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 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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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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