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 You may recall that State Aid to football clubs is something that riles me. Arsenal have never had any support from the British taxpayer, the owners of lots of oil fields, nor even the Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE. Indeed the last time we were given any money which (had it …
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By Tony “all I want is a semi-decent coffee” Attwood Arsenal supporters arrived at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday desperate to welcome a man who has already done it all in English football, but left talking about a summer signing whose career has only just started. So said the Telegraph once it had woken up …
Read More “Arsenal fans worried over Gunnersaurus as club abandons coffee but discovers Jeff.”
By Walter Broeckx Following up on our article about the good things we have seen in the Emirates cup we continue with some looking back at the second match. The match against Wolfsburg was another story. A more difficult one. Wolfsburg played like a typical German team. Players who can run for 90 minutes and …
Read More “The wonderful Adelaide, superb Gabriel, Cech confirms, advice for Akpom”
By Walter Broeckx Looking back at the Emirates Cup we have a lot to feel happy about. Of course the amazing 6-0 win against Lyon was the most eye catching but the win against Wolfsburg was also very promising. Let us first analyse the win against Lyon a bit deeper. One could argue that we …
Read More “Looking back at the Emirates cup: doing that old Özil-Ramsey thing.”
Introduction We have suggested for some time that the constant decision by PGMO (the organisation that employs and selects referees for Premier League matches) to employ a very small number of referees is one that should be changed, for the simple reason that if there is a rotten apple among the refs there is something …
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By Walter Broeckx As exepcted Petr Cech made his first start for Arsenal at the Emirates against Wolfsburg. For the rest another 9 changes with only Özil keeping his place. Starting team : Cech, Bellerin, Chambers, Gabriel, Monreal, Arteta, Cazorla, Reine-Adelaide, Ozil, Wilshere, Walcott. Subs: Martinez, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Giroud, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Akpom, Coquelin, Hayden, Iwobi Cech with …
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by Tony Attwood Indeed it seems like only last May that I had the honour to watch my second successive cup final at Wembley. Ever since then it has struck me just how different that occasion was from the 2014 edition. And it wasn’t that Villa were worse than Hull it was that we …
Read More “No sooner have we beaten one team 6-0 than we’re off again.”
By Walter Broeckx After a lovely afternoon watching our first opponent Olympic Lyon we now turn our attention to the team we will play on this, the second day: VFL Wolfsburg. A team that was only founded in 1945 after the end of the second world war. Wolfsburg itself is a town that has a …
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By Walter Broeckx A bit late this match report but better late than never is what we say in our country. The big surprise (not for those who listened to Wenger in the last days) was the first start given in a home match to Iwobi. He started on the left flank in attack. Martinez …
By Bulldog Drummond Arsène Wenger has revealed just about the most boring set of team news that there has ever been. Everyone who went away came back safe. Flamini has a little bit of a knock on his ankle but “I will decide if I involve him or not over the weekend,” said Mr W. …
Read More “Arsenal v Lyon: Here we go with the 8th Emirates Cup”
By Tony Attwood Just before we get down to the ins and outs of the team for today, I thought it might be interesting just to look at the two teams that started in Singapore. Here’s the first team Martinez Debuchy Gabriel Mertersacker Monreal Coquelin Flamini Wilshere Oxlade Chamberlain Akpom Iowbi and the second …
Read More “This is the most complete and flexible squad in the history of Arsenal”
By Walter Broeckx Pre-season looks extremely short this season. All that because of the fact that at the end of next season we face another tournament from some corrupt organization in order to injure as many players as possible or get them injured in the months after. And in fact our next opponent has a …
Read More “The Emirates cup: The curious history of Saturday’s opponent – Lyon”
By Sir Hardly Anyone, (who is now getting just a teensy weensy bit annoyed). You might think that having got all the transfers so incredibly wrong thus far this summer the spoof sites might show a little humility and back off. But no – they haven’t. I mean when Untold introduced the concept of vapour …
Read More “Bid accepted: powerful DM set to join Arsenal and other spoofs”
By Tony Attwood You’ll probably know by now the basic story of how Blacksheep came up with the idea that Untold could have its own banner up at the Emirates. If not, the history thus far is on the Untold Banner page along with our Roll of Honour of everyone who contributed. That page …
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By Tony Attwood It is interesting that on this day – 23 July – we should be back to news about Uefa and FFP, for today is the anniversary of the birth of Lt Col Sir Henry Norris, the man who financially rescued Woolwich Arsenal in 1910, offered the club debt free back to the …
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By Tony Attwood Of course it was ludicrous – why would Arsenal sell the goalkeeper who had done so much during the latter half of the season to keep the club on track, and yet retain the player who had been dropped to make way for the success? There were one or two minor …
Read More “The done deal was did but they didn’t do the deal dey said dey would did.”
by Tim Charlesworth In the previous article I looked at the issue of the defence, and focussed on the issues where we have two competing players for a position. Now we have the question of the box to box players and those playing further forward. B2B – Cazorla or Ramsey (or Wilshere) Cazorla has …
Read More “Wenger’s dilemmas: the attack, and the players who will always play”
by Tim Charlesworth This is the first of two articles on the issues facing Arsene Wenger this summer. Part two, which deals with attacking players and the players whose positions are guaranteed will be published shortly. As the new season approaches, I cannot remember ever being so uncertain about our ‘first choice starting eleven’. …
Read More “Wenger’s Selection Dilemmas for 2015/16: the questions in defence”
By Tony Attwood Reading through the headlines on www.goonernews.com there are in fact only two football stories around: who we are buying, and who we are selling. And it is all exciting stuff, except it doesn’t really have too much to do with who will win the league next season. In fact it has as …
By Tony Attwood As I occasionally have reason to mention, my day job is running an advertising agency, working on the creative side of things. And sometimes when we are looking at the work of our competitors, or pitching for a new account, I look in admiration at what others have done, knowing that we …
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By Walter Broeckx A bit of news that went a bit under the radar (well for me it was but that could have been because of other things on my mind and so initially missing it) is the fact that we signed a player. Signed, sealed and delivered and he is ours as the old …
By Tony Attwood The Transfer League web site has produced a table of the amount of money spent by clubs in the past five seasons. They take the amount of money spent in total minus the amount received in total and from that generate a total outflow or inflow of transfer cash. Divide the total …
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THE FUTURE……………..Don McMahon In my most recent post on Untold Arsenal, I briefly outlined and proposed a series of actions which could help bring Football into the 21st century. I will now attempt to elucidate how I know they could be applied practically speaking : My first proposal was that a draft system be created and …
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By Tony Attwood On 8 July Untold ran a little piece about Tottenham and Chelsea and their plans for a new stadium, mentioning that there had been quite a bit of talk about Tottenham going to Wembley for a season. The thought was raised in that piece, that this could be an issue if …
Read More “Tottenham told by the League to forget Wembley and move into the Emirates for a season.”
By Tony Attwood One of the things you can be sure of with football journalists is that they always behind the times. If you’ve been reading Untold for a little while, you’ll have read so many stories where we have pointed out that the world doesn’t quite work in the way they say. Things move …
Read More “Arsenal: the atmosphere changes as the journalists wake up”
