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By Tony Attwood I have the view that having started this blog a few years ago, and now having a fair old number of readers each day, I have a duty to try and keep the thing running, while living up to the original notions behind the blog: that it should be pro-Arsenal at all [...] December 19th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, History, Match reviews and previews |
8 comments - (Comments are closed) Note: Because of the origins of the Arsenal Statues and because of their obvious historical context, the launch of the statues has already been covered in depth on our companion site the Arsenal History blog. But, I know that many readers of Untold don’t always pop along to the History site… and this was [...] By Tony Attwood In early August 2010, I was privileged to get a meeting with Ivan Gazidis the chief executive of Arsenal FC. I was there as part of a delegation of fans putting forward ideas about Arsenal and the wider world. And because (as you may know) I am interested in Arsenal’s history, I [...] By Tony Attwood I recently wrote about an idea for a series of articles through the season on ex-Arsenal players who are now in senior management anywhere in the world. A lot of names were submitted – although many of these are not managing now, and I was looking for current people. The list is [...] By Walter Broeckx The “you won nothing for X years” mantra sung by the media and repeated by a part of the fanbase is something that one never hears of other teams. More sensible readers on Untold know that periods when you win nothing are part of the game. In fact they are part of [...] May 12th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football & club strategies, History |
63 comments - (Comments are closed) By Walter Broeckx You know the Arsenal hasn’t won anything in X years mantra that the media and some desperate fans use every day to paint us as rubbish. And thanks to a remark of a reader on Untold I wondered: if you take a look at the history of a club how long does [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Mike Collins in Canada Well, As an avid reader of your terrific blog I just thought I would put down a few musings from my getting on for 60 years of giving hard earned money to AFC; I might just [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Newspapermen like dreaming up statistics. Not necessarily important statistics, but just statistics. Many of them don’t get picked up by others and so quietly die a death, but others get repeated and repeated – and so some people start [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Are Arsenal Players Still Lightweight? (Comparing the Arsenal of 2004 and the present batch) By Nitesh Padhi A common complaint against this present Arsenal team is that they are too lightweight. Of course, we can never ever forget the Invincibles and the [...] February 18th, 2011 | Category: Arsenal stories, History, Players |
25 comments - (Comments are closed) Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here by Tony Attwood Who made Arsenal the club of world-wide renown and stature that we now have the privilege to watch? Who was the visionary who transformed us from being an ordinary club into being one of the great clubs? Of course [...] By Tony Attwood Sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s my dad took me to see Cardiff City vs Arsenal. He had an old friend there – maybe even a pal from the war, I am not sure, and we went and the old friend’s house, before walking on to the match. I don’t [...] Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood Don’t Panic. This is not yet another ad for my book, in fact apart from this sentence, my book doesn’t get a mention. This is about the books published by GCR. Until now GCR has had a special place [...] By Tony Attwood Of course in the coming days there will be the usual half dozen or so articles on everything to do with Arsenal vs the Kingdom of Kev. Already I am sitting on a bizarre and eccentric review of the Kingdom by Billy the Dog, not to mention Dogface’s remarkable review of the [...] November 5th, 2010 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football & club strategies, History |
3 comments - (Comments are closed) The Untold Invincibles: Genesis & End of FC Start During the half-time interval, an SS officer entered FC Start’s dressing room. In a stern tone, he darkly said: “You really cannot expect to win, however. Just consider for a moment what will happen if you do.” The FC Start players knew what this [...] Wenger, Chapman, Graham – a comparison By Tony Attwood I was intending to stop this series on Wenger after covering the three basics: Philosophy, Practice and the Total Revolution. But a reader wrote in asking me what would constitute failure in terms of the Wenger revolution, and I thought it such a good question [...] September 10th, 2010 | Category: Arsenal stories, Arsène Wenger, History |
42 comments - (Comments are closed) Arsenal welcome The Creature from the Black Lagoon By Billy The Dog McGraw, Landlord of the Toppled Bollard, Islington. At the heart of the matter there are three creatures. Oysten the Greater, Oysten the Lesser, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. All three have a significant part to play in the world of Blackpudlian [...] August 20th, 2010 | Category: All Tomorrow's Parties, Arsenal stories, History, Untrue humour and wild whimsy |
21 comments - (Comments are closed) by Tony Attwood The Arsenal History project, organised by Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, and (I think it is fair to say) welcomed by the upper echelons of Arsenal FC, has taken on a new direction. We are starting to publish memories of fans – and at the moment we are focussing on memories of the [...] August 13th, 2010 | Category: History |
2 comments - (Comments are closed) By Tony Attwood Star of stage, screen and the members pack Well, if you have received the full Arsenal members’ pack, and put in your DVD (at least the round thing in the pack), and then worked your way through the Ray Parlour stuff, watched the goal of the season countdown, and wondered what next, [...] August 9th, 2010 | Category: Arsène Wenger, History, Untrue humour and wild whimsy |
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OK, that would be just me then. Or at least that is what it often felt like when he was in the team. In his short, peak period, I thought he was God’s gift to the team, and was certain he was going to become one of the all time greats. [...]
By GF60 “Looking back is sometimes dangerous because we see the past that we want to remember and not the past that has happened in reality.” With all-seater grounds, nancyfied and oh so safe stadia, no-one will ever know again, the thrill of being able to tell the crowd size merely [...] By Tony Attwood If you’ve ever clicked on the links that I sometimes throw in at the end of articles you might have found your way onto the Woolwich Arsenal web site www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk The site covers, in a very erratic and idiosyncratic manner, the history of Woolwich Arsenal from its foundation as a professional club, [...] Heysel – the Belgian perspective. By Walter Broeckx The history of the Heysel stadium goes back to 1927. In those days the city of Brussels decided to build a brand new stadium which was meant to become the home for all kind of sporting events in the Belgian capital. It was finished in 1930, thus [...] May 29th, 2010 | Category: Arsenal stories, Football grounds, History, Police and stewards |
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by Walter Broeckx As someone asked if we could not only give a bit of general view on the goals that we conceded but an overall view on all the statistics I will try to do this. I will only take a look at the league and the performances and will [...] By Walter Broeckx A reader asked it we could look at the goals conceded and compare this with the invincible year. A fair question and so I went on to do some research on this. And if you just look at the bare facts they say: 2003-2004 : conceded 26 goals and won the title. [...] 16-1, I should explain, was the number of shots for each side. And there isn’t too much point in doing any analysis of a match like this. We needed to win, and Fulham were thinking of the Europa League, and we did what was necessary. Most amusingly Tottenham didn’t. Djourou came back and had a [...] May 9th, 2010 | Category: Arsenal stories, History, Match reviews and previews, Players, Police and stewards |
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