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 The name “Untold” was chosen deliberately for this blog in 2008, because I felt that huge amounts of news and information on football was simply not reaching the light of day through the existing newspaper, broadcast and blog outlets. I think I had a bit of a thought at the time that …
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Referee : Mike Jones Match: Aston Villa – Arsenal 20/09/2014 In a way this was a walk in the park for the ref. The two teams started with fair intentions and so we only got the first foul after some 10 minutes! Amazing and even then he could have let it go. Then things got …
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH….Don McMahon Being a faithful follower of long standing and occasional contributor to UA and a loyal supporter of the Arsenal, there are things about Football in general, and the EPL in particular that consistently alienate me and occasionally enrage me as well. UA is the eye of the storm when it …
By Walter Broeckx First let me start with saying that I don’t like it when Arsenal lose a match. I always want us to win each and every match. From the first meaningless pre season match against FC Nobody to the last match of the season the CL final. And when we lose a match …
By Tony Attwood We’ve got a Champions League tie with Galatasaray on the way and a little matter of matches against the very Tiny Totts and the Gazprom (west London) Works XI in the next two weekends. So giving an outing to the fringe players and youngsters was in my view a very good idea. …
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By Bulldog Drummond And so here we are again. Shut away the memories of saturday and see what we can make of the league cup. Out of the trenches, over the top, up and at ’em, go for the jugular…. Well, not quite. But still, it’s a match, and Southampton, what with not having any …
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By Tony Attwood You have to feel sorry for Manchester United. No, sorry, I’ll start again. It is remarkably easy to laugh at Manchester United. Since the 1950s they were the richest team in England, but could never quite match Arsenal’s longevity in the first division what with their little sojourn into division 2 in …
Read More “Is Van the man worse than Moyes with the boys. And wither Arsenal?”
By Walter Broeckx In the past 5 years that I have been a regular writer for Untold I think I have written a lot of articles in which I called for support for our players. I could and still can get extremely angry when I read the attacks on our own players from our own …
Read More “Helping or destroying players, the choice is yours”
By Tony Attwood Just for a moment those people who love do the same thing over and over and over again have had to stop – at least in terms of Arsenal. Even without current results it looks rather dumb to roll out the “what you don’t realise is that this is the year Arsenal …
By Walter Broeckx I think for those people who understand German and who know a bit of German geography the title is somewhat double in their meaning. People who know the German geography will say: now wait a minute Essen is a city in Germany just as Dortmund. And despite Essen and Dortmund both being …
By Walter Broeckx As you will now by now I am chairman of the Arsenal Belgium supporters club. And as with any other official supporters club we have to hold regular board meetings. Check the finances, look at where we can improve and on where we are doing a good job. Now I must say …
By Tony Attwood Funny ol’ game. When we win we are lucky, because the other team had lots of illness – a virus swept through the Aston Villa camp prior to the game. When we lose it is our fault for not being prepared, and no excuses will help us. Ah well, we won, with …
By Bulldog Drummond Now I’m more of a solider than a sailor, but even so it didn’t escape me that Friday was “Talk like a pirate day”, so in the Drummond household we had a fair smattering of “Arghhhh” and “me hearties”, not to mention “Why are pirates called pirates?” (Because they Arghhhhh – I …
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Aston Villa v Arsenal 20 September 2014 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw Here is the wrong Important Decisions Table updated following Walter’s reviews of the Leicester City and Manchester City games so the numbers are for all four games played so far. In the Leicester game there were three wrong Important decisions; …
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By Tony Attwood Every now and then, football rules change. If you are of a certain vintage you might remember the introduction of the “no back pass” rule to stop defenders wasting time by passing back to the keeper. Indeed over time the offside rule has had a lot of tinkering, with the biggest recent …
Read More “Stadium issues, FFP… for QPR it has all gone wrong at once.”
The Football Association currently revealed as breaking even the ludicrously lax Fifa rules about accepting gifts, has sought to deflect attention by pushing through the idea of reducing the number of non-EU players who can play in England. The new idea is that Football League clubs would not be allowed to sign non-EU players at …
Referee: Mark Clattenburg Week 4 13/09/2014 A somewhat confusing match from Clattenburg to be honest. Looking at the numbers his first half was rather poor. A score of only 70% and a weighted score of only 63% are very low for his standards. His score on the important decisions with a result of only 37,50% …
By Tony Attwood The UEFA Youth League – an under 19s competition – is now in the second season of its two-year trial – it is the European governing body’s first youth competition at club level. Access to the competition is reserved for the youth teams of the 32 participating clubs in the UEFA Champions …
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By Tony Attwood There has been a little agitation in some quarters concerning our league position at the start of the season. – won one, drawn three, lost nil. And it made me ponder what other season starters had been like. It is hard to think about the opening to seasons, once the season is …
Referee review Leicester – Arsenal Referee : Anthony Taylor Date 31/08/2014 A referee we feared and he lived up to the expectations. The good thing is he didn’t turn up to the extreme bias he showed in the Aston Villa match last season. But he sure didn’t give us anything at all. Not even the …
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, University Hospital of the North Circular Road. There is a saying which is often, but wrongly, attributed to Albert Einstein that says that one definition of madness is doing something, seeing it fail, and then doing it again, and again and again. Of course like all …
Read More “If repeatedly doing something that doesn’t work is madness, then what is this?”
By Walter Broeckx Note: this was written down just when I came back from Dortmund in the middle of the night (3.00 am). I haven’t seen any images on Tv, heard no talks from media, pundits or whoever feels free to say what I ought to think. Because of this I could have missed 3 …
By Bulldog Drummond Time once again for all good supporters to stand up and be counted, whether you can make it to Germany or not. One, two, three, four… hang on this could take a while. Picking the team is a bit difficult this time, because we could have Chambers – fit and ready to …
Read More “If everyone is injured can we call the match off?”
By Tony Attwood I don’t know if Jurgen Klopp is being called names by supporters of Borussia Dortmund but if not, he can be happy that he is working for a club that doesn’t have an Anti-Dortmund Dortmund movement. For his Dortmund team have injuries to seven players with just three games played in the …
Read More “Everyone is injured. Quick, let’s call the manager names. That ought to help”
Dear Tony and Untolders, It has been a while since you heard from me. Tony wrote a nice summary of our match against City and published it on the site. I really liked it. As Tony said I was on the beach. Not the Arsenal beach where the subs are placed as we do like …
