As everyone knows Thierry Henry was given his chance at Monaco by Arsene Wenger when he was 17. In 98 he went to Juve, was a flop playing just 12 games and getting 3 goals. During the period when Wenger was in Japan and Henry was in Italy, the two spoke regularly on the phone…
One week ago this august blog ran the “Sir” Alex Ferguson diary predicting what Mr Red Nose would say about the Manchester City game on 10th February. And we got it utterly right. On 5 February in this widely read and supremely revered commentary on all that matters in the known universe and elsewhere (see http://tinyurl.com/yv2sdw for…
The 8 year contract that Cesc Fabregas signed with Arsenal is completely unenforceable because of a new EU wide legal ruling made on 30 January 2008. The new ruling puts the name Andy Webster alongside that of Jean-Marc Bosman. From now on you can say the names together for they both have a significant impact….
Manchester United went to Saudi Arabia in January 2008. The Sun said, : ‘Manchester United stars were game for a laugh at a right royal home in Riyadh yesterday. Wayne Rooney looked so pleased to escape the cut and thrust of the Premier League that he joined in a traditional dance clutching a knife. The…
Every club’s supporters believes they get a bad deal from the national media. In Arsenal’s case however there is a reason to believe it is true. I don’t intend to catalogue that anti-Arsenal bias of recent years – it is all too obvious – rather I want to look at the reasons behind this phenomenon. …
Print This Post 12/06/2008 by Tony Attwood. 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…
What do Peter Crouch and Luke Freeman have in common? As you know Luke Freeman is 15, has signed for Arsenal, is the youngest player to have played in the “Proper” section of the FA Cup, has played three time for Gillingham and will sign a professional contract when he is (or “turns” as the journalists love to say) 17….
I have a lot of feeling for White Hart Lane – having watched my first ever football match in the Lane. It was Wood Green Town against Dulwich Hamlet at the only football ground that there has ever been in that long and winding road. (Forget the silly stories the popular press – only Wood…
OK – I know I am supposed to write about things re Arsenal FC that no one else writes about. But in covering this story at least I do give a bit of background on the wife. The story of the way Cole paraded himself to Chelsea while still an Arsenal player, breaking every rule about…
Arsene Wenger famously once said that international managers were like third rate car thieves. The thief steals the car, runs it until it is wrecked, abandons it, and leaves it to you to pick up the pieces and rebuild it. Although he was speaking long before the 2007 injury to Robin Van Persie, Robin’s case turned…
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