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Sky reveal exclusively Arsenal will sign at least six more first team playersAccording to Sky with its story, “Wenger steps up preparations” Arsenal are going to have to sell players to make space in the squad, because of the 25 player rule. They say, Meanwhile, Wenger has hinted that he may look to move a few players on this summer, with new Premier League regulations stipulating that […] Who is lying and why? Cesc interview and translation.By Walter Broeckx On this site and on many occasions we have showed you how careful you have to be when you read something about Arsenal. Only a few hours ago I saw this with my own eyes. On Goonernews there was a link to an article on Skysport. And it said: Cesc stands by […] Cesc: how the media created and used a non-existent transferBy Tony Attwood On Wednesday 19 May the Guardian ran a story by Sid Lowe. The Guardian, as you might have noted from my past comments, is my UK newspaper of choice. Far from perfect, but in my personal view, the best there is. But it is, as I say, far from perfect. Sid Lowe’s […] Another media attack against Arsenalby Walter Broeckx There is something strange going on in the media in the UK. With the hype surrounding Cesc Fabregas they acted in a way that I never have seen before. From the Spanish point of view it us a bit reasonable what they are trying to do. They just want to bring their […] Forget Cesc, Messi is comingToday’s sponsor: Arsenal Worldwide. The association for every Arsenal fan across the world ——————————– by Walter Broeckx So here we go again. Cesc has hardly put one foot on Spanish soil and the Spanish media are all over him again with all kind of stories about his move to Barcelona. Now to understand how things […] The quick restart after the foul: what does the ref’s manual sayBy Walter Broeckx. Additional material by Tony Attwood When the referee in the Porto / Arsenal game allowed a quick free kick to be taken there were two reactions. Arsenal players, management and supporters were outraged. And the media, never one to miss an opportunity to knock Arsenal, said, “How many times did we see […] Wear your shirt with pride as the EPL starts going to courtOne of the best statements I have read on this site since the end of the 10 year unbeaten run was that encouraging us all to wear the shirt with pride. The 10 year run in which we were unbeaten in the league by Tottenham Sewage (a club renamed to coincide with the chants of […] Emirates stadium seriously contaminated. Profound health implications revealedExclusive! Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the FSB and KGB in Russia who was granted political asylum in the UK. He accused the FSB of terrorist acts within Russia, in order to bring Putin to power. On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko fell ill and died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim […] Arsenal sign a fishToday’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 —————- Last week we had April Fools Day with all the usual stuff going up on the web sites. Red Action announced that Arsenal were going […] The Glen Hoddle Clinical Finishing Index. And Arsenal.Stat of the Week: The Glen Hoddle Clinical Finishing Index By J B Harwood A few weeks ago one of the Sky Sports favourite pundits was waxing lyrical about Arsenal. How pleasing on the eye they are, the quality of their play, everyone’s second favourite team… the usual diatribe. You could feel a “but” coming […] Arshavin hoax sinks whole of Fleet Street and beyondArshavin is the Arsenal hitman who celebrates scoring goals by putting his finger over his lips, indicating for people to be quiet. So we found ourselves entering the start of one of the best football hoaxes of the last few years. I’ve been charting football hoaxes on Untold almost since we started, and we’ve had […] Football journalism in England is irretrievably broken. Football journalism in England is irretrievably broken My argument in this piece is in the title – and the consequence is that we are not only being very badly served by football journalism but we are also being misled by football journalism My view is that the footballing media tend to copy each other. […] Slowly, very slowly, the media are starting to realise that in football terms, they have utterly screwed up.Ever since I first studied sociology (in about 2 million years BC) I have known that the media’s first need is to see to the continuation of itself by keeping up its audience. It does this by telling the audience “this is how it is” and then, having got the audience fixed on this version […] Man U colour protest fizzles out: there’s a lesson to be learnedMany of us have been outraged beyond endurance by the assault on Ramsey on 27th February. 24 hours later I am still frustrated an annoyed in a way that is not a normal part of my nature. If I may speak for once for Walter (who is of course more than able to speak for […] Cesc “verbal agreement” hoax one of the most successful yetThe hoax story run by Cardena Ser Radio that Cesc had reached a verbal agreement with Barca to join them this summer must be counted as one of the most successful yet from the Spanish hoax factory that churns these tales out. In the olden days it was generally agreed that you could only run […] They may be Anti-Arsenal, but they’re our Anti-ArsenalBy Simon Bailey They may be Anti-Arsenal, but they’re our Anti-Arsenal or Why they haven’t got a leg to stand on. I love the Arsenal. No, I mean it, I really love the Arsenal. There are things I love more; my family, my home, and my dearly departed brindle lurcher to name a few. But […] Football is now all black and white, and we have lost the shades in betweenBy Walter Broeckx You know that I do not agree with the way the doom and gloom brigade sees things around The Arsenal. Like I said before I get angry by seeing them telling all their silly sentences like “sack Wenger”, “Give Denilson to the spuds” and more nonsense. But as I always have the […] How Wenger Used the Doom and Gloomers to his advantageI have been interested of late at the way the Anti-Arsenal brigade has been developing its tactics. In the olden days (ie last year) they would mostly spend their time saying that our players were all leaving just like Flamini and Hleb before them. Cesc was going to Barca and the world would end. Now […] Ooh yes they hate us.By Walter Broeckx Some hate us for what happened to them in the past. The 1989 Liverpool victims. Or the ones like Shearer who came across Arsenal and Arsène Wenger in his Newcastle days and almost always lost in the league and in cup games. Then you have the Tottenham connection like Linneker and if […] How to be a lying toad: the ten rules of football journalismToday, 22 January 2010, is the 100th anniversary to the day of the meetings that marked the end of the old Arsenal, and the birth of the club we know and love today. Newspapers played a major part in giving us an understanding of that story, not least because Henry Norris himself wrote a lot […] 3 new players, 11 “almost new” players, and a vote for Untold ArsenalI have only just found out about the Soccer Lens Awards (thanks to our good friend Gf60) so there is only a day or so left for getting entries in. (Sorry I have been so taken up with all the events of the last few days. Fancy Liverpool losing all their players at once. Well […] Billy “the Dog” McGraw reveals what the papers will be saying next weekBy Billy the Dog, landlord of the Toppled Bollard, Islington. I had that Arsene Wenger round here the other night doing his basso profundo with the carol singers. They were collecting money for the Arsenal transfer funds which are somewhere between desperation and zero. “Ere Arse,” I said, adopting the familiar style that is customary […] How to knock the Arsenal: a journalists’ guideBy Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood Knocking the Arsenal is an important part of the job of every reporter. To be fair some do back off when we are playing brilliant football and winning stuff (only the Guardian and Observer did snarling cynical pieces about the club in the days after we finished the unbeaten […] How a story gets into the paper without anyone checking a wordI watched two things on TV last night, and both rang bells in my head. The first was an old Hercule Poirot film with David Suchet, based on the 1924 Agatha Christie short story “Western Star”. It contains the lines… Hastings: “I don’t know how they get these stories in the papers.” Poirot: “They make […] Amazon: incompetent cretins, Untold predictions in the Guardian, Notts C more muck, Liverpool forgetfulnessThis article deals a little bit about Arsenal/Chelsea (well it gives the score), with the arrogance and re-writing of history by at least one man in Liverpool, with the latest on Notts C and Sven, and any other bits and pieces I think about on the way. In short, it is a saturday morning and […] |
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