The 58 players Arsenal tipped to sign this summer with over 130 days to go

What happened to the 134 players said to be coming to Arsenal last summer? Last summer the journalists’ failure rate in predicting transfers was 96%.  And what made this even more staggering than the size of that number is that this was their most successful window since we started tracking transfer rumours around ten years …

If Fifa won’t ban Russian officials from its gatherings, we should get out of Fifa

By Tony Attwood They are pretty much pariahs around the world – Russian athletes and teams are banned from participating in any form of world sport, as a protest against the invasion of Ukraine. Except in football, where Russian officials are still welcomed with open arms.  So when the Fifa Congress opened in Qatar, there …

For some Arsenal fans improvement isn’t enough; but this is not the time to change again

By Tony Attwood Reading the game: why do journalists always know more than managers? Obviously, we all want Arsenal to improve.  Probably the only time no one talked about improvement was after the Unbeaten Season.   But the rest of the time we want each season to be better. And the media tells us day after …