Arsenal U18s February Update – 13 Matches Unbeaten

by Andrew Crawshaw On Saturday our Under 18s extended their unbeaten record to 13 matches with a 6 – 2 win away to Reading despite six members of the usual squad being away on England U17 duty.  Here is the story of this run. Ref Game Result Competition Goalscorers 1 Reading v Arsenal 2 – …

Another ‘old codger’s’ sense of perspective  

by AKH September 1957, the month of my 8th birthday and a  birthday treat.  My very first Arsenal football match at Highbury.  Arsenal v Everton. I have little memory of the game itself, (I think arsenal lost ) but this was the beginning of my support for the team and club. Like Tony Atwood, I am …

Football history is (more or less) bunk as long as you ignore the bits you don’t like

By Tony Attwood My thesis, if you have had the staying power to follow my rambles through its tortuous evolution, is that most of the football related “information” we are given day by day through the mass media, the blogs and the bloggettas (those tiny blogs that have two lines of unverified information sandwiched between …