Untold Arsenal » 2008 » November

Arsenal one goal down at half time twice

Funny old game.  At half time it was Bristol 1 Arsenal 0.  Or if you were watching the other one it was the Russians 1 Arsenal 0. Given that Arsenal had won every single game this season, and last season the score at Bristol, where I was, was a bit of a shock.

You know those games […]

Time for something different

The point of life is to keep changing. (OK no one else has to follow my dictum of course, but that’s what has kept me going all these years, and it seems to serve me well).

So today I am venturing (in an hour or so) to do something very different. Instead of sitting watching the […]

All football ticket prices down as VAT reduced…

Well, that’s the theory. VAT comes down on Monday from 17.5% to 15% and there is, of course, VAT on ticket prices. So will we see a decline in prices?

If Arsenal applied the discount then £50 tickets would be priced £48.94. Since they won’t do this then the club is in effect raising prices […]

Eduardo plays, Gazidis is signed, the injured returned, Flamini is a twirp

This week Jonathan Neale forwarded me a great article on the new man Ivan Gazidis and from reading that it seems that everything about him is good. It is doubtful that after all this time Arsenal would have done anything other than get the very man they want, and that could mean some significant […]

Arsenal and the world tomorrow

Consider this: Manchester Bankrupt draw two games 0-0, and even Sir Alex F-Word wakes up to the reality of rotational fouling – commenting on the way it is done on C Ronaldo

Milan’s star player says he wouldn’t mind moving to the EPL to play for Man City, while the same C Ronaldo as above is still […]

The French agree, the British journalists are after Arsenal

It has been a regular theme here that British football journalists make up stories morning, noon and night. I say that because in an earlier life I worked as a journalist.
During this time I worked for a year in Algiers where the main source of news for me was the French papers. From […]

Arsenal plagarists rampant

It has come to my attention that some people have copied some of my ramblings on this site and posted them elsewhere under their own name as their own work.
I can’t imagine why anyone would bother to pass off my work as their own on the internet – it just seems daft – […]

Chelsea v Arsenal, a tiny problem

It was deeply shocking to find that some 800 seats were unsold for the game last night. Arsenal meandered into the knock out stages for something like the sixth year running, using mostly a reserve team (Ade, Sagna, Kolo, Eduardo, Rosicky, Nasri, Theo, Eboue… none of them could play). It does seem that […]

Negativity is everywhere, but it shouldn’t be at Arsenal

Liverpool, it pains me to say, are jumping around in first or second place in the EPL/
Yes I know this is an Arsenal blog, and if you have ever read it before you will know that nothing will ever shake my belief in Arsenal, but I mention this thing about Liverpool Insolvents because of something […]

It is not so easy to do an Arsenal

I’ve always believed the Mr Abramovich is a complex man – loads of cash, of course, no worries how his businesses do business, obviously, but something else too. My view (and of course I have no inside information from his psychiatrist) is that he not only has to win at his game, he […]