What to do if you have five minutes to spare: go to yesterdays article – (Arsenal Sign a New Defensive Enforcer). If you have a particularly large amount of free time you can skim through that – the bit about the enforcer is at the end – but then, much more importantly I’d invite you […]
Just what do the footballing public in southern Europe think about the issue of Cesc, his contract, and the fact that Barca are nowhere near as financially sound as the world makes out. We sent out intrepid report Walter Broeckx to Spain, to keep us up to date on how football appears in such foreign…
Reading v’s Arsenal. Commentary by Dumb and Dumber (Ian Darke and Steve McManaman) Cameron Wolfe selects the commentators’ best quotes from the game as available in North America. Arsene Wenger is feeling the heat after Arsenal’s embarrassing cup exit against 4th tier Bradford last week. Reading are in trouble but Arsenal are the real talking…
A single defeat in the season is, of course neither here nor there. Last season I was at Arsenal 2 IOU 1, and it was one of the very best matches I have ever seen in a lifetime of watching football. Today wasn’t remotely a match in that sort of class; we lost by the…
By Walter Broeckx How many times in the past 6 years (an obviously random generated number) have we played a great game in a top game only to end up with empty hands at the final whistle? More than enough. And the critical part of the fans went out and said that playing pretty doesn’t…
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal Football Club have today released the following statement about Cesc Fabregas:: “Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is under contract with the Club until the summer of 2015. He is a highly-valued member of the team and part of our future plans. “We have followed recent speculation linking Cesc with a move away…
The salary cap is the centrepiece of the current round of UEFA proposals. It is based on the notion that each club will have to declare its “football income” – that is money raised directly from footballing activities. The clubs will then be limited as to how much of that income they can spend each…