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Garlic, silver bullets, wooden stakes: be ready for Tottenham

Feb 10th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

The scenes that greeted the sight of Gael’s blood at the WHL ground last Sunday revealed that it is never a good idea to take the Tiny Totts at face (or any other part of their anatomy) value.
As the cameras revealed the baying hordes salivating at the sight of blood, desperate to bite into the [...]



Arsenal writers with a positive bent required

Feb 9th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

So, KGB Fulham has turned into a London version of Athletico Madrid in the Jesus Gill era. You’ll remember Gill - if the manager didn’t win the league in six weeks he was out.
Mr Absent Abramovich now takes a similar view clearly, and is seeking to move on managers faster than the Tiny Totts.
Sadly this [...]



Tottenham celebrate The Invincibles

Feb 9th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

The Tiny Totts are today celebrating an Unbeaten Season and have produced a second DVD to celebrate their unbeaten season… against Arsenal.
Actually, they haven’t (although after putting out a DVD of the 4-4 it wouldn’t surprise me if they did) but I just thought it would be amusing to speculate…
But what did strike me over [...]



One door closes another slams in your face

Feb 8th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

Not much more than a week after the transfer what-not shuts down and its off again with BarBarBarca saying right, in the summer we’ll have Van Persie, Adebayor, and, oh of course Cesc, and in return little Arsenal you can have…. Hleb.
That is the same Hleb who were prized away from Arsenal because, according to [...]



Wenger and the older man

Feb 7th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

I get so hooked on all the youngsters coming through the ranks all the time, Wilshere, Vela, Ramsey, Merida and the rest, that it becomes easy to forget that the Lord Wenger has a fair old ability to work with old timers too.
It was widely said that when he arrived at Highbury he extended the [...]



Definitive statistics: a cry for help

Feb 5th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

The question is arising in correspondence: where are the definitive stats for footballers. A link to the Guardian’s fantasy football stats appeared here a couple of days back, and those figures are really interesting, but I was wondering if there is a source below that level. Someone has to measure all this stuff.
I had it [...]



Where do these anti-Arsenal rumours come from?

Feb 4th, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

Having wandered into a mathematical world of unreal numbers yesterday, today we face the big issue.
Where do negative stories come from?
Right up to the signing of Mr A yesterday there were stories saying the deal was dead - one I saw said that the FA were going to refuse the deal for being too late. [...]



Why Arshavin chose number 23

Feb 3rd, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

First, because 23 is a prime number. Just like 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19 before it, and an infinite number thereafter.

Second it was Theos number and we all love Theo.

Third it was David Beckhams number at Real Mad, and Russians somehow think that if you are British you love [...]



Arshavin signs and I am a total genius

Feb 2nd, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

In my story on January 26 I said that we were definitely signing Arshavin. I said this not because I thought the Lord Wenger was desperate, and not because I had deep insight into the workings of the KGB, but rather because of the array of people who had far too much invested in the [...]



The beginning of the end

Feb 2nd, 2009 | Source: Untold Arsenal | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

The return of Keane from a championship chasing club to a relegation flirting club just six months after he went the other way for more money, is proof if it were needed of the financial disaster facing Liverpool Weetabix.
Liverpool were, let us not forget, held up as a model of how football could move forward. [...]