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 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 …
By Tony Attwood This week I heard someone interviewing two guests on TV. They disagreed over some point or other and the interviewer said, “That’s what we like about football – everyone can have an opinion.” And yes of course in a moderately open democratic society everyone can have an opinion. That opinion might be …
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By Usama and Walter LEICESTER CITY vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 7 DATE: 26th September 2015 VENUE: King Power Stadium (Leicester, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Craig Pawson 1st LINESMAN: Michael Salisbury 2nd LINESMAN: Gary Beswick 4th OFFICIAL: Robert Madley First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description …
Read More “Ref Review: Leicester – Arsenal, good performance from the ref”
By Tony Attwood You know the world has gone even madder than it was yesterday when you wake up and see the Daily Telegraph (that most sneering, jibing anti-Arsenal of papers) has done a double somersault and turns itsself on its head (if you see what I mean). Of Arsenal against Olympiakos they said, “little …
Read More “What are they smoking at Anfield? (And Fleet Street)”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made four changes to the side that started against Olympiacos in the Champions League. Cech came in goal in the place of Ospina. Per Mertesacker played in the place of the injured Koscielny. And Ramsey and Monreal started again. The Arsenal team that started was Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ozil, Ramsey, …
Read More “Arsenal – MU 3-0, early Arsenal blitzkrieg pays off”
By Bulldog Drummond I rather like the new phrase on Untold Arsenal: “Evidence based football reporting”, and as anticipated a survey of the media this morning shows very little of it. Endless opinion of course, but very very few stats. Indeed the few that I have found seem to involve journalists knocking Arsene Wenger …
Read More “Arsenal v Man U: the evidence based preview of the game”
The Referee Preview by Andrew Crawshaw Following Usama and Walter’s review of the Chelsea game Ref Review : Chelsea – Arsenal. How Mike Dean & Co screwed an entire game… here is the updated table of shame Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 7 Red Cards 0 6 Penalties 0 …
Read More “Arsenal vs Manchester Utd. Expect elbowing and wrestling with impunity.”
By Walter Broeckx Every year, every f*cking year, season after season after season after season Untold Arsenal has been banging the drum about the gross incompetence of the PGMO the organisation that is responsible for delivering the referees for the PL and of course as he is their main man Mike Riley. Mike Riley who …
Read More “PGMO: how long do we have to put up with this useless organisation?”
By Tony Attwood . Gary Neville has written a little piece in the Telegraph about how the only thing that Arsenal need to change in order to win the league is their preparation before a match. . As is the way with the modern Telegraph article it is a piece full of pictures (because we …
Read More “Gary Neville the telepathic footballer, and the drive towards evidence based analysis”
By Walter Broeckx We all remember the story of Fabianski from the last years. The Polish keeper now plays for Swansea. And for the Polish national team. But in his Arsenal days his career got some bad moments. Now bad moments happen to each keeper. His match against Porto where he made a mistake and …
Read More “From Fabianski to Ospina; please try not to undermine our goalkeepers”
By Tony Attwood When Arsène Wenger arrived on his first day at work at Highbury, he found, somewhat to his surprise, that there was a large gathering of journalists on the steps of the Marble Halls. Enquiring within why they were there, he was told that no, this was not how press conferences were held …
Read More “At last, after years of our waiting, Arsène Wenger changes his approach.”
By Walter Broeckx As in most things in life there are two ways in how you can react to bad things like a defeat of Arsenal that come your way. One way is to take it on the chin, swallow what needs to be swallowed and then get up and move on. The other way is to …
By Tim Charlesworth So the Goonersphere is full of hysteria and disappointment again. Olympiacos was a horrible game and a horrible performance, however you look at it. We’re all full of blame and recriminations. The hysterical attacks on Wenger for picking Ospina are plain silly, as if to imply that it was predictable that …
Read More “Hysteria and disappointment: the defence of Piers Morgan”
By Walter Broeckx As you all know Mike Dean is just like the other Mike we love to write about on Untold: Mike Dean. Maybe Untold wouldn’t be the same place if Mike and Mike wouldn’t be around. Because it is the fact that Mike Riley got the job of becoming head of the PGMO …
Read More “Mike Dean and Arsenal something seriously wrong. More evidence and strange behaviour”
By Tony Attwood Platini is no revolutionary but a hindrance to true change at rotten Fifa That headline from the Daily Telegraph marked an interesting moment in the history of commentary on Uefa and Fifa, one of the first articles that turned against Platini in the English press, and which started to question Uefa. And …
Read More “It looks like Platini and the FA are made for each other.”
By Usama and Walter TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: League Cup THIRD ROUND DATE: 23th September 2015 VENUE: White Hart Lane (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Andre Marriner 1st LINESMAN: Lee Betts 2nd LINESMAN: David Bryan 4th OFFICIAL: Andy Woolmer First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & …
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By Tony Attwood Theo Walcott has scored 12 goals in his last 13 Premier League starts. It is the sort of scoring that takes the mind back to someone like the incredible Jack Lambert who in Arsenal’s first ever league winning season scored 38 league goals in 34 games. That was in 1930/31, and I …
Read More “As the entity behind shouted “You’re useless Walcott” a dark despair overwhelmed me”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to our match against Leicester. Some forced and some by choice. Ospina comes in goal and Coquelin is declared fit and will start. Gabriel also comes in the side and Gibbs was also starting. And Oxlade-Chamberlain also in the starting line up. Per Mertesacker was given a birthday …
By Tony Attwood So for the second Champions League match running we are playing a club whose ownership is deeply involved in scandals and corruption allegations. Oh well, so it goes. Funny that the press in the UK don’t seem overly concerned. Why is that I wonder. But at least we have our banner …
Read More “Football Should Be An Art: Tonight’s match against the rather dubious Olympiakos”
By Tony Attwood On a day when yet more illegal activity swirls around Barcelona (even more than I managed to cover last night in what I thought would be a full review of their activity – as Gord pointed out in comments on yesterday’s article), and on a day when we play a club whose …
Read More “FOOTBALL should be an ART. The Untold Banner is unveiled tonight at the Emirates Stadium”
By Tony Attwood Catalonia didn’t actually hold a referendum on independence recently; it held elections to the regional assembly. As a result the main separatist alliance and a smaller nationalist party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament. So they won most of the seats, although they didn’t get half the vote. Such …
Read More “Barcelona to be excluded from Spanish League; Neymar assets frozen, Messi injured”
With most of us being out and about over the weekend we didn’t publish our normal post-match summary of the game. But it was such a fine and exciting match it would be a great shame for it not to be recorded on Untold. So here it is… just to remind you how breathless it …
By Usama and Walter CHELSEA vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 6 DATE: 19th September 2015 VENUE: Stamford Bridge (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mike Dean 1st LINESMAN: Simon Long 2nd LINESMAN: Stuart Burt 4th OFFICIAL: Michael Oliver First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For Description & Decision …
Read More “Ref Review : Chelsea – Arsenal. How Mike Dean & Co screwed an entire game”
By Tony Attwood “A willingness to attack, a high velocity, and sophistication.” That is by and large what today’s Guardian report on on Arsenal says. But I am going to highlight a handful of other things that can out of yesterday’s game. First the number of shots. Arsenal have more shots than anyone else per game. …
Read More “The exact reasons why Arsenal came good – so very good at Leicester”
By Tony Attwood Yes we sure did our bit. As of saturday morning over 102,000 people had signed the petition demanding that Dean never again can do an Arsenal game. Now we shall see what PGMO does. If you still haven’t signed the petition is still there. Follow the link from the home page. The …
Read More “The lovely Tinkerman against the Arsenal as Dean petition passes 100,000!”
