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 I think that apart from the more brainless football supporters not many take pundits seriously. But as the more brainless are also more active in sending emails the opinion of a pundit usually makes its way through their ranks and then we can also see some of them coming to Untold to …
By Walter Broeckx First let me say I am not a doctor. But I am a person who likes to know how things come about. And so whenever I got an injury myself from doing sports I wanted to know from my doctors the how, why, what, where from it. And kept it in mind. …
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By Tony AttwoodIn case you have not come across them before Red Action is the group that works with Arsenal to improve the atmosphere at Arsenal games and naturally they have an interest in the problem of flares.As you’ll know, Arsenal are now under investigation from Uefa for the flare incidents at the match …
Read More “Red Action, FSF and the police speak on the menace of flares”
By Tony Attwood So now we know. Mesut Özil is out for about three months with a partial knee ligament tear. The great dream of Sanchez, Walcott, Ramsey, Welbeck and Özil all in one team – the dream of stillness and speed – has taken another knock. Will we ever see it I wonder? The …
By Walter Broeckx If you look at the number of points and the position in the league table I can understand that some people are not completely happy. But as in most things in life it is about perspective. And not just about the now moment. The season still has a long way to go. …
Read More “Which team had the toughest start to the season?”
TROLLS, HYENAS AND VERMIN by Don McMahon Following our loss to Chelsea, which imho was a close run thing….I felt it appropriate to anticipate the reactions of our AAA minions. There is a phenomena in cognitive psychology which tries to explain how mankind’s morbid focus on small and often irrelevant negatives dominates many ordinary people’s …
By Walter Broeckx Just as the leaves will fall off the trees each autumn you can be assured that every start of a new season Arsenal players are like rabbits in the woods in the hunting season. When the hunting season starts the hunters can go in the woods and kill rabbits or whatever they shoot …
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 …
Read More “What do you do when the transfer window is cracked?”
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 …
Read More “Flares: same offence, different rules once more?”
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 …
Read More “Arsenal v Galatasaray S.K; where to eat before the game”
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 …
Read More “Technical failures cast shadow over payment to Kronke’s company”
