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
Arsene Wenger’s Magical Embryo Farm -Benik Afobe by Jonathan Neale Ahhh scenic Dagenham – the shining jewel of East London. A place so evocative Linda Smith once wrote, “Erith isn’t twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham”. It may have a bit of a run-down, rough-as-nuts, working-class reputation but, in …
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Suddenly the rest of the footballing world catches up on what we’ve been talking about for two seasons. Big clubs are getting into big financial trouble. I speak of none other than Liverpool Insolvency – named thus in this blog about a year back because we started to talk about a day when, amazingly, Liverpool …
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Understanding how the transfer window works (A large dose of realism required) by Terence McGovern The transfer window is upon us once more. This annual merry-go-round of sloppy journalism and internet speculation is eclipsed only by the immoral level of spending money not owned on things not needed that would make Paris Hilton Blanche. It …
This site was set up with the explicit purpose of supporting Arsene Wenger. I started calling him The Lord Wenger, to emphasise the fact, and for getting on for two years there have been almost daily commentaries which support him. But in the last few months a number of anti-Wenger commentators have joined in the …
The answer is certainly not Arsenal – because of the way our club is run. But some others are not so well-organised. They might teeter on the brink for years but in the end… I posted a brief summary of this the other day, but got so many emails about it privately that I thought …
Just imagine what would have happened if Ancelotti – late of AC Milan now of the KGB in Fulham had been at Arsenal. At first the club’s world-wide supporters would have rejected his credentials. Here is a man whose greatest achievement in Europe prior to joining AC Milan was to win not the Euro Cup …
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Arsene Wenger’s Magical Embryo Farm – Oğuzhan Özyakup by Jonathan Neale Snaffled from Alkmaar Zaanstreek, and whisked from under the eager snouts of some of Europe’s biggest clubs including Barcelona, AC Milan and Ajax, ‘Oğuzhan Özyakup’ is a scary name to try to pronounce. It may also prove to be one to remember. Helpfully, I …
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