Untold Arsenal: Supporting the club, the manager and the team
"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Tony Attwood We don’t normally do match previews until the day of the game, and I don’t want to steal Mr Drummond’s thunder, but with the Man City match being the first since the summer transfers ended it seems that the normal timetable is out of the window. The key point is whether Danny …
Tottenham Hotspur, have announced that, as previously speculated here and on many other sites, and in the press, they are to move out of their ground at 748 High Road Tottenham, but not for a while – following another delay in the re-construction of their stadium. Tottenham has had similar delays to those experienced by …
Read More “Tottenham admit that 2017 opening of new stadium “unlikely””
By Tony Attwood As the season began I raised the suggestion that we might do a review of places to eat before the games. I’ve got a number of suggestions and some reviews, but I am keen to get more. Ideally I’d like a review, but if not, please suggest a place with the name …
Read More “Arsenal v Man C: catering preview: The Swimmer at the Grafton Arms”
By Tony Attwood First off, Aaron Ramsey. He was in Andorra doing an impersonation of Bale’s drag back and turn, with which the captain of Wales had wasted time in the first half, when he got kicked, slipped on the artificial turf and fell. He was replaced at once, and we now wait to see …
Read More “Ramsey injured? Man City pay Arsenal, and the corruption of the loan system”
By Tony Attwood In June this year I wrote a little piece Could Leicester and QPR be relegated to League one? which was my second foray into the morass that is FFP in the Championship. The point being that clubs which buy their way out of the Championship could be severely punished if they ever return …
Read More “And while we are on the question of FFP – think of QPR”
By Tony Attwood Last season Drew and I trotted down to our nearest league ground (Sixfields, home of Northampton Town) to take a peek at Coventry City, who at that time were playing their home games in Northampton, for reasons that won’t become clear at this point. Among the Coventry team was one Chuba Akpom. …
Jonny Cooper is the Deputy Editor of Telegraph Men. He also describes himself as an Arsenal supporter. And he recently wrote a piece in which he comments on Arsenal’s past and how it relates to this season. In doing this he cites the movie Groundhog Day in which exactly the same thing happens day after day. The writer …
Read More “How a newspaper re-writes the past, to prepare for Arsenal’s collapse”
