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By Tony Attwood There are players you can’t recall at all, players you half remember, players you rather like, and legends. Jack Kelsey is in the final group. He played for Arsenal’s first team from 1950 until 1962, winning just one medal – the league in 1953. And yet he is a name that anyone [...] by Tony Attwood This season the official Arsenal programme will include a column called “Arsenal Uncovered”. Now as you may know, I edit a blog called Untold Arsenal, as well as this history blog, and the fact that “Uncovered” is going to include quite a few history incidents, and that prefix “Un” appears in both [...] By Tony Attwood Recently I published a couple of pieces about two prospective future managers of Arsenal: Remi Garde and Dennis Bergkamp. The reason for these stories was not the fact that these ex-players had declared their interest in the job, but rather because both were highly regarded by Arsene Wenger, as players, and both [...] By Tony Attwood If you occasionally drop into this blog you’ll know that I am writing a year by year review of Arsene Wenger. The last article dealt with the 2003 Cup Final and the start of the “49″ unbeaten run. I was just getting my notes together for the start of the rather important [...] Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal by Tony Attwood In the last two articles in this series we have looked at the league campaign in 2002/3 – the frustration of being top of the league by five points and then slipping away, the awful defeat against Leeds, the wonder goal of [...] Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood We finished 2002 with two wins and two draws, and continued this short unbeaten run in the league until 15 March when we lost away 2-0 to Blackburn. The run itself, totalling 11 games, had given some hope, and we put together another short run [...] By Tony Attwood After numerous delays and after months of being side-tracked by other issues I am finally finding the time to complete the book on Woolwich Arsenal. The book is called WOOLWICH ARSENAL: THE CLUB THAT CHANGED FOOTBALL, we have a publisher, and I am hopeful it will be published at the end of [...] By Tony Attwood Patrick Vieira has retired from playing football and has become the latest ex-Arsenal player to join the managerial and coaching level of football. He has been given a newly-created role at Manchester C. of football development executive. It seems to be a job to do with the development of young players, [...] A review of 2002/3 – part 1 By Tony Attwood In the summer of 2002 Arsene Wenger did a remarkable piece of business. He bought Gilberto Silva, soon to be captain of Brazil, for £2m. The only other purchase was Cygan from Lille. Tony Adams retired. Gilberto Silva played in an extremely violent Community Shield [...] By Tony Attwood Over the last few weeks we’ve been gathering the names of ex-Arsenal players who are now either in management or in journalism. Thanks to everyone who has joined in. It is possible that some names are still missing from the lists, but hopefully this is near a complete list in each case [...] My call for a list of ex Arsenal players who are now journalists, on Untold Arsenal, didn’t bring in much luck. It seems as if I might have to read the wretched press myself to catch up with them. I’m limiting this list somewhat as so many players are used very occasionally as pundits… what [...] Continuing the series on players who left Arsenal and what happened next Emmanuel Petit Manu’s main career in terms of length and number of appearances was at Monaco (222 games), and he played with Arsenal for three years (85 games), followed by Barcelona (23) and Chelsea (55). He cost £2.5m and left for £7m, and [...] By Tony Attwood Many of our top players leave Arsenal towards the end of their careers. Some however leave earlier – a thought brought about by events this summer. But what happens to such players? I started to wonder this, in reaction to the talk of players leaving in the summer of 2011, and the [...] By Tony Attwood In the last article I listed a number of Arsenal players now in senior management position in clubs other than Arsenal. Dennis Bergkamp Remi Garde Tony Adams Martin Hayes Brian McDermott Vladimir Petrovic Now here is the second list, which hopefully gets us to near completion.., the total seems to be eleven [...] by Tony Attwood I recently asked on Untold Arsenal for details of any ex-Arsenal players currently working as managers or in other very senior positions in clubs. This came about following the news of Dennis Bergkamp‘s appointment at Ajax and Remi Garde‘s elevation at Lyon. The subsequent discussion gave me quite a few names, but [...] by Tony Attwood With Remi Garde in charge at Lyon we also now have Dennis Bergkamp as assistant manager at Ajax. I want to write a little about Dennis, but before I do I would like to consider who else from the Arsenal ranks is currently in senior management. I must admit my mind has [...] |
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