I’m using the word “new” in the journalistic sense – that is it could mean anything you want. So I include people who have been Arsenal for a while, but out on loan, or waiting to be the right age to sign professional. The list falls into two parts. First the relatively unknowns…
Europe’s most illegal sporting competition – Euro 2008 – kicks off this afternoon. For most players and most countries the competition represents a complete denial of a law that is at the heart of their constitutions. While Switzerland and Turkey are not affected, being outside the EU, everyone else is covered by EU law which…
Thanks for all the comments about our new players for next season – always open to ideas and suggestions. Below is the updated list – but here’s a word of warning. The huge squad idea is great for covering injuries – but not everyone gets injured, and players want to play. What is Nicolas Bendtner…
Thanks for all the comments about our new players for next season – always open to ideas and suggestions. Below is the updated list – but here’s a word of warning. The huge squad idea is great for covering injuries – but not everyone gets injured, and players want to play. What is Nicolas Bendtner…
1. Get a list of the Arsenal first team. This can be difficult between the drinking and sleeping, but there is one on the Arsenal web site – if you can find that. 2. Get a list of top European clubs. This is harder, but here’s a tip – there are a couple in…
To put Arsenal’s financial situation in the simplest terms consider this. We get about 22,000 more people at each match at the Emirates than we got at Highbury. Each person pays around £40 per ticket on average. (If you pay less, do remember the top prices are a lot higher than at Highbury, and five…
With the tournament just two days old there have been a string of injuries to players whose bodies are reacting to the mental and physical strain of international matches a few weeks after a long domestic season. Alexander Frei damaged cruciate ligaments in his first match, while Portugal’s goalkeeper Quim is out of the whole…
Hleb to Barca for £15 million. That’s a £5 million pound profit. Adebayor to Milan for £25 million. That’s a £21 million pound profit. You have to wonder, what is Arsenal going to do with the profit? We’ve already given detailed analysis of the finances of the club to show that the turnover at the…
Now it is rather churlish I know to kick a little person when down, so laying into Luton Town may look a trifle unbecoming. But they give me bad memories, and they have clearly done a lot that is wrong. So I think it is time if not for a kick, then at least a…
The opening half of the 2007/8 season is one the schedule writers at Sky and Setanta certainly want to forget. Convinced by the propaganda put out by their own pundits that Arsenal would sink to mid-table obscurity they abandoned us to a round of 3pm saturday kick-offs (apart from the ones the police moved to…
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