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You might remember last summer.  Everyone from the guys who write football blogs in their garden sheds to the journalists with the national daily papers said the same thing: in 2007/8 Arsenal will sink without trace. In fact,  to be precise the prediction was that Arsenal will drift down to mid-table and Tottenham will end…

—————————– You may recall that a few days ago we started to debate the 25 player rule that is imposed on the EPL next season. I messed things up by getting it all wrong, and after that a number of correspondents wrote in correcting my error and putting forward the correct version. The problem I…

Alkmaar vs Arsenal preview by Phil Gregory Arsenal travel away to Alkmaar on Tuesday, searching for a third consecutive win in group H. Alkmaar, managed by Dutchman Ronald Koeman, lie bottom of group H with a single point after the first two fixtures. As a manager, the former Dutch international is a bit of an…

By Tony Attwood It has been interesting to read comments on blogs which but a short while ago were calling for “glass ankles” Van Persie to be set aside, and yet without a blink (or an admission that they were wrong) are now blaming the Arsenal management for not having tied the same VP into…

By Tony Attwood Christian Purslow, MD of that amusing little club up in the north west, has finally admitted that the club can’t service the debt.  While Kenneth Dalglish MBE (a man whom all football fans must remember as a sensational player, and a man of considerable dignity in the aftermath of Hillsborough) seems now…

This past week I have got a trifle cheesed off with correspondents on this site who have ignored the article written, and instead developed their own pieces declaring that Arsene Wenger should leave the club. If you’re a regular reader here you’ll know I only cut comments where- plagiarism, racism, antisemitism and anything else that…