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 Tiny Fantasists who inhabit a “football club” in Tottenham High Street, have been told by Office of Fair Trading that they should not ever tell their fans that tickets are non-refundable under any circumstances. It is a basic, and obvious point, and you don’t need to be a lawyer to know how wrong they …
Read More “Tottenham guilty; Manchester in court. Arsenal in the clear”
From 1 January 2009 Fifa – the organisation described by a judge in a legal case over sponsorship as having “lied and lied and lied again” in its evidence – is to try and stop the transfer of teenage players across national boundaries. In future a committee, selected by the discredited organisation, will examine the …
I was sent an email by Jonathan Neale, a great friend to this site, with a copy of a letter which appeared on Football 365’s letter page. Basically it was in many ways reiterating the point about rotational fouling. It is very positive, I believe, that nearly four years after it was first mentioned, the …
Two events yesterday brought home to me the distances we have travelled this year. First, Arsenal put out not their first time, not the squad members who back up the first team, but their third team – a team made up mostly of players who we only see at Barnet in the reserves. And this …
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”
It seems utterly bizarre and crazy, but it looks as if of the top four in the EPL only one of the clubs could, if it so wished, rush out and spend £30 million on Johnny Foreigner (to use Mr Sugar’s memorable phrase about Dennis Bergkamp.) The Russians have announced that there will be no …
Read More “Only one big team can afford to buy without selling”
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”
