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 When I write this I know that in some 24 hours time I will be in my car close to Calais. And when you read this you might well be making your plans perhaps in your car or other means of transport you use on your way to Wembley or to the …
By Sam I do not usually ridicule the comments of “armchair supporters” since I barely attend any live games (simply because I have a young family and cannot afford to spend the time or money to do so). However, I was at Old Trafford for the Arsenal game (incidentally sitting with the “home” support in the …
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By Tony Attwood It was the Guardian who came up with the Biggest Flop contest. They did carefully ignore their own magnificent failure to see how a change in Swiss law would cause Fifa a trifle of embarrassment, or indeed how the media would universally refuse to acknowledge its own compliance in Fifa’s dominance of …
Darren speaks… I came on here the other week and started reading what you cockneys had to say about us when you came up to Old Trafford. Me names Darren, I come from Oldham, and I support Man U,I don’t get much to the games, but see myself as a kind of armchair fan. Ive …
Read More “Guest column of the day. A Mr “Darren”. A Man U fan.”
By Tony Attwood We’ve often moaned about the media’s lack of coverage of corruption in football, and their endless desire to paint everything from PGMO to Fifa as whiter than white. But what about the sponsors of Fifa, who have known how corrupt and awful the whole operation has been all these years? Doesn’t anyone …
Read More “It should not just be Fifa on trial, but the FA and their media allies also.”
By Tony Attwood As an interlude from the Fifa talk (and there really is rather a lot more of that to come with several interesting questions still unasked, let alone unanswered) let’s look at something quite different. Who spent what last season. But before we get moving, a word of warning – there are often …
Read More “Does spending money on players bring success? Here’s the survey for 2014/15”
Gawd ‘elp us. I was minding me own business berating one of the stewards on Saturday (he’d let some Japanese folk in…there’s no call for that) when Theo bleedin’ Wingnut decided to try and break the goal at the Clock End. What a strike! We should sell him now while we can because he’s only …
Read More “I was minding me own business… Dial Square Dave takes us back to reality”
By Tony Attwood In my original article on the change in the Swiss law which has allowed the Fifa arrests to happen today I made the point that this could result in arrests at the next Swiss conference of Fifa. And so it proved to be. Although some correspondents have pointed out quite rightly that …
Read More “It ain’t over til the corrupt bastards are locked up, but this is progress.”
By Tony Attwood Ain’t it annoying when the Untold headline writer (which is me actually) starts to crow about how clever Untold is, outwitting all the UK’s media with a story five months before it happens. But give me my moment of pleasure, because it can take hours, days, weeks, months, to track down some …
The Untold Banner: we’re making progress By Blacksheep A short and positive update folks… I exchanged emails with Arsenal today and got a very helpful and positive response from the supporter liaison officer. So the next step is to mock up a couple of banners (using both the winning and runner-up designs) so the club …
Clairvoyants Wanted THE RESULTS By Psychic Brian, Professor of Applied Frotteurism at the Tamakeri Institute On 12 September 2014 many brave souls decided to risk humiliation and embarrassment by predicting the outcome of Arsenal’s progress and achievement for this season. There were many who stepped forward but only few have been chosen. Of the 11 …
Read More “In September some brave souls made predictions about Arsenal. Here’s how it went.”
By Blacksheep Having checked the scores I can now reveal the outcome of the votes for the Untold Banner. I am amazed and impressed to say that just over 1300 votes were cast which shows a fantastic engagement with this site and with this idea. I also hope this gives us a mandate to go …
Read More “The Untold Banner at the Emirates: the results of the voting.”
Ref in this match was Anthony Taylor A first 30 minutes that were rather un-Taylor. As he made no mistakes. The only mistake was from an assistant who judged a Liverpool player offside but Koscielny was still behind him. The first error from Taylor was then again a typical one. Sakho came in leading with …
By Tony Attwood Let me put that headline another way. Have you heard the one that says Arsenal are always awful in the first half of the season? You might have done as it has been in the papers quite a lot. Have a look at this table from 7 December 2013. Team P W …
Read More “Have you heard the one about Arsenal needing better players?”
By Tony Attwood Head of the Bonkers Award Committee. It is either a brave or foolish football writer who makes firm predictions about the season ahead, but the English media is never one to hold back in the summer from predictions, largely I suspect because they consider the average attention span of their readership to …
By Walter Broeckx We had 3 changes in the final leauge match of the season. Gabriel came in the place of Koscielny in the centre of the defence. Aaron Ramsey was given a rest and Coquelin came in his place in midfield. Up front Walcott came in the place and Giroud was on the bench. …
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By Bulldog Drummond What will we do when the internet comes to an end in five years time (as New Scientist is predicting this week)? The end (caused by a lack of carrying capacity, not a lack of hard drive space) will of course be the end of civilisation as we know it, which will …
Arsenal U18s – Season End Report By Andrew Crawshaw Before I start, there are four levels of players in terms of age that I will refer to in this article. Starting with the youngest we have schoolboys up to the age of 15 or so. We then get to the First and second Year Scholars who have …
by pararealist. Is it becoming like the packaged entertainment conceived to sit in a slot on TV and “entertain” the masses? I hope not. For these “packages” are, to me, nothing more than carriers of a certain thought, a certain ideal a certain projection that manifestes itself into the minds of the viewers. Day in, …
Read More “Is football just a “packaged” timeslot for TV and media? A utopian paradigm”
Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion 24 May – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Unfortunately Walter has not been in a position for some time to complete any more referee reviews so, in turn, I can offer no update on the Table of Shame. Suffice it to say that the wrong Important Decisions haven’t evened …
Awright? Its about time that Tony fella let me on here, I’ve been pestering him for weeks ever since we met in that excuse for a pub off the ‘olloway road – flipping ‘Swimmer’ or summat. I mean I ask you what kind of a gaff is that? It used to be a perfectly decent …
By Walter Broeckx As you know we on Untold have been on Fufa their back on many occasions. Today I want to continue but I admit that I didn’t have much time and I thought that maybe for once it would be better to let someone speak about Fufa and what he found out in …
Read More “The greatest indictment of their crimes: Luis Figo speaks about Fifa”
A short while back Blacksheep put forward the notion of there being an Untold banner at the Emirates, displayed in the zones between the upper and lower decks. We’ve liaised with Red Action and Arsenal on how we can go about doing this, and eventually came up with three options from the many on the …
FFP IS FREAKING ME OUT MAN! Ok, I’m panicking. I’m freaked. And I need the optimism and positivism of Untold NOW!! FFP is out of here and even Arsene Wenger has seemingly given up on it. Jesus, what the f…? I thought FFP was going, you know, ok. Not fully fledged …
