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Arsenal Ladies win treble, and now go for the Champions League; reserves making good progress
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By Tony Attwood
Arsenal Ladies, having won the FA Cup, League Cup and the Super League are now moving on to the Champions League. They have won the first leg of their round of 32 match 4-0 […]
Arsenal at the under 20 world cup and under 18 European cup this summer.
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By Tony Attwood
It is looking like we might have just players in the Under 20 world cup this summer. I don’t have any finalised squad details (if you do, please update) but here’s what I have to go on
Damián Martínez – Argentina
Francis Coquelin and […]
Project youth, and why we have to keep it going
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The History Index
The story of the last time something odd went on
By Walter Broeckx
A lot of the criticism that is aimed at Arsenal and Wenger is about project youth. Some of the fans have been saying that project youth has failed because we […]
We won the league at….. or did we lose it there
By Walter Broeckx
We all love to sing the popular Arsenal song: We won the league at White Hart Lane…. I bet you are all signing it right now. So am I.
But when looking back at the season I wonder if this season we should sing: We lost the league at White Hart Lane. […]
Arsenal to join the Youth Champions League in September
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By Tony Attwood
The idea of an under 18s Champions League built along the same lines as the mainstream competition was first reported (as far as I know) on the Datasport web site in Italy in 2009. Ever since there have been […]
One third of the season gone, and Arsenal prepare to win everything
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by Tony Attwood
Where are we? We have the usual crop of injuries but thus far we cope – and we are coping far better than before. Cesc running on half throttle, Vermaelen not running at all, Van Persie out for virtually […]
The Philosophy of Wenger: the approach to transfers
by Tony Attwood
Arsenal, in terms of any player of any age, who is thinking of getting a transfer, has a number of attractions. One is obviously Arsène Wenger, who is so highly regarded worldwide as a coach. Another is the training facilities. Another is the ground. Then there’s the year after year of Champions […]
Chelsea 0 Arsenal 3 – that’s more like it
By Tony Attwood
It was gruesome for the start of the season. Played four, won one, lost two, drawn one. Worst of all a horrible 2-5 defeat to Manchester City (not their Elite – that’s the reserves – but their under 18s).
We are used to dominating the under 18. Only team ever to retain […]
Is Carlos Vela not a little too old to be playing for Arsenal
By Tony Attwood
Carlos Vela was 21 last March, according to my maths, and yet it seems like he has been here for centuries.
In fact he came in in 2007/8 but didn’t start playing for us until the following season. Year on year his stats are
2008/9 – Starts 10 – Subs 19- Goals […]
Arsenal’s transfer window experience, plus the “25″ and the 57 under 21s!
Phil Gregory
So with the transfer window shut, and no deals still pending approval for last season’s top three, let’s see how this year’s title contenders have fared in their summer dealings.
Arsenal arrivals:
Koscielny Squillaci Chamakh
Arsenal departures:
Campbell (11) Silvestre (12) Gallas (26) Eduardo (24), 11 as a substitute
Numbers in brackets represent […]
Untold round up women and children. (Perhaps I should rephrase that…)
By Tony Attwood
Arsenal is more than the first team, more than the “25″ – it is a collection of teams including an all-conquering women’s team, and a youth team that has taken three trophies in the last two years.
Additionally we have our loanees. The number of these will rise over time (we hear […]
Arsenal: one club, five squads, and no Bebé (which is probably our good fortune)
by Tony Attwood
Arsenal, as we know, has five squads – all of which are flexible. And within the system matters are planned and arranged – just as you would expect. We watch the players come up through the youth team, the reserves and so on. Isn’t that how it always go?
You’d think so, […]
How Wenger has changed football once again
by Tony Attwood
For years there has been a general assumption that there are only three ways of developing a club and two ways of making money out of football.
You can make your club grow (so it was always said) by
Development Method 1) Buying in those who are already acknowledged to be the […]
Fabregas, Ramsey, Wilshere. Now that’s what I can a youth policy.
We’ve got the Jack, Jack, Jack
by Walter Broeckx
Some people who like a bit of hard rock will now where I have got this line from. It is the chorus of an ACDC song which is mostly sung out loud by visitors of their concerts.
As I haven’t been in the Emirates ever when […]
What did we learn from the reserve team at Boreham Stiff
Below is the team that played in a reserve game earlier this week – against Boreham Stiff, (sorry Wood).
Szczesny Nordtveit – Bartley – Miquel – Cruise Aneke – Randall – Ozyakup Murphy – Afobe – Miyaichi
Wellington Silva was on the bench, coming on at half time.
So what do we […]
The day the Youth Project was crowned in all its magnificent glory.
Jack Wilshere joined Arsenal aged 9,
JET joined Arsenal aged 9,
Jay Simpson joined Arsenal aged 9
Henri Lansbury joined Arsenal aged 9,
Emmanuel Frimpong, joined Arsenal aged 11 (we were a bit late there, but to be fair he had just come from Ghana)
Craig Eastmond joined Arsenal aged 11 […]
Let the football begin: Arsenal back in action on saturday
By Tony Attwood
It seems like forever since we had any real football, but there’s only five days to go before we start again – as usual at Barnet.
Last season the game was curious: we had two different teams out for the two halves (that’s fairly normal) but with some of them playing out […]
Arsenal’s First Team 2010-11; the complete run down
By Tony Attwood
If you ever care to meander out of the present day to the dim and distant past you might have noticed that on the Woolwich Arsenal site we are running a series on the players who started the first match of the 1910/11 season for Arsenal.
Which made we want to think […]
Arsenal back in the reserve league, after major concessions
Having pulled out of the reserve league structure Arsenal have agreed to return, having won a number of concessions from the league.
The key change is that during the winter months when the pitch at Barnet can get rather rough and bumpy, Arsenal has the right to play its reserve matches behind closed doors at […]
German lessons for Arsenal?
By Nick Tolhurst
The truth about the success of the German national team and what it means for Arsenal.
Despite losing to Spain in the semi-final, the story of this year’s world cup has without doubt been the rise of a new, exciting and multi-cultural young German team that has put much heralded and more […]
Arsenal sign Samuel Galindo. Is Celta Vigo our new reserves club?
by Tony Attwood
With Wellington Silva joining us full time in January, Arsenal are stepping up the South and Central American connection.
Samuel Galindo is Arsenal’s latest transfer costing €500,000. He is Bolivian, captain of the under 20s, he is 6′ 3″ tall, left footed, an attacking midfielder who can play either in the centre, […]
You can’t believe a single word I say (but you probably knew that). The reserves are no more.
Egg on face, custard all over face, total red face… how do I express my utter embarrassment?
After weeks if not months laughing at the Tiny Totts and others not managing to put together a reserve team, Young Guns (exquisite, up to date and far more accurate than Untold on such […]
Arsenal’s power in reserve football forces more teams out
One of the crazier sidelines of the failure of England to do very much in a world cup final has been the parade of has-beens (as opposed of course to people like me who have never been in the first place) saying that England needs to “clear the decks” and “wipe the slate clean” and […]
Wellington Silva (our new superstar signing) and the issue of balls
Untold Arsenal runs a list of up and coming young players who we expect to break through into the first team at some time in the next year or four. It’s called the Golden 30, although for reasons that will not become apparent at this time, it has only 28 players on it at present.
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How Arsenal came to the rescue of English football
How Arsenal came to the rescue of English football.
By Tony Attwood
I started researching this article with three questions in mind:
a) Why is England so bad at football
b) Why does Arsenal under Wenger use so few English players?
c) Why does the Netherlands, with its small population seem […]