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Hounding the Arsenal: the one thing no journalist will ever admit

On the blogs we should be fighting the media and their attempt to brainwash us all with their version of reality – but most blogs do the reverse.

There is something utterly sinister within our media.  The issue raises the question of the news, and how it is created, and through it, what is happening to […]

ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES: Arsenal/Celtic score + WHU/Millwall

Ah the joys of football.  A year ago, after seeing off the club curiously known as Steve Umbrella and having won 2 and lost 1 in the EPL we were written off.  A top four finish was not possible.  The end was nigh. Mid-table beckoned.  Aston “Hold Your Head” would overtake us.
And you know what?  […]

Just a few of the incredibly stupid things people say about Arsenal and football

I was thinking of running a regular feature which featured people who said things like, “Arsenal are more likely to end up mid-table than challenge for the title this year”, and who then say, “Some have written Wenger’s team off, but their opening performances suggest…”
Trouble is, there are so many such articles that it would […]

Arsenal beating Celtic was not a case of wealth beating poverty

According to Sam Wallace writing in the Independent, “Celtic were the victims of a wealthier club, one that can afford better, slicker players as well as a manager any team in Europe would covet.”

Although the second part was true, the first part isn’t – and several regular contributors to this site (Matt and Jonny Neale need […]

Celtic/Arsenal: the score and match report before it happens

All tomorrow’s parties: the service that tells you the result before the game has kicked off. You will be excused if you don’t know that Celtic are playing Arsenal tonight, as the BBC has ordered a virtual blackout of news on the game.

This follows the appalling embarrassment the Corporation faced after their “expert” Mark Lawrenson predicted […]

How journalists cover their past criticism of Arsenal

Ever since the Unbeaten Season journalists have been knocking Arsenal. (In fact in the case of the Observer they were knocking Arsenal the day after we beat Leicester to complete the Unbeaten).
They have been saying how awful the club is, how it is going down the table, and will ultimately collapse and Wenger will […]

How the Sun conned the BBC with its Arsenal-are-too-short “analysis” and why we are going to win the league

So – does size really matter. According to the Sun. And sadly the BBC in a recent article repeated the same stuff, without crediting the Sun, and I fear without checking any of the facts. .

Because Sun + facts = a contradiction & as I show below, there is a very good reason why […]

How Arsenal share an approach with the Royal Shakespeare Company

These days watching a Royal Shakespeare production is a bit like watching Arsenal at Barnet. The players are there, the skills are there, but the auditorium isn’t.
If you are not devoted to Shakespeare, or you don’t live in England, you’ll not know that about three years ago the Royal Shakespeare Theatre […]

Welcome to Season 91. Plus Amazing growth of the soaraway Sun

Welcome to Season 91. In September 1919 Arsenal started to play in the First Division, having been awarded a place in the reshuffle that followed the end of the First World War.
The top division was expanded by two clubs at that time, but the issue of promotion was made very murky because […]

The 10 big assumptions you have to make if you want to assume Arsenal will fail this year

Going off on holiday for a couple of weeks always makes me feel that when I return there ought to be something BIG – some incredible news that has changed the world while I have been away.
Of course it is rarely like that and I returned late last night to see that Newcastle are in […]