx As you will know if you read Andrew’s post a little while ago, Arsenal are coming to town. Well not the real Arsenal of course but the youth version of Arsenal will come to Brussels to play Anderlecht in the knock out phase of the Uefa Youth League. Arsenal and Anderlecht played …
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by Andrew Crawshaw After a great start in the UEFA Youth League, a stuttering end to the group phase saw us in second place in our group and with an extra game to play to try and gain a place in the last 16. The Youth League started with two entry streams, the first of …
Read More “UEFA Youth League – Anderlecht v Arsenal U19s – Tuesday 9 Feb 2016 Match Preview”
By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is a former professional footballer with Arsenal who was forced to retire at 22 due to recurring knee injuries. Soon after hanging up his boots, he was hired as a scout for Arsenal and spent 7 years scouting the Americas full time before recently moving back to London. I’m venturing …
Read More “Finalising a transfer and transitioning to life at a new club. How does it work?”
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you’ll know that a little while ago I got rather excited when we announced that Bob Wilson had agreed to write the foreword to our book Arsenal: The Long Sleep 1953-1970. That book, as you may know, has now been published, and we’re moving ahead …
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By Tai Emeka Obasi In Frederick Forsyth’s book, The Fourth Protocol, the lead character, John Preston was the operations head of MI5 in London. He was saddled with the huge task of closing in on a topnotch KGB illegal agent deep in Central London and prevent the Russian from setting off a nuke that would detonate …
. By Tim Charlesworth There was much gnashing of teeth at the Ems last Tuesday. Of course general disappointment and frustration were the cause of much of it. But some unhappiness emerged even before the kick-off. Some gooners were both surprised and disappointed to see Flamini start ahead of Coquelin and Elneny*. I wasn’t surprised. …
By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw In an attempt to be more inclusive Untold and to meet the new government equality of coverage opportunities, as the blog’s resident psychologist I have been asked to offer a review of the Bournemouth game written for card carrying members of the aaa and other perpetual negativists. For the …
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By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made on change in the starting line up for this match. Oxlade-Chamberlain started in the place of Campbell who dropped to the bench. In the centre of defence we still had the Gabriel-Koscielny partnership and Per found himself a place on the bench. Team at the start: Cech, Bellerin,Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, …
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by Bulldog Drummond. . “What is for sure is that the effect is not neutral,” Arsène Wenger said. He was talking about the news that Man City will have a new manager next season. “It will either go very positive or very negative. And that is very difficult to predict. We have seen that at …
By Tony Attwood Premier League clubs have lots of money. Premier League clubs need good PR. Premier League clubs have consultancy groups representing mainstream fans and minority groups. And yet they get their PR wrong. Utterly, totally, hopelessly wrong. Arsenal, as has been well-reported, has applied its rules about Cup Credits for season ticket holders, …
by Andrew Crawshaw Following the review of Mr Clattenberg in the Chelsea game here is the updated Table of Shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 1 30 Red Cards 1 10 Penalties 3 18 Goals 0 8 Total 5 66 Possible Cost in Points 0 15 Referee Review: Arsenal – …
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By Tony Attwood On 26 October 2009, Daniel Levy stated that Tottenham intended to move into the partially built new stadium for the start of the 2012–13 season with the final 56,250-seat venue ready for 2013/14. On 23 May 2013, I raised a point about Tottenham’s new ground which had as we knew by then …
by Andrew Crawshaw The Ladies have just had their pre-season photo shoot here is the main picture courtesy of Arsenal.com Back row Natalia Pablos Sanchon (7), Katie McCabe (15), Leah Williamson (14), Emma Mitchell (3), Marta Corredera (17), Danielle Van de Donk (21) Middle row Farah Williams (4), Jemma Rose (19), Dominique Janssen (20), Sari van …
Zen and the art of football supporting – by Blacksheep Zen (for those unfamiliar with it) is an ancient Chinese form of Buddhism that has become established in Japan, Korea and Vietnam as well as influencing many in the West. It stresses the importance of meditation, observation and insight and in my reflection of the …
Read More “Zen and the art of football supporting: a response to Tuesday night.”
By Tony Attwood I was on the beach in Norfolk near Hunstanton today watching a sperm whale that was stuck on the sands – caught there by the outgoing tide. This pic is from the BBC – I was going to put mine up but this one is better. I hope the BBC don’t mind. …
by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the current League Table for the U21s Team Pld W D L G.D. Pts 1 Derby County 14 9 1 4 13 28 2 Aston Villa 16 8 4 4 -1 28 3 Arsenal 13 8 3 2 11 27 4 West Bromwich Albion 14 6 6 2 6 24 …
By Walter Broeckx Oh how easy it is sitting the studio. Comfortable while looking at some big screens. Where you can look back at things. And use all kinds of nice graphic tricks to show what a complete fool or brilliant mind (depending on the situation) a player has been. Or even nicer…to show what …
Read More “Pundits turning into managers: not a very wholesome sight”
THE ART OF MANAGEMENT: WENGER STYLE…….Don McMahon Any Gooners who are stupid enough to listen to the media, the pundits, the aaa, the pseudo X-box managers, the so-called experts and other assorted idiots, will have been hearing lamentations about how Wenger hasn’t brought in the ¨missing links¨ so desperately needed to ensure the Arsenal …
By Tony Attwood “Lies, damn lies and statistics,” is, I guess, the ultimate anti-analytic statement. The total way of saying, “I know what I think, and you can’t tell me no different.” The end of detailed examination as a way of understanding the world. So trying to analyse what happens over time to a …
By Walter Broeckx Seven changes compared to the last match against Burnley in the FA cup. Cech back in goal and Bellerin and Monreal as the full backs. Koscielny and Gabriel continued in the centre of defence. In midfield we had Flamini, Ramsey and Özil. Up front Arsenal started with Campbell, Giroud and Alexis. Arsenal …
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