Arsenal down, all our servers down, is there anything good to say?

By Tony Attwood So what looked like being a fun start to the season with the possibility of a record number of games without conceding turned into the worst start of Wenger’s reign.  (Actually I haven’t checked that, but it feels like it). The papers are continuing their theme of a revolt among Arsenal supporters …

Manchester Dean v Arsenal. A preview. Of sorts.

By Tony Attwood We won 5-7.  I mention it for the 2% of the away support who left before the end.  Mike Dean is the ref. Does anyone have anything we can say about this match which doesn’t rattle on about the 8-2 defeat last season?  If not, then fine, here is a vague approximation …

Comparing Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle, Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool: this year against last season

So how are we doing? An updated comparison against last year. by Stuart Higgins We’re at 9 games played now and in follow up to the earlier article I wrote comparing this year to the equivalent fixtures last season I have added a little twist.  I have added in the result for game 10 from …

Everyone is somewhere most of the time, and dancing with Elaine

by Tony Attwood (tony.attwood@aisa.org) Last night I went to my local jive club and had a number of extremely pleasant dances with Elaine who works in a senior medical post at the local hospital. I mention it because it was a very enjoyable evening, during the course of which I didn’t think about Arsenal.  The …

England run by idiots, players arrested, racism untouched. Just another day in football.

By Tony Attwood Sepp Blatter of Fick Fufa claims that English football is “run by idiots”, according to Sebastian Coe.  Commenting on the first England 2018 meeting he said, “I had been truly shocked by the vituperative nature of the meeting I had just witnessed. There was thinly disguised contempt around the table.” This is …

What to make of Clatternburg; what to make of Chelsea? Where on earth are we going?

By Tony Attwood Graham Poll, in his book, tells the tale of how in 2007 Ashley Cole accused him of once saying that Chelsea needed bringing down a peg or two.  The offence of Chelsea at the time in what passes for a mind within A Cole was that he had sent off John Terry.  …