By Sifarzone After reading on Untold Arsenal Tony’s “It may not be something you are encouraged to try, but a sense of perspective can help” and AKH’s “Another ‘old codger’s’ sense of perspective”, I thought a millennial’s perspective would complete the set articles, given that the issues of viewing football with perspective has been …
By Bulldog Drummond As is becoming the norm now, by lunchtime before an Arsenal evening match there is no preview in the mainstream media, rather more articles looking back to previous games. So up to us to come up with something other than the story doing the rounds that Jack Wilshere is off to Juventus. …
By Tony Attwood Much has been made about the fact that after reaching the second highest consecutive run of entries into the Champions League in the history of the competition, we are now out and playing in the Europa League. But it is worth pondering what that achievement meant, both positively and negatively. If we …
By Tony Attwood I am not sure if it is a deliberate ploy and I don’t recall seeing it before, but under the headline “Three ways Arsenal could line up v Ostersunds FK after Alexandre Lacazette injury blow” we have this wonderful illustration of an Arsenal lineup… But I should add those of a delicate disposition …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. The latest invention from the Telegraph’s Charlie Eccleshare is the alliterative phrase “Tedious Trophy Talk”. By this they mean the chatter from certain ne’er do wells that Tottenham cannot be called a team of significance until they win significant stuff, and in the past 20 years they have just won the …
By Bulldog Drummond Whatever one’s attitude and style, reality can always be a problem. If one tries to write for a blog based on analysis, logic and statistics, there is always the chance that there simply aren’t any new analyses one can do in order to bring light on a situation. If one tries to …
by Andrew Crawshaw On Saturday our Under 18s extended their unbeaten record to 13 matches with a 6 – 2 win away to Reading despite six members of the usual squad being away on England U17 duty. Here is the story of this run. Ref Game Result Competition Goalscorers 1 Reading v Arsenal 2 – …
by AKH September 1957, the month of my 8th birthday and a birthday treat. My very first Arsenal football match at Highbury. Arsenal v Everton. I have little memory of the game itself, (I think arsenal lost ) but this was the beginning of my support for the team and club. Like Tony Atwood, I am …
By Tony Attwood My thesis, if you have had the staying power to follow my rambles through its tortuous evolution, is that most of the football related “information” we are given day by day through the mass media, the blogs and the bloggettas (those tiny blogs that have two lines of unverified information sandwiched between …
By Tony Attwood There is a lovely article in the Guardian in relation to American football which begins, “Sports forecasts aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.” Well yes, I think many of us will go with that. And when it comes to, “The problem with predictions in this space is that they are comically flawed,” …
by Bulldog Drummond The weather forecast for Östersund this Thursday evening is currently showing -5 degrees centigrade but taking into account wind speeds and humidity this is going to feel like -12°C. Or put another way about 10.5°F. Or put another way bloody cold. Östersund’s last match before the winter freeze was on 7 December when they …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. So here we have it: the Laugh of the Week… Arsenal suffer massive injury blow as top four hopes take battering Yes that’s the horror headline from the bloggetta IB Times which appeared on many of the news accumultor sites. Click on it, and in HUGE bold letters it really looks …
by Andrew Crawshaw As Tony pointed out in his brief report on our U23s latest win on Monday Night we are really doing rather well this year. We had a 4-0 win over last year’s league winners Everton, with a hat-trick of goals from Eddie Nketiah and assists for Joe Willock. Our matches since the …
By Tony Attwood I am sure there will be many who will agree with a headline in the Daily Telegraph that reads “Arsenal are still exhibiting all their old failings with expensive new personnel” and another in the same paper today, “Harry Kane goal confirms power shift in North London”. Or in the Independent “Derby …
By Bulldog Drummond In case you have not seen it there is a wonderful comment following Andrew’s review of the referee, in which the reader goes on quite a little rant complaining that the piece was a waste of time, and that for our analysis to make any sense it should have contained a review …
By Bulldog Drummond. Tucked away in an article in the Guardian today about how wonderful life is becoming for Tottenham, is the fact that upon completion of their stadium Tottenham “will have banks debts of £400m to repay over a five-year period and they have pledged to find the rest of the required £850m themselves.” …
by Andrew Crawshaw Before I start thinking about our match on Saturday a quick update on the PGMO world in general. Since my last update the PGMO have introduced an additional referee to the PL this year. Following an unsuccessful single game a couple of seasons ago Simon Hooper was given another trial in the …
By Bulldog Drummond This game at Wembley is one that is going to require nerves to be held. A look at Arsenal’s away record in the league shows why for Arsenal’s away form is at the heart of this season’s slip back into sixth place. Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts …
by Sir Hardly Anyone Our Rutland resident with a rundown on reality Since our last flip around the players coming to Arsenal this summer (according to the media who know a thing or two, or well, a thing anyway) the list of new arrivals has slowed down this week, although we still have four new …
Text and graphic from Oulala Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has found the back of the net four times in four appearances against Tottenham, averaging a goal every 88 minutes. An impressive record in itself, however when measured against a number of Arsenal’s best scorers in the Premier League era, stats from daily fantasy football game Oulala.com show Aubameyang is …
by Tony Attwood Before Arsene Wenger arrived in England, but when he had been announced as Arsenal’s new manager, Tony Adams made the comment that many were thinking and others had said before him. Speaking of Wenger he said, “He’s French. What does he know about English football?” Well Adams learned quite quickly. And it …
By Tony Attwood Does it matter where your club owner lives? You may recall (if you are an avid reader of my meanderings) that I have dealt with the residency of Arsenal’s minority owner Alisher Usmanov and his move to Switzerland as part of his work with the International Fencing Federation. Mr Usmanov’s company USM Holdings …
By Tony Attwood That headline comes from an article in the Guardian, and when I read the headline I wondered how on earth the writer was going to develop his thesis. Was there some clever bit of statistical work at play here showing that, perhaps Wenger had brought 30 youngsters in between 1998 and 2002 …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Yes I know, the market doesn’t open for months and months but the journalistas and their bloggetta chums down the pub are busy making up stories as if anyone still believed them. Plus we have tales of the next Arsenal manager, the departures (including one forced because of money …
By Tony Attwood There is a headline in the Telegraph which reads, “Exclusive: Premier League under pressure for independent inquiry into referee Jon Moss’s handling of penalty award.” Leaving aside the inaccurate use of the Saxon genitive to turn “Moss’ handling” into the completely ungrammatical “Moss’s handling” the issue which relates to the match between …
