It is rare to find a day when virtually everyone is having a bad time of it: but that is the day we have today. Starting with the Tinies – you might recall that this time last year they celebrated wildly by getting into the Children’s Cup Final, and then promptly managed to go 10…
Everyone is telling different stories according to the always believable and generally truthful British press. (That statement is ironic). Dennis Lachter, agent to the man most of us had never heard of a year back, said on www.newsru.com: “Andrei wants to move to Arsenal, and Arsenal wants to acquire Andrei. All that remains is for…
The headline suggests (in the way that journalists do) that there is a connection – although of course there is not, unless I really start believing that the Curse of Arsenal can be put on banks as well as on players and teams. I wrote a slightly amusing piece (well I thought it rather droll)…
When Chelsea wanted to join the Football League sometime around 1905 it didn’t do so on the basis of the football it had played so far – because there was none. No club, no team, no stats – just a ground on which the terraces were unsafe and crumbling even before the club opened. Chelsea…
And so we come to see the solution. At least the handful of us left who do not occupy their time, supporting professional journalists, writing articles about “Meltdown” and calling supporters who believe in Wenger “extremists”. I speak of the new process, forced on us by the incredibly awful run of injuries to Eduardo, Theo,…
Clubs rise unexpectedly, and clubs fall equally unexpectedly. With hindsight it is easy, but for the futurologist it is tougher. Take Wimbledon – who foresaw their rise to the 1st division all those years back? Take Leeds – we might have raised collective eyebrows over their insane spending – but they weren’t the only ones…
It is on occasion forgotten that Henry didn’t do it all on his own. Most of the time he had Robert Pires to help him. It took over a year to get right, but when it did work it was stunningly simple. Henry could always be relied upon to spend some of his game on…
The Lord Wenger has done an interview in which he says that he still has no doubt that over time he will be proven right with his strategy of bringing through younger players rather than doing what Manchester Bankrupt have just done – which is yet again to splash millions of pounds on transfers at…
If we take a look at what a few clubs in the EPL are doing just now, it gives a good insight into the options on offer. Manchester Bankrupt: not just bankrupt, but even with their mega sqaud they have injury worries and a crisis meeting going on. Yes they are 6 points ahead but…
I love the notion of the charming cockney character Harry Houdini being in charge of the Tiny Totts. It is not just that he is not much of a manager, which he isn’t (his best is mostly moderate at Bournemouth, WHU and Portsmouth, and his worst is Southampton) it is the way he is not…
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