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Do we always need someone to boo – plus tomorrow’s team from Billy the Dog

Untold Arsenal 20 November @ 08:46 AM EST
By Billy the Dog McGraw Landlord, The Toppled Bollard, Islington As usual for a Friday I trotted off to the allotments on Hackney Marshes where I bumped into Dennis Bergkamp who was bemoaning the state of his turnips. "But what about that Terry Enry?" I enquired, ingloriously. "But what about my turnips? Click to continue reading...

Do we always need someone to boo – plus team from Billy the Dog

Untold Arsenal 20 November @ 08:46 AM EST
By Billy the Dog McGraw Landlord, The Toppled Bollard, Islington As usual for a Friday I trotted off to the allotments on Hackney Marshes where I bumped into Dennis Bergkamp who was bemoaning the state of his turnips. "But what about that Terry Enry?" I enquired, ingloriously. "But what about my turnips? Click to continue reading...

Liam’s attack on FIFA corruption scares the hell out of the BBC

Untold Arsenal 19 November @ 01:40 PM EST
It was a tedious morning of "Henry is a disgrace" and "Henry, Eduardo, we investigate the cheats in football." Then BBC Radio Five Live decided to get Republic of Ireland assistant manager Liam Brady on. Liam sounded as if he had not slept for a week. But he spoke slowly and clearly, and utterly refused to be [. Click to continue reading...

What drags me to football in London?

Untold Arsenal 18 November @ 11:38 AM EST
By Walter Broeckx What is it that drags you to London people ask me sometimes. Well I must confess that you can call me an Anglophile in a way or should it be a "Londonphile" or "Arsenalphile". From the first moment I set foot in London, I felt at home. It's just a feeling I got. I [...] Click to continue reading...

UEFA – is there a chance of reform?

Untold Arsenal 17 November @ 02:13 PM EST
Former Supporters Direct Chairman Brian Lomax has been appointed to UEFA's new club financial control panel. Lomax recently stepped down after four years as chair of the SD organisation that advises fans on how to gain representation at board level at their clubs across the UK and Europe with groups in 14 countries across Europe. Click to continue reading...

Other sites review the players: we review the refs

Untold Arsenal 17 November @ 08:20 AM EST
By Walter Broeckx Want a player ranking after a game? Don't worry there are 84 trillion sites that do it, and that is just for Arsenal. But how many sites do reviews of referee performances match by match, and then use the "Hey-let's-injure-your-players" break to summarise? There is of course only one place in the Galaxy for such [. Click to continue reading...

Downtime retrospective: How good is Diaby?

Untold Arsenal 16 November @ 01:50 PM EST
By Cape Gooner, with some additional material by Tony I was watching the Wolves game on Arsenal TV and was thinking how good a game Diaby was having before he went off. Is he doing a Denilson? Taking his chance and playing really well, only for the "fans" to pick on every misplaced pass. [...] Click to continue reading...

We should buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy… or maybe not

Untold Arsenal 16 November @ 04:59 AM EST
By Walter Broeckx Well at the end of the day... we can only trust the Lord Wenger. For those about who shout BUY, I would like to ask: how are you going to keep all of them happy on the bench as only 3 players can play in our current system. We still have 2 full internationals [...] Click to continue reading...

Who replaces Van Persie and Bendtner now both have long term injuries?

Untold Arsenal 15 November @ 05:44 AM EST
A pointless, pathetic, idiotic, unnecessary, stupid, lunatic, evil match. Holland 0 Italy 0, it meant nothing, told no one anything, and Robin Van Persie is now out for about 3 months possibly longer. Tearing ligaments is a bastard of an injury and I can tell you that from experience. My extremely minor and utterly [. Click to continue reading...

The worst stadium in Europe

Untold Arsenal 14 November @ 05:57 AM EST
By Walter Broeckx As Tony recently wrote an article about some terrible grounds in the UK I must say that one of my favourite things during the holidays is going to stadiums. I usually take a tour when I can and so I have seen some fine stadiums in the world. Most grounds in Holland are [...] Click to continue reading...

Which club is going to be the next to go bust?

Untold Arsenal 12 November @ 08:52 AM EST
The Sheffield Wednesday manager recently said that it is "inevitable" an EPL club is going to go bust. The man from the Wednesday's prediction is that a club will go down to the Championship and will then go bust because they can't afford to keep paying the players. I would not be surprised if someone actually [. Click to continue reading...

WHAT IS THE WORST STADIUM YOU HAVE EVER SEEN ARSENAL AT

Untold Arsenal 11 November @ 03:44 AM EST
It is meaningless drivel week (ie when people who were not born in specific countries and who don't live there, and have never lived there, claim to "represent" said country. A bit like me representing Costa Rica spent a nice week there, but that's about it. On the other hand I can play a [...] Click to continue reading...

Are we going to score 100 goals this season?

Untold Arsenal 10 November @ 06:32 AM EST
By Walter Broeckx After the month September I gave a first review and one of our readers said then that he was way too early with this and we had to wait after we would have played some 10 games. The international break is a good moment to see how we have developed until now. So, the [...] Click to continue reading...

This season, last season. What’s the difference

Untold Arsenal 09 November @ 04:22 AM EST
By Walter Broeckx What is the difference between The Arsenal this season and Arsenal last season? For this and last season Arsenal were written off by almost all the pundits and it was sure we were the one who would fall from the top 4.  It is not happening. Why not? Last year around this time, the championship [. Click to continue reading...

Bookies in uproar as UNTOLD ARSENAL readers make a fortune

Untold Arsenal 08 November @ 06:14 AM EST
Rates of 40-1 were being quoted before the match for Billy "The Dog" McGraw's prediction to be true, and a fair number of the 108,000 UNTOLD ARSENAL readers decided it was worth a flutter. A fiver on Wolverhampton W. 1 Arsenal 4, with one of those £50 extra bids free if you've never had a bet [...] Click to continue reading...

Wolverhampton: beat the bookies with Billy The Dog’s pre-match result service

Untold Arsenal 06 November @ 08:42 AM EST
The line up against Wolverhampton Wibbleyous will be much as we saw against the London Street Directory (the A to Z do try and keep up).  Carlos Vela and Armand Traore are just about ready for action, but not quite. Denilson hasn't started training yet, but will do so while the silly internationals are going [. Click to continue reading...

Football finance – breaking, smashing, creaking, snapping and crunching news.

Untold Arsenal 05 November @ 06:05 PM EST
Two snippettas of news (I know there is no such word, but it is gone 10.30pm in the UK and the gas fire has been on for a couple of hours and I couldn't go jiving because I pulled a muscle jumping up and down in the Ems on wednesday night, so I am allowed [...] Click to continue reading...

Finance: Kronke, banks, fraud, corrpution, football…

Untold Arsenal 05 November @ 08:50 AM EST
I'm rather chuffed that this site made the financial state of football a central talking point long before it became an everyday topic of chit chat. So it behoves me to give an update not least because we now have a director on the edge of having to make a bid. In this piece I cover [...] Click to continue reading...

Why everyone is against Diaby and Arshavin

Untold Arsenal 04 November @ 10:02 AM EST
Editor's note: Living in the Midlands I tend to set off early for Arsenal games, and don't get back until after midnight, which means if I leave up the predictions about tonight's game as the lead story, it is going to look fairly dumb at 10.30pm UK time where I have predicted a 6-1 victory, [...] Click to continue reading...

Arsenal v A to Z: the teams, the tactics and Billy “The Dog”.

Untold Arsenal 03 November @ 03:13 PM EST
With our regular pre-match pundit being asked (bizarrely) to write an essay by his university (something that never happened when I was a student) we turn this week to Billy "The Dog" McGraw, landlord of the Toppled Bollard, St Thomas' Rd, for a run down on the match against the London Street Atlas, or A [. Click to continue reading...

Cesc Superman: a review

Untold Arsenal 03 November @ 04:04 AM EST
The case of Cesc Fabregas By Luke Tao (Diceman) He is really a superman. I stumbled onto some blogs and found various quotes from, who else, those pub bore lot saying along the line of "Fabregas is not a better player than Xavi and/or Iniesta". I'd say to them; piss off and relocate yourself to Barcelona then you [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal programme on Wednesday to run article by UNTOLD ARSENAL

Untold Arsenal 02 November @ 06:00 AM EST
A word of warning. In this article I will not be hiding my bushel under a 40 watt bulb. I'm over the parrot. (Sorry if English is not your first language, that's a really stupid play on words. In simple talk I am happy and I am going to boast). Let me put it another way. YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The Arsenal [. Click to continue reading...

Totts issue celebratory mug and DVD after Saturday game

Untold Arsenal 01 November @ 05:26 PM EST
Tottenham Hotspur have continued their theme of celebrating matches against Arsenal with a special edition DVD and Spurs coffee mug following the 3-0 defeat on saturday. The official reason for this release is not that the club like to find every possible way of ripping off its supporters and getting them to fork out good money [. Click to continue reading...

Who are ya? A quick review of those who would challenge us

Untold Arsenal 01 November @ 05:52 AM EST
Who Are Ya? By Simon Bailey The press have gleefully swooped on Arsene's comments at the AGM and it is now gospel, we are bringing home silverware this season. Personally, I saw Arsene re-iterating the same position he has taken all season. Pundits are getting very fond of saying that we have more chance of winning the CL [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal/Totts: Exclusive pre-broadcast release of MOTD discussion

Untold Arsenal 31 October @ 01:07 PM EST
Big Ears: So Noddy, what did you make of it? Noddy: Well the red half of north London will be crowing with delight but when you look at the game in detail you can see it is more likely a false dawn. Big Ears: Or a red sunset. Noddy: Or a red mist. Big Ears: Or 99 red balloons. Noddy: [...] Click to continue reading...

Arsenal/Totts: the pub bore speaks

Untold Arsenal 30 October @ 02:56 PM EST
Billy "The Dog" McGraw speaks exclusively to Untold Arsenal ahead of the vital match against the Tiny Totts. I tell you something, we ain't got a fucking chance, darling. The defence is so over the place we could let in six. Just make it a pint Vice-Chancellor. Call themselves defenders, they spend half their time in the [. Click to continue reading...

The sheer terror of Tottenham

Untold Arsenal 30 October @ 04:05 AM EST
By Gf60 There are no games in the season that fill me with more terror than the Spuds. It's 90 minutes of having a pulse rate way too high for an old fart, bitten fingernails, and nervous twitches...and that's when we're a few goals up. Yes it has been 10 years almost to the week since the scrawny [. Click to continue reading...

That most disgraceful profession

Untold Arsenal 29 October @ 06:24 AM EST
The pundits' pundit by Walter Broeckx We know them all. The modern oracles. The know-alls. We know them as the 'pundits. What do these pundits actually do in football? They say how it should have been done. They see the mistakes. They see the flaws. Is there somewhere a goal? The pundits know "who did it". Click to continue reading...

Arsenal/Liverpool: the pub bore report

Untold Arsenal 28 October @ 05:08 PM EST
By Billy "the Dog" McGraw watching the TV in the Auld Triangle God this was awful. Arsenal didn't have a clue.   Mine's a pint of Carlsberg. When Liverpool attacked Arsenal had no idea how to clear the ball, and I'll smash the face in of anyone who says anything else. It can't get any worse. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal/Liverpool: team sheet and complete analysis

Untold Arsenal 27 October @ 04:50 PM EST
By Phil Gregory Arsenal welcome Liverpool to the Emirates stadium for Wednesday's Carling Cup tie. The Reds, already six points off the pace in the Premier League despite a solid home win over champions Manchester United are expected to put out a below strength side for the tie with an eye on their match at Craven Cottage [. Click to continue reading...

We are not failing, we are winning

Untold Arsenal 27 October @ 03:13 AM EST
By Luke Tao Resulting from the latest seething in the blogs after the unfortunate draw against West Ham, I am requesting a chance to express some views on Arsenal which I have for awhile. My view is that we did not fail against West Ham but rather that we have progressed as [...] Click to continue reading...

Rangers face financial meltdown

Untold Arsenal 26 October @ 03:11 AM EST
In terms of English clubs that are facing financial disasters we are used to discussing WHU, Liverpool Beachballs and Manchester U. To that list we can now add Portsmouth.  Their new owner in September turned out not to be the billionaire Sheik Yermoney but a guy who borrowed £50 off a bookie's runner and [. Click to continue reading...

WHU v Arsenal: teams and the complete preview

Untold Arsenal 24 October @ 04:08 PM EST
By Phil Gregory Arsenal travel to Upton Park looking to heap more pressure on a beleaguered Gianfranco Zola. The West Ham boss has not seen his team win since August, and sitting three points adrift of safety, Hammers fans will be hoping for, but not expecting an upset. Recent form: West Ham are growing desperate for points, [. Click to continue reading...

Lansbury gets 2+1, WHAM supporters sanguine

Untold Arsenal 24 October @ 03:33 AM EST
Henri Lansbury - what a player in the making. If for no reason other than to see the midfielder play for Watford you tuned into Sky last night you would have seen him score a terrific goal. A pass, the perfect positioning for a return, heads for goal, a player on either side of him [...] Click to continue reading...

Liverpool/Arsenal – who has the most injuries

Untold Arsenal 23 October @ 01:48 AM EST
Liverpool and Injuries by Jonny Neale Benitez "We have just too many problems, I cannot remember an injury situation like this." http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_5641497,00.html By my reckoning Liverpool are 'potentially' missing 6 players for the next game - Gerrard, Torres, Johnson, Aquilani, Kelly, Kyrgiakos Of those, two players wouldn't normally make the first team anyway (I [. Click to continue reading...