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 When I fist started watching football back in the Bronze Age, we didn’t have a transfer window. Clubs could transfer whomsoever they liked, as long as they were British or Irish, whenever they liked, all the way up to around six weeks before the end of the season. You couldn’t buy players …
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By Tony Attwood One of the most amazing things this season is to see how quickly fans of various clubs can turn on their club’s management. That is interesting in itself, but there is more. For I have had confirmed something I have suspected for a long time: that bad news draws fans to blogs …
Referee : Michael Oliver First let me say that this together with Everton – Liverpool and Sunderland-Newcastle is one of the difficult games to do. Final score overall was 72% which isn’t completely bad but certainly not great at all. When we put weight on the decisions it drops to 65% and then we …
By Walter Broeckx As I couldn’t see the match live as I was doing my own match as a referee I saw the match with no tension in my body. It was very much what everyone could predict. But not all. They said that our full backs would run forward at any opportunity and we …
Read More “A few things as predicted, now to get going after the break”
Continuing our series on where to eat before an Arsenal match… A short walk south from Holloway Road underground station (i.e towards Highbury & Islington) you will find a smart fronted pie shop selling some of the finest pies for miles around. Run by Paul and Nicky Campbell Piebury Corner is an unashamedly Arsenal inspired …
Chelsea v Arsenal 05 October 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Martin Atkinson Assistants – M Mullarkey and S Child Fourth Official – J Moss Martin Atkinson is another useless FIFA Accredited twat of a referee, at least as far as his beloved Chelsea and hated Arsenal are concerned. We have …
By Walter Broeckx I thought the flares issue had been extinguished on the night but now I see a rather strange thing happening. I base this article on what I read in the Belgian newspapers so if they have spread wrong information I can only apologise. But for now I still trust them more than …
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by Andrew Crawshaw As you all know Arsenal dominated the game and ran out winners by five goals to one. The scoreline fully reflected the way that a youthful Arsenal team dominated the game and was a true reflection of the performances of the two teams on the day. For a full report on the …
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By Walter Broeckx I think Untold Arsenal has in its life time always been one of the front runners when it comes to fighting corruption. Visible corruption and invisible corruption. Be it assumed corruption in the referee world, or real like when we talked and pointed at the scandals in Italy, Belgium, Germany and many …
CROSSING THE LINE by Don McMahon This title is somewhat ambiguous as it can refer to a movement of an object when it crosses a specific line or delimiting indicator as well as referring to someone’s willingly transgressing specific limits or laws. It can also indicate a statistical tendency or even a writing style. In …
By Tony Attwood We know now that some visiting supporters will bring flares into the ground. Everton and Liverpool supporters do it, as to supporters of some continental teams. We know it happens, and we know they are very dangerous indeed. Flares and smoke bombs can cause huge amounts of personal damage, as well as …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal were down the bare bones. I know this because the “Evening Standard” yesterday told me exactly that before the match. We were relying (“relying” mark you, not just “playing” or “using” but “relying”) on the “notoriously unreliable defensive midfielder” Flamini. They called the situation “Flamin’ hell”. The article below this wild …
By Walter Broeckx With my training finished just 15 minutes before kick off, a quick shower, a drive home on the speed limits (never crossed them as far as I know) I came in with the match just a few minutes under way. Oh damned I forgot to leave my computer on so I had …
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By Walter Broeckx It seems that some so called and according to some non existing part of Arsenal fans have launched another kind of attack on our website. As I was involved in other things and had other things to take care off I admit we may have been a bit careless on allowing comments. …
Read More “Sometimes the notion of freedom of speech seems only to work one way.”
Today there is expectation. Expectation that the minimum requirement is the Arsenal will qualify for the Champions League; expectation that we will get through the group stage. But it hasn’t always been thus. Even under Wenger we haven’t always had this level of activity. Arsenal never qualified for the European Cup in its earliest …
By Tony Attwood Since we launched the idea of reviewing places to eat before an Arsenal match my mate Drew has really got into this eating out lark, and so has actually started his own blog on the subject of eating out. Although not just around Arsenal. With his permission (at least I think I asked …
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How a billionaire involved in third party ownership, is working with ex Man U players to build up another Manchester team By Tony Attwood Even though I do have a feeling for several teams in the lower leagues (Torquay United, Guernsey and Poole Town to be precise) quite what happens in league football below Conference …
Read More “Something rather strange on the far side of football”
By Tony Attwood According to media reports Arsenal’s latest accounts show that KSE LLC has been paid £3m by Arsenal. The media are worked up about this because the company is owned by Arsenal’s majority shareholder, Stan Kroenke. The money has been paid for strategic and advisory services which relate to Arsenal’s media department …
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By Tony Attwood There is a great tendency in the modern game to look only at individual players, rather than the combination of players. It happens when there is frantic talk about who might be bought – the notion of how that player will fit into the team that is already there is rarely considered. …
Read More “Arsene Wenger supports the campaign against time wasting.”
By Walter Broeckx The start of the match was very one sided. The totts installed a kind of bus and their only thought was about defending. Just Adebayor up front and every now and then on a few rare occasions he got a bit of support from Chadli and Eriksen. But it was Arsenal that …
Read More “Arsenal – Tottenham: one costly mistake but what a fighting spirit”
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur 27 September 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly, Here is the updated wrong decisions table, I have included Walter’s review of the Aston Villa game (1 not awarded red card for the challenge by Clark on Podolski in Minute 83 but no change to the points awarded to …
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By Bulldog Drummond. “I was days away from becoming an Arsenal player in the summer of 1996. When Bruce Rioch called me at home on an August night, I expected him to tell me what time to get to London Colney for my medical. Instead he told me he’d been sacked and the deal was …
By Bulldog Drummond. Thus we have two derbies. One in north London and one in the north west. Three of the four teams would love to have a new stadium. One of the four has one. Brendan Rodgers has said that Liverpool is “broken” because he has lost the core of players who had become …
Arsenal v Spurs. A Step Back In Time. By Ian Jenkinson @Gooneriano The last Article I wrote for Untold, Four Signings and a Wedding was a few days before I was due to get married. With the madness of it all and then the honeymoon I didn’t get a chance to thank you all for …
Welcome to the first north London derby of the 2014/15 season, brought to you by Arsenal’s official car and van hire partner Europcar. Both sides have endured a fitful start to the season, though the Gunners arguably come into the tie at the Emirates as the in-form side, having put Aston Villa to the sword …
