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 Walter Broeckx After the boring interlul matches we finally can have something to look forward too. Arsenal players have flown in from all over the world and we have a match to play on Saturday. Alas, what I had hoped for hasn’t materialised. I had hoped for a return of Ramsey and The Ox …
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by Tony Attwood Remember Portsmouth FC? Won the FA Cup in 2008, and were runners up in 2010. Went through a lot of owners with their own unique brand of governance. Now playing in the fourth division, after a seemingly endless series of owners did the dirty on the club. Oh and there was …
. ByDon McMahon Unless you have actually seen terrorism and the extremist mentality that fostered it, it is hard to comprehend. Having lived and worked in the Middle East and seen the everyday Muslim, versus the tiny minority of fanatics, it comes as no surprise that one of the terrorists’ aims was to generate and …
Read More “Football: a powerful force for good in the world”
By Vintage Gooner Who owns Arsenal and how is it governed? Although many fans would answer that Arsenal belongs to us, the truth is that we fans are just consumers of goods and services from the club we love. We are very important to the club but this gives us no element of ownership. Good …
By Tony Attwood What is the difference between being ruled by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and being ruled by Fifa? Well Fifa don’t arrange or allow the execution of many people, nor do they send them off to Siberia. But they do steal other people’s money, are utterly corrupt and have …
Read More “Life under Fifa: the misery of living under the yoke of incompetent tyranny”
By Tony Attwood The emergence of Iceland as a footballing nation capable of getting to the European Championship finals made me wonder how they had done it. Or rather, I wondered if the notion I put forward in 2010 (and which has now regularly been copied by others) as to why England do so badly …
Read More “How come tiny and modest sized nations achieve so much more in football than England?”
By Tony Attwood As I have tried to say each time in the past that I have covered a story about Rangers and their financial issues, I am not Scottish, and my knowledge of Scottish football is at a distance. I have been to Scotland, I have watched football in Scotland, and I have watched …
Read More “Rangers lose big tax case; Rangers win big tax case. In Scotland both can be true”
Mathieu Flamini – Levulinic Acid King by Andrew Crawshaw There have been a number of reports recently in the Press that our Mathieu is doing extremely well for himself outside the world of football. In 2008 he founded a company, GF Biochemicals, in Italy with a friend Pasquale Granata. This has been kept very …
By Tony Attwood So just another interlull week in terms of football news (although of course certainly not in terms of anything else). Using the lovely archaic language that the press indulge in these days, Cesc Fábregas’ statement that Chelsea’s season is fucked was described by one over-extended journalist as a “foul mouthed rant”. An interesting …
By Walter Broeckx The world looks an awful place these days with all the wars, violence and hatred to other human beings. If only every individual human being would make sure that he would bring no harm to any other human being then the world would look like a different place. It’s up to each …
By Billy the Dog McGraw Let me assure you this story about Lionel Messi is not from a bloggetta. No. It comes Untold’s English newspaper of choice (although we give them the occasional bashing for forgetting the evidence and printing silly things). (In our opinion). But today that is what it says in the Guardian. Messi …
Read More “Lionel Messi planning a move to Arsenal this summer.”
By Tony Attwood If we take a look at the league table at this point last season (that is, after 12 games – the 12th game last year coming after rather than before the interlull last year) and then compare with the final league position of the club (the last two columns) we can see …
Read More “Do the first 12 games tell us just how the rest of the season will go? Apparently yes.”
By Tony Attwood Well ok, not quite a big debate, but it is getting a bit of an airing. In the coming weeks we will find out whether we are playing in the Champions League, the Europa or neither. And the question is, should Arsenal play to their strengths in every game and try and …
By Usama & Walter SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: League Cup FOURTH ROUND DATE: 27th October 2015 VENUE: Hillsborough Stadium (Sheffield, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Graham Scott 1st LINESMAN: Jake Collin 2nd LINESMAN: Mick McDonough 4th OFFICIAL: Nigel Miller First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision Points …
By Tony Attwood What makes a perfect transfer? First, you have to abandon plausibility. There has to be no link with reality, no link with what the team needs, who is available, who might come to the club, whether the player has said no, whether the player is in prison on suspicion of blackmail, whether …
Read More “The perfect transfer story: Arsenal’s approach for two new players”
An in-depth and historical study of solastalgia in North London . PART 1 . From – The Brickfields Gunners Blog . Before you of the other lot start to comment or click the dislike buttons, hear me out . While admitting to a somewhat perverse pleasure in baiting Spuds fans , I do …
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By Usama & Walter Note: we have taken out the list with all the goal kicks, corners and throw ins to make the reviews better readable. From now on about these decisions we will only mention the wrong ones. SWANSEA CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 11 DATE: 31st October 2015 VENUE: Liberty …
By Tony Attwood Naturally we focus on Arsenal, and sometimes the Wenger out mob – the aaa, their allies in the AST (who do those “surveys” each year in which people are asked questions in a funny way which gets answers such as 94% want the increased revenue from broadcasting and commercial deals to help …
By Ian Jose Mourinho – we were down to 10 men, you can’t have chickens just crossing roads, we need them on the pitch. The chicken will never play for us again. Harry Redknapp – he saw Rosie in the park, they are close friends. Chicken asked me once for some tax advice, I …
A TALE OF TWO ARTISTS……….Don McMahon If you are a regular reader of Untold you may recall my earlier writings, and from those find me something of a football fanatic, former professional referee and marginal footballer. But as with most Canadians, my first and principal love is ice hockey. Football became a passion to …
Read More “A tale of two artists – how analysis and learning can transform the way a game is played”
By Tony Attwood Let us never forget, let us never ever forget, let us never, ever, ever, ever forget that through this summer the manic hysteria of demented wildcats howling under the full moon told us constantly that Arsenal had to buy-buy-buy-buy etc etc. We were the only THE ONLY team this side of Lesser …
Read More “Now even the media is starting to recognise just how amazing this Arsenal team really is”
. By Stephen Wales . Football 2030/31 season . Welcome to the start of the 2030/31 season in the new Super Euro Premier League, last season’s Super Euro League division A was disbanded after corruption allegations were made against a number of Russian clubs. This season we are proud at BT Fox sports to give …
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By Tony Attwood There have always been some people who like to leave the ground early, but this strange and eccentric habit seems to have got worse and worse and worse in recent years. I suppose it was harder to get out when we had a ground that had large standing sections, and for those …
By Walter Broeckx I have recently seen a very interesting stat on the internet about the presence/absence of Ramsey for Arsenal and what it means statistically if he is playing – or not. And the numbers are really amazing to be honest. I have been a big fan of Ramsey since he arrived and defended …
By Walter Broeckx When I was doing my match report of the match against the tiny totts something strange happened. Now I must explain a bit how I do my match reports. I start before the match with the teams and then just type things that I see or that I think are important to …
