The Aston Villa manager has expressed his concern about the continuing behaviour of Villa supporters at away grounds. At Arsenal on Saturday the Villa crowd sang a most disgusting song about Eduardo – a song that so enraged the rest of the crowd that many Villa fans were removed. EmiratesStadium.info wrote to the Villa manager…
The answer is incredibly simple. In the Manchester Arsenal FA Cup match 64% of the Arsenal players were reserves – not the players you would expect to be in the first team if everyone was fit. In the Arsenal Milan match however only 36% of the Arsenal players were reserves – 64% of the players…
When has a player left Arsenal and done better for himself? We can think of Liam Brady and maybe Stapleton, but otherwise? In effect players who leave never ever make it so good again – quite simply because Arsenal have always worked on getting the best out of players. Wenger was the operator of the…
Senior figures at the FA have confirmed that they are looking at ways to reduce the importance of the FA Cup. Their method – a restriction on the number of non-English players – is quite possibly against EU laws, but such legal niceties are never top of the FA’s agenda when suggesting change. The approach…
Birmingham City manager A McLeish has reacted with great anger to the report that FIFA will investigate his players attack on Eduardo. McLeish drew particular attention to himself with comments to the effect that his player had not meant to injure Eduardo – with the implication therefore that everything was ok. Now he is taking…
That’s shots on target. The other stats were quite good too and the match was easily won. Wenger said lots of lovely things about Ade, Ade did a relaxed head nodding act after the last goal, everyone sang the new song at the proper speed (that is a three second pause after each line, not a…
Jay Simpson is English, he’s a striker, he plays for Arsenal, and has been named PFA Player of the Year for League One. He spent the season at Milwall. His most recent goals came in the friendly with Dorchester this week where he scored three: a lob, a bender and a race onto a long…
Carlos Vela – Arsenal’s first Mexican player – is a striker, born in 1989 and signed on Jan 1 2007. He then went on loan first with Salamanca and then in Spain’s first division with Osasuna. By completing his time in Spain, Vela has been able to apply for citizenship, and thus have…
The name of Sepp Blatter, top man in FIFA, is most generally linked with his fetish about suspenders and women’s shorts, corruption, bribery, and the comments by a judge in the American courts that FIFA lies and lies and lies in its dealings with the outside world. You can get some of the background on…
Birmingham City FC, the club whose player took Eduardo out of football for at least nine months has been raided by the police. After the attack on Eduardo there was a strong attempt to have a FIFA investigation into the tackle and the club, with the hope of long-term action being taken. In the end…
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