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
I am very aware that in the last couple of weeks we have had a number of situations where you may well have found it impossible to load Untold Arsenal. This has been because our number of readers has gone up dramatically in the last month. You may recall we were closed down for a …
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By Tony Attwood, star of stage, screen…. all that stuff. OK, I have been up all night playing the Puma video over and over again, and indeed have run up a £25,483 phone bill telling friends across the world of the long hold shot on “Making the Arsenal” in the middle of it, and that …
Read More “Semi-Exclusive: Arsenal’s summer signings now in place and contracts are being signed”
By Tony Attwood – star of stage, screen and Puma promotions Suddenly everyone wants to play for Arsenal. Clearly they have seen the possession and attacking way Arsenal play, the mighty Emirates Stadium, the fact that Arsenal don’t muck around with maniacs with social problems, and of course they have caught up on our heritage …
Read More “Suddenly there is a list of players who want to transfer to Arsenal!”
By Walter Broeckx When I surfed to the Arsenal website this afternoon I noticed that a few new articles had gone on line about the new kit manufacturer Puma. One of them was a little film where the designer explained the concepts behind the new collection. You might have seen the film already. Now I …
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ROUND PEGS IN A ROUND HOLE…..by Don McMahon Thank God for the transfer window is about to open and all the idle speculation that has been drummed up and invented in monotonous repetition by the hyperbolic media, the bored fans and the other denizens of this tragic-comical time can start to happen. Or not. However, …
Read More “Round pegs in a round hole; 7 players who would instantly fit at Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood The level of twaddle in the newspapers started this summer at hyper and has now reached beyond double plus insanity. Twaddle, that fundamental of all football columns in the press, comes in seven levels: Invention Nonsense Gibberish Pure Twaddle Hyper-twaddle What the f*** were you on last night? Would you like to …
Read More “Do you ever feel you are being treated with utter contempt?”
By Walter Broeckx Despite my own personal world cup boycott I do keep an eye on it of course. The reason why I do this is because a world cup can have a big impact on the next season. Just ask Liverpool… But of course when clubs are going to miss players from playing Fufa …
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By Walter Broeckx If ever there is one Arsenal player and one team that we didn’t expect to find in the World Cup quarter finals, bribed by Fufa, oops sorry should have been organised by Fifa, it is Costa Rica and Joel Campbell. Los Ticos as their nickname is were in the group of England, …
Read More “So what can we make of Joel Campbell based on his world cup appearances?”
By Tony Attwood All of these have appeared in the last 12 hours. If we sign them all, there’s going to be a problem fitting them in. 1. Closing in on: Arsenal are closing in on Chile forward Alexis Sanchez and France’s defensive midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, 2. Set to: Arsenal are set to sign Feyenoord …
Read More “Top 10 Arsenal transfer slogans and the players behind them”
by Tony Attwood, with ref review data from Walter Broeckx Howard Webb is a name you will read many times on Untold Arsenal. I’ve no idea how many times we’ve dealt with him, but surely it must be in the hundreds, since we started. And here he is again, doing a game, and with one …
Read More “When can we criticise referee Webb? In Brazil, never!”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal and Liverpool have both suffered controversies over the years although I think it is fair to say Arsenal have never had to deal with the sort of problem issues that Liverpool have had to face. The greatest controversy for Arsenal is the fact that Arsenal the first League club in English football to …
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By Tony Attwood Everywhere football cashes in. Set up a blog and print your club’s fixture list for the season and you’ll get a letter telling you that you have broken copyright law and owe the Premier League a lot of cash. (Don’t worry, Untold didn’t, and hasn’t). As a result no one who pays …
By Walter Broeckx As I mentioned before I do my own personal world cup boycott. My plan is to not look at the matches. And now after some 2 weeks of the tournament I can say that I haven’t watched a complete match. And I survived! My wife is much happier with that also. The …
By Tony Attwood Most of the publicity about Suarez’ biting has been about punishing him. But there is another dimension – a much more important dimension. That is the issue of protecting players from being bitten by him. As I said last time around, I felt there was evidence that Suárez was not getting psychological help. …
Read More “It is not about Suárez: it is about protecting the players he plays against”
