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 I’m not sure that Arsenal actually needed any additional publicity among the football playing fraternity in order to ensure that the players the club wants, want to come to the club, but if they did, then achieving the FA Cup records they have just gathered ought to do it. Everyone must know …
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Ref for this match was Mike Jones The first foul only happened after 12 minutes but the Ameobi kicked Alexis in the chest. Not with hit studs but a high foot making contact should have been punished with a yellow card. Ref Jones let it go and as a result Cabella only a minute later …
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By Tony Attwood It is, by any standards, a grotesque and appalling place, made worse by the avarice of capital and the incompetence of inefficiency. But its foundations show something far more sinister and dispiriting. In a week when we learned that British industry and commerce is now so inefficient that the French as a …
By Walter Broeckx Compared to our match at Burnley Arsenal made a few changes. Szczesny started in goal and Ospina was on the bench. At right back Debuchy made his first start since his injury and Bellerin didn’t play or was involved. Gibbs started at left back and Monreal was on the bench. Up front …
Read More “Reading – Arsenal, 1-2 after extra time. We didn’t make it easy for ourselves.”
The Gunners are back at Wembley. Welcome to LIVE coverage of the clash between Reading and Arsenal at the most iconic football stadium in the world – brought to you by Arsenal’s Official Car And Van Rental Partner Europcar. It’s a winner-takes-all battle between English football’s on-form team – Arsene Wenger’s side have 16 wins …
Reading v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-final – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw The Officials for the two semi-finals are :- Reading v Arsenal Referee – Martin Atkinson Assistants – Michael Mullarkey and Gary Beswick Fourth Official – Andre Marriner and for completeness, Aston Villa v Liverpool Referee – Michael Oliver Assistants – Stuart Burt and …
Read More “FA Cup semi-final: It is Mr Atkinson. He doesn’t like us, but there is some good news.”
By Tony Attwood Poor Thierry. Last week he slaughtered the odd bods gathered in the studio to pick the meat out of Burnley v Arsenal, he turned Coquelin into the Police Officer, and showed just what those funny digital screens they have are actually there for. With a breathtaking analysis of how Arsenal controlled the …
Read More “Spare a thought for Thierry as Sky take their revenge”
By Tony Attwood Over the years of building Stadium Wenger, we’ve got used to players deciding to move on. Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri, Bac Sagnay, Ashley Cole, Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry, Alek Hleb, Cesc Fabregas, Gael Clichy, Alex Song… Some have done well, some have quite simply taken the money and run, some have …
By Tony Attwood “When we beat Arsenal, we have to wait four weeks after our last league game to play the Cup final.” Steve Clarke, the Reading manager, in his last pre-match press conference. We are the cup holders and in the semi-final again, so it is not surprising to see the statistics …
If you were a football supporter in England in 1985, you will remember the Bradford stadium fire in which 56 people died. At the time we were reminded of the appalling state of many of the lower league grounds that we went to in those days. Indeed I recall a book of football stadia, which …
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By Tony Attwood Manchester City were bought by Sheikh Mansour, with an estimated individual net worth of at least £17 billion with a family fortune of at least $1 trillion, in September 2009. He removed Manchester City’s accumulated debt of over £300m and has since worked, and is continuing to work, on the infrastructure of the …
Read More “The press are telling us Arsenal can win the league. But why can’t Man C?”
By Tony Attwood Having celebrated the record breaking of Mr Wenger and of the club in terms of reaching the most FA Cup semi-finals, and noted that alongside Man U we are the top performers in the Cup (we’ve each won 11 and been runners’ up seven times), I thought I’d move on to this …
Read More “Arsenal v Reading: Reading’s recent form, and other past meetings.”
By Tony Attwood It’s getting a bit boring talking about our record of WWWWWWWWWWW or whatever it is these days so I thought I might try and fill in a bit of time this week by building up to the little ol’ game at Wemberleeee on Saturday. Meanwhile, and speaking of which, although the press …
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By Tony Attwood In retrospect it was a pretty dumb thought. One of my dumbest in fact. For it was based on the notion that something which was within the ambit of the semi-skimmed kamikaze-by-proxy fruitcakes who run football would be sensible. And yet somehow after this season’s tough start with players drifting back over …
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Ladies FA Cup Quarter final. Arsenal v Chelsea By Andrew Crawshaw A report from a sunny but windy BorehamWood ground. Attendance 964 Arsenal Kelly Smith (C), Emma Byrne (GK), Alex Scott, Emma Mitchell, CaseyyEmma Stoney, Vicky Losada, Jordan Nobbs, Danielle Carter, Leah Williamson, Natalia De Pablos Sanchon, Jemma Rose Arsenal and Chelsea were the …
By Tony Attwood Now here’s a thought I missed: David Ospina has a higher win ratio that any other player in Premier League history. It’s been 12 games, with 11 wins and six without a goal again. That is a win percentage of 92 per cent. “No other player in the history of the …
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By Walter Broeckx One of the things that entered my mind when seeing us win at Turf Moor last Saturday is that this team has something special. Something that if given time might grow in to something really special. If we take the time to have a look back at those last 8 wins in …
By Tony Attwood We have won 16 of our last 18 games in all competitions so we are consistent. We have won eight league games in a row – and you can’t really do better than that. We might well also get Champions League qualification for an 18th consecutive season. These are not bad runs. …
Read More “It’s hard to knock 8 out of 8, and 16/18. But journalists find a way.”
By Tony Attwood (trying hard not to say “I told you so” but failing totally) There is a story about Cesc Fabregas’ first coach at Mataró which say that he did not select Fàbregas for matches against Barcelona because he didn’t want Barcelona scouts to see the player and so sign him. As we know …
Read More “Thierry Henry wipes the floor – and in passing supports Untold’s vision of Coquelin”
By Walter Broeckx No changes from the team that started the match against Liverpool. Koscielny is fit again and the only change is in fact Gabriel who wasn’t even on the bench. So a last minute injury or illness we can assume. Team that started: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud. …
Read More “Burnley – Arsenal, 0-1. Eight wins in a row now for Arsenal”
By Bulldog Drummond I’m late. Terribly sorry. You see there was this dance in St Neots, and there were these three sisters, and… Anyway today we play Burnley. It should be good. Thank you. —– Hello, Tony here. It seems Bulldog is a little overcome with events so I’m taking over for a moment. Sorry …
Read More “The world famous Untold match preview, Burnley v Arsenal. Well, the match preview anyway”
Blackburn v Arsenal 11 April 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw I am on holiday this week and so this is a much briefer preview than usual. Referee – Mike Dean Assistants – Mssrs Burt and Long Fourth Official – Mr Attwell The referee for tomorrow, as I am sure you …
By Tony Attwood And so we begin our usual weekend wall to wall carpet to door head to tail front to back preview to review analysis and commentary. Or something like that. Anyway here’s the prelims, up next is the ref preview, and after that is something else which I haven’t worked out yet, but …
By Walter Broeckx With the season nearing the end we can have a look at the remaining fixtures for the teams currently in the top 4. As the gap between 4th placed Manchester City and 5th placed Liverpool is 7 points now I didn’t look any further down the league table. It would take a …
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By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger really didn’t bother himself with the thought of Man City popping in to pick up Jack Wilshere. He didn’t have to for three very good reasons. First, there is no question of Arsenal not being able to compete in terms of salaries and transfers. If Arsenal want to keep a …
Read More “The chances are there will be no more Sagna’s, RVP’s, Nasri’s…”
