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 Allow me for once not to do the usual match report I write. As in order to publish the report I write it while the match is going on. I found myself missing goals at times doing that when I was typing things from a big chance and from the following corner …
Read More “Hey look, we won the Cup. Finally the match report”
Sadly there is still no one asking the question: If Blatter and his gang were evil, and were known to be evil, wasn’t it rather naive of the FA to spend £16m bidding for a world cup vote when there was every chance it would be fixed? In such a case, surely the criminals of …
Read More “British territories named by FBI as part of the Fifa corruption roadway”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal have two players in the England under 21 squad to play in the Czech Republic: Calum Chambers and Carl Jenkinson. It is interesting to be reminded of Jenkinson after his season with Fat Sam. He was injured at the start of the season, but got into the team and stayed there, …
Read More “Akpom on TV tonight. Jenkinson and Chambers to follow.”
Saturday, (cup bleedin’ final day) 30 May 2015 Bloody hell, it’s Tuesday and I’m just in from the boozer. I have to say that was annoying. I don’t think that Monsignor Venga bloke has any idea about the history of this great football club. We’ve now won the FA cup two seasons in a row …
Read More “After several days in the pub Dial Square Dave emerges; Blatter immediately resigns”
By Tony Attwood This article continues from the previous piece which contained points 1 to 12. 13. Stop running paid for press releases in newspapers. I’ve covered this so much I’m sure you are bored, so at least I have relegated it to 13th on the list. Newspapers are increasingly poor and biased in their …
Read More “20 changes that would hugely improve football next season – part 2”
By Tony Attwood These are, of course, just my thoughts. They won’t happen, but sometimes dreaming is nice… This article contains items 1 to 12. The remaining eight appear in the next piece. 1. Change Premier League scheduling so that December / January are not the busiest times. I know that the crowds are big …
Read More “20 Things that would hugely improve football next season: part 1”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, Professor of Clinical Stuies in Universal Psychology, Youth and Original Untold Remedial Services at the University of the North Circular Road, Enfield. The Department of Universal Psychology, Youth and Original Untold Remedial Services (UpYours) recently received a most generous grant from the various national bodies concerned about mental health …
Read More “Providing psychological support for the half-baked and seeing Arsenal as it is.”
By Walter Broeckx As getting tickets for Wembley was not possible for most of the local Untold Arsenal writers and for me from far away places it was completely out of the question. So with a bunch of 4 other Arsenal Belgium members we went for the screening in the Emirates. On each side of …
Read More “Being in the Emirates for the screening: the great, the good but also….”
By Walter Broeckx Finally back home after an amazing weekend in London. I will write a complete match report later on of course but first let me give you a few short thoughts that passed my mind before, during and after the match. I was in the Emirates with some friends from Arsenal Belgium so …
Read More “A historic day for Arsenal and their great manager”
By Tony Attwood When Arsenal win, the aaa shut up. The press however try to take cover finding underlying problems, long term difficulties, and historical precedents for an imminent collapse. They even did it after the Unbeaten Season, with snarling comments about how Arsenal were not really unbeaten because we hadn’t won the League Cup …
Read More “FA Cup reflections: how did the anti-Wengerian press cope with Wenger’s latest triumph”
By Tony Attwood Where to begin? I will quote from the Guardian this morning. Wenger, to put it into context, has now won this trophy more times than Everton and Manchester City, and on as many occasions as West Ham, Sunderland and Leeds combined. That’s quite a thought to kick us off. I mentioned before …
Read More “If I believed in a god, I’d thank him or her for letting me be there yesterday”
By Tony Attwood (our man who will, traffic willing, soon be on the spot). 30 May 1995: The passing of Ted Drake – the man who in one season scored 42 league goals in 41 games and who once scored seven goals in one league game. In 1934/35 Ted Drake scored 42 league goals in …
FA Cup Final Aston Villa v Arsenal – the Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Well here it is – the final referee preview of the season. Referee – Jonathan Moss Assistants – Darren England and Simon Bennett Fourth Official – Craig Pawson Reserve Assistant Referee – Harry Lennard Referees only get one opportunity to take …
Read More “FA Cup final ref preview: don’t expect Villa cards or a penalty for Arsenal”
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 …
Read More “Understanding Özil: where the armchair supporters get it wrong”
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.”
