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 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 …
By Tony Attwood Another day another crisis. “Arsene Wenger’s gamble” it is called. Mathieu Debuchy out for a couple of months, and OMG that’s it, its all over. So who exactly do we have who can play in defence now the irreplaceable Mr D has gone? Calum Chambers can play right back Hector Bellerin can …
Read More “Hey I’ve got to write about Arsenal. Quick, what’s the crisis?”
By Tony Attwood Lots of writers love the notion that there are “five things we learned over the weekend,” but if I ever read them I am left with the notion that two of them I already knew, two of them I disagree with and one of them might well be a new thought – …
Read More “Five things we learned this weekend and a few we didn’t.”
By Tony Attwood It may be the result of Sunday Thinking (Sunday being a notoriously dodgy day on which to contemplate the world, given its propensity for being a day in which one takes in too much rather unhealthy food with the family, and spends far too much time pontificating on life, the universe and …
April 6 2011 Sammy the snake wrote an article, Groundhog day for Untold. Earlier this month Jonny Cooper the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Men tried rather unsuccessfully to re-use the story and we covered that on Untold. Now Groundhog Day stands for the same thing happening over and over again, so today Amy Laurence in the …
Read More “Groundhog day in the media is here again, and again, and again…”
Dear Walter, I hope you are having a lovely break away from it all. Today we went to see Arsenal take on the International Petroleum Investment Company’s Works’ Team. It was a bit of a curious affair, with some of the company’s team appearing to be what I believe are called “hearty roughs” – at least …
Read More “Arsenal 2 International Petroleum Investment Company XI 2”
By Bulldog Drummond So with the Almighty Wenger meeting with his holiness the pope, and then claiming devise intervention for the signing of our Danny, while Sky whipped up a load of passing yobs on deadline day and got them to boo when they announced the deal to sign Welbeck was on, and cheer when …
Clairvoyant’s Wanted (but you already knew that) By Psychic Brian, Professor of Applied Frotteurism at the Tamakeri Institute In order to satiate my thirst for matters Arse brought about by this interminable Arsedrought ©™ I found myself rambling through the cavernous catacumbal archives of Untold, down paths seldom trod, prying into the dustier corners. …
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Arsenal v Manchester City 13 September 2014 – The Match Officials By Andrew Crawshaw A quick reminder before I start that parking at Cockfosters station is unavailable until June 2015, if you normally use it then you need to use either Oakwood or Arnos Grove instead. There are also disruptions to trains south of …
By Tony Attwood Quite what Mr Wenger meant with his comment about the fact that if he had not been going to Rome on transfer deadline day we wouldn’t have signed Welbeck, is a matter for conjecture. It is certainly something that seems to be causing a bit of debate with different people quoting …
Read More “Mr Wenger’s joke, Mourinho, bombastic shallow times, Barnstoneworth.”
By Tony Attwood We don’t normally do match previews until the day of the game, and I don’t want to steal Mr Drummond’s thunder, but with the Man City match being the first since the summer transfers ended it seems that the normal timetable is out of the window. The key point is whether Danny …
Tottenham Hotspur, have announced that, as previously speculated here and on many other sites, and in the press, they are to move out of their ground at 748 High Road Tottenham, but not for a while – following another delay in the re-construction of their stadium. Tottenham has had similar delays to those experienced by …
Read More “Tottenham admit that 2017 opening of new stadium “unlikely””
By Tony Attwood As the season began I raised the suggestion that we might do a review of places to eat before the games. I’ve got a number of suggestions and some reviews, but I am keen to get more. Ideally I’d like a review, but if not, please suggest a place with the name …
Read More “Arsenal v Man C: catering preview: The Swimmer at the Grafton Arms”
By Tony Attwood First off, Aaron Ramsey. He was in Andorra doing an impersonation of Bale’s drag back and turn, with which the captain of Wales had wasted time in the first half, when he got kicked, slipped on the artificial turf and fell. He was replaced at once, and we now wait to see …
Read More “Ramsey injured? Man City pay Arsenal, and the corruption of the loan system”
By Tony Attwood In June this year I wrote a little piece Could Leicester and QPR be relegated to League one? which was my second foray into the morass that is FFP in the Championship. The point being that clubs which buy their way out of the Championship could be severely punished if they ever return …
Read More “And while we are on the question of FFP – think of QPR”
By Tony Attwood Last season Drew and I trotted down to our nearest league ground (Sixfields, home of Northampton Town) to take a peek at Coventry City, who at that time were playing their home games in Northampton, for reasons that won’t become clear at this point. Among the Coventry team was one Chuba Akpom. …
Jonny Cooper is the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Men. He also describes himself as an Arsenal supporter. And he recently wrote a piece in which he comments on Arsenal’s past and how it relates to this season. In doing this he cites the movie Groundhog Day in which exactly the same thing happens day after day. The writer …
Read More “How a newspaper re-writes the past, to prepare for Arsenal’s collapse”
By Tony Attwood It’s been a while since we looked at FFP, but I was reminded of the subject by a rather curious coincidence. When I dealt with FFP in depth last time we were in the period following 28 April 2014 when Uefa said that they were looking in depth at 20 clubs including Manchester …
Read More “Premier League club finances and the future of FFP”
The Ennui of an Arsedrought By Melancholic Brian I hate the ‘interlull’ (© ™ Arseblog patent pending), watching our warriors play in often meaningless games to repay the ill-advised and usurious debt of the national stadium. I had a conflict of emotion, pride at seeing so many of our players in the team, performing so …
