Ostersund v Arsenal. Welcome to the most wonderful fairy story in football.

By Tony Attwood Arsenal will play Ostersund in the next Europa Cup round on February in Sweden and at the Ems on February 22.  It is, I suspect, a dream draw for the club, although let me say at once I don’t have a Swedish correspondent to check this with.   If I have made mistakes in …

As the Premier League embraces the Euro model, competition is more or less deceased

by Tony Attwood Bayern Munich have won the German league five times in a row. In fact they have won it 27 times, which is a record.  And they are currently eight points above their nearest rival at the top of the league, so that might well be six times in a row, come next …

Arsenal transfer market revived with amazing transfer reports.

By Sir Hardly Anyone I am sure it has nothing to do with it, but the little series we’ve been running on the real transfer news (see the links at  the end of this piece) – looking at the players Arsenal are actually likely to sell and therefore which replacements are needed – has coincided …