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
By Bulldog Drummond You may have thought that the international type of games were all over, but far from it. There’s another game tomorrow (Wednesday) morning between Brazil and Chile – which means Alexis is playing. Brazil have qualified for Russia. Chile will be going to Russia if they beat Brazil – but the …
Read More “Watford v Arsenal: the return of the injured, and Alexis still south of the equator.”
By Tony Attwood The current youth academy system for English football was designed in 1997 by Howard Wilkinson, the man who took Leeds United from the lower reaches of the second division to be the final winners of the old First Division, using an interesting squad complete with Vinnie Jones. Now in an era when …
Read More “If the home grown project is failing, has the Academy system has failed too?”
by Tony Attwood In June 2010 I filled up an otherwise rather boring day researching what it was that made some international sides better than others. Was it the number of players who played in their own country’s league? The size of the country? Or something else? It turned out to be something else: the …
Read More “How the home grown rule has completely failed to make any difference at all.”
