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 [...]

This is a story of life and death.  And acting.  And celebration.
It is the story of a club from the Russian Premier League side FC Moscow which has gone bust just a short while after their oligarch owner, a man in the Roman Abramovich league, pulled out, having decided to switch sports.
And it is the [...]

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  [...]

A review of the issue of assault, and the previous convictions of Shawcross
By The Law
Back when I was a Law Student, we were taught an interesting rule in Criminal Law, called The Eggshell Skull Rule. This rule stated that if you struck someone on the head which resulted in a shattered skull and death because [...]

By Walter Broeckx
There is a general feeling among Arsenal fans that Almunia is not good enough.
I am not going to say that Almunia is the best keeper in the world. Ask 100 people all over the world who is the best keeper in the world and you could end up with some 60 different names. [...]

Looking forward to Wellington Silva
By Jonathan Neale
It never pays to get too excited about tomorrows prospects too quickly.  History tells us that for every Paul Scholes there is a Steve Sidwell and for every Cesc Fabregas an Arturo Lupoli.  Part of Wenger’s genius has been his attempt to make the process of [...]

Yes indeedey, roll up roll up roll up.
The Survey will take you 15 seconds – all you have to do is vote for the Biggest Prat, Idiot or Nincompoop in Football.  (Actually being an Untold Survey it was suggested by residents of Untold Towers that we should not give out the questions, but in the [...]

MUSINGS OF A REALISTICALLY OPTIMISTIC GOONER
Mutiu O. Shokanmbi

Personal anecdote/introduction:
Let me start by stating that I suck at playing football. I was born and raised in Nigeria and in my country if you cannot dribble 2 or more players then you suck. Period! The more players you can dribble past the better player you are.
Jay [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Maybe some will call me paranoid.  That could well be the case, but this year’s fixture list is a bit strange to say the least.
To play your major rivals for the first four places in four consecutive matches is something we never have witnessed before.  In fact I doubt that it has ever [...]

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 [...]

E D U A R D O!!!! by Walter Broeckx
With the current injury crisis at Arsenal, well one could say with the back to normal business injury crisis, we have seen a change in players up front.
If we take a look at our season so far then at the beginning we played with Arshavin – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Thomas Vermaelen has been voted best Belgian football player outside Belgium.
Every year in Belgium we have the election of the golden boot. It is the election by reporters and trainers of the best player in the Belgian league.
I must admit I hardly take notice of this election as football in my country doesn’t [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just in case I have lost you a little with that headline let me explain…
Yesterday in a world exclusive Walter and I interviewed the manager of Standard Liege and discussed with him the way in which he thought the game would go.
He predicted that the key to the game would be the issue of quantum [...]

That’s how close it was – we had two shots on target, they had one.
So it goes – we did an experiment with an experimental line up, and it didn’t deliver.   If it had, Wenger would have been the greatest genius of all time, the wonder kid, the inspiration of a generation of managers – [...]

By Billy the Dog McGraw
Landlord, The Toppled Bollard, Islington
As usual for a Friday I trotted off to the allotments on Hackney Marshes where I bumped into Dennis Bergkamp who was bemoaning the state of his turnips.
“But what about that Terry Enry?” I enquired, ingloriously.
“But what about my turnips?” said Dennis, and I think we decided  [...]

By Cape Gooner, with some additional material by Tony
I was watching the Wolves game on Arsenal TV and was thinking how good a game Diaby was having before he went off.
Is he doing a Denilson? Taking his chance and playing really well, only for the “fans” to pick on every misplaced pass. [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Well at the end of the day… we can only trust the Lord Wenger.
For those about who shout BUY, I would like to ask: how are you going to keep all of them happy on the bench as only 3 players can play in our current system.  We still have 2 full internationals [...]

A pointless, pathetic, idiotic, unnecessary, stupid, lunatic, evil match.  Holland 0 Italy 0, it meant nothing, told no one anything, and Robin Van Persie is now out for about 3 months – possibly longer.
Tearing ligaments is a bastard of an injury – and I can tell you that from experience.  My extremely minor and utterly [...]

Rates of 40-1 were being quoted before the match for Billy “The Dog” McGraw’s prediction to be true, and a fair number of the 108,000 UNTOLD ARSENAL readers decided it was worth a flutter.
A fiver on Wolverhampton W. 1 Arsenal 4, with one of those £50 extra bids free if you’ve never had a bet [...]

The line up against Wolverhampton Wibbleyous will be much as we saw against the London Street Directory (the A to Z – do try and keep up).   Carlos Vela and Armand Traore are just about ready for action, but not quite.
Denilson hasn’t started training yet, but will do so while the silly internationals are going [...]