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
So today is the day – Eduardo is back. The Croatian media have block booked the press box, and there could be a larger than normal crowd… at Barnet. Yup, its reserve football time – and it is live on Arsenal TV. The Lord Wenger says Eduardo has been brilliant in recovery and could come …
Paranoia is the stuff of jokes, but for those who suffer from it, it is a totally debilitating condition. This past weekend the Ince character said in every newspaper that would give him space that “people are out to get Keane and me.” I would have thought most people couldn’t give a toss about either …
Read More “From mental strength to paranoia: another day in football”
The flavour of the week seems to be the consideration of fans’ behaviour. Following a second consecutive home game that ended 0-0 supporters of Liverpool Insolvents booed the team off the pitch. In the last couple of days there have been articles in the press about racist chanting at the Newcastle/Middlesboro game, a piece about …
Read More “Is the campaign against Tottenham’s chanting having an effect”
The Lord Wenger has made it clear that come what may the Infants School XI will always play in the Diddly Widdly Carling Cup – rather amusingly when most of them are not allowed to get involved with the sponsor’s product. Now that the club has been drawn against Plymouth in the 3rd round of …
Read More “Plymouth match means another game for the children”
This week Jonathan Neale forwarded me a great article on the new man Ivan Gazidis and from reading that it seems that everything about him is good. It is doubtful that after all this time Arsenal would have done anything other than get the very man they want, and that could mean some significant success …
Read More “Eduardo plays, Gazidis is signed, the injured returned, Flamini is a twirp”
This blog is about supporting Arsenal, deifying the Lord Wenger, and saying what a load of silly people all the other football teams are. (Apart from Torquay United, who I also support for reasons that will not become clear at this time). But of course a quick glance at the EPL table will suggest that …
Read More “These developments at Arsenal must be for the good”
The problem is, that means the next game for England. On a different matter, one of the interesting things about yesterday’s little piece about the Lord Wenger leaving the club was the way the commentaries on the piece could be analysed. Including not just the comments that went up on the site, but also those …
From the start of football there have been tough players – defenders for example who would say to a passing forward “go past me once more sunshine and I’ll break your jaw”. And he would and the ref would give a freekick. Maybe. The first manager I ever heard talk openly about playing Anti-football as …
If you have never read it, and you like a spot of laughter, it is always worth taking a peek at page 338 on BBC Teletext. It is a summary, updated daily, of the madcap ramblings of a drunken bunch of nae’r do wells with nothing else to say (ie Fleet Street’s Finest). Each …
Read More “Nasri to Barca, Cesc to Real M, Henry to Arsenal”
In deepest darkest Hertfordshire (Shenley to be exact) there is a biological laboratory. Surrounded by armed guards and men in track suits, it houses one of the most extraordinary genetic experiments ever seen on British soil. For it is here, no less, that the Genetic Research Experimental Facility is based. Funded by Arsenal FC the …
