Arsenal Ladies v Notts County Ladies: another great cup win but what an organisational shambles!

  Arsenal Ladies v Notts County Ladies Continental Tyres Cup Final Sunday 01 November 2015 The Match Report by Andrew Crawshaw The Continental Tyres Cup has been in existence for five years and is essentially the replacement for the Ladies League Cup.  The competition is in two phases, the first being a group phase comprising all …

Untold Arsenal technical problems: how to find us if you can’t find us

We have had significant technical difficulties in the last couple of days which have all the hallmarks of a concerted attack on the site There has been no effect save that sometimes we are unable to publish on occasion, and you might well at times not be able to read the site from time to …

Is this really an injury crisis or just a figment of a journalist’s imagination?

Is this an injury crisis?  By Tim Charlesworth Based on the choices that Wenger has made over the last twelve months or so, his five top players for the right wing/right midfield position appear to be (in no particular order): Aaron Ramsey The Ox Jack Wilshere Danny Welbeck Theo Walcott All of these players are …

Arsenal FC in shock deal to buy anti-Arsenal blogs!!!

ARSENAL FC IN SHOCK DEAL TO BUY LE GROVE AND OTHER ANTI ARSENAL BLOGS !!!!! From – The Brickfields Gunners Blog In a swift take over move that has shocked millions of Arsenal fans , the club has agreed in ‘principle’ to buy up/out almost all of the negative anti-Arsenal blogs in the Arsenal Sphere …

Managing expectations: what football never does, and seemingly can’t ever do

By Tony Attwood If you run a business, its one of the first things you have to learn: to manage the expectations your customers have.  If you don’t manage expectations and you allow your customers to expect far more than you can actually deliver for the price, you get complaints, demands for refunds, and legal …

Arsenal Ladies 3 Notts County Ladies 0: Arsenal keep up their winning run.

Jordan Nobbs scored two as Arsenal Ladies beat Notts County Ladies 3-0 to win their fourth Continental Cup title in five years. Notts County Laura Bassett was sent off before half time, but Arsenal were already in the lead by then.  It was the first Arsenal ladies trophy for Pedro Martinez Losa.  Arsenal Ladies have now …

The strangeness of the abusive behaviour of football fans on the internet

By Tony Attwood Rudeness is part of human behaviour.  It is part of life, although since the invention of the Internet it seems to have become more prevalent. Football fans have always been rude about other teams’ players, their own teams’ players, their manager, everyone else’s manager, the supporters of other clubs and so on. …

How the zombie press and their semi-skimmed phone-in camp followers have tried to undermine Arsenal this season

By Tony Attwood It’s been a bad season for the media – and the aaa, their hopeless allies on the phone ins and blogettas.  Arsenal are useless, Wenger is useless, we should have signed 20 more players, including that one who wanted to come from Real Madrid and didn’t actually score more goals that Giroud, …