Most obvious tactics: More passes per minute than most teams achieve in a season
Greatest achievement: Two months before the end of the Unbeaten Season Sir Alex Ferguson announced that Arsenal would certainly get beaten, that he had been in a Rangers team that had been unbeaten all season and which had then lost in the last match, and that anyway United play better football, and everyone knew that. Priceless.
By Walter Broeckx Another day another ref article. And I had promised myself not to write one before next week. But thanks to one of our readers I had to do it. People who have been following my ref reviews and my articles during the season in which I explained how and what can go…
Two financial stories turned up last week – both affecting the EPL but neither making it onto the football pages. The new story concerns our old chums, West Iceland United (4 stops from Barking), and it furthered rumours that have been circulating for months and months. First the background. When Icelandic banks went bust the…
By Phil Gregory Having just read that our talismanic striker and captain isn’t renewing his contract, a summer that has been positive to date now looks like like a mixed bag. There’s a few different scenarios where we might end up with this now. The most unlikely is an about-turn from Robin and him renewing…
By Billy “The Dog” McGraw Watching Stoke City is rather like dancing the night with a girl with no rhythm Only to wake up with a hangover and find She won the dance competition. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, Zen Tse Province, 537 BC It has been a matter of some debate among academics how Lao…
By Billy “le chien” McGraw, our man on Le Continent. Arsenal are reported by prime sources, people who know and indeed the Daily Mirror, to have agreed a fee of £13 million with Montpellier for France international striker Olivier Giroud. Montpellier won the League (“in France” as the Mirror says, helpfully). Oh yes and some…
The Untold ref review: Barcelona – Arsenal Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Walter Broeckx, the untold ref When someone on this site said it was Busacca as the ref I felt bad. I remembered him from our game in Shakhtar and felt he was a home ref in that game….