‘Football is a simple game’ – The biased Media

Today’s Sponsor: The Supporters’ Direct Conference: click here for details ———————– ‘Football is a simple game’ – The biased Media By Guo Sheng Lee How many times have we heard the saying: ‘football is a simple game’? Maybe it’s just me, but I seem to have seen/heard it too many times when reading/watching the English …

Barcelona’s Unintended Prophet heralds the collapse of the Spanish Empire

Did Sandro Rosell unintentionally signal the hidden fear in Spanish football? Mike Urbanski Cesc is leaving.  Or Cesc isn’t leaving.  Barcelona say they can only pay £30m for Captain Fabulous.  Arsenal are said to be demanding £80m.  Cesc and Arsene have sat down and discussed his potential transfer to Barcelona.  Or they haven’t sat down …

Is it the defence that is the problem? The stats suggest not.

By Walter Broeckx A reader asked it we could look at the goals conceded and compare this with the invincible year. A fair question and so I went on to do some research on this. And if you just look at the bare facts they say: 2003-2004 : conceded 26 goals and won the title. 2009-2010 …

Catastrophists and doom mongers fail to come up with a coherent plan

A week or so back Untold published an article which revealed how a tiny group of people had created the doom and gloom movement at Arsenal by undertaking multiple postings from different email addresses. In that article and others I’ve tried to point out what I think are the complex interrelated issues that need exploration …

Why our summers are always so miserable… and why we won’t be bullied any more

Why our summers are always so miserable… and why this is the last summer of pain. Ian Trevett I can remember when summers were fun. After a long season it was nice to get weekends back for a month or two. Go on holiday, maybe watch a World Cup or Euro Championship (with hardly any …

Another media attack against Arsenal

by Walter Broeckx There is something strange going on in the media in the UK.  With the hype surrounding Cesc Fabregas they acted in a way that I never have seen before. From the Spanish point of view it us a bit reasonable what they are trying to do. They just want to bring their …

Uefa to pass financial doping rules on 27 May; most of EPL won’t qualify for Europe

TODAY’S SPONSOR: Picklive the new football game that you play on your laptop while watching football on the telly launched its new look this week ahead of the Championship Play Off final and Champions League final at the weekend. There will be free and pay-to-play versions of the game available for every match during the …

Comparing the incomparable: Arsenal, Read Mad, Man Arab

Is spending more and more money the answer? by Walter Broeckx Some Arsenal fans had a lot of problems with the approach of the board and the manager in the last years. Some accept that Arsenal had not a lot of cash because of the financial and housing market crisis and had to be careful. …

Better the Devil you know, than the owner you don’t.

By Terence McGovern BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW When I first thought of writing this article. it occurred to me that dozens of others would be doing the same and I decided to leave them to it. Days and weeks passed and not one scrap appeared on the subject matter. At that point I felt …

Business as usual at Fifa’s headquarters as Tottenham bid for the world cup

by our special reporters  in Switzerland and all over the world: R. Ubbish and E.M.P. Tyhead May 18. The new FA chairman has accused the Belgium FA of helping Holland to bribe refs on the coming World cup to make sure Holland win it. Holland and Belgium are bidding together for the world cup 2018. …

Chelsea FC are not debt free at all – it was all a huge con (or a mistake)

————— Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal” – just so you can realise what it was like in the really bad times. ————— By Tony Attwood The BBC and a lot of other commentators and news sources said,  “Chelsea Football Club has said it is now “virtually debt-free”.” You’ll remember it well.   30 December last year …

The case for video evidence – in some cases

Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal” – just so you can realise what it was like in the really bad times. ———————- by Walter Broeckx Introducing video evidence without delaying the game. As you know I don’t spare my criticism when I see bad referee decisions. I always try to do this by explaining it with the …

How would The Invincibles have coped last season?

How would The Invincibles have coped? A Retro-Retrospective. By Dale Higginbottom After the recent poor results around the end of the season and reading the hatred of many so-called Arsenal fans I wanted to bring a little bit of perspective on things and think about how would The Invincibles have coped if faced with similar …

Super Nick and Drogba: a comparison

Today’s sponsor: Arsenal Worldwide. The association for every Arsenal fan across the world by Walter Broeckx Some of us can still remember the CL game at home against Liverpool. When Cesc shot at goal the ball was kept out… by an Arsenal player, Nicklas Bendtner. Yes it was a painful moment for us and certainly …

How four guys with personality disorders created the doom and gloom movement

The Rise of the Catastrophist – finally explained If you came today to most Arsenal blogs for the first time, you would be excused from believing that doom and gloom is everywhere.  In the last couple of days there has been talk of “mass protests” at the Emirates Cup games, defection of half the squad, …

Forget Cesc, Messi is coming

Today’s sponsor: Arsenal Worldwide. The association for every Arsenal fan across the world ——————————– by Walter Broeckx So here we go again. Cesc has hardly put one foot on Spanish soil and the Spanish media are all over him again with all kind of stories about his move to Barcelona. Now to understand how things …

Tottenham Hotspur’s Triesman goes but other Tinies remain as FA crawls along the gutter

The FA is fairly strong on the Tottenham supporting front.  Or at least it was until naughty Lord Triesman was taped by a bimbo spilling the beans about the way the pesky Russians and the Spanish are bribing world cup refs. Tottenham-crazed Triesman is now yesterday’s news (a bit like the club he supports) – …

Arsenal Worldwide, an update

by Walter Broeckx When I came in touch with Armin Medic, of the Bosnian supporters club,  a few months ago he came up with the idea to do something for the Arsenal fans outside the UK. We had some very interesting email sessions and so the idea of making a magazine written by Arsenal fans from …

Rewarding the loyal refs for their dreadful decisions

By Walter Broeckx Congratulations and celebrations, When I tell everyone that you’re going to the world cup Congratulations and jubilations, I want the world to know I’m not surprised at all. ————- Forgive me to have changed the lyrics of this old Cliff Richard song a bit. The refs that are going to the world …

Next season’s squad – the analysis, the detail, the review, the transfers

By Phil Gregory Before the opening of the transfer window and the start of silly season, I think it wise have a look at the squad and see what we need to add for the upcoming season. I’m counting out players with injuries that mean they start the season injured: given the “Eduardo experience” I’d …

Where’s Tony Adams?

Tony Adams, Mr Arsenal, won the league four times, the FA cup three times, the league cup twice, the Cup Winners’ Cup, and is only player in English football history to captain a title-winning side in three different decades. Tony Adams is in Gabala, three hours drive from the capital of Azerbaijan.  Most British fans …

The fan who never saw Arsenal lifting a cup

———————————– Today’s sponsor: The book that… well…. that… is different from every other Arsenal book you have ever seen in your life, and if you buy it and don’t agree I’ll give you your money back (terms and conditions apply). ———————————– The fan who never saw Arsenal lifting a cup By Isaiah “Isaic” Saw Being …

The final review of the season

by Walter Broeckx The final games have been played. The league table is final. As you know I have done a few reviews of our season and compared it with the games we had last season.  So now we can try to draw a few final conclusions. Until the game against Birmingham we were doing …

Arsenal’s squad for next season: no restriction on the number of new players

It’s clear we are about to buy Chamakh.  And the Lord Wenger has announced that he will be buying some defenders.  In the plural.  At least two.  Maybe more. In fact, if you manage to plough through all my ramblings, you will see I am predicting a giant squad (and not as I wrote in …