Arsenal Euro watch: group stage round up and looking ahead to the Quarter Finals

By Phil Gregory With the group games done and dusted, the ranks of Arsenal men at the Euros has thinned somewhat. Most surprisingly, a Russia side who started impressively have fallen by the wayside, and with them Andrei Arshavin. Russia’s departure means that the situation regarding our little Russian’s Arsenal future will be a little …

Untold Ref Review: Newcastle United 2 – 2 Tottenham Hotspur. Ref: V. Good.

This article is part of a series stretching over several seasons in which a team of referees analyse the work of refs in Premier League matches. Our figures show that when we analyse the errors made by refs there are consistent trends which do not “even out” through the season, as some commentators would have …

Farewell Nic Bendtner. It wasn’t as bad as some make out

By Walter Broeckx After my rant at Uefa about the fine they gave to Bendtner for exposing the wrong underpants I now want to take a look at his future at Arsenal. Or maybe better said: his lack of future at Arsenal. The player himself said last season he wanted to leave and after a …

Did ‘The City’ sack Harry Redknapp?

by Richard Bedwell When they are seeking to raise large sums of money on the financial markets businesses tend to take on experts to advise them on how to present themselves to those markets. What to say, how to say it and, of course, to whom that message needs to be relayed are all part …