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By Walter Broeckx
In January Sepp Blatter declared according to various media that he was in favour of goal line technology. This was rather a surprising thing as in the years before he was someone who was against the use of technology. But there was joy among people who have always been in favour of the [...]

Untold Arsenal is published two or three times a day.    There’s an list of recent articles on the right in date order, followed by a month by month drop down menu.  At the end of the main piece there’s an abbreviated contents section (just in case we published something while you weren’t looking.)
Stupidity Week
By Walter [...]

Sepp Blatter wants to keep going as the top man in football. He has stated he had many more things he still wants to do.
Football should be afraid – very afraid.
At this moment a lot of the stuff that we’ve debated over the past two years are now moving away from just being solely [...]

Rhys Jaggar and Tony Attwood
There are fans of a certain age who can remember Ajax being top dogs in Europe. In fact, that was really the first dominant European side I remember as a boy. Cruyff et al. I wasn’t quite old enough to remember the Lisbon Lions or Feyenoord, but both won the [...]

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 [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Another Champions league game … and another controversial game by the ref.
I will not start over the not giving penalty for Arsenal for a blatant foul on Rosicky just before THE incident that over shadowed the game.
But I just did. Well we don’t get penalty’s this season from refs and this is getting [...]

The F.A. Forget To Bolt The Stable Door……Again.
Simon Bailey.
The fact that the Champions League is fast becoming the only prize worth having in club football has not escaped Michel Platini or UEFA. Staging this round over four weeks so as to maximise TV income is a clever move evidenced by the greater income 100million and [...]

By Gf60
The recent finding by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that Chel$ki were not guilty of inducing a breach of contract by Kakuta was a surprise.
More of a surprise was the noting that the original contract between Kakuta and Lens was invalid. This raises more questions than it answers.
A few hours before this finding was released, [...]

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, [...]

This article deals a little bit about Arsenal/Chelsea (well it gives the score), with the arrogance and re-writing of history by at least one man in Liverpool, with the latest on Notts C and Sven, and any other bits and pieces I think about on the way.
In short, it is a saturday morning and we [...]

By 11 Gunners
When David Beckham curled one of his trademark free kicks at the ‘Theatre of Dreams’, little he would have known that a nation was awakening into a sporting renaissance of sorts.
The day was 18th August and the year was 2001, when Premier League games were being aired Live for the [...]

Ten insane events from the weekend.
1: England blast ref and security (BBC)
England joined FIFA in 1905, and you’d think they would have got the hang of things by now.  But in case this helps guys: everything FIFA does is a shambles, aimed to make a profit for those in power (well over £100m from this [...]

It looks like the insanity and greed of those who run football (in terms of the leagues and associations) is starting to impact on the real centres of football: the clubs.
Of course the clubs are not all sweet darlings themselves – and we spend much of our time here debating the lunatic actions of Manchester [...]

There are sounds and signs around that things are improving – but, beware the false dawn.
Since I started wandering around the by-ways of football in this blog I’ve been moaning about rotational fouling (Wigan are the latest to adopt it), and it is cheery to note that the Great Lord Wenger is now “set” (as [...]

So, yesterday the Corruption Files took a sneak look at the governing bodies.  Now we move on to someone they employ.
When Fabio Capello turned up in England he was known as a man with a bit of a murky financial history.  Not quite on Icelandic levels, but still, a little bit racey, if you know [...]

The organisation running the top league in English football has a long history of corruption – dating back at least to 1919 when Manchester United and Liverpool, who had been found guilty of match fixing in the final pre-war season were allowed to go unpunished and continue unhindered.
Arsenal benefitted from the final outcome of that [...]

As we wait and see if the EPL will take action against Adebayor, as FIFA has taken action against Eduardo, it is time to contemplate…
Why UEFA’s Verdict on Eduardo is Wrong – A reasoned critique of an unreasonable decision

By “stuartlondon”
A ‘dive’ is a self induced fall that does not result from illegal contact with another [...]

Who benefits from these internationals?
By Simon Bailey
With the current round of international football matches over, and the players heading back  to their respective clubs in various states of disrepair, it makes me wonder about their true value.
In this round were some Friendlies and some World Cup Qualifiers.  Now that league football is in full swing [...]

Oh what to do in Cripplegate Week – the week when all our top stars go off and get injured while playing not for the Arsenal who pay their wages but for a bunch of morons called “international managers” who treat them with utter contempt.
Well, the first thing is, if you fancy doing a spot [...]

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, [...]

Here’s a stange story.   Michel Platini says that he will pass legislation to ensure that from 2012/13 onwards every club in the Champs League have to have accounts in balance.
That presumably means that the club has positive assets – take the money they owe away from the assets they have and if it is positive [...]

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 [...]

Arsenal’s youth team managed to squirm their way through to the Groupie Stage of the Euro Cup last night on the “Most Goals Scored” rule.
“It really is ludicrous,” said Letmedrivethe Koach talking on ITV, “no other competition in the world uses this method of deciding the winner.  What has the issue of who scored the [...]

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: [...]

Just as I was thinking we’d had enough of hoaxes on this site for a while, a post turned up claiming that “Wenger is London’s least popular Premier League manager in the eyes of his club’s own supporters with Roy Hodgson, Guus Hiddink, Gianfranco Zola and Harry Redknapp all polling higher marks for last season”
The [...]