Why are flares at a Euro game big news by flares used by fans of English clubs a minor matter?

by Tony Attwood You probably saw the stories: “Croatia fans threw flares onto the pitch hitting a steward amid the latest sickening scenes at Euro 2016 in France”.  The match was stopped, fans called “sports terrorists”.  And all reported in bold, and often in capital letters. Could it have anything to do with the fact …

Who is fit, who is injured, who will win, who will lose? A round up of the Arsenal players currently risking injury

By Walter Broeckx With the European chair throwing  championship entering the last line for the elimination rounds time to make a roundup of what has happened on the field so far. For me I couldn’t really give a sh*t about who will win this championship. But as I look at it from my Arsenal point of …

Balotelli to Arsenal and the 62 players listed this summer as joining him

By Tony Attwood I reported last week in the Index update how surprised I had been throughout this first ever effort to chart the transfer rumours week by week, how quickly the rumours dry up.    The first Arsenal Transfer Index was run on 20 April, ten weeks before the transfer window opened (and of …