The first time we saw Kieran Gibbs was when he scored in both legs of the FA Youth Cup Semi Final against Manchester United last season. Since then he has been in an Emirates Cup game, the league cup team against Sheffield Utd., on loan at Norwich, and on his return to Arsenal from the…
If you read the press on the subject of the “biggest clubs” in football a couple of weeks back you’d have seen Man U at the top of the list. And you might well have thought that those guys at Untold Arsenal were a bunch of twirps, with all their talk 3 months earlier about…
The long-running campaign which has appeared in most newspapers and on most TV and radio shows, which says, “If you want to stop Arsenal you have to kick Arsenal”, claimed Gael Clichy as its latest victim. In a wild attack, Middlesboro player “Mido” – one time of Tottenham – kicked Clichy in the head. The…
Last summer the journalists did their regular thing – who is going up, going nowhere, going down. Everyone except Charlie Nicholas agreed – Tottenham were going into the top 4, and Arsenal were sliding into mid-table, going bust, having supporter walk-outs and all that stuff. Henry was gone, the club was on the slide. Since…
The funniest story of the hour, day, week, month, year… Posted By Tony Attwood On 15/06/2008 @ 09:26 am In Uncategorized | No Comments Here it is. Oswaldo Ceaser Ardilles is going to be director of football at Southampton. Or is it Sheffield Wednesday. Sorry I have forgotten – I was laughing so much. Here…
Six months ago the Red Action news group was not the happiest place in the world. Thierry Henry had gone – and not just gone he had gone for a knock down price in the first week of the transfer window. We had just had two years of coming fourth and not a comfortable fourth…
Arsenal were poor against Birmingham City FC on 12 January, we can’t get away from that, but what made matters much worse was the appearance once again of the blight that is sweeping the game – time wasting when the ball is out of play. Birmingham were not as bad as other teams – over…
There must be half a dozen clubs in the EPL whose directors and staff seriously believe they could join the elite and get into the Champions League, year after year. Everton, Tottenham, Manchester City come to mind (although obviously not this season in Tottenham’s case). Maybe Portsmouth and Blackburn share the ambitions too. But as…
Once upon a time there were feeder clubs – Arsenal were one of the first clubs to have such a relationship – with Margate FC in the 1930s. Since then the powers that be have, inevitably, become involved and made all sorts of rules about the relationship between clubs. Arsenal worked their way through…
Appointment of the Thug at Chelsea is good news Posted By Tony Attwood On 13/06/2008 @ 07:26 am In Uncategorized | 1 Comment The arrival of The Thug as Chelsea manager (named after his love of hitting journalists, referees and anyone else he happens to “bump” into) is great news for Arsenal. The Thug is…
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