Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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By Walter Broeckx In the last years we have done a lot of studying and investigating on referees and referee behaviour. And the strange referee behaviour we have sometimes seen. Based on our numbers and having looked around we could come to the conclusion that there is/was some kind of similar system at work like …
By Tony Attwood Owen Gibson in the Observer has reported that the Football Association will save £12m a year after refinancing its Wembley debt. Another £18m is being saved by making about a third of the FA’s staff redundant as the FA tries to do something, aything, to redeem itself in terms of the world …
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Why are some of our players so dramatically improved By Tim Charlesworth My last article (yesterday) observed that a number of our players were showing some surprising improvements over the last twelve months. Why? There are a lot of things that, as supporters, we don’t see at a football club. Most of the real action …
Read More “What is happening to our players? Part 2: The answer?”
By Walter Broeckx The more news that comes out in the open about Fifa and Uefa the more I hate the internationals. I have never been a liker of these matches anyway but the way we are proven right about how corrupt these organisations seem to be the more I hate them. Of course anyone …
By Don McMahon Well the house of cards that was FIFA, EUFA and perhaps, soon the English FA seems to be finally tumbling down around their corrupt ears. Let us NOT forget that this is a tragedy for the Beautiful Game and we are the victims of this perennial fraud! The tragedy lies in the …
What is happening to our players? By Tim Charlesworth Walter has recently written a couple of interesting articles about Nacho and Coquelin, and the extraordinary improvement that they have shown over the last twelve months. These are the two most noteworthy examples, but actually they are not the only players to improve in the last …
Read More “What is happening to our players? Part 1: The facts and the questions”
By Usama & Walter ARSENAL vs. MANCHESTER UNITED COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 8 DATE: 4th October 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Anthony Taylor 1st LINESMAN: John Brooks 2nd LINESMAN: Lee Betts 4th OFFICIAL: Roger East First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description …
Read More “Ref Review : Arsenal – Man Utd, more of the same”
The wheel’s still in spin… By Tony Attwood Very, very slowly there is a movement away from the reform of Fifa to a total revolutionary overthrow of the old regime. It is of course something that is not at all welcomed by the entrenched powers – Fifa and Uefa, the FA and all the other …
Read More “It’s not that we don’t need THIS Fifa, we don’t need ANY Fifa.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone It is a curious fact of life that you can wait all summer long for a defensive midfielder without one appearing and then two appear all at once. Even more curious is that Arsenal don’t need one since we currently have one of the very best DM’s in Europe. But …
Read More “Deal Agreed with Brazilian Striker, and perfect DM replacement found”
By Tony Attwood The other day, having torn what remains of my hair out and eaten half the furniture in my humble abode I finally got to express my frustration and anger over the way the press continue to talk up international football while talking down Arsenal. In particular my annoyance was raised to unbearable …
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By Tony Attwood It has, both for those people who play fantasy football and for the journalists who base their regular commentaries around fantasy football, while nicking their news stories without checking from wholly unreliable news stories, been a bit of a topsy turvy season so far. One minute Arsenal is in total meltdown and …
By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold you must be sick to death of me referring back to the article I wrote five years ago about why England is so rubbish as an international football team. I refer back to it because it is evidence based, it shows in clear stats …
By Walter Broeckx With the boredom of the interlul upon us time to check the internet and see if there are interesting things to find. And yes there are. Not just Untold is writing interesting things. I found a few interesting tables that have been put together by some people. And I wanted to check …
Read More “Arsenal since New year. Time to stop the moaning and start the supporting!”
By Tony Attwood Lionel Messi tax charges dropped in Spain shouted the Daily Telegraph, always keen to lend a hand to the very rich and famous – although you can always tell when they know they haven’t checked the facts properly because the article was attributed to “Telegraph Sport”. Lionel Messi tax fraud case: Barcelona …
By Tony Attwood You may have seen on a number of other sites an analysis of the last 38 league games played by Premier League clubs. It has turned up without attribution on a number of sites but I think it originated with @goonerdesi. If I’ve got that wrong my apologies. Anyway, it was …
Read More “The “last 38 match” table – Arsenal and Man C neck and neck to take control.”
Triumph and Adversity: a review of progress since the last interlull By Tim Charlesworth The second interlull is upon us, and it’s another chance to step away from the hurly-burly and review how our season is going. Just after the first interlull, I had a look at a series of tricky fixtures ahead, and suggested …
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By Dr Billy “the dog” McGraw (senior weaponry advisor to Professional Game Match Officials Ltd) The secretive organisation, PGMO, which is believed to control football refereeing at the professional level in England, have long been rumoured to be closely associated with the Italian Mafia, and it seems that the influence of their patrons is spreading. …
Read More “PGMO ready to recommend that all league referees should be armed during matches.”
By Walter Broeckx As I talked about Francis Coquelin the other day a few of our readers said that for them Monreal was one of the absolute revelations of the last year too. I urge you to not do this, as in a way it takes away the surprise about the new articles I already …
By Tony Attwood. One of the great consquences that there might be if Fifa falls is that the FA, a big supporter of Fifa, of Jack Warner and of Platini, might fall down into the hole with them. It doesn’t matter whether it has been the FA’s inability to deal with Richard Scuadmore’s sexist commentary …
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. OLYMPIACOS COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 2 DATE: 29th September 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands) 1st LINESMAN: Rob van de Ven (Netherlands) 2nd LINESMAN: Charles Schaap (Netherlands) 4th OFFICIAL: Mario Diks (Netherlands) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul …
Read More “Ref Review: Arsenal – Olympiacos : a match of two halves”
By Tony Attwood Just how good are Arsenal players in relation to those of other clubs? Obviously one answer is to look at the league table, and I will come to that in a moment, but there is another source of such information: the analyses of the type put out by WhoScored.com One of the …
Read More “Just how well are Arsenal doing on a player by player basis?”
By Walter Broeckx Of course the headlines were about Alexis and Özil and they were well earned and deserved. Alexis with two amazing goals and Özil with a goal and an assist and some amazing touches and vision. Yes they were the main stars of the show, at the end-point of some great attacks from Arsenal. …
. By Tony Attwood. . How to be a millionaire – 1. Be a billionaire and start an airline. How to be a millionaire – 2. Be a billionaire and buy a football club. . Same old same old. You’ve almost certainly heard one or probably both of those before. But such …
Read More “Why big clubs are no longer being bought and sold: re-interpreting the evidence”
By Kev The sad rise of the Fantasy Football Manager So Brendan Rogers is the latest casualty. After failed attempts to destabilise Arsenal and manoeuvre Wenger closer to the exit door, the FFM get their other man. But who is the FFM? Saturated TV coverage, Dream Team Competitions and computer games consoles have created a …
By Walter Broeckx For years we had to hear the same old story: Arsenal cannot win the top matches so they are no good. And each time we drop points this gets repeated by the media and the 5-second brigade. And even Neville came out with the wrong preparation for top matches last week. I …
