Just as I was thinking we’d had enough of hoaxes on this site for a while, a post turned up claiming that “Wenger is London’s least popular Premier League manager in the eyes of his club’s own supporters with Roy Hodgson, Guus Hiddink, Gianfranco Zola and Harry Redknapp all polling higher marks for last season”…
Anthony Kastrinakis. the man behind the Sun’s famous Fábregas-to-Madrid hoax has been arrested by police. Kastrinakis’ article which claimed that Fábregas was ready to play for Real Madrid was picked up by Arsenal blogs and national newspapers, making it the most successful football hoax in the history of football journalism. The Sun had for some…
Redknapp, Bond, the police, the court case… I spent a jolly afternoon on Wednesday in London, doing my bit being interviewed for a DVD review of last season, pontificating in front of the cameras on the Lord Wenger and all his doings etc. Of course the great danger is that one can, in the heat…
How did you come to support Arsenal? If you follow the correspondence in this site you’ll know that an annoying plagiarist has just been banned from this site. For what it is worth, I suspect this writer is not an Arsenal supporter at all but was simply here to annoy us and cause mischief. It…
Liverpool and Arsenal: two different ways to run a football club. Suddenly the rest of the footballing world catches up on what we’ve been talking about for two seasons. Big clubs are getting into big financial trouble. I speak of none other than Liverpool Insolvency – named thus in this blog about a year back…
Understanding how the transfer window works Understanding how the transfer window works (A large dose of realism required) by Terence McGovern The transfer window is upon us once more. This annual merry-go-round of sloppy journalism and internet speculation is eclipsed only by the immoral level of spending money not owned on things not needed that…
As far as I know there have only been two books which are not primarily about Arsenal but which make Arsenal a central part of their story: Fever Pitch and The Arsenal Stadium Mystery. (There are of course other novels that mention Arsenal in passing, but I’m speaking here of stories where Arsenal FC is…
Arsenal signing & financial disaster news UPDATE – since I wrote this article it seems Setanta is going bust. I have added an update commentary based on that view, in the correspondence column that follows the article. Here’s the original article….. Shock horror, English football is falling apart – and Arsenal are making a signing…
All Arsenal supporters should write to RBS about Liverpool’s loans Although this article doesn’t start with anything Arsenal it gets there in the end. If you have a mind to, stay with me. Writing (as I am) as many Europeans exercise their right to vote for Members of the European Parliament I am reminded of…
Bosnian football & EPL – spot the difference Bosnian football and the EPL by Armin Medic In a hilly, small Balkans country called Bosnia there is a Premier League. Which sounds a bit like England – but that’s where the similarity ends. But even so, we should not ignore the Bosnian League, because of the…
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