Untold Arsenal » 2009 » April

Is it now or is it the future?

There is a comment on this blog which reads thus…
If Arsenal is very business like and is run like a business, then I think it’s time for Arsenal fans to think in business terms. What have we won in the last four years???? Is it okay for a business to have a good boss for […]

So what did Man U & Arsenal get for their money

Watching the match between the Bankrupts and Arsenal suddenly led me to think of two very contrasting transfers.  On the one hand in the summer of 2007 the arrival of Nani and Anderson to Manchester B for £30 million.  On the other the arrival of Nasri to Arsenal for around £12m last summer.
The Nani and […]

We’re under attack

It is interesting that there are occasions when it seems to me that the FA and EPL ought to do something (to maintain the balance as it were) and they don’t.  For example there are the regular attacks by clubs such as Manchester Bankrupt and the Tiny Totts against refs.  We heard a lot of […]

We simply can’t go on like this

You would think that with the team scoring a fair number of goals, winning almost every game, going 20 unbeaten, regularly putting out half a reserve side, being in the semifinal of the Euro Thing, and all with a very young team, people might be ok about that.
You would think that as the records start […]

All the reasons why Cesc is guilty as charged

FA Regulations are quite precise in these matters, and sadly Cesc Fabregas is clearly guilty on a number of issues… Regulation 28 (4) iii

A player who is not playing shall not enter on the field of play after the game is over for at least 30 minutes after the game.   For clarity it should be […]

Pele, Bobby Moore, Perry Groves

I once described Eboue as a clown, and got lambasted like mad for it.  What I actually meant to say was that I thought he had a wicked sense of humour like the best clowns – but no one wanted to know about my excuses and I was denounced repeatedly as a racist.
Perry Groves is […]

Our magnificent defence, our magnificent youth team

In the last 2 years football has changed in the EPL.
There have always been teams that would try and play for a 0-0 draw, but the last couple of years has seen a huge rise in this tendency.   This year in particular we have had team after team after team turn up and from the […]

Wenger’s greatest dream still not quite ready

Arsene Wenger’s great dream of producing a reserve team that can regularly beat Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United’s first team is almost ready to be unleashed on the world, but not quite.
Last night we went out with no Almunia, no Gallas, no Djourou, a clearly only half-working Sagna, no Clichy, no Van Persie, no Rosicky, […]

Rangers at the Emirates

I suspect I was taking one of my usual vacations on another planet when the news came through that this year’s Ems Cup will include Inter, PSG and Rangers.
I don’t support any particular Scottish team, and as I am not a Christian, I don’t fall on either side of the sectarian divide, so I don’t […]