Arsenal News

Tonight the ref is the number one ref in Belgium.   Or as Zafod Bebblebrox says in the Hitchhikers’ Guide “Belgium Man!”
Here’s the assessment of our resident Belgian Referee: Walter Broeckx……..
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I really hope he doesn’t screw up on us.
Last season he had the Liverpool – Real Madrid game and before the game there was [...]

I have only just found out about the Soccer Lens Awards (thanks to our good friend Gf60) so there is only a day or so left for getting entries in.  (Sorry I have been so taken up with all the events of the last few days.  Fancy Liverpool losing all their players at once.  Well [...]

Well hi diddley dee do!  I have just spent 2.5 years screaming about the insanity of football in the EPL and how it will all end in tears, and what do you know?  It is all ending in tears!  (Apart from those down the pub where it all ends in beers).
There is so much happening [...]

Let me make it clear that this is not a tirade against Fran Media.  If he goes, or if he has already gone, then I will be sorry, but I’ll understand.  It is what agents do to young players.  Get games every week, grass is always greener, all that stuff.
But if he is going, I [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Great was my expectation when I saw the names of Fran Merida and Jack Wilshere on the team sheet. I have seen them play a few games in the Carling Cup, the Emirates Cup, in the reserves and even in the Champions League.
When they play in the Emirates cup, which after all is [...]

WARNING THIS ARTICLE AND MOST OF THE COMMENTS WHICH FOLLOW IT CONTAIN IRONY.   IF YOU DON’T LIKE A LAUGH PLEASE DO NOT READ ON.
1.  He doesn’t buy enough players.
Quite clearly we need a new centre forward.  Eduardo is done for, Arshavin is too small, Nasri and Rosicky are midfielders not forwards, Vela can’t score, Theo [...]

By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood
Knocking the Arsenal is an important part of the job of every reporter.   To be fair some do back off when we are playing brilliant football and winning stuff (only the Guardian and Observer did snarling cynical pieces about the club in the days after we finished the unbeaten season).
But [...]

So everyone is “carrying knocks” or is downright injured.
I have often wondered about “carrying a knock”.  I mean, carrying where?  In my pocket?  And what, after all, does a knock look like when it is carried?
Is it perhaps a bit like the dark matter that physicists keep talking about every time they try to suggest [...]

By Phil Gregory
Arsenal welcome Liverpool to the Emirates stadium for Wednesday’s Carling Cup tie.
The Reds, already six points off the pace in the Premier League despite a solid home win over champions Manchester United are expected to put out a below strength side for the tie with an eye on their match at Craven Cottage [...]

So having spent a day arguing about when people were signed and the value of our youth system, the Lord Wenger now tells us it is all going to be pulled to bits by the new FIFA plans to limit transfers of players under 18.
Our Great Leader pointed out that we have the “90-minutes” rule [...]

As Adam Smith pointed out yesterday, you couldn’t watch last night’s game on any sort of TV system anywhere south of Pluto.
In fact if you tried BBC radio you would have found that in the summary half hour from 10 to 10.30 (when a couple of extra times were going on) the match actually didn’t [...]

By Phil Gregory
West Brom, managed by Roberto Di Matteo (formerly of MK Dons) are Arsenal’s opponents in the Carling Cup on Tuesday.
They will undoubtedly be coming into this match on a wave of confidence, having beaten Middlesborough 5-0 at the Riverside, and holding a one point lead over Newcastle at the top of the Championship.
West [...]

Starting next season all EPL clubs will have to name 25 players over 21 before the season begins as their registered players list.
Eight of those players must have been developed for at least three years by an English or Welsh club before their 21st birthday.
The clubs can also have a limitless list of [...]

At last, a club willing to stand up and fight against the insane, bent and discredited UEFA.
Arsenal’s statement over the Eduardo affair was everything we could have wished for – a complete catalogue of everything that is wrong with the warped European governing body, including its arrogant belief that it can get away with anything, [...]

During the 1990/1991 season a group of Manchester IOU (then known as plain Manchester Thugs) players ran around some Arsenal players and there was a bit of pushing and shoving.  In typical idiotic, insane, pathetic, stupid, disgraceful, bizarre and incomprehensible style the League decided to take two points away from Arsenal, and thus scupper their [...]

The general view among the more thoughtful fans of Arsenal (well, my mate Ian and the two guys I met down the pub) is that the Lord Wenger really has had a masterplan and has not deviated from it. And it is now being revealed in all its glory.
And in common with earlier Wengerian [...]

Welcome to Season 91. In September 1919 Arsenal started to play in the First Division, having been awarded a place in the reshuffle that followed the end of the First World War.
The top division was expanded by two clubs at that time, but the issue of promotion was made very murky because [...]

Going off on holiday for a couple of weeks always makes me feel that when I return there ought to be something BIG – some incredible news that has changed the world while I have been away.
Of course it is rarely like that and I returned late last night to see that Newcastle are in [...]

I am about to leave for a holiday for a couple of weeks – out of the rain of Northamptonshire to the sun of Italy.
During this time I am leaving the site open so that comments can be posted by those who have posted before. However anyone new posting, or [...]

I can’t remember ever being this excited about the Barnet game.
This blog is, of course, dedicated to giving eternal support to Arsenal, and so every season is full of hope and expectation, but this one is something else. The last time I felt this good pre-season was after the unbeaten season.
I think the heart [...]

There I was, pausing in my busy daily schedule of writing stuff, to take a quick Florida Salad Sandwich, when the news pops up.

Arsenal will sell Cesc for £40 million.
And you know it must be true because it is in that central and vital source of all news about Arsenal, the people on the pulse, [...]

Last season the excellent magazine Highbury High invited a range of supporters to participate in the prediction game, where the writers nominate the player who would make the breakthrough in the season to come.
The publishers very kindly included me in their list of guest writers and so I duly cheated and put in two players: [...]

Articles on Untold Arsenal are so good that they also appear on Team Talk. The same is true with much of our correspondence. The name of the “author” is changed on Team Talk.
Team Talk have been told repeatedly, but won’t stop the activity, so, I think we should celebrate this situation. Read [...]

As we entered the close season I planned this as a sort of weekly revue of EPL clubs, and how they are coping. I expected to be fighting off the usual “Oh my God its a disaster, Man IOU has signed everyone and we haven’t” but in fact its not quite like that at [...]

There’s a story that has cropped up a few times recently, and it goes like this…
Arsène Wenger is on holiday or in the Far East or both, when he should be concluding deals in Europe. If he can’t take the club seriously he should be sacked.
As has already been said here by others, [...]