Thursday night’s team: no one told the Armenians not to believe what they read in the papers

By Bulldog Drummond In a sense I rather relish the notion of all attention being turned away from Arsenal, with the focus being on the goings on at Wigan, Sergio Agüero considering pressing charges (although I am not quite sure against whom that might be) and West Ham being charged over breaches of anti-doping rules.  It’s …

Now fake transfer news takes a new thoroughly nasty twist

By Sir Hardly Anyone Up until now, the nonsense transfer news churned out by the national press and their camp followers has been a bit of a laugh.  A case of us recording all the gibberish, putting it in a chart and then showing the results.  Results such as that we found last season when …

Arsenal stars risk being solid, and other oddities of football lingo

By Tony Attwood For some people an examination of the way language is used in reporting football is a matter of supreme tedium.  I know this cos I get lots of emails telling me so. But I stay with the topic because I do completely believe that anyone who wants to manipulate thought and opinion …