Untold Arsenal » 2008 » February

Journalists try to cover their Arsenal / Tottenham error

Last summer the journalists did their regular thing – who is going up, going nowhere, going down.  Everyone except Charlie Nicholas agreed – Tottenham were going into the top 4, and Arsenal were sliding into mid-table, going bust, having supporter walk-outs and all that stuff.  Henry was gone, the club was on the slide.
Since then […]

Arsenal fans action against “Kick Arsenal” culture among EPL clubs

The idea that the only way to beat Arsenal is to kick Arsenal is widespread, and unless we take action to stop this it will spread further.  It is already in place in clubs such as Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers and quite obviously Birmingham City.
 Sadly the mass media will give no support to the notion […]

“If that is football, it is better to stop”. Arsene Wenger

 Many of us have seen it coming – the endless idea, propogated on BBC 5 Live and on Sky Sports, that if you want to stop Arsenal you kick Arsenal.
It is said over and over, and players and managers come to believe it.  We saw it when Sunderland attacked Diaby and now we see it […]

Birmingham Arsenal: a total disgrace. It’s time for action

For the second time in a couple of years we have seen an Arsenal player suffer the most awful injury inflicted mindlessly and pointlessly by a third rate player.  Last time Diaby was taken out of the game for a year by Sunderland.  Now Eduardo knows what playing against the minor teams of England is […]

Why Arsenal will work hard to support Game 39

The people against Game 39 have been clever in the way they have manipulated the story. Game 39 has been presented as something to be seen in isolation – a take it or leave it idea.   If we all say “no” loud enough, then it goes away and that’s the end of that.

But in fact Game […]

The statistical reason why Arsenal played badly against Man U but well against Milan

The answer is incredibly simple.  In the Manchester Arsenal FA Cup match 64% of the Arsenal players were reserves – not the players you would expect to be in the first team if everyone was fit.
In the Arsenal Milan match however only 36% of the Arsenal players were reserves – 64% of the players on […]

What’s going on between Arsenal and Man U?

“Sir” Alex Ferguson, as he likes to be called, is a strange sort of cove.   By any measure he is a very successful manager, having worked miracles at two disjointed under achieving clubs – Manchester United and Aberdeen.  His record in the EPL is second to none.
So why does he spend so much time suggesting […]

Man U going bust, Henry returns, Cesc new contract, new Arsenal US team

Just occasionally our good friends at Goonernews (www.Goonernews.com) don’t carry all our stories.   There’s nothing sinister in that, its just that some glitch seems to come along and the story never goes up.
It’s not really bothered us – except with the predictions – I mean, how can we say, “hey look we got that one […]

Three of the “Big 4″ are in real financial trouble – and there’s no way out!

It is possible that you might have seen some financial statements recently purporting to show that  the American club “Manchester United” has got huge profits this past financial year – £93 million in fact.
These self same figures also seemed to show that the ManYans have shot up in terms of turnover – where they now claim an annual £245 million, having previously been […]

Record crowd at reserve game confirms Arsenal & Manchester dominance of football

Over 70,000 people turned up at the Rowdies Superbowl to watch Manchester Reserves play Arsenal Reserves on Saturday. Both teams responded to the popular interest by including a few first team regulars, but most of the big names were missing.

The large crowd can be explained in part by the fact that the Manchester club, now in […]