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
Following their great announcement as to their ability to build a 58,000 seater stadium for 87p plus the coupons they got from people leaving Tesco’s Tottenham have announced the name of their new stadium. It will be called Woolworths. And in other news, as they say, the thing on the left about injuries is an …
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At the Manchester Arab game I had a guy sitting behind me who was fed up. Very fed up. Not with me, not with my ladyfriend, but with the Arsenal. From the first moment of the game he said, “too short” – not in a voice that the players could hear, but in a voice …
Read More “Arsenal 18 Man A 4, Hughes exposed, man behind me verry annoying”
If you have read my wild ramblings off and on over the last couple of years you might recall that in my view the financial approach of clubs such as Liverpool and Manchester U is unsustainable. This, I argue, is because their entire approach is based on three contingencies, all of which have to be …
A Cole should be banned by England for his past behaviour
The inevitable consequence of an acceptance of Insanity Week and the international matches therein is that Sepp Blatter and his fanatics will keep proposing the 6+5 regulation through which six players in every starting 11 have to be qualified to represent the “football country” in which they play. (I say “football country” because it is …
Read More “Most Arsenal players would have to leave if new regs come in”
So there it was, another Insanity Week, suitably crouched around April 1. Five players whose salary the likes of you and me help to pay, got smashed to bits on foreign fields – Diaby, Nasri, Bendtner, Eduardo and Van Persie. Carlos Vela has jet lag. The best bit was the report on the Honduras v …
Read More “Insanity week: 5 out, BBC refuse rethink, Sun copies our story”
April Fools’ Day was mostly fairly dull and predictable. The biggest joke of all – that our players could be taken off, made to play in other places for other teams, and then handed back injured – was sadly real. I am still waiting for news of disasters from Wednesday. The regular rather sad attempts …
Two things have happened… one involves Mr T Henry, one involves UEFA/FIFA. Mr Henry first. According to Square Football today 1 April he will sign for Tottenham. Given that today is 1 April, one presumes that this is an April fool. But given that Square Football is not above posting some very strange pieces without …
Read More “Insanity Day meets April Fool. Come and watch Arsenal reserves”
