Liverpool beg for mercy and ask for game against Arsenal to be postponed

By Dr Billy the Dog McGraw, head of the Department of Certain Things at the University College Hospital of the North Circular Road. Liverpool as you will have heard, has asked for their league cup semi-final against Arsenal to be stopped on the grounds that although Liverpool are higher up the league than Arsenal, Arsenal’s …

How to sort matters out if games are being postponed wholesale…

By Tony Attwood It is perhaps typical of football in England that despite the raging pandemic there seem to be no plans at all as to what to do if clubs can’t complete the season. Fifa has already given full permission to its friends in Africa to carry on running their international tournament in the …

Are Arsenal about to buy another shedload of players? Or just sell Auba?

By Tony Attwood Allegedly, in the summer of 2007, Arsene Wenger described Arsenal as a club that “makes superstars”, rather than buying them.  At least that is what a wide range of media outlets say. Then, in March 2020, Daniel Levy commented that external perceptions of transfers can be different to the facts and also …

The pundit’s need for his daily fix is football’s biggest enemy

To read about the free Arsenal video collection and about the new Arsenal Day by Day series, please see the note at the foot of this article. By Sir Hardly Anyone Bukayo Saka tipped to leave Arsenal as Mikel Arteta’s hardest task is spelled out So shouts the Daily Mirror, telling us that “Bukayo Saka …