By Phil Gregory

A resurgent Sunderland side lie in wait for Arsenal on Saturday afternoon, though a 7-1 drubbing of Blackburn could prove to be the catalyst for revitalising our own campaign. The draw at Bolton recently means that we really must be getting the three points from Sunderland if we are serious about catching [.

By Phil Gregory

Well, 0-0 versus Bolton was a disappointment and a serious blow to attempts to haul in Tottenham. The odds on that front are getting near the stage where it would be irrational to expect us to overhaul our neighbour should we not shrink the gap over the next few games. Fortunately Chelsea [.

By Walter Broeckx

When does a team reaches it's tipping point? Or what is the importance of that one player that rarely catches the highlights but who is so important for the balance in the team? Are Arsenal really a one man team for the moment? And with a one man team I don't mean [...]

By Billy Le Dog McGraw

My preview for the Leeds game was such a stunning success that I have been asked to write again on the subject. You will recall then we were playing the Yorkshire Grit (which is, as you will now know, made up of coarse sand grains and small stones).

Against such [.

By Billy the Dog McGraw

I don't know if it is just me but it seems to be easier these day to understand what Mr Wenger is going to do in terms of his playing staff for each game.

It is almost like the 1987/88 season when the same players would come out for match [...]

By Phil Gregory

A 1-0 defeat was certainly difficult to take from a valiant performance away at City. We went there with a multitude of defensive injuries but in fairness, a defensive unit that appeared fairly solid until changes were forced upon us. Indeed it is no coincidence that an injury to Djourou early in [.

By Tony Attwood

I have the view that having started this blog a few years ago, and now having a fair old number of readers each day, I have a duty to try and keep the thing running, while living up to the original notions behind the blog: that it should be pro-Arsenal at all [...]

By Phil Gregory

Before I kick off the preview proper, I thought I'd briefly mention the Commons Inquiry into Football Governance. As long-term readers will know, about a year ago I put together a submission for it, and wrote it up in a series of articles for Untold. What was great though was the recognition [.

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By Walter Broeckx

Well one thing is fore sure our defeat at Olimpiacos [.

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Phil's off to a job interview, so I've got the job of doing the game preview.

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By Walter Broeckx and Tony Attwood

Ah what a wonderful relaxing moment this is.

Arsenal are looking to bounce back from a disappointing home draw versus Fulham in Saturday's Premier League game against Wigan. There was controversy last season when we trekked up to Wigan, partly refereeing and partly fixture related. If my memory serves, that game was our second in 48 hours, so in order to avoid injuries [.

By Tony Attwood

Manchester: gateway to hell where the roads are slippery with oil, and the downward path leads inexorably to Hades, or Liverpool as it is known in popular culture.

Manchester City will have quite possibly Samir Nasri playing. While Mr Nasri doesn't seem to have had it quite the same as Flamini did [.

A great match in midweek versus Dortmund secured our Champions League qualification, and with it the opportunity to perhaps rest a few legs in the final group game. The Carling Cup game early next week is another such tie, but with City coming to the Emirates rotation is most likely to be on a "needs [.

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By Walter Broeckx

Sometimes you have those games that after 20 minutes you look at the scoreboard and think: is this really the score of the game I am seeing?

Excellent work from Tony, Walter and other valued contributors have kept Untold ticking over during the barren wasteland that is the international break. Well them, and Sepp Blatter who said some very foolish things and rightly got taken to task by Rio Ferdinand on twitter, of all places. Not that anyone English can be on [.

By Tony Attwood

There is, I think, a feeling about games, and I got the same feeling no less than four times before saturday's match even started.

...Talking in the car on the way down with Drew, a lecturer in history at my local university whose period of interest almost overlaps with my knockabout [.

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By Walter Broeckx

This weekend we have been playing our 11th game in the EPL of the current season. We now have another international break and so again we face some 14 days in fear of [.

By Tony Attwood

Thus we are progressing nicely through our 14th consecutive year in the Champions League. 14 years of ending in the top 4 in English football in order to qualify something that has never previously been even remotely approached in our 125 years history. The nearest we got before this run was [.

Arsenal versus Marseilles has come around, and with it the opportunity to pretty much tie up our Champions League qualification with a victory. Coming top is key in order to increase the likelihood of an easier game in the next round, but many have suggested Wenger may rotate somewhat. The obvious candidate for a breather [.

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By Walter Broeckx

How many times in the past 6 years (an obviously random generated number) have we played a great game in a top game only to end up with empty hands at the [.

By Tony Attwood If you have been following us this past week you will know that the various sites we run have been going up and down like the proverbial. So, I won't take too long writing this, in case we lose service again, but here's the quickie from last night. Recently when I [.

By Tony Attwood Of course one doesn't like to boast, and I am well aware that quoting oneself is a sign of a thoroughly deluded mind. But nevertheless, if I may quote from yesterday's preview. "I thought Koscielny played well on Sunday, and when Vermaelen returns we will have three centre backs in good form [.

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By Phil Gregory After what seems like an age, our beloved Arsenal are back after the international break. Sunderland are of course the side facing us at the Emirates and are a side who have started the season poorly after throwing a lot of money around over the summer. As ever, Steve Bruce is yet [..

By Tony Attwood Three wins and a draw in Europe to kick off the season is that our best start? Actually it isn't, but I just wanted to make the point about how silly all the knocking stuff is. Before Wenger there was no regular European service at Highbury under Rioch we made [...]

By Tony Attwood Theo is injured, Gervinho is injured, Koscielny is injured, plus all the others you know about, like Sébastien Squillaci, Jack Wilshere, Abou Diaby, Yossi Benayoun, Thomas Vermaelen, and Johan Djourou. So who have we got left? Goal - no problems Central defence: Alex Song plus Per Mertesacker with Ignasi Miquel in reserve.

This weekend brings Bolton down to the Emirates stadium, and with the second string returning to winning ways, it'd be great if the first team could follow suit. Bolton are a strange side, with a lot of positivity surrounding Owen Coyle's management that isn't really borne out by the results. They came in at 14th [.

So, how do you write an article following up on that then? Clearly those were a three points that we should've been taking home, especially after a generally excellent first half performance. I'm not going to dissect the game as frankly, you can read that on any Arsenal blog and having been at the game, [.

By Phil Gregory I've always liked Blackburn away, mainly because I can get tickets. That aside, being a Northern-based Gooner I've a few of friends who are Blackburn fans, so I suppose there's more riding on this game for me than just the three points being contested. A few years ago, when some members of [.

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Arsenal History ...... Making the Arsenal ...... Arsenal Uncovered ...... Arsenal History Society By Billy The Dog McGraw Some articles write themselves. You know how it is, you take a swing of the 1947 vintage you have been keeping for the weekend, and the next thing you know the whole [.

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Arsenal History ...... Making the Arsenal ...... Arsenal Uncovered —————————————– By Walter Broeckx Now I have been talking about the catering and how we got treated in Dortmund by the fans and how it felt to be there. So maybe I should also talk on how the game felt from [.

By Billy the Dog McGraw. Borussia as you will know, being educated fellows and not like those hearty roughs from down the Seven Sisters Road, is Latin. It means Prussia, which is the ancient state which came out of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. These things are important, and not what you get on your ordinary [.

By Billy the Dog McGraw The last time I saw Swansea play Arsenal I seem to remember that the ground was overlooked by a prison, and that those spending time at the pleasure of Her Majesty would lean out between the bars and shout abuse at us alien visitors from the land of St George. [...]

By Phil Gregory You know the negativity surrounding Arsenal is getting a little silly when your Everton-supporting boss bets you £10 that they will finish above Arsenal this season. Now, I know we've lost a few players this summer, but for a club who's only summer signing is a contract extension for Phil Neville, well.

By Tony Attwood There is a saying, "If you think you are beaten, you are". And certainly for many Arsenal bloggers that is true. Fortunately it is never true for Mr Wenger, a man who never knows when he is beaten, and who is therefore our most successful manager in 125 years of history. For [...]

By Phil Gregory After Nasri's recent departure, Arsenal travel away to Udinese for a hugely crucial tie. The Italian side took some –myself included by surprise in the first leg, but there'll be no risk of them being underestimated this evening. The Liverpool result wasn't the best preparation for this tie, but positives can [.

by Arvind I somehow missed the time of the game and tuned into it 15 minutes late only to see Koscielny hobble off with a terrible looking injury. Hope its good news. We lost the game though with a desperately unlucky goal, I thought. Not counting the second goal as that was always coming 1-0 [...]

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Phil Gregory After a controversial opening-day draw with Newcastle, Liverpool travel to the Emirates with a squad laden with fairly pricey recent signings. That stands them apart from Arsenal FC, with our biggest outlay being Gervinho at around £10m. As Wenger argues however, the question is not money of [.

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Walter Broeckx Lucky the Arsenal – Udinese game was shown live on our sports channel. Because otherwise I would have thought that we would have been out of it already. Of course it would have been better if we would have won with a comfortable 5-0 or so. Yeah [.