Arsenal News

It’s been months since we talked about players and matches, what with midweek dribble ball and the invasion of the hatchet men last saturday, so here’s a quick run down on this saturdays team, before a quick review of the opposition and their semi-illustrated history.
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Almunia
Sagna Vermaelen Silvestre Clichy (Eboue, Traore)
Ramsey, Denilson, Ramsey, Cesc, Ramsey, Nasri  [...]

By Walter Broeckx
I think almost everyone has something from the past on which he thinks : If I had done so and so at that moment in my life what would have happened to the world.
You can imagine that people who have met, let’s say, someone like A. Hitler long before he was known, later [...]

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 [...]

By Walter Broeckx
In the comment section of this site a couple of days ago there was a comment from a Gooner from South Africa who was declared not a real fan of The Arsenal because he did not live in England.
I must say that from my own experience I never had some one saying this [...]

Arsenal vs. Stoke preview
On Saturday, Arsenal play host to Stoke City on a day that marks the 100 year anniversary of the first ever North London derby!
Pulis is marking himself to be a bit of an Allardyce in terms of management approach: he makes no apologies for his side’s style of play, and manages consistently [...]

Today is the day we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ever Arsenal v Tottenham game.
There is a full article on this on www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk
This day was, in a very real sense, the start of a process that led us to Highbury, Division I and Herbert Chapman.
So it seems appropriate for a moment on [...]

A word of warning. In this article I will not be hiding my bushel under a 40 watt bulb.
I’m  over the parrot.
(Sorry if English is not your first language, that’s a really stupid play on words.  In simple talk I am happy and I am going to boast).
Let me put it another way.
YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The Arsenal [...]

Just in case you have missed my endless ramblings over the past nine months – I have written a book about Arsenal in 1910, called Making the Arsenal. Today the cover and an extract of the book has gone on line, and orders are now being accepted for delivery as soon as copies are printed.
In [...]

ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES: Arsenal results before the game starts.
So, where were we?
Everyone’s been off being kicked for their country during Cripplegate Week, and everyone is injured, so we are putting out the under 11s for this fixture.
Arshavin’s out, Cesc is probably out, my cat’s out (but that’s a cat-flap issue) and Theo is hiding under [...]

A review of “Forward, Arsenal” by Bernard Joy
Bernard Joy was the last amateur player to play for England.  He played for the University of London, Casuals (with whom he won the Amateur Cup – which I should add for younger readers was a very big deal in earlier times, getting huge crowds, and sometimes being [...]

Arsenal – the club for every day of the week
By Ian Trevett,  Editor of Highbury High
Untold Arsenal has kindly allowed me to write a feature for the site and invite readers of the Tony’s excellent blog to contribute features to the Arsenal fanzine Highbury High.
Highbury High has become a close ally to Untold Arsenal, as [...]

Arsene Wenger: the best manager England never had
By Simon Bailey.
No work today, the wife was out getting last minute school uniforms, books, bags, and whatever else they need, so I decided to put on The Damned United, the story of Brian Clough’s six week tenure at Leeds United.
It’s not really a ‘Football’ film in the [...]

Welcome to the new world – the world in which Arsenal have recreated a team, devised a new free-flowing 4-3-3 system, and produced players of the highest quality who just a year ago were derided.
Welcome also to the new world in which Untold Arsenal is able to influence complete matches and give you the score [...]

So – does size really matter. According to the Sun. And sadly the BBC in a recent article repeated the same stuff, without crediting the Sun, and I fear without checking any of the facts.
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Because Sun + facts = a contradiction & as I show below, there is a very good reason why [...]

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 [...]

The scene: I’m in my final year in the sixth form at a boys grammar school in Dorset, hoping to take the musical world by storm any time now. I get to maybe three or four Arsenal games a year with my dad – it holds us together as I do my sixties teenager [...]

Were the Last Four Years the Worst in Arsenal’s History? by “LRV”
Arsenal joined the old Football League Division 1 (the top flight in English football) in the 1919/20 season. Since then, Arsenal Fans have witnessed the good, not-so-good, poor, not-so-poor, Very good, not-so-bad, bad seasons.
In all of these, one thing remains a [...]