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
The secret diary of “Sir” Alex Burgundy, manager supreme of Manchester Cowboys, the Yankee owned “soccer” outfit from the wild north-west frontier. Monday: I’m sure Arsenal get an unfair advantage because of those foreigners they sign, and I demand the FA restrict the number of foreigners allowed. Meanwhile we have to compete so ask Groggsy (who …
That’s shots on target. The other stats were quite good too and the match was easily won. Wenger said lots of lovely things about Ade, Ade did a relaxed head nodding act after the last goal, everyone sang the new song at the proper speed (that is a three second pause after each line, not a …
On 3 Feb Henry now at Barca and Carlos Vela (on loan at Osasuna) both played – and quite logically it was in the Barca Osasuna game Carlos Vela has already been scoring regularly for Osasuna – a club tipped for relegation, but by no means certain to go down. He’s 18, cool, and looks more than ready to …
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Last week one of the most established and venerated web sites related to Arsenal closed down for a while. The reason, as far as I can understand, was that the site had criticised an Arsenal supporter. This supporter had then got upset, and had contacted both the people who run the site and the firm …
Recently M. Wenger expressed his complete vision of the individual, the team, the club, football – all in one sentence. And in so doing he symbolised why it was so hard for English players to do well at Arsenal. Speaking about Luke Freeman who has just joined the club M. Wenger said… “He is 15 years …
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Woke up this morning, turned on Radio 5, and the announcer says, “The Big 4 are playing today”. What Big 4 I hear you ask – well no I don’t but you know. There is no Big 4. There never has been a Big 4 during the history of the EPL. What we had for …
The 8 year contract that Cesc Fabregas signed with Arsenal is completely unenforceable because of a new EU wide legal ruling made on 30 January 2008. The new ruling puts the name Andy Webster alongside that of Jean-Marc Bosman. From now on you can say the names together for they both have a significant impact. …
