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 When last summer on transfer deadline day Arsenal signed Mesut Özil it was the start of something new. New for Arsenal and their supporters because after years having had to sell their best players because they wanted out for all kinds of reasons like DNA and money we now bought one of …
By Insideright Tony’s blog the other day about the continuing saga of the new Spurs ground brought to mind a post I made a couple of years ago (on the London Evening Standard website as it happens) in which I said that the only logical solution to the whole mess was for Spurs and …
Read More “Is Tottenham’s ground re-development a phantom even with planning permission?”
By Walter Broeckx Well we could open a can full of clichés about Germany and winning. One of them on top of this article and you will have filled in the rest automatically. With a few Gunners possible winning a world cup medal I had to have a look at the match. And so I …
By Tony Attwood Big teams come and go. Man U ventured into the second division in the 1970s, and Man City have often been there, Leeds seem currently to be run by a root vegetable, Chelsea and Man C are just a change of heart away from collapse. One could say that in football, stability …
by Tony Attwood According to the Scotsman and the Evening Express, Uefa are contemplating an investigation into claims that Aberdeen’s 5-0 Europa League victory over FK Daugava Riga from Latvia was fixed. Aberdeen went on to win the second leg 3-0 in Latvia. The Evening Express has reported that FederBet, the betting industry’s anti-corruption organisation is …
Read More “Scotland is being naive over match fixing; Fifa less naive over ticket touting”
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger has now given Arsenal two amazing players in two years. It is a measure how quickly the press change their tune, that there is now a general anticipation that a third will be signed. Maybe it is just a ploy to ensure that they can then run a “Arsenal hijacked” …
By Walter Broeckx For many years Untold stood on the barricades when it came to defending the way Arsenal was doing their business. We understood the problems that building the new magnificent stadium had brought to our club. We understood the need for that stadium so we would be able to compete with Manchester United …
Read More “Patience is a virtue, so is seeing further than this second”
By Tony Attwood So it wasn’t a phantom signing at all – as the Star and Talksprout desperately tried to claim yesterday (suggesting it was another Higuain case, but forgetting to say who the “Ozil” was in the deal, if it were to be a complete repeat of last year). And it didn’t make …
Read More “Alexis Sánchez: The Star and Talksprout were wrong – Sánchez wasn’t a phantom”
By Walter Broeckx It’s official http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140710/alexis-sanchez-agrees-to-join-arsenal Great news just when I got home from work. Will update later after having had a copious meal with that will taste even better now. More on this later on but I think after having signed Özil last summer this is another player from a giant La Liga team …
By Tony Attwood Below in italics is a little story that I have found on the Daily Star and reprinted in a number of blogs. It is, I think, highly informative. It starts with the headline Arsenal fans fear Alexis Sanchez won’t sign in a repeat of Gonzalo Higuain saga And continues thus… The Gunners …
Read More “As the Anti-Wengerians continue with their gloom, Untold finds a solution.”
By Walter Broeckx Despite my personal boycott of the world cup I did watch the semi finals. Not that I intended to do so from the start. But I did record the Brazil-Germany match on my hard disk just in case that we might see strange referee decisions. But instead of watching from the first …
Read More “Untold world cup thoughts: beware Chelsea v Man U”
By Tony Attwood One of the most frustrating things about the commentaries that came out last season and indeed through the summer (at least until a few days ago) was the lunatic focus on individuals. “Arsenal need a new centre forward” screamed tabloid journalists as they battled and fought their way to by another drink …
Read More “It’s not about who we sign, but about how they play as a team. Of course.”
By Tony Attwood Naturally the press have had occasional looks at Louis van Gaal working with the Netherlands and then suggested that he will transform Man U fr not-even-also-rans into league winners. As fast as they went down, they will come back up, overtaking all the rest, storming the league. Etc etc. I say “naturally” …
Read More “How Arsenal and Man U will both try and do the impossible”
By Walter Broeckx The players that didn’t take part in any world cup action are back in training at Arsenal. We have the likes of Arteta, Monreal, Flamini, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Szczesny and of course Ramsey. But that shouldn’t be so obvious that Ramsey is in training. Remember a few weeks ago one reporter who probably …
By Tony Attwood and a new piece of software…. Oh Walter how right you were… “Alexis Sanchez arrives in London for Arsenal move” Except… this grammar lark is a bit pesky. Because what the article below that actually headline says is “Football Express News understands that Alexis Sanchez will jet in to London on Monday …
Read More “Is it a bird, is it a plane, is Sanchez heading for Italy after all?”
Oh gosh, is it that late already? By Walter Broeckx Some things in life will always come back. Like the seasons. We know summer will come. The only thing is that we don’t know when it will come in our part of the world. And I think that for both England and Belgium the same …
Read More “Arsenal must not be allowed to repeat the mistakes they made with M’Vila.”
By Tony Attwood, our man with schoolboy Foreign. You used to know where you were with transfer news, for in the old days there were four types of stories. The first ended with a question mark, as in “Chilean striker to Arsenal?” This meant several people were talking about it, but the writer had no source …
Read More “Transfer catastrophe. It’s that déjà vu thing all over again”
By Walter Broeckx A few times in the last few weeks I have seen the question coming up in the comment section: “I wonder what Walter has to say about that decision in the world cup?” But because of my one man embargo on Fifa and all what is connected to them I haven’t seen …
Untold is currently moving across to much bigger servers, to try and stop the outages that we have all be suffering from. This may in itself mean that we disappear for a while – if so, please do come back looking. If there is any extra news I will post it on Twitter @UntoldArsenal, and …
Read More “Untold is being enlarged… please read this brief note”
Was Untold right on Suarez again? By Walter Broeckx So we have to bring Suarez up again, but, well, Suarez is still a PL player and as we look at football in total this is rather important. Because well…just read on A few days ago I wrote an article “Will Fifa stand firm in the …
Read More “Suarez: the awful truth emerges. And wouldn’t you know, we were right”
By Tony Attwood So certain of things that the Daily Telegraph is currently running this headline Arsenal close in on £60m triple swoop three times on its football internet headline page this morning. The three men are Lars Bender, Alexis Sánchez and Mathieu Debuchy as if you didn’t know. Then in separate articles we get …
Read More “Arsenal about to make triple signing, as the complaints mount”
By Tony Attwood Very occasionally I find myself reading a report in a paper or on the internet and think, “blimey, I wrote that.” Of course I don’t mean that literally – it is quite a long time since I’ve seen anyone take my actual words and re-print them as their own (that was with …
Read More “What is really happening with Tottenham’s new stadium?”
By Tony Attwood. At home with his Puma kit. Each transfer season has its own phrase. This summer it is “according to reports”. The phrase is everywhere – and since each report quotes the other reports it is exponential in its growth. I say that Arsenal are going to sign the right back Hardly …
Read More “Arsenal’s buying campaign starts. According to reports”
A Possible Solution for the Perennial Club v Country Conundrum by Andrew Crawshaw So ‘some players don’t want to play for their country, preferring to save their energy for the clubs who pay their wages’ – according to ‘Arry at least. We all know the times players have gone on to represent their country and have …
Read More “Want a better England team? Let England play in the Premier League!”
What if Arsenal Sign no New Player This Summer? By Bootoomee There is an overwhelming consensus that Arsenal is definitely adding new players this summer and the question is who while the agitation is about when. I also believe that Arsenal will be adding new players this season but I hold this belief for a …
