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 Bulldog Drummond So what’s the news? Sanogo has gone to Ajax, as Bellerin signs a long term contract. (Mr Wenger said, “Hector is a very mature, very focused player, and I am confident he will have a good season again.”) Elsewhere, Jenkinson goes back to WHU, Cech to make his first appearance today, Dortmund …
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by Walter Broeckx During the barren years the moaners came out will all kind of mantra’s that had one thing behind them in fact: Wenger out. They said that Arsenal would never win anything again as long as Wenger was in charge. 2 FA cups and a Community shield in 12 months time buried that …
Read More “Another myth has been busted as Arsenal continue to progress”
By Tony Attwood I have created a first draft of the list of readers of Untold who were kind enough to donate towards the cost of the Untold banner which has now been designed, printed and delivered to the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal has confirmed they have it, so we are just waiting for confirmation from …
Read More “The Untold Banner – preliminary list of supporters”
By Tony Attwood The press has been having its usual fun whipping up storms: Arsenal are not buying everything that moves shock horror and there is already discontent in the camp most notably around the issue of Jack Wilshere seeking assurances. “I will talk with the manager,” announces Jack. Well, not exactly. But the …
Read More “Arsenal’s shocking player strategy for 2015/16 revealed”
Scouting for talent: a report from one of Untold’s intrepid reporters There has been a lot of speculation here and elsewhere about who the Arsenal should sign this summer. Big names such as Vidal, Higuain, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger (let’s face it they don’t get much bigger than those two!) have been bandied about in the …
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THE 1%……..Don McMahon Many of us have recently heard of the 1% in society, representing the richest, most influential and powerful elites who, in their greedy benevolence, deign to provide us mere mortal commoners a marginalized living. Since UA is definitely NOT a political forum but rather a democratic and highly specialized Football blog …
Read More “The One Percent – the tiny group that controls our game”
By Walter Broeckx So by now we should be in panic mode if we should believe the media. When I write this not a ball has been kicked by an Arsenal player in a league match and yet the end of the season is near. Once again we are doomed and lost. Why? Ah because …
Read More “Don’t Panic Don’t Panic! How to not worry but instead look forwards”
By Walter Broeckx It seems like only a few weeks ago that I was writing the match report of Arsenal matches (Sorry Tony…) and here we are again. First thing first the match between Stoke and Everton was a very boring 0-0 affaire and in the end Everton won the penalty shoot-out and so qualify for …
Read More “Barclays Asia Trophy : Arsenal – Singapore XI – Live match report”
By Bulldog Drummond It seems like only two months ago that I was writing the preview of the Cup Final [it was only two months ago, stop mucking about – Tony] but here we are again, off on another jolly adventure and we haven’t even had the summer yet, just drizzle, drizzle, drizzle and a …
Read More “Singapore v Arsenal: The first Untold Match Preview of the new season. Yipeeee.”
By Tony Attwood The activity of a group of Chelsea supporters who were in Paris in February this year for the PSG v Chelsea game, and who, on the Métro in Paris, stopped a black man from getting onto a train, were horrific. Almost as horrific is the fact that from what I understand very …
Read More “Chelsea supporters involved in Paris Métro incident still resisting all punishment”
By Tony Attwood The Independent headline writer has been quick off the mark with this one, claiming that Arsenal fans (whom they always like to assert that they know intimately) are getting edgy because the boss has suggested that there may be no more signings. Headlines about a backlash and passing comments such as “But …
Read More “Newspaper claims an Arsenal fans anti-Wenger backlash is at hand”
Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – 12 July Meadow Park BorehamWood Match Report and Thoughts By Andrew Crawshaw. This was the first game following the interruption to the Women’s Super League caused by the World Cup in Canada where, as I’m sure you are all aware, England came third and were the highest of all …
Read More “Arsenal Ladies v Liverpool Ladies – awful ref, awful facilities.”
By Tony Attwood Ask people who don’t really follow Arsenal but like to make a noise about Wenger being useless, who our breakthrough player was last season and they will say Alexis. Ask them who else we brought into the team and they have to pause for a while before remembering Coquelin and Bellerin. Because …
Read More “How all the DONE DEAL sites have missed the biggest Arsenal transfer of all.”
By Walter Broeckx With the real thing finally coming closer I thought it would be nice to have a look at the first match of the season and to have a look at our opponents and the venue where the match will be played. The Barclays Asia Trophy is a tournament that is held every …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Well! It seems that my job was on the line there, but thanks to a massive, (ok, not massive but still a couple of people wrote in) vote of thanks, I get to write one more. And what a story I have for you today! For it seems while Manchester …
Read More “Not done deal CONFIRMED! Wenger reveals we are not going to buy anyone YET shock!”
By Tony Attwood During the course of last season, we had a number of debates about the range of FFP outside of the European regulations, and speculated that from the Championship perspective QPR and Leicester might have problems if they returned to the Championship, and Bournemouth might have some difficulties as well. Reports suggest that …
Read More “QPR and FFP: the battle goes on and the result will be seismic”
By Tony Attwood If you’ve been reading Untold for a while, you’ll know that part of the essence of the site is to use the name “Untold” literally, and do what others don’t do. That has led to a range of campaigns, and we’ve had a range of targets over the years, and certain …
Read More “Should we buy more spoof players? Should Sir Hardly get the sack?”
Arsenal Squads for 2015-16 – The U18s by Andrew Crawshaw The squad is likely to comprise primarily players from the players in the first year at Arsenal Academy as well as some of the exceptional talents at schoolboy level. It may also be supplemented by some of those in the second year and some …
Read More “Looking for our next stunning talent: The Arsenal Under 18s”
By Walter Broeckx This week we had a bit of fun with a lot of Manchester City fans coming over to Untold after Tony published an article about the FFP rules and how things were standing at the moment. As usual some of them blame it all on Arsenal that there are any FFP rules …
Read More “Working for wins, not buying the wins. Football the Arsenal way.”
By Sir Hardly Anyone Unlike most members of the artisocracy I have never taken strong drugs except on doctor’s orders, so I don’t know if it is true that for the junkie each high fails to deliver what is actually wanted, but the belief remains that the next high will be the perfect high. So …
By Walter Broeckx In another article the other day I touched the notion of some fans of other clubs giving the impression that it is Arsenal and Wenger who invented and pushed through FFP in football. Now of course I like to think of Arsenal as being a great club and an important club but …
Read More “Was it Arsenal that implemented FFP laws in Europe?”
By Tony Attwood . Tom Edwards is a journalist. And not just any old journalist. He is the proud bearer of the banner “Telegraph Sport Social Media Editor”. Quite a nifty title and one that has led me, as publisher of this august thrice daily review (except when no one on the team can think …
By Walter Broeckx with additional material by Tony Attwood We’ve already published an article on the squad for the Asia Trophy, so I will not go in to the names of the already known players but will stick to some of the more unknown players that will join the big boys on this trip. …
Read More “Asia Trophy squad: further reflections, further info on the youngsters”
By Tony Attwood Sometimes squads don’t tell us much but this time, we got several snippets of interest. We’ve got news about who the most likely of the youngsters are to come through this season, we’ve got the news that there are still injuries lurking in the darkness, and we can see the overall shape …
Read More “What the squad for Singapore tells us about the state of Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood It is interesting that this morning the Arsenal History Society published the latest of its series of articles covering the pre-season campaigns of Arsenal year by year since Bruce Rioch – and got to 2006, with the opening of the Emirates Stadium just at the moment that Chelsea and Tottenham beefed up …
Read More “Tottenham and Chelsea start to detail some of their stadium plans”
