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"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 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 …
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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 …
. Untold has been contacted by The Clare Balding Show, in association with BT Sport and BBC 2. They are having a special show next week Wednesday 27th May at 7PM where Clare will be talking about the FA Cup final. They haven’t yet confirmed the guests on the show, but they have asked if any …
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By Tony Attwood I had hoped to get home around midnight, instead it was closer to 1am. That was frustrating and annoying. The cause, inevitably was the British Dig Up The Motorway Scheme For Congesting Traffic, that has been introduced by the Dept of Transport as an alternative to speed cameras. We’d hadn’t expected …
Read More “In the end it is only expectation that makes it horrible”
By Walter Broeckx For the first time since ancient times we had a few changes in the starting line up for Arsenal. Hence all bloggers, journalists and anyone involved typing till their fingers bleeding to write about the massive overhoul of the team. Well massive…. 2 changes in fact. That means that Koscielny recovered from his …
Read More “Arsenal – Sunderland, 0-0 only a complete disaster can keep us away from 3rd place.”
By Bulldog Drummond Laurent Koscielny has been ill. How dare he! Doesn’t he know that he’s got plenty of time in June for that? Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Debuchy are not fit to work, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Danny Welbeck remain injured. For les chats presque noir (for thus is the name of those we play) Liam …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland: We’re unbeaten in the last 17 games played on a Wednesday”
. By Tony Attwood . “Arsenal have reportedly agreed a deal with Lens for striking starlet Yassin Fortune.” OK so it is reportedly which means when translated someone made it up and everyone else (like me I suppose) is copying it. Although the source does appear to be France Football which tends to get these …
Read More “Arsenal make signing, Cech is about to sign, Higuain is on offer, we’ll buy no one.”
By Tony Attwood Over the years of building and paying for the Emirates we’ve had a few experiences of players trotting off to other clubs rather than continue at Arsenal. Not all of them have enjoyed the experience but they have kept on doing it. Van Persie, Nasri, Cole, Adebayor, Toure, Hleb, Flamini, Clichy, Fabregas, …
by Andrew Crawshaw Our penultimate game of the season and the officials are :- Referee – Anthony Taylor Assistants – S Ledger and M Perry Fourth Official – K Friend So the sixth time this year that we will have had to endure the incompetence and downright bias that is Anthony Taylor – this …
Read More “Arsenal v Sunderland 20 May 2015 – Incompetence and bias. Yes it’s the Match Officials”
By Tony Attwood As has been apparent for some time Uefa are now certain to change the FFP rules in the favour of Manchester City, PSG, Monaco, Chelsea and a range of Russian clubs. The official view is that Uefa never wanted to stop what they call “owner investment” (what we call “pumping so much …
Read More “Farewell top level FFP; Football League it is up to you”
By Tony Attwood And the big question is – how will you occupy yourself in June (other than by watching Copa America)? Here are the dates. 30 May: FA Cup Final 3/4 July: Copa America 3rd/4th, and final 15 July: Asia Trophy (Stoke, Everton, Arsenal, Singapore) – two games 18 July: Asia Trophy: (ditto) – …
Read More “The big worry: did the summer holiday plans clash with the Emirates Cup?”
By Tony Attwood Consider this league table, if you will… Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Europe 1 Manchester United 38 25 8 5 74 34 +40 83 Champions League Group stage 2 Arsenal 38 23 9 6 85 42 +43 78 3 Newcastle United 38 21 6 11 63 48 +15 …
Read More “Arsenal: what comes next? If it is the same as last time, it could be fun…”
By Walter Broeckx The team at the start : Opsina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud. On the bench: Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Flamini, Rosicky, Wilshere, Walcott. Both teams looking to attack but apart from a shot from Young from far that went well over no real goal mouth scenes in the opening …
Read More “Man U – Arsenal, 1-1 the point that brings us at least third place?”
By Bulldog Drummond . So here we go again. London v Cornwall. And just for fun here’s something from the old days… . Sir Alex Ferguson said once Manchester United had played the better football in one of the battles. Arsène Wenger said in reply when a journalist mentioned it, “Everyone believes he has …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal: everything you want to know and some things you don’t”
Manchester United v Arsenal 17 May 2015 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw First the ‘Table of Shame’ and as Walter hasn’t published any more Referee Reviews it remains the same as last week Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 19 Red Cards 4 16 Penalties 4 18 Goals …
Read More “Man U v Arsenal, the world famous ref preview. Well, the ref preview.”
