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2 English teams in Euro Final: disaster for Europe; but Henry might return

There is a hilarious piece on the Daily Mail’s web site saying that the Euro Final should be held in England.   What the writer forgot to do was to read up any of the recent stuff about where Euro Finals are held.
None can be held in the UK, because UEFA and FIFA demand that everyone […]

“I’ve never heard of Arsenal” – Blatter

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 […]

Four Arsenal players in Premiership Team of the Year

Here is the official Premiership Team of the Year as voted by the players in the Premiership… David James (Portsmouth) Bacary Sagna (Arsenal) Rio Ferdinand (Man Utd) Nemanja Vidic (Man Utd) Gael Clichy (Arsenal) Steven Gerrard (Liverpool) Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) Cristiano Ronaldo (Man Utd) Ashley Young (Aston Villa) Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal) Fernando Torres (Liverpool)

So there it is – four Arsenal players […]

Derby County 12 Arsenal Reserves 20

That was shots – which shows why people think Arsenal are entertaining – you get lots and lots of action.
OK Derby are fairly feeble, and they have a belief rating at somewhere around minus 20 on the Belief Rating scale, but still, not everyone puts six goals past them while playing a reserve team with […]

What’s wrong with football 1: The fans

Trying to take a view on fans over a lifetime of watching Arsenal is difficult – but for me, personally, football is going wrong when the fans become more important than the club and the team.
Of course I like it when the Emirates is noisy, and I like the funny songs, and the jokes with […]

Why the newspapers never understand Arsenal’s sales.

Wenger sells players.  He sells players we want him to sell, such as Stepanovs, Wray, and Boa Morte.  And then he sells players we are shocked to see go.  Vieira, Henry, Petit… It is always a shock, but six months later, it is always clear why he did it.

Of course the newspapers always react with shock […]

Schizophrenic FA shows contempt for Eduardo

Eduardo, as you may recall, was violently assaulted while playing for Arsenal against Birmingham City.   As a result the player who committed the assault was given a three match ban. Now Hleb, the Arsenal player, has been given exactly the same punishment for a dainty tap on the face of a Reading player.

So there we have […]

Arsenal’s reasons to be cheerful 8: Wenger & the £££££

To understand what is going on at Arsenal you have to understand a decision that Wenger made upon arrival.   He was offered a pot of money at the start, and he spent some of it on players like Vieira, Grimandi etc.   That got a lot of attention in the press.
What got less attention was the […]

Arsenal 12 Reading 2

That was a bit more like it – 12 shots on target to the opposition’s 2, and another 8 shots off target (again to the opposition’s 2.)  That is the same sort of stats that we used to see through the good part of the season – until the violent attack on Eduardo and a […]

Arsenal curse begins to hurt Birmingham City FC

The Arsenal Curse is rarely used – for its power can be significant and there is always a danger that the innocent might get hurt.   But the attack on Eduardo and the subsequent actions by the Birmingham City management in fighting off any enquiry was so awful that we couldn’t let it all just […]