Arsene’s war chest: £42.7m + any summer sales

Most EPL clubs buy players with borrowed money or the owner’s petrodollars.  Arsenal are different – the money available for buying comes from profit generated by success and sales. Put another way, the basic income from TV, marketing and games goes to pay the mortgage and the salaries.  The purchases come from other sources.  At …

Re-writing Arsenal’s past

There is obviously a huge campaign at the moment to re-write Arsenal’s recent past as part of an attempt to get the Lord Wenger to leave. But since every other journalist and blogger is following that story I thought I’d go someplace different and mention another area in which the attack on Arsenal’s heritage can …