Is fourth good enough? Well it depends on what you mean by fourth.
There was a time a couple of years back when Liverpool came fourth and I remember looking at the table with interest at the time and realising that they were so far behind the top that they were closer (in number of points) […]
Today is the day we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ever Arsenal v Tottenham game. There is a full article on this on www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk This day was, in a very real sense, the start of a process that led us to Highbury, Division I and Herbert Chapman. So it seems appropriate for a…
By Billy the Dog McGraw, Enfield Allotments, Middlesex. I have rarely seen my old mate Tony Attwood as close to tears as he was when he approached me this morning on the allotment. I was just nattering to that Dennis Bergkamp who grows carrots next to my plot, when Tony rushed up. “They’re all arguing…
Just how many billionaire clubs are there now – and how successful have they been? by Tony Attwood I had just got used to thinking that we had two billionaire clubs doing the rounds – Man City and Chelsea. The came the news that PSG was in the same group – and then Malaga. And…
If you have not come across “Talk like a pirate day” before, or indeed if you are not resident in England, it may come as a bit of a shock that there is such a thing. But there is, and it has been around for about 10 years – go to http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html if you don’t…
By GF60 “Looking back is sometimes dangerous because we see the past that we want to remember and not the past that has happened in reality.” With all-seater grounds, nancyfied and oh so safe stadia, no-one will ever know again, the thrill of being able to tell the crowd size merely by the pressure on…
Let me explain that headline. Arsenal, being an open club, all above board, honest and thoroughly middle class, there’s nothing to hide. Unlike some north western clubs we aren’t late with our reporting of our figures, and unlike most clubs we make a profit and don’t hide behind multiple company structures. But that is not…