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 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 …
Read More “Barcelona sneaks in secret hearing with Arbitration Court”
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”
By Walter Broeckx A match against Newcastle who had just done us a big favour by beating Chelsea. Newcastle also a team that had the same numbers of points as Arsenal at kick off. So not an easy match it seemed. And ref Mason at the whistle…. Arsenal team that started against Newcastle: Szczesny, Bellerin, …
Bulldog Drummond There are some interesting historical perspectives for Arsenal against the Newcastle zebras, like for example 6 December 1997 [sorry there was a misprint when this was first published and it said 1987] when Arsenal beat Newcastle U away 1-0 in a sequence in which we won just two out of eight, but still went on …
Read More “Arsenal v the Zebras; just like when we won the Double.”
Arsenal v Newcastle – 16 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Lee Mason Assistants – S Burt & A Halliday Fourth Official – R East The Referee appointments for Arsenal games don’t get any better, but for followers of Untold that will hardly come as a surprise. Mr …
Premier League referees have to stop bottling decisions or someone is going to get seriously hurt Wow. Take a look at that headline. Apart from the fact that the style is not very Untold, it could have been written on this site. But it wasn’t. Which is quite remarkable. Because it shows that whereas …
Read More “Suddenly the debate about referees is on, big time”
By Tony Attwood Liverpool’s position in football at the moment is of interest to Arsenal because the two clubs have done things very differently of late – and received different coverage in the press. Arsenal, endlessly accused of not spending, have continued to act with caution even when buying. The extra defenders that most people …
Read More “One fine win for us, and a cockup for them, and the media’s off…”
By Walter Broeckx Today is the day that our beloved club becomes 128 years old. Not that becoming 128 years old is a special date compared to becoming 100 or 125. But still it is in human terms a very long time. And I don’t know how human beings will evolve in the future but …
Dear Santa – My Arsenal Wish List By Andrew Crawshaw 1. A new Centre Back, preferably with proven Premier League Experience – to provide support to Per and Kos and to enable Chambers to grow into the role gradually. Must be a battler and not prone to rushes of blood to the head. 2. A …
By Billy the Dog McGraw, Chief Psychologist at the University Hospital of the North Circular Road I received the call just before kick off. Something, I was told, was going to “kick off”. “Yes,” I replied, “I know, I’m a doctor. It’s called the kick off. It’s a football thing.” But the caller explained that Arsenal …
Read More “Hilarious Sky, Muddled Merse, Nervous Nicholas and Krazy Claude”
By Walter Broeckx We started with the strongest team we had available with some 11 players out for various reasons like injuries, carrying knocks around, feeling a little pain left or right. So the starting line up was: Szczesny, Debuchy, Chambers, Mertesacker, Bellerin, Flamini, Campbell, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Podolski, Sanogo. And on the Turkish beach we …
By B. Linded, your exclusive man from within the PGMO People on Untold have been asking what happened to Woward Hebb the former top referee from our dear PGMO. It was said that he would explain referee decisions in the future for the media. What nobody knew was that Woward Hebb was going to do …
By Tony Attwood Imagine just for a moment that you were invited by a country that is applying to be part of Uefa to help them put their footballing on a sound basis. You’d probably take the standard model of three or four organisations, one which ran the league, one (probably a trade union) which …
Read More “How we can show that refereeing in the Premier League has gone wrong”
By Walter Broeckx In this article we have put links to several video clips. I hope they work. If your internet connection isn’t the fastest you can click on the link and then download them on your computer and then play them with a media player. They are .avi clips so should work with windows …
Read More “Untold’s “not within 100 miles” preview more than spot on”
