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 A lot of changes compared with the team that beat QPR last Wednesday. Szczesny came in the place of Ospina and Koscielny and Monreal came in the place of Gabriel and Monreal. Oxlade-Chamberlain came in the palce of Rosicky and up front Welbeck came in the place of Giroud. The starting line …
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By Walter Broeckx Apart from the FA cup matches that have been played up to now there was not much football around. The noisy neighbours went to QPR and won. The ref at the whistle seemingly being blinded when some things happened in the tiny penalty area. Lloris bringing a striker down without a penalty …
By Walter Broeckx The life behind the scenes of Untold is sometimes very funny. After my article that I had written about Wenger I read a comment that said that it was a “Very AKB written article”. I think I will take this as a compliment then. He was first time poster so he can …
By Tony Attwood Paul Scholes has now set himself up as a spokesperson for the “Arsenal is in decline” movement claiming that “Over the years, the big players who were really ambitious – Vieira, Thierry Henry, Cesc Fàbregas, Robin van Persie – have all left, “They left for the simple reason that Arsenal are not in …
Read More “Scholes joins the no-evidence “its true cos I say so” gang.”
By Walter Broeckx From time to time I get interesting mails from people who send me links or extracts to things they have read on the internet. And I am grateful for this because I do tend to stay away from the serious media as much as possible but in order to be able to …
Read More “Arsène Wenger is more than a manager, he is part of the soul of our club”
THE FA Cup Weekend – Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Taking the games in the order in which they are to be played Bradford City FC v Reading FC 12:45 Saturday 6 March – Live BT Sport Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – Michael Mullarkey and Marc Perry Fourth Official – Michael Jones Lee has …
By Jerry Mesut Özil is an amazing player in my opinion that has received unfair criticism from the media since his arrival from Real Madrid last year. The criticism, in my opinion, has been over the top and I have failed to understand why. Is it because of the huge transfer fee, contribution to the …
By Walter Broeckx How strange football can be is something that we see from time to time. Apart from Tony who has seen his quality all these years ago when his vision was much sharper than it was recently most of thought that Coquelin was a lost cause. Coming to Arsenal at the age of …
By.Don McMahon The recent mini-crisis, otherwise known as the media tempest in a teapot or the aaa meltdown or the night of the brain-dead(the aaa national holiday), allowed me and most of humanity to appreciate how dramatic the media and our fickle aaa plastic fanboys can be. The Wenger out chants once again rang through …
Ref for this match was Mike Jones Mr. Jones certainly wasn’t at his best in this match. After two early fouls not much happened till Upson pulled Alexis down with a holding offence around the neck when he could have gone one on one with the last defender in the middle of the goal was …
By Walter Broeckx Before the match some people might have said that we should beat QPR with our fingers in our nose (as the expression is in my mother language). Meaning it should be an easy win. One you don’t have to make any effort, just turn up and you will get the 3 points. …
By Bootoomee I chuckled as I read Tony’s epiphany giving up on engaging the AAA in debates about the running of our beloved Arsenal Football Club. I have always gone with the less conciliatory approach of mocking when necessary because as an avid Internet comments reader and poster, I know for a fact that people who …
Read More “The Lies the Media Fabricate and The Gullible Fans Who Spread Them”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes as one could expect but maybe not the changes one expected. Per Mertesacker comes back in the team in the place of Koscielny and so Gabriel stays in the team. I wonder if it has something to do with the tendonitis that Koscielny has and that maybe makes it …
By Bulldog Drummond So here we are, nine points behind Chelsea with 11 games to play. On the same date in 1998 we were 11 points behind with 12 to play. And just like now, still in the FA Cup. In 1998 we’d had a fairly awful late autumn, winning two and drawing two league …
Read More “All tonight’s results before they happen and QPR v Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx First article on this can be found here In the previous article I looked at how one journalist in the Guardian was arguing that no one should be criticising referees. Continuing to look at that article I have to go to his words on saying that referees are needed just as crossbars …
Read More “1984: it is forbidden to talk about referees. Part 2 – why it is wrong to stay silent”
QPR v Arsenal 4th March 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw With this game so soon after the weekend, I have not been able to update the table of shame so it remains the same as for Sunday. Wrong Important Decisions Favouring Arsenal Favouring Opponents 2nd Yellow Cards 0 15 Red Cards …
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By Walter Broeckx I think I have mentioned the book 1984 before. As Tony has done many times. It is not the best book I have ever read. But it is a very intriguing book. One that makes you want to look further than what the mass media are shoving down our throat. And one …
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By Tony Attwood Is it all over for Alexis Sanchez? He scored 12 goals in 24 Premier League games – but none in the last six. Why’s that? It is worth looking at because there are early signs in the pubs outside the offices of our national daily papers that Sanchez has had it, he’s …
Read More “The evolution of Alexis and the evolution of the team”
By Tony Attwood “That facts that nowadays the manager clearly hasn’t got a clue about how to set up a team tactically, that his ability to motivate his players is conspicuously lacking and that his Midas touch has gone into reverse, when it comes to developing talent, count for nothing when you consider his stellar …
Read More “Beware this story about Arsenal support is boring and you’ve probably heard it before.”
Arsenal fans at home and away.by pararealist. . Arsenal fans are a strange bunch. . First there are the away fans. . They sing their hearts out for the team and give vocal support whatever is happening on the field. . Then there are the home fans. . Now, the home fans expect to be entertained …
By Tony Attwood One of the things the children who run the mass media and lead their little camp of followers never quite understand is the essence of support. It is emotional, tied to one’s tribe. But us fans also tend to know our statistics. And some of us have actually read a book or …
Read More “Arsenal’s win ratio, two assists from Ozil, and the trick of body language”
By Walter Broeckx A few changes compared to our last match. Gabriel comes in the team and Mertesacker drops to the bend and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain comes in the place of Danny Welbeck. Cazorla will be the captain for this match today. So the team was : Ospina, Bellerin, Gabriel, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, …
By Bulldog Drummond And so it goes. The world as two groups of people. Those who understand the notions of context and history, and those who think that the only thing that matters is what has just happened. I’m reminded of a few acquaintances who I had earlier in my life, who on hearing some …
Read More “Arsenal v Everton. Teams and recent stats compared. (And Chelsea)”
By Tony Attwood I must confess at once that I didn’t write that headline – although I wish I had. It came from News biscuit – a wonderful satirical site, and one I’d recommend to anyone with an off centre sense of humour. The point of their piece is that Representatives of Europe’s biggest …
By Tony Attwood So what are the children chattering about today? Well, the Telegraph, having run the story a day or two back that the Arsenal board were fed up with Mr Wenger have now dropped that one and instead gone with the fact that the transfer budget for this summer will be £50 million. …
Read More “More Arsenal purchases this summer, and how Chelsea are getting such high transfer fees”
