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 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 …
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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 …
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By Tony Attwood This is the month when we are supposed to see the first impact of the new Premier League Financial Fair Play rules but there seems to be a significant silence surrounding these – and I have wondered if the Premier League is taking steps backwards, or has simply decided to ditch the …
Read More “Man C, QPR, Leicester, Man U, Leeds… yes it is FFP season again.”
By Tony Attwood Following a football match at home by getting summaries from Sky every five minutes is not really very good for your health. Or at least I am not too sure it is very good for my health. The panellists on the show were bubbling with glee and joy at the demise of …
Stoke v Arsenal 6 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Anthony Taylor Assistants – J Collin and I Hussin Fourth Official – R East Anthony Taylor – Mr Taylor is a Cheshire FA referee, he was born in 1978 and (possibly for his extreme bias against Arsenal) is now FIFA …
By Tony Attwood There is of course transfer news and transfer news – much of it made up by drunken hacks meandering around parts of East London, unable to believe their luck at having a job in which they invent tripe, get paid for it, and find (amazingly) that people believe it. Indeed as one …
Read More “Benik Afobe – and others who might join Arsenal.”
By Walter Broeckx I think every person who follows football and who as a normal brain function will agree that the calender for football players is overfilled. Too much is too much. If you look at how many players have suffered injuries that have played on the world cup it is clear to see. The …
By Walter Broeckx A few words have been spoken lately about the Borussia Dortmund supporters. Come to think of that… we have mentioned them over the last years on numerous occasions. And most of the time as far as I can remember we only had nice and good words to say. For those like me …
By Tony Attwood Last night, for the Southampton match, I bought a ticket for the game for a friend, using my silver membership. It was a lower tier in the East Stand and cost £28.00. Personally I don’t think that was too bad – when you buy a ticket you don’t know what you …
Read More “Does the price of last night’s ticket actually matter?”
By Walter Broeckx Southampton had a great start of the season. And if my memory is still a bit what it was I remember that was also the case last season. Wenger pointing out that they lost a lot of players but kept the core of their team in midfield being important to keeping the …
By Bulldog Drummond In the good old days, the very good very old days, when a player went down injured on the pitch an old boy (usually a wizened guy who had finished playing 30 years before and who had no medical qualifications whatsoever) would trot onto the pitch carrying a bucket full of iced …
Read More “Arsenal v Southampton; everyone’s injured (as always)”
By TommieGun I am writing this post in order to offer some of my thoughts about opinions being published here and in other media, regarding Arsenal, Arsene, what it means to be a fan (or a supporter), what is acceptable to say (or write), and what is not acceptable. I will lay out a few …
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Blacksheep63 Yes I know this is a football site, and an Arsenal football site at that, so what an earth am I doing writing about boxing? Well (tenuous link alert…) on Saturday, instead of finding somewhere to watch BT Sprot spoil another Arsenal away game with their cretinous commentary, I thought I’d avoid the match …
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Arsenal v Southampton 03 December 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the updated Wrong Important Decisions table following the United game (to be strictly honest it is updated from Walter’s post game report as I haven’t seen his full referee review so there may need to be further changes). One more …
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UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects by Andrew Crawshaw The UEFA Youth League is a tournament for players who were born on or after 1 January 1996 – i.e they must be younger than 19 on 1 January 2015. The tournament is played between the same 32 clubs that make up the group …
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By Walter Broeckx After one of our earlier articles a new person commented for the first time and asked a question that got me wondering. For the sake of making it clear I will reprint his comment in full: “When did this mass anti Arsenal start? I understand the Tiny Tots but the rest? I …
By Tony Attwood Do you remember that thing the AAA and their media allies used to do? 30 years since Arsenal won a trophy, or whatever it was. And before that, “Arsenal get more red cards than all the rest of the league put together.” Well, they’ve stopped doing it – first because the …
Read More “The new forward line: Me, him, Alexis, (and Theo)”
By Tony Attwood Every now and then I write about the Glasgow club Rangers – primarily because they represent to me the classic case of the failure of the media to ask why, and the failure to step out of line of the cosy bond they have in which each follows the other and none …
Read More “Rangers still on the brink, and we can be sure there are more to come”
By Tony Attwood Steve McManaman is hardly a person who would make my Xmas card list but I have to say that his dealing of the banner that half a dozen AAA had brought with them and snuck into the WBA game, was very good. He pointed out the sheer utter lunacy of what …
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By Walter Broeckx The weekend after European football is always a difficult weekend. And certainly when you have the honour of being chosen for the early kick off on Saturday after having played on Wednesday evening. A match that we had to play against one of the top teams in Europe. Well it was before …
Publisher’s Note There is an important campaign going on at the WBA match today, and the second half of this article deals with that. The first half contains the usual pre-match kick about but I would urge you to keep reading to appreciate exactly what the demonstration at the Hawthorns is about. Thanks Tony …
Read More “WBA vs the Invisibles, and something of far greater importance”
By Walter Broeckx So there we have it… just as I predicted. I know it is getting a bit boring. But it is a fact that I predicted it would happen. And it happened again. Another player injured because of the PGMO referees not doing their job. And as the media always tells that it …
By Walter Broeckx So who can we meet… and who not if the CL groups as they now stand were to be the final tables in each group? If that is the case Arsenal would be second in our group so we have to see at the other top teams in the group to see …
By Walter Broeckx I will not deny that we had a poor start to the season. I will not deny that the matches since Anderlecht were not idea in terms of the results if nothing else. Because I thought that we played rather impressively against Manchester United but we were wasteful with the chances that …
Read More “After a match like this it is easy to be a supporter”
By Tony Attwood Chris Bascombe writing in the Telegraph has said that, “We live in an age where the default position is to be offended by the continued employment of those we don’t consider to be as complete human beings as ourselves. There are now offices full of recent graduates dedicated to a daily web …
