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The Mourinho revolution and the death of football

By Walter Broeckx When I saw Mourinho win against Barcelona and Bayern Munich with his very defensive tactics I feared the worst for football. I feared that we were in for a lot of teams trying to stick to his tactics. Park the bus in front of goal and hope for a counter attack and […]

Untold world cup: football with altitude. What the mainstream media never tell you.

By Tony Attwood The last post (the one from Walter on what you can and can’t say to a ref) was about football with attitude. So this is about football with altitude. Clever eh? Oh well… Anyway, as you would expect, the issue of playing 10 miles up in the air is one that FIFA […]

The final review of the season

by Walter Broeckx The final games have been played. The league table is final. As you know I have done a few reviews of our season and compared it with the games we had last season. So now we can try to draw a few final conclusions. Until the game against Birmingham we were doing […]

Supporting Arsenal from across the Channel

By Walter Broeckx Oh the joy of being an Arsenal fan when at 5 am on a Sunday morning the alarm clock next to my bed wakes me up. Pure delight is what runs in my blood when I realise I will be in the Emirates in some 12 hours from now. Instead of the […]

Lansbury is the big surprise as Arsenal win 16-1

16-1, I should explain, was the number of shots for each side. And there isn’t too much point in doing any analysis of a match like this. We needed to win, and Fulham were thinking of the Europa League, and we did what was necessary. Most amusingly Tottenham didn’t. Djourou came back and had a […]

Arsenal to revert to 4-4-2?

by Tony Attwood Just a little story that I noticed, in case it is of interest. There’s an interesting piece in the Guardian today which suggests that the team will change from 4-3-3- over to 4-4-2 for the game against Fulham. I have to admit when Eboue is in the team I do sometimes lose […]

Fulham FC – the financial perspective of the club that tried to buy Arsenal

By Tony Attwood Since everyone in the UK is still wondering who is going to run the country, and no one is reading blogs, I thought I would amuse myself by doing a preview of the game against Fulham by looking at their finances. Fulham FC is actually a network of companies which ultimately seem […]

Blackburn: the last retrospective

Check out the latest Arsenal V Fulham premiership betting odds for the Gunners’ final game of the season ——————————————– By Phil Gregory I was at the Blackburn game on Saturday, took my girlfriend to her first game on a bit of a whim after hearing on Saturday that tickets were available on the day of […]

Blackburn Rovers. The source of much of the evil that inflicts football today

———————— Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: historical fiction on acid ——————————— Blackburn Rovers will forever be known in football as the inventors of that most pernicious evil, Rotational Fouling. They later adopted the Rotational Timewasting approach that Bolton Wanderers developed soon after, and worked with other clubs to combine this philosophy with the “park the […]

What is a blue moon and who is Sheik Yermoney?

A blue moon arises when a full moon appears twice in one month. It is rather dull really. There are just about 13 full moons in a year and only 12 months, so logically one month is going to get a second one in one month if one sees what one is saying. Calling it […]

For Arsenal’s sake – Leave Adebayor alone

——————– Today’s Sponsor: Making the Arsenal: you know it makes sense ——————– For Arsenal’s sake – Leave Adebayor alone By Ian Trevett I can clearly remember the first time I really gave it to an ex-player. The League Cup semi-final first leg against Manchester United – back in February 1983. Frank Stapleton had turned his […]

Ten minutes of insanity

By Walter Broeckx When I write an article I usually give my own thoughts on the things that I see. This time I am going to take the liberty to do otherwise. When I was watching the Wigan game at home on my sports channel we had a match commentator and it wasn’t the normal […]

This team will have its day

Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan This team will have its day by Ian Trevett Today is a depressing day as the team effort at Wigan was as poor as we have seen for a long time. I didn’t think we paid them enough respect and it cost us big […]

Those ref decisions balance out by the end of the season, don’t they?

Today’s Sponsor: Gooner Gifts – everything for the real Arsenal fan —————– One thing that is very often said by fans from other teams or by our own fans is: if you take the decisions over the whole season the good and the bad one will even themselves out. Now do they really? It is […]

The detailed truth: Wigan v Arsenal, and the result

Wow, what a weekend of football so far. United were dead and buried and the title was on it’s way to Stamford Bridge. Not anymore. Are we in it? Mathematically, yes though realistically there are too few games to expect to overhaul two sides. One could perhaps be relied on to slip up, but not […]

With a spineless team we had 66% of the ball

By Walter Broeckx When Arsenal loses a game it is always a difficult moment. Every defeat hurts and the defeat against ****** even more than any other. We could all do like the catastrophists do, and slaughter all the players, the manager and everyone else involved in the club. I think there are plenty of […]

Tot supporters chant “Pedophile” as they get their first victory in ten years.

They had to wait until Arsenal put out a team with six first team regulars missing, and a team for most of the game including our 4th and 5th choice centre backs, but it had to happen one day. After 10 years of waiting, after the endless defeats and humiliations, Tottenham finally managed to beat […]

Well, well, well, if it isn’t North London Derby O’clock.

Spurs and shares. by Phil Gregory Well, well, well, if it isn’t North London Derby O’clock. The derby at the Emirates was an absolute cracker, one of those where you remember what you were doing that day. I, unfortunately missed some of the match, getting roped into playing for my team’s Saturday morning game despite […]

Not every Henry is Henry

Today’s Sponsor: ArsenalGifts.com is a one-stop shop for all things Arsenal related, from replica kits and retro shirts through to Emirates Stadium tours, memorabilia and novelty items. Visit http://www.arsenalgifts.com ————— Not every Henry is Henry. By Walter Broeckx Last week a player from Wolverhampton got himself sent off with a red card after a horrifying […]

Arsenal Reserves show just how brilliant they are going to be

We are now in our third consecutive year of mega injuries. To play Barca without Van Persie Cesc Gallas Arshavin Ramsey Song Djourou and do ok shows how sensational a side we are building at Arsenal. And it was ok, for we took the game to them, and made the current Euro Champions, complete with […]

“Sod it.” Untold’s unbeatable preview of the Barca Game.

By Phil Gregory. Here we are then with the final installment of our feast of football. There’s everything still to play for, but after a 2-2 draw at home, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think the odds had tipped just a little bit further away from us. Truth be told, as I […]

Barca v Arsenal: it’s all been said before. Well, almost

Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal”. A book utterly unlike any other book ever written about Arsenal FC. If you have ever wanted to know what it is that is so utterly incomprehensibly special and different from every other club, this book will go some way to explain that. It’s all been said before… But anyway, […]

Wolverhampton W. manager, Mick McCarthy, reported to Met Police for incitement

Within this review is a joke about Wolverhampton. (It’s not very funny)

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club. A resume by Billy the Dog McGraw, Landlord of the Toppled Bollard Islington and head of the Republic of Abyssinia. “The stuffed heads of West Brom supporters on pikes that adorn the walkways of Wolverhampton are bad enough, but what makes it worse is that many still have dark glasses and […]

Life, the universe, the champions league

—————————— Today’s Sponsor: Your Untold Arsenal Betting Guide The Untold Arsenal / Goonernews Betting Guide Like everything else on this site, it has to be seen to be believed. Life, the Universe, the champions league… By Walter Broeckx In life we should learn things and yesterday was a night where we could learn a lot. […]