UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects

UEFA Youth League – Arsenal Players and prospects by Andrew Crawshaw The UEFA Youth League is a tournament for players who were born on or after 1 January 1996 – i.e they must be younger than 19 on 1 January 2015.  The tournament is played between the same 32 clubs that make up the group …

The new forward line: Me, him, Alexis, (and Theo)

By Tony Attwood Do you remember that thing the AAA and their media allies used to do?   30 years since Arsenal won a trophy, or whatever it was.  And before that, “Arsenal get more red cards than all the rest of the league put together.” Well, they’ve stopped doing it – first because the …

Rangers still on the brink, and we can be sure there are more to come

By Tony Attwood Every now and then I write about the Glasgow club Rangers – primarily because they represent to me the classic case of the failure of the media to ask why, and the failure to step out of line of the cosy bond they have in which each follows the other and none …

Asking for the Daniel Levy approach to management is a sign of insanity

By Tony Attwood Steve McManaman is hardly a person who would make my Xmas card list but I have to say that his dealing of the banner that half a dozen AAA had brought with them and snuck into the WBA game, was very good.   He pointed out the sheer utter lunacy of what …

15 consecutive years and we are getting worse

By Tony Attwood Chris Bascombe writing in the Telegraph has said that, “We live in an age where the default position is to be offended by the continued employment of those we don’t consider to be as complete human beings as ourselves. There are now offices full of recent graduates dedicated to a daily web …