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
I have no idea if anyone who went to Rome ever reads my rambling comments, but if they do, I would like to say a very deep thank-you for last night. I couldn’t go because of work commitments, but to see them there, to hear the noise, and to watch the Arsenal players quite rightly …
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Of course the Lord Wenger might have asked for more respect at some time, but I can’t recall it happening. The nearest I can recall him getting to this was after the 0-0 with Fulham when in the usual media scrum he was asked if he was happy with the tactics he had used in …
Read More “Have you ever heard Wenger ask for more respect?”
Now if you have been paying attention you will recall that a little while back I mentioned “en passant” (as they say in Slovenia*) that David Beckham was going to buy a football club. Thus once again you read it here first. Now it is true that I didn’t quite get the club right – …
It was a stroll in the park illuminated by two utterly stunning goals. We won 7-1 if you count shots on target, and it revealed another element of the Lord Wenger’s masterplan for football domination. So it seems a bit churlish to complain, but I am going to anyway. If ever there was a case …
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In fact I can’t even think of when the last piece of balanced, honest writing about Arsenal turned up. But then suddenly the Times came up with by far the best Wapping Swamp piece on the Lord Wenger since I don’t know when. Well yes I do know since when. Since the 1930s. Then the …
Read More “Extraordinary! Three excellent articles about Arsenal in the press”
Here’s a thought. It is taken from today’s Guardian. Clichy has intercepted more passes than any other player in the EPL – with 118 interceptions. The only other player to have made over 100 interceptions is… oh, that guy who the Independent called “Lightweight” a couple of weeks back, what’s his name? Denilson. It is …
I’ve always known the address of the Tiny Totts as 748 High Road. The only team to have played football in White Hart Lane (as I boringly remind everyone) is Wood Green Town, who played about a quarter of a mile from where I grew up as a child. Town were born around 1885 …
Read More “We win at 748 High Road, and the iceman visits east London”
Now here’s a jolly thing. Just when I started to get excited about Leeds United and how there might finally be an enquiry into who owns the company that owns the company that owns the company that owns Leeds Untidy when up pops the story on the Guardian web site saying that the sale of …
That awfully nice Mr A Cole of KGB Athletico Fulham has been arrested at something like five in the morning for being drunk and disorderly. What bemuses me is, given the general standard of his behaviour over the years, how can anyone tell. Meanwhile that awfully nice Mr K Bates is finding that people …
One of my big interests in football is the way clubs are run as businesses – a natural interest since I run a business myself. I’ve written many times about the problems afflicting clubs as varied as Manchester Bankrupt and West Iceland Utd, but in the past not mentioned Leeds United. (You can tell …
Read More “Problems at Leeds; has the Lord Wenger “lost it?””
Way back in the dim and distant, when George Graham was the man in charge and no one had heard of the French even playing football, we had a game against Manchester London as they were then known. During the game a lot of players ran around a bit, and waved their arms at the …
You can’t really imagine the Daily Mirror running that headline. It is what editors would call a non-story, and so it gets non-coverage. Instead the Mirror is today running a piece saying that Wenger should be sacked if Arsenal come in sixth in the league. Of course there are people who agree with this, but …
We’ve scored eight goals fewer than Manchester Bankrupt this season. That’s right – despite what everyone is saying about how awful the attack is, we are a mere eight goals behind the team that claims to be going for a quadruped (or something like that). It just shows how the defense minded EPL has taken …
