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 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 …
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By Tony Attwood As expected the Swiss authorities have started criminal proceedings against Sepp Blatter. Just as expected Platini has been asked to provide information. Here’s the statement… “On the one hand, the OAG suspects that on 12 September 2005 Mr. Joseph Blatter has signed a contract with the Caribbean Football Union; this contract was …
Read More “Slowly the finger points at England over Fifa corruption”
Leicester v Arsenal 26 September – the Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw Firstly here is the updated Table of Shame following the review of the Stoke game refereed by Jonathan Moss. Two wrong Important decisions right at the end of the game with the not given penalty and sending off of Pieters for wrestling Giroud …
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By Tony Attwood It had to happen sometime: Barcelona currently banned from making transfers are begging Fifa to allow them to play Arda Turan, now. Turan was signed in the last transfer window as Barcelona found a loophole in their banning order realising they could sign the player, but simply not play him. Now they argue …
By Tony Attwood In a recent article Blacksheep asked, What is wrong with football. I was re-reading this and found myself asking “what is wrong with football supporters?” I found myself asking why commentators on this site sometimes find it necessary to write, “if you think x you are an idiot,” where x is fairly obviously, …
By Usama and Walter DINAMO ZAGREB vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 1 DATE: 16th September 2015 VENUE: Stadion Maksimir (Zagreb, Croatia) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Ovidiu Haţegan (Romania) 1st LINESMAN: Octavian Șovre (Romania) 2nd LINESMAN: Sebastian Gheorghe (Romania) 4th OFFICIAL: Radu Ghinguleac (Romania) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
By Tony Attwood 1: Kane isn’t scoring Apparently on Tottenham’s tour of Australia, so many fans buzzed around Kane while he was shopping he had to be rescued by minibus. And so highly esteemed is he in tot-land this season in plays in Adebayor’s old shirt which he told the Telegraph he had adopted in …
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By Walter Broeckx A lot of changes compared to the last match. In fact only one player stayed in the starting line up and that was Ramsey. Team that started : Ospina, Debuchy, Chambers, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Arteta, Flamini, Ramsey, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Giroud. On the bench: Macey, Iwobi, Ozil, Alexis, Walcott, Monreal, Bellerin. A very tight start …
By Bulldog Drummond. First the afternoon result: Arsenal under 18s 5 Tiny Tottenhams 3. Our goals from Fortune, Nelson, Robinson (2), Nketiah. And so here we are again, at the soon to be closed for repairs White Hart Lane. And here we are with a team in the League Cup which is probably not going …
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—————– The Dean petition is now over 90,000 strong. If you have not yet signed please do so at the end of the article. —————– By Walter Broeckx Mike Dean, the list is long. Too long. Toooooooooo long. The day it all went wrong for me is : 23/02/2008: Birmingham – Arsenal 2-2: Taylor …
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Let’s see the funny side Tim Charlesworth I’m really going to stick my neck out here, and post a defence of public enemy number one, Jose Mourinho. Everything I have ever read about this highly successful manager suggests that he is a perfectly reasonable chap, who spends time with his family, and has a sense …
By Billy “the Dog” McGraw, resident psycho analyst at the Football Association Gabriel Paulista was not sent off at Chelsea, or if he was sent off he should not have been and thus has not got to serve a ban of three matches for a twitch of the leg against the alien beast Costa. Arsenal’s …
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By Walter Broeckx Lots of fuss has been made and rightfully so of the behaviour of Suarez who had an appetite for human flesh in his career. Biting is unacceptable behaviour and it is something that usually is removed from the behaviour of little kids. You still have a few biters before the age of …
Read More “After the vampire we now have the psycho serial scratcher”
— The petition “Prevent Mike Dean from refereeing another Arsenal game” now has almost 90,000 signatures. Please sign up if you agree. —- Watching newspapers jump left and right as they try to work out which way the bandwagon is rolling is never an edifying site, but it can on occasion be amusing – in …
. The petition “Prevent Mike Dean from refereeing another Arsenal game” now has nearly 70,000 signatures. Please sign up if you agree. . By Walter Broeckx; additional material by Tony Attwood Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association following his side’s win over Arsenal on Saturday. The FA …
Mahdain Ignoring facts and turning a blind eye to further an agenda Let it be known that I am writing this while I am still seething from the extreme injustice that we faced yesterday. It has happened far too often for my liking and still nothing has being done about it. You would have thought …
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By Tony Attwood Once upon a time the mainstream media was there to tell us some news. In football terms that meant giving the football results and having a factual run-down of the match. Now we don’t need that because we have the internet, so instead the mainstream aims to hold its position by telling …
By Usama and Walter ARSENAL vs. STOKE CITY COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 5 DATE: 12th September 2015 VENUE: Emirates Stadium (London, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Jonathan Moss 1st LINESMAN: Harry Lennard 2nd LINESMAN: Adrian Holmes 4th OFFICIAL: James Linington First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
By Tony Attwood The season before last I watched a Chelsea shot going away from the goal, and then be handballed. The referee sent a player off, which is the wrong punishment because the punishment for deliberate handball which does not prevent a goal is a yellow card. But worse, his lack of vision of …
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by Bulldog Drummond Jose Mourinho, hero of the aaa, said recently,”Normally when bad results happen the first thing that comes into your laptops, iPads and pens is to find a dramatic story: ‘Somebody punch somebody in the dressing room’, ‘The manager doesn’t want to speak with this guy’. “‘Diego Costa fought with John Terry and …
By Tony Attwood The Untold Banner is now on display at the Clock End. I must immediately thank Mark Brindle of Arsenal who encouraged and supported our efforts to bring this to fruition, and of course Blacksheep, who travels with me to Arsenal games, and whose idea this was. One day, in a desperate move …
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Chelsea v Arsenal 19 September – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw No referee reviews to report this week so straight into the business for the weekend Referee – Mike Dean Assistants – S Long & S Burt Fourth Official – M Oliver All well known to us. Here is the table of last year’s …
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By Tony Attwood England close to losing Champions League spot screamed the Telegraph Why the Premier League is on the brink of losing the fourth Champions League spot – the Daily Mirror added helpfully. England in danger of losing a Champions League place as UEFA co-efficient continues to slide and Italy catch up said the Mail …
Read More “We’re gonna lose places in Europe, and it’s all Arsenal’s fault”
By Walter Broeckx While I was lying around on the beaches of South France Mike Riley took this opportunity to release a few numbers. I must admit I had to wait a while before I could react to them but now being back I found the time to see how the PGMO numbers look compared …
Read More “PGMO admit there is a problem, but they are still hiding the scale of the problem.”
