The great Arsenal mysteries 1. Why Arsenal moved to Highbury When Arsenal were considering moving away from Highbury at the end of the 20th century, David Dein, the vice chairman of the time, called Highbury the club’s spiritual home. Indeed the club has been there so long it feels like the obvious place to be. …
Yesterday Cesc said he was negotiating a new contract, just one year into his current 8 year contract. Today M Wenger says that is not true. Now no one in their right mind sets aside the words of M Wenger lightly, but on the this occasion there is reason to look a little behind the…
In case you have missed it, the forces of darkness have been out in, well, force. Our club has been threatened with legal action for failing to cut out anti-semitic chanting. The most prestigious Gooner web site has been closed following threats of legal action. And there have even been threats against one of our…
Last week one of the most established and venerated web sites related to Arsenal closed down for a while. The reason, as far as I can understand, was that the site had criticised an Arsenal supporter. This supporter had then got upset, and had contacted both the people who run the site and the firm…
Arsenal are now certain to have two new major players for next season. They will of course be ignored by the media, who will bang on about Arsenal not signing players, but their names will be known to Arsenal fans. The first is Mexican Vela who signed in 2007, but who played this season on loan in Spain. He first…
Many of us have seen it coming – the endless idea, propogated on BBC 5 Live and on Sky Sports, that if you want to stop Arsenal you kick Arsenal. It is said over and over, and players and managers come to believe it. We saw it when Sunderland attacked Diaby and now we see…
It is possible that you might have seen some financial statements recently purporting to show that the American club “Manchester United” has got huge profits this past financial year – £93 million in fact. These self same figures also seemed to show that the ManYans have shot up in terms of turnover – where they now claim an annual £245 million, having previously…
A research report by independent analysts Initiative Sports Futures shows that the total world-wide in-home audience from the Arsenal / Man U match was 8m people not the 1 billion that was widely reported by Sky at the time. The match was available in 203 countries and territories, and if everyone who could have watched did watch it would…
The brief on this blog is to cover stories that others don’t touch. When this story popped up I couldn’t believe it wasn’t running anywhere else – maybe no one noticed, or maybe it is not as important as I think it is. But anyway, this weekend we are likely to see the Arsenal first…
St Totteringham Day is celebrated by Arsenal fans worldwide as the day each season when Arsenal reach a number of points that cannot be overtaken by Tottenham Hotspur. In 2003/4 this day was reached with an amazing 10 games to go. But this weekend that record was smashed as Tottenham still have 11 games to…
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