Arsenal News

“You’re Fucked and you know you are….”

By Simon Bailey.
I think we are all caught in one of those moments where we are living an alternate reality. You sort of recognise what’s going on, but it all feels a bit surreal.
A week ago everything was normal. Respective managers were briefing their respective teams about the [...]

Trying to stay in touch with the financial morass that is the EPL, is tough.  In this article I am trying to pull together some of the latest facts, figures, and then conclusions.  I am hopeful that if there are factual errors these can be pointed out and I will produce an update a bit [...]

English football’s omertà: a time for Clean Hands
By Brian Baker
I was listening to the radio in the car, driving back after family commitments, when I heard that Aaron Ramsey had been assaulted on a football field in Stoke.
I was emotionally thrown back to the day of Eduardo’s injury, ten minutes after which I told an [...]

J’accuse! by Walter Broeckx
The EPL is maybe the best league in the World for now.
The FA and the PL organization can be proud of that. The best footballers of the world come to England to play games at maybe the highest level in the world. Week in week out you can see teams, like Arsenal, [...]

Saturday April 15th 2005.   Arsenal played Blackburn in the semi-final of the FA Cup at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.  I was there.
In a shockingly dire first half I noticed that Blackburn were using a tactic I had never seen before.  Blackburn were taking it in turn to kick the Arsenal players.   Many of [...]

You don’t know what you’re doing
By Phil Gregory.
If you haven’t already read Tony’s cracking piece on football finance that went up on Monday, I’d recommend it before you read any further.
As a humble second year economics student, I’d like to share with you some of the insights my studies have given me in regards to [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Play off or not to play off.
With the current rumours, (and for once these are not rumours spread by the Untold Arsenal), around a play off for the 4th ticket that gives the right to enter the Champions League, it maybe is worth while to have a look at other countries that use [...]

Financial stability or ambition? Which do fans want?

Rhys Jaggar
Easy to answer that: BOTH. Fans want to know that their club can win something, but they don’t want the club to go bust.
Thing is: for many clubs, it mightn’t be possible. Arsenal seemed to manage it, but now it seems that stability has taken precedence [...]

If the EPL is about to go bust, what can we as fans do to resurrect it?
Rhys Jaggar

Sensationalism has been our diet on the back pages, on the internet and at fanzines for the past decade. Foreign ‘billionaires’ coming in, huge debts to pay off, great dreams of Kaka, Ronaldo or Zidane coming to [...]

Before we begin, Untold Rumours now appear that end of the main article in each edition of Untold Arsenal.   Today, its our new goalkeeper, and the availability of season tickets.   Now onto the meat and two veg…
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I have been working on a piece for several days about the collapse of football as we know it, [...]

Arsenal’s Cathedral: we build for the future, not just this season
By Walter Broeckx
Sometimes when we have defeats people come out and ask for immediate success.
I think that those people don’t see the whole picture but who am I to tell them otherwise? Well just going to try it anyway.
You can look at football game per [...]

Arsenal, the cult of personality and the collective
By Brian Baker

Another week, another defeat, another round of Chicken Licken posturing from the Arse-blogosphere. I’m not going to dwell on the painful realities of the loss to Chelsea, here, but offer another long-term perspective of Arsenal’s situation. I will start with the cult of personality that informs [...]

London police have seized half a tonne of footballing equipment in buildings that they say were being used as a base by the terrorist football separatist group “KGB Fulham”
The discovery of the dump, which included shirts, boots, and grass cutting equipment, was made in the early hours of saturday morning.
Fake driving licences, cars capable of [...]

Why Arsène’s Arsenal are hated (even by its own fans): a long perspective
By Brian Baker
I was prompted to write this following the extraordinary convulsions in the Arsenal blogosphere after the defeat to Manchester United.
Chicken Licken bloggers, one of whom claimed they could manage Arsenal better than Arsene, renewed their calls for Denilson’s head, Arsene’s [...]

By Walter Broeckx
There is something strange going on in football land. We had a transfer market in which nothing much happened.
All the big teams have kept their pockets closed. Chelsea didn’t buy anyone, MU bought Smalling from Fulham but he will stay at Fulham till the end of the season.
We got Sol Campbell back and [...]

By Phil Gregory
I read a great book over Christmas, Michael Lewis’s Moneyball.
Despite my total lack of knowledge on the sport it is concerned with, I was fascinated because it’s actually a baseball book which follows a particular American team that consistently outperforms its rivals  despite severe financial constraints (see where I’m going with this [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Martin O’Neill was angry at Arsène Wenger because (and I quote what Wenger has said)
“They [Aston Villa] play a very efficient English game, with long balls and it is very physical. They are a good side at counter attacking. When we took the gamble to go forward and they won the ball, they [...]

by Simon Bailey
My mum hates football.
She loves racing, athletics, tennis, snooker, rugby, just not football. But within her dislike of football is her loathing of anything Manchester United.
Even as a dedicated non supporter of football, my mum, I am proud to say, is an ABU. Anyone but united. Whilst they were capturing the Asian markets [...]

There were a couple of comments yesterday that in the face of an exit from another competition to the effect that I should not be so positive in my comments on this site.  A defeat, an exit from the Cup, is a time for sadness and reflection on what we should have done.
So, in response, [...]

To recap and explain (or vice versa) Football 1.0 started when Preston North End were thrown out of the FA Cup in 1884 after a complaint from Upton Park FC that Preston had been paying their players.
As a direct result of this Preston got together with other northern clubs and formed the Football League wherein [...]

Billy the Dog was not quite in the best of moods or the finest of fettle when I met him on the allotment to discuss the game against the almighty Notlob in the Land of the Fabled Beast.
I started by asking the question everyone asks, “Is there life in Bolton?”
“It doesn’t really matter,” he replied [...]

Clubs can have financial problems.  Clubs can have people problems.  Club can have squad problems.  And clubs can have supporters who have fallen out of love with the board.
We see it all the time.  And I mean all the time, because at the moment on the Making the Arsenal blog (www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk) I’m covering Arsenal’s own [...]

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
Arsenal and Barcelona are two names in European football that are mentioned with great respect most of the time in the world of football. By the world of football I do not mean the press, the pundits and so on but in general by people that love the game and that love nice [...]