This is exactly the sort of result we feared after the zero activity in the transfer window last summer. With Wenger failing to buy a new central midfielder, Arsenal were run ragged by an ordinary Blackburn, who were unlucky not to get all 3 points. Where was Gilberto? Where was Hleb? Where was Flamini? …
West Ham: to lose a manager may be a misfortune, but to lose your sponsor at the same time looks like carelessness. Liverpool Insolvency: On the brink financially, with no chance of getting their new stadium, and the fans holding anti-owner marches… that’s bad enough. But when you’ve just spent another load of dosh, and…
Sir Hardly Anyone, chairman of the FA, wants to press for “tougher rules” on the takeover of football clubs. Speaking exclusively to Untold Arsenal, he said, “You should never underestimate the stupidity of the average football fan. “It is of course quite true that we could have done this when Abramovich came into the game,…
Mike Ashley is the top man at Newcastle United – a northern football team. This weekend he was filmed committing a criminal offence under the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 which prohibits the consumption of alcohol within sight of the pitch. The normal punishment for such a crime would be to arrest,…
Setanta Television, the diminutive Irish satellite channel, delivered a performance on Saturday 30 August 2008, that was so appallingly biased and self-opinionated that it will be hard for them ever to recover any respectability as a commentator on the game. The channel used the build up to its live coverage of Arsenal vs Newcastle to…
When Real Mad bought David Beckham a significant part of the reason for the purchase was the money they’d get from marketing. Lots of little girls bought Beckham stuff, and Real Mad took their cut. They did the same with Zidane, (although I suspect this involved sales to men rather than girls) ensuring that they…
It seems not everyone in the Emirates (the states not the stadium) is happy about the way the Manchester Arab purchase has gone – according to the Guardian one leading figure in the Ems (as the Emirates now has to be known, to help project its more friendly less “chop your arm off” image) has…
(If you don’t understand the headline read yesterday’s blog) . Thus, the question is asked, in this world of chaos football, in which Manchester Bankrupt are quite clearly, and obviously, bankrupt, how come they carry on? How come the banks allow them to go on? And why do they keep suggesting it is Arsenal that…
Events in human history can be described in three ways. 1, As a series of cock-ups. We go out to fight the Germans in world war I, put a total cretin in charge and manage to slaughter half of our young men with a campaign that should never have happened in a war that could…
Bluffing is the game – you go out and say you want player X but then say, “but the price has to be lower”. Or you see that Manchester Bankrupt are looking to sign Y, so you jump in quickly with an offer that you are never going to see through. Cynical, nasty, bent, with…
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