By Sir Hardly Anyone; Our Head of Blogetta and Spoof-man of the century is down the pub. GOOD NEWS: Wenger Reveals Return Date For 6 of the Injured First Team Players So shouts “GunnersCity” who helpfully print the list 21st November – Bellerin, Oxlade Chamberlain, Ramsey. 29th November – Walcott. 13th December – Wilshere. But then we …
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By Tony Attwood So it wasn’t just me who picked up on Damien Comolli’s suggestion that the injury crisis in football is not all down to Arsenal, but is down to nationality. The Telegraph today tells us that more than a quarter of the Premier League’s 142 English players unavailable for international selection because of …
Read More “Why Arsenal players are getting injured. Finally we are getting some insights.”
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. EVERTON COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 10 DATE: 24th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Lee Mason 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Andy Garratt 4th OFFICIAL: Anthony Taylor First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
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. By Proudkev It seems a day doesn’t go by when someone, somewhere tries to discredit Arsene Wenger’s record. How many times has it been repeated that George Graham handed Arsene success with that back 4? This is a regular weapon in the armoury of the Wenger Out Brigade and is often repeated in the …
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By Tony Attwood I really do want to start with my thoughts about the Armistice commemoration at the Ems yesterday. I have stood for so many moments of silence to show sympathy, understanding and thanks, that in the end the silence can (for me) start to lose its meaning. Not always, of course: when I …
Read More “A very good day for Arsenal, a disappointment for Tiny Totts, excellent Armistice commemoration, extraordinary injury revelation”
By Walter Broekx The question that Tony asked this weekend was answerd by Wenger. Koscielny did start in the team for this Norh London Derby. For the rest no changes for this last math before the interlul. On the bench we saw Ospina back for the first time since his injury he got in the …
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By Bulldog Drummond Mesut Özil does ‘the hardest part of football’… has the Arsenal star finally silenced his doubters? That was a headline in the Daily Mail this week followed by the usual bullets… Mesut Özil has more assists, and chances created, than any other player in the Premier League this season Chris Waddle says …
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Arsenal v Spurs Sunday 8 November – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No updates to the Table of Shame for this week. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 11 Red Cards 0 7 Penalties 0 8 Goals 0 3 Total 0 29 Possible Cost in Points 0 6 …
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by Tony Attwood I know many fans have a whole plethora of pictures of Arsenal in their homes. I’ve got a lot of books, which of course I use as reference material for the Arsenal History Society articles I write, but there is only one Arsenal picture. It is the cover of a Highbury programme, …
Read More “Robert Pirès’ Ultimate Arsenal XI selection, memories of a departed friend, and Ducks Can’t Tackle.”
By Tony Attwood As we all know Laurent Koscielny could have played against Bayern but was left on the bench. It is a fairly obvious conclusion given that if he was on the bench he could have played. That’s that, nice and simple, although it didn’t stop the inevitable “Koscielny could have played against …
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By Tony Attwood Olivier Giroud’s record for Arsenal this season is simple to understand. He has played 16 games and scored 8 goals. 50%. If we just take league games it is six in 11. Similar to last season in the league where he scored 15 in 28. . But throughout the summer …
Read More “Giroud: Untold’s favourite striker, the bête noire of the anti-Arsenal mobsters, and now…”
By Tony Attwood It is amusing to see the way the media twists and turns in its opinions, as if somehow we won’t remember what they said yesterday, let alone last week. And dare I suggest that a small number of the scribblers are at least getting someone else to read Untold for them, if …
Read More “Why we will win the league no matter what happens against Tottenham”
By Tony Attwood TV pundits have it easy. For unless we keep a collection of their ramblings on hard drives, or make notes as the programmes run, their wild comments about who is going to win the league and who will struggle are lost for all time. TV stations don’t do re-runs of their pundits …
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. 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. Despite his …
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By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. BAYERN MUNICH COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 3 DATE: 20th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey) 1st LINESMAN: Bahattin Duran (Turkey) 2nd LINESMAN: Tarik Ongun (Turkey) 4th OFFICIAL: Cem Satman (Turkey) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
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By Tony Attwood Two things I learned from last night’s game. One is that I can never guess what Walter is going to say in a review and the other is that Arsene Wenger is changing his style of commenting on his players. I thought Ozil’s goal was ok. Now I am not a …
Read More “Just how lopsided is football in Germany, disagreeing with referees, alternative line ups, Benzema in prison.”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made two changes to the team compared to last weekend match against Swansea. Debuchy came in the place of the injured Bellerin and not exptected but Gabriel came in the place of Koscielny who sat on the bench. Acccording to the German commentator Kos had a hip problem. Well this sure …
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By Tony Attwood One new injury – but hopefully just for this match: Héctor Bellerín. He has been replaced in the squad by Jeff Reine-Adelaide – which doesn’t mean that Jeff is going to play, but does tell us quite a lot about how the young man is seen and valued by the club. Just …
Read More “Bayern v Arsenal, Özil going through the motions, Mourinho on Özil, Benzema arrested.”
By Tony Attwood A reader recently raised the point that he didn’t particularly want Arsenal to buy more players but buy better players. So I wondered just how good Arsenal players actually are. I’ve taken two measures. One a list of the top 20 from today’s Daily Telegraph, which runs its own listing, I think …
Read More “Who are the best players in the Premier League and how many are at Arsenal? Two sets of rankings compared”
They have tried blaming the pitch, the grass, and above all they have tried blaming Arsène Wenger. They are the press and their blogetta camp followers. They seize on comments such that “Arsenal have held a comprehensive internal analysis of the club’s preparation and training” when in fact all sensible Premier League clubs do exactly …
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By Walter Broeckx With Arsenal not doing too shabbily in the PL so far this season it must be a hard time for those wishing us to do rather badly in order to get rid of Mr Wenger. One of the phrases that then is used is ‘there is no trophy to be won for …
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Arsenal Ladies v Notts County Ladies Continental Tyres Cup Final Sunday 01 November 2015 The Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup has been in existence for five years and is essentially the replacement for the Ladies League Cup. The competition is in two phases, the first being a group phase comprising all …
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We have had significant technical difficulties in the last couple of days which have all the hallmarks of a concerted attack on the site There has been no effect save that sometimes we are unable to publish on occasion, and you might well at times not be able to read the site from time to …
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Is this an injury crisis? By Tim Charlesworth Based on the choices that Wenger has made over the last twelve months or so, his five top players for the right wing/right midfield position appear to be (in no particular order): Aaron Ramsey The Ox Jack Wilshere Danny Welbeck Theo Walcott All of these players are …
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ARSENAL FC IN SHOCK DEAL TO BUY LE GROVE AND OTHER ANTI ARSENAL BLOGS !!!!! From – The Brickfields Gunners Blog In a swift take over move that has shocked millions of Arsenal fans , the club has agreed in ‘principle’ to buy up/out almost all of the negative anti-Arsenal blogs in the Arsenal Sphere …
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