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 Usually you get my match report shortly after the match. But this time I couldn’t do this. So it is about more than the match as the match details have been talked over and over again I think. As you may know I am the president of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club …
Read More “Coquelin comes of age, Santi comes in from the cold.”
Arvind I haven’t written for a while for a number of reasons, and felt like writing again recently. As older readers probably (hopefully☺) remember, I tend to focus on the actual football and take a fairly microscopic look at the truth on the football field. Who really did well and who did not, and why? …
Read More “Three comparative Arsenal tactical reviews. Part 1 Arsenal v Liverpool”
By Walter Broeckx After having the fastest match report on an Arsenal blog this is now the slowest match report on an Arsenal blog I think. Arsenal started with Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Giroud. And on the cold beach in Manchester we had Szczesny, Gibbs, Chambers, Flamini, Rosicky, Ozil, …
By Navnit Man City 0-2 ARSENAL: player ratings. Arsene doesn’t do tactics. He is stubborn. ARSENAL will lose 3 nil. ARSENAL will lose 3-1. ARSENAL lose big games. Its down to the manager, he is responsible for all the big defeats. He is the past. We should look to the future. And when we win …
So what do we mean by defending better? Richard Bedwell For most people the answer is simple – concede, across the season, fewer goals than you did last season. However, judging by comments on the vast majority of blogs, people don’t think over such long periods as a season, or certainly not while that season …
The PGMO v Arsenal – the Half Time Report by Andrew Crawshaw This is a review of the first 19 weeks of the season, who were the referees, were they Good, Bad or Downright Ugly and any other points I consider relevant. I am using Walter’s referee reviews as my source document and will post …
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By Tony Attwood The Guardian today has a bold headline: “Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend action Guardian”. And not a single one of those talking points relates to Arsenal. Disappointing, but I wonder if they were just being honest; they had called it wrong, and were backing off. The Independent however follows …
Read More “Was that the moment when the press got it right, or are they just boasting?”
By Tony Attwood I only have one shirt that carries an Arsenal player’s name. It is in the red of the original Woolwich team, and has a picture of Pires on the front and the “7” on the back. It is my lucky shirt. I wear it rarely, for fear that wearing it too much …
By Tony Attwood (Walter is busy on family matters) Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes …
Read More “Man C 16 Arsenal 2 (Corners; Arsenal win 2-0 on goals)”
By Bulldog Drummond Manchester Accountants is part of a financial organisation which aims to spread its cultural and economic influence worldwide. It already has bases in Australia, New York and Manchester, and is now looking to move into phase two, which involves taking over disused and abandoned venues built for the world cup, and placing …
Read More “Manchester Accountants v Arsenal: a tale of two systems”
By Tony Attwood . The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), is a charitable organisation that proposes and supports International Safeguards for Children in Sport. Its reports estimates that there are maybe 15,000 trafficked child players in Europe from the age of 11 upwards. . And the situation is growing worse. . They boys have been …
By Andrew Crawshaw Firstly the ‘Table of Shame’ following Walter’s Review of the QPR game – a 2-1 win so there couldn’t be much to complain about from the referee – WRONG. Mr Atkinson again showed his complete inability to referee an Arsenal game in an honest fashion. His overall score (weighted for importance of decisions) …
By Tony Attwood Ninetyeight percent of transfer rumours turn out to be useless in revealing transfers that will happen. So how can the various newspaper and blog sites that actually produce the stories keep going? After all, any other future prediction operations which had a success rate of only two percent would have been laughed …
Read More “Transfer inventors now claim they can read your mind”
Ref for this match was Neil Swarbrick The first minute the ref should have booked O Brien who came in frontal towards Monreal. In control but surely with studs showing over the ground. A booking would have been the only correct call even in the first minute. Minutes later a very important call to make …
By Tony Attwood The Football Association is determined to be, well, that slightly bit odd, in its thinking. Let’s imagine for a moment that you ran the FA and were concerned that in recent tournaments both the English national team and the under 21s team had been knocked out of the big event in the …
By Walter Broeckx I do speak and understand a few languages but Polish is not one of them. However someone informed me that an interesting article appeared on the website of Legia Warsaw. It said: “Bielik przejdzie testy medyczne w Arsenalu Autor: Krystian Grzelak Fot. Jacek Prondzynski Legia Warszawa wyraziła zgodę na udział Krystiana Bielika …
Read More “Arsenal welcomes… a bald Eagle…. also known as Bielik.”
By Tony Attwood It’s a funny ol’ game. The surprising headline of the day comes in the Telegraph, normally rather pally with our old mate Arry the Red and his dog Rosie. “Stop playing the blame game, Harry – if QPR are relegated it’s nobody’s fault but your own” the headline writer screams while also …
Read More “Bizarre survey results, Arry attacked, Arsenal to buy Dortmund”
By Tony Attwood . It is interesting that if we ever mention FFP we tend to mention Manchester C. . It is Manchester City that we pick on because they were the ones who refused to settle their FFP punishment initially in the last round, while all the other clubs did. Also, on a more …
Hamburg confident of signing Arsenal target Krystian Bielik … So screamed the Guardian a couple of days ago. Indeed it’s been a bit like a pantomime (which if I may explain to residents outside the UK is a traditional and extremely silly English theatrical entertainment in which there is a lot of cross gender dressing …
Read More “98% of transfer rumours are untrue, except this one. And Henry speaks”
By Walter Broeckx I think I have said before that I am not a master tactician. One has to know one’s limitations and even in my playing days I never was one to listen to all the blah blah from managers. And even now I couldn’t care one bit if Arsenal play 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 …
Funny old game. Gareth Bale, who despite his past is actually a very good player, gets booed at Real Madrid mostly for not passing to Cristiano Ronaldo when he (Bale) goes through one or one with the keeper. Bale has scored 12 goals in 25 games, while Benzema has scored 14 in 27. Critiano Ronaldo …
Read More “Bale gets booed, we’ve got the top scorer in PL history”
By Tony Attwood Following up on the Untold piece about chants over the weekend the Guardian quotes the “Three nil and you can’t get home” song from Sunday, and invites readers to send in their own versions of popular singing numbers from the terraces. Of course it is written within the constitution of the Guardian …
Read More “The funniest songs of all time at a football ground”
By Tony Attwood, publisher of Untold A few days ago a comment appeared on Untold which struck me as very odd. It said… “guys every time you delete a comment that does not resemble yours your no better than ISIS as far as I’m concerned apart from the unfortunate killing of innocent people. Free speech …
Read More “According to one correspondent, Untold is no better than ISIS.”
Ref on the day was Martin Atkinson Well that was a match with lots of big decisions. And not really the +98% score the PGMO tells us that referees get in general. In the first half the ref awarded a penalty for a clear foul on Alexis. It proved to be his only correct penalty …
By Walter Broeckx The team to start this match was Ospina, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rosicky, Cazorla, Alexis, Giroud. The subs were Szczesny, Bellerin, Flamini, Ramsey, Ozil, Campbell, Walcott. So 4 changes since the last match with Ospina making his debut in the PL. Coquelin continuing as a defensive midfielder. Giroud taking his …
Read More “Arsenal – Stoke, one casualty as usual, football wins in the end”
