I suppose in the end it is a matter of one’s perspective over time. The media aided by the PR machines of Manchester, Liverpool and Chelsea, and supported by a number of Arsenal blogs, have suggested that we must win something this season otherwise it is all some sort of unspecified disaster. Who knows –…
Alisher Usmanov owns about 24% of Arsenal, which makes him close to being the biggest shareholder – Danny Fiszman has just about the same level of shareholding. Mr Usmanov is what the newspapermen (in that funny sort of shorthand way that they have) a “metals magnate” which presumably means he’s made of iron or something…
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…
Sky and Sultana acknowledge that they got it very wrong in 2007. Believing the Sky pundit predictions that Arsenal were about to sink into mediocrity and that the wonderful Tottenham were about to surge (yes surge) into the top 4, as Arsenal disappear without trace. So what did these two intellectual giants of the satellite…
Reading the blogs and news groups today the comments have reached near hysteria. But there are still a couple of points that haven’t been fully explored. First, there is the rather obvious fact that anything less than fulsome support for the team in forthcoming games will serve no one but the opposition. It’s obvious but…
Following weeks of anguish and annoyance expressed by fans, the Lord Wenger has agreed to step aside as Arsenal’s manager. Sir Peter Hill-Wood has announced that in a revolutionary move the manager will be replaced by a committee of fans who will decide who to play, who to buy, and who to sell, how much…
From the start of football there have been tough players – defenders for example who would say to a passing forward “go past me once more sunshine and I’ll break your jaw”. And he would and the ref would give a freekick. Maybe. The first manager I ever heard talk openly about playing Anti-football as…
If you have read one or two of my little meanders through the footballing backwaters you might recall that occasionally I try to crack a joke or two. Sometimes it works, and sometimes I get accused of being a twat, and far worse. That’s how it goes. These little ideas just occur to me from…
While the Tiny Fantasists (managed by Harry Hotspur) and Portsmouth (previously managed by the self same chap) have both utterly failed to do anything about one of the awful outbreak of racism and homophobia against Sol Campbell, and while the EPL and the FA have likewise failed to take any action whatsoever over the action…
It seemed that Arsenal were going to announce the new “director of transfer negotiations” (or some similar title) sometime around now, but now it seems it won’t happen. Paul Donovan left Vodafone (a company forever tainted with its associated with Manchester Bankrupts) and there was talk that he was the man for us, but it…
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