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 When Arsenal bought Giroud a few seasons ago many people were not convinced that he would be a good player for us. And we all have seen the abuse whenever he didn’t score. Or scored enough. Because an Arsenal player that misses a chance is for some just not good enough. I …
Read More “Giroud, the goal a game man for all the top matches?”
By Tony Attwood Koscielny, Ozil, Ramsey, Arteta, Wilshere, Theo, Bellerin, Gnabry… you know the story. And it is fairly obvious that this is a contributory factor to the club’s current position. Especially when we think that Giroud, Debuchy, Gibbs, Flamini and Monreal, have all had injuries this season as well as those currently out. Goodness, we …
Read More “The causes of injuries: how the press drew false conclusions”
By Tony Attwood Looking at the responses to Arsenal’s match at Liverpool I began to wonder if in making the key issue in the build up to this match last season’s result, we weren’t missing the real point. For is being beaten by Liverpool, or indeed any other team, a sign of disaster and a sign …
Read More “What exactly do these results against Liverpool tell us?”
By Tony Attwood Just two weeks after Untold published its 10 point plan for how an open, honest and honourable referees’ organisation would look, and PGMO allowed a journalist into their hallowed offices for a chat. Coincidence? Of course it was. Untold is just a blog run by a few enthusiasts who feel that PGMO …
By Tony Attwood “Football is fickle” is an old phrase. And an apt one. It used to be that one season your club could be great, then next rubbish. Then it was one month to the next, then one week to the next, then one day to the next. Now the chances are that unless …
Read More “Football supporting and football journalism in a spiral of decline”
By Walter Broeckx I must say that was one of the worst first 45 minutes of Arsenal this season. I don’t think we got more than 3 passes between Arsenal player in the whole half. Liverpool was pressing as they usually do from the start. And Arsenal clearly was determined to not allow a repeat …
Referee : Andre Marriner Please note this is one of a large series of ref reviews – a series that started some four years ago, with the reviews undertaken by numerous qualified referees. With ref Marinner we had one of the more experienced refs in the PL and one of the better. On paper. And …
By Tony Attwood According to those who don’t like Mr Wenger, the Arsenal transfer policy doesn’t work. Wenger is lazy, won’t spend money, and each time there is a player to get, we let someone else get him. As I have been trying to point out all year, there are some big problems with this …
Liverpool v Arsenal 21 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Now Walter has posted his referee review of Mr Dean’s sorry performance in the Arsenal v United game – Imagine a ref who only gets half his decisions right: Arsenal – MU ref review here is the updated Table of Shame. Still …
Read More “Liverpool v Arsenal 21 Dec 2014 – The Match Officials. Don’t expect penalties!”
A Friday Night Rummage By Tony Attwood Image a club – one of the biggest in the land in which… There is a constant shortage of money, so that every couple of months the club has to find another million or three in order just to pay the players (the season ticket money long since …
By Tony Attwood And so, continuing the approach to Liverpool Reds (as one of their owners called them not so long ago) against Arsenal, here’s an update on the team… Theo might travel. That is not the same as saying he is even on the bench, and certainly not to say he will start, but …
By Tony Attwood Some mornings the world is full of shocks. Like the headline in the Telegraph. Liverpool betrayed small-club mentality in allowing Arsenal to sign Alexis Sanchez Liverpool being knocked by the Arsenal-hating idea-stealing Telegraph? Well, quite possibly not, because when you come to think of it that headline somehow suggests that we only …
Read More “A “small club mentality” or are players actually people after all?”
By Tony Attwood Arsene Wenger has made the point that Suarez ain’t doing so well in Barcelona because of the dominance of Lionel Messi in the Barcelona team. Suarez has scored once in seven games this season which is not really what is wanted after spending £80m or so. Of course he is playing out …
Read More “Why Suarez flopped at Barce, why transfers are tough, and silly stories”
By Walter Broeckx based on the research done by Goonermikey who should get the credit for this article A while ago Goonermikey came up with the stats about how Wenger has overachieved per £1m of net spend on transfers and how this compared with other EPL clubs over a decade. And now he has come up with …
Ref : Chris Foy Just look at that first half from referee Chris Foy! Only one wrong call in the entire first half. Brilliant one could say. If it wouldn’t have been for the fact that the only wrong call was a not given penalty when Mulumba kicked Giroud in the penalty area and no …
Read More “Ref Review : WBA – Arsenal. Biased by circumstance more than by nature”
By Marcel Bogaerts. Marcel is the (excellent) treasurer of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club from our co-writer Walter Broeckx. He has been an Arsenal supporter since many many years and is the oldest (board)member of the supporters club. A supporters club that since Walter and the new board took over has prospered like never before …
Read More “Arsenal-Newcastle, Mozart, the trip and catering report”
From the moment Barcelona were found guilty of child trafficking for a second time they announced that they would appeal to the Court of Arbitration in Sport. Technically the appeal would be against the decision of the FIFA Appeals Committee to confirm the decision taken by the FIFA Disciplinary Chamber in which the club was …
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Sorry for the delay but finally we can resume our referee reviews and we continue with Arsenal – Manchester United. Referee : Mike Dean Apart from Arsenal missing too many chances the big talking points in the first half was firstly the not given penalty for a foul on Wilshere. Shaw blocked his run and …
Read More “Imagine a ref who only gets half his decisions right: Arsenal – MU ref review”
By Walter Broeckx The first thing we must check when we look at this draw is : what did Wenger do on Sunday? He jokingly said this last Saturday in his post match press conference: “on the Champions League draw… We have been well served in the recent years. Maybe I will go to church …
By Tony Attwood It is a regular complaint made about Untold: the main writers are too pro-Wenger, too biased, and surely should be more middle of the road, able to applaud when the manager, the team, the board and the catering team get it right, and condemn when they don’t. Unfortunately such an analysis doesn’t …
Read More “Amazing what a couple of convincing wins can do.”
By Tony Attwood It’s Arsenal v Monaco – “after the draw was incredibly kind to the Gunners” according to the Independent. The games will be Wednesday 25 February: Arsenal vs Monaco Tuesday 17 March:Monaco vs Arsenal Arsène Wenger made his name in Monaco, and won Ligue 1 with them in 1987-88. But as the table below shows, although …
Read More “Cue pictures of Arsène as a young manager and suggestions it is a doddle”
By Tony Attwood The current prediction is that the Tiny Totts are going to be the big spenders in January. Or Man U. Or Man C. Or QPR. Or indeed Arsenal. Of course it depends which paper you read. I’ll come back to Arsenal in a mo, but first… QPR certainly have the desperation, …
By Walter Broeckx I will admit it from the start of this article so that there is no misunderstanding about it. One of the things I love most in football is to see a young player making his way in to the first team. Of course bringing in Alexis and seeing him flourish is great. …
The AAA a case study: the man from row 9 Tony alluded to this incident in his post Newcastle article where he also highlighted the very vocal support for our manager. I was one of the many in the North Bank who were chanting ‘One Arsene Wenger!’ as we beat Alan de Pardieux’s* Bar Codes …
By Tony Attwood I have put forward the argument several times that fans can influence a team, and that one of the simplest, easiest ways to bring your team down is to boo them, jeer them and criticise them publicly. As we know, the jeering of Arsenal by Arsenal fans at Highbury really annoyed Herbert …
Read More “The impact of fans on a team, and the doings of Ian Wright”
