The great Arsenal mysteries

1.  Why Arsenal moved to Highbury  When Arsenal were considering moving away from Highbury at the end of the 20th century, David Dein, the vice chairman of the time, called Highbury the club’s spiritual home.  Indeed the club has been there so long it feels like the obvious place to be.   And yet Highbury has always been an odd…

Per flight 3382 from Dusseldorf to London « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Walter Broeckx, If you can believe the media in France and Germany Per Mertesacker has flown to London this morning. They even say the flightnumber he took. He has gone with the Lufthansa flight 3382 from Dusseldorf to London to sign a contract till june 2015 at Arsenal. On Sunday he said when asked…

Hazard, golden boy or not? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Walter Broeckx Buy Hazard. How many times a day do you hear this being said by a Gooner? And how many times do you see it written down by a Gooner? Is it 10 times a day or is it 100 times a day? It will be somewhere in between I say. So let…

Half of Arsenal’s mid-field and attack will be different next season « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood It has been interesting to read comments on blogs which but a short while ago were calling for “glass ankles” Van Persie to be set aside, and yet without a blink (or an admission that they were wrong) are now blaming the Arsenal management for not having tied the same VP into…

Herzlich Wilcommen Lukas Podolski « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Walter Broeckx What has been whispered for a while now has become official now. Lukas Podolski is joining Arsenal from next season.  The official website from FC Köln has made it public on their website. For those who can understand German you can read it here. http://www.fc-koeln.de/news/detailansicht/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4813&cHash=798324b1a22697bd2852832f171c8384 And after writing it down and going…

Arsenal Euro watch: Van Persie and Podolski « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Phil Gregory Robin Van Persie‘s Holland took a beating from Germany last night to leave their Euro2012 hopes sorely weakened after two defeats in the group stages. Holland look to me like a team who are struggling with finding a role for certain players, and the lack of balance that brings. His performances for…

How do you replace a central striker like Van Persie? « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

If you think you know your Arsenal, it is time to think again. Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Follow Untold and the Arsenal History Society on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ————————– By Walter Broeckx This article is an article I waited as long as I could before I started writing it. But I had to…

Nuri Sahin: part of an extraordinary revolution at Arsenal « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Walter Broeckx Well the silence from Arsenal is deafening and that is usually a great sign. But on the internet and in the English papers, the rumours are spreading like mad that Nuri Sahin will join Arsenal on a one season loan spell from Real Madrid.  If those rumours are to be believed he…

Arsenal’s defenders. Who moves up, who moves out, who we buy. « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News, supporting the club, the players and the manager

By Tony Attwood Yesterday we had a nice little debate about Arsenal’s forward line and midfield.  Leaving aside my decision to include a player no longer with Arsenal (bloody typical that they should transfer someone just when I wanted to write about him), I thought the issues raised were interesting. So what about the defence?…

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