Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
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WENGER IN, WENGER OUT, WENGER IS NOW OUT & ABOUT………..Don McMahon Don’t you just LOVE it! One defeat and the aaa are gleefully screaming from the rooftops about relegation, failure, disgrace, incompetence, Wenger’s time is up etc. Here are a few reality checks they need to stem their tide of offal and bitter bile against …
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By Walter Broeckx After last weeks defeat I was away for a few days. Walking in Ypres and the surrounding where you can’t go more than 500 meters without seeing another graveyard with soldiers who died in the first world war. It is the ideal medicine to see the result of one football match in …
Read More “Eyes at the back of his head; football in perspective”
By Tony Attwood Very unusually, the BBC picked no less than three Arsenal players for its team of the weekend. First off was Santi Cazorla, of whom the Corporation said, “Only team-mate Mesut Özil (five) created more chances this weekend in the Premier League than Cazorla (four). “After last week’s somewhat inept performance against the …
Read More “The Arsenal Golden Triple, double victories, perfidious journalists”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to the team that started last week. Hector Bellerin came in at right back and Debuchy went back to the bench. Alexis started up front and Oxlade-Chamberlain dropped to the bench. Team in full: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud. On the bench: Ospina, Debuchy, …
Read More “Crystal Palace – Arsenal, 1-2 the most expected result maybe”
By Bulldog Drummond And so the FA Cup (won by Arsenal for the last two seasons and tipped by Untold – although probably no one else – to do it for a third successive season) has started with matches including the likes of Leicester Nirvana, Coventry Sphinx, Jarrow Roofing Bolden CA, and West Allotment Celtic. Meanwhile …
By Tony Attwood I don’t claim to be a fount of all knowledge, but in publishing Untold Arsenal with its audience of 1 million page views a month I do feel the need to keep up. And when the Benzema story first broke I felt a certain amount of unease. I felt, surely this is wrong. …
By Tony Attwood Last night Arsenal under 21s beat Fulham 1-0 at the Emirates. It was a terrific game full of the most amazing skills from incredibly talented players; an absolute joy to watch. It was one of those games where right up to the 86th minute when Zelalem scored there was a doubt if …
Read More “Arsenal 1 Fulham: but the low crowd suggests cost of entry isn’t the issue”
By Tony Attwood Tonight it is Arsenal v Fulham at the Emirates and I’m pleased to say I am able to pop along with Ian and his sons – not something I can’t often do, living out in the wilds of Northamptonshire and the fact that many games are behind closed doors. Quite what sort …
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Crystal Palace v Arsenal Sunday 16 August 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – S Ledger and E Smart Fourth Official – R Madley Last week we had the referee with the worst competence scores from last season, this week we have Lee Mason who, whilst not a …
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By Tony Attwood On 13 August Amitai Winehouse published an article in the Telegraph about the comparative strengths of various squads. It includes this paragraph on Arsenal… However, fitness troubles tend to befall the north London side with more regularity than any other team in the Premier League, with Tomas Rosicky, Danny Welbeck and Jack Wilshere …
Read More “Ospina CONFIRMS he is set to leave as injuries mount, but wait, what’s this? Wow!”
By Tony Attwood Sorry Untold Arsenal has been up and down like the preverbial. Please, if you do find us not here, (as it were) please do follow us on Twitter @UntoldArsenal, and/or go to our Facebook page www.facebook.com/untoldarsenaltolday where we will aim to keep the service running. But now, here’s the story …
Read More “FA up to their misleading news stories again. Don’t be fooled!”
By Usama and Walter First let me point out that this is only looking at the decisions of the refs and has nothing to do with how the teams played. If you want to comment on how the teams played you can do this in the other articles about the match. I welcome Usama on …
Sincere apologies to everyone about the amount of time it is taking us to get Untold Arsenal back up and running. At first it looked like the number of people on the site was our problem, but the difficulties have continued. We have now got some use of the site, although it is very much …
Read More “FA promises investment in grassroots football by copying Sport England proposal”
Because there are technical problems with Untold Arsenal off and on I am also publishing articles on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UntoldArsenalToday/ If you ever can’t get on this site, try the Facebook page. Now onto today’s piece How Sweden have taken up the battle of more open refereeing. Last year we ran a series of …
Read More “European referee associations start to distance themselves from secretive Premier League”
By Sir Hardly Anyone According to Goonersden, and currently the top story on the Goonernews.com news accumulator site Done- Benzema Completes Medicals, Welcome To The Emirates It was posted on August 10, 2015. The story is only accessible behind a gambling ad, with one of those tricky misleading “close now and read article” tabs that …
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By Tony Attwood Blueberries are good for you screams the headline, so people rush to supermarkets and buy blueberries. Some idiot eats blueberries all the time, and in due course is rushed to hospital. “Blueberry poison.” scream the headlines. “No, blueberries are safe,” say “experts”. “No,” say other experts, “they are in …
This is an experiment in taking referee reviewing to a new level. Note, because of the use of tables in what follows, if the text flows across to the right on your screen and into the adverts, press Ctrl – (that is control and minus at the same time). ARSENAL vs. CHELSEA COMPETITION: Community Shield …
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By Tony Attwood I wonder when the notion that we can see one event and then generalise out from there, first started. Perhaps it is just something inside all our heads, the “if only I could just have one sign from God, then I’d believe” sort of thing. But by and large, although using single …
By Walter Broeckx Losing the first match of the season is most of the time a downer of course. But we didn’t play as we know we can play and we made a few vital mistakes. Both of them leading to a goal. And that was it. But how did it come that far? A …
Read More “The difference at the start of the season (and ways to make it better)”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made two changes compared to the side that beat Chelsea 1-0 to win the Community Shield. Debuchy came in at right back in the pace of Bellerin and upfront we had Giroud in the place of Walcott. And maybe one surprising name on the bench… Alexis. The team that started: Cech, …
Apologies if you read this immediately after publication, we had a coding glitch which made much of the article even more unreadable than normal. Fixed now. By Bulldog Drummond. What is new this year is that for anyone who says, “Wenger should sign x y and z,” the difficulty with signing the very very best …
By Bulldog Drummond Ere we go ere we go ere we…. well you know the rest. Start of the new season an’ all that. Actually the Independent thinks maybe we don’t and seriously has Here we go! as its lead headline this morning. That’s so passé it is positively out of date, outdated, unfashionable, old-fashioned, …
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Arsenal v West Ham United – Sunday 9 August – The Referee Preview By Andrew Crawshaw Well at last proper competitive football and I will again look at the Match Officials, what Arsenal’s history is with them and attempt to predict what they will do during the game. For Sunday the Officials are Referee – …
By Tony Attwood Pre-season time is traditionally “lists” time, although the papers of late have taken us into the all-the-year-round-list of “five things we learned from the way the referee walked out of the tunnel” variety of late. But we are almost there – we’ve got the ref preview from Andrew coming up and the …
WINNERS & LOSERS…….Don McMahon Tony’s excellent 10 point review of the Arsenal and my personal experience in winning and losing, inspired this opus about the “winning mentality”, the journos and aaa go on about. And as a psychologist, I can explain a little about the so-called “winning mentality.” First off, a few definitions to …
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