Manchester City v Arsenal: the Community Shield prelims Another pundit going against the trend Yesterday we stood on the terraces of Arsenal’s first stadium By Sir Hardly Anyone Just when you thought that football journalism could not descend any further it has. And just in case you don’t want to read my preview …
Another pundit going against the trend Swiss take drastic action against supporters; clubs fight back By Tony Attwood If you have taken a glimpse at my last little piece (Yesterday we stood on the terraces of Arsenal’s first stadium) you might appreciate why today’s Community Shield game (previously known as the Charity Shield) …
Another pundit going against the trend Swiss take drastic action against supporters; clubs fight back By Tony Attwood I know – this article is about Arsenal’s history and as such should be on the Arsenal History Society site – but for me it was such a monumental event to be in the first …
Fifa launches its own bank: is there no end, and will no one stop them? Arsenal Women at the World Cup and the coming season at the Emirates By Tony Attwood In the Mirror Michael Owen has given his tips for the top four this season: Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester United, …
Fifa launches its own bank: is there no end, and will no one stop them? Arsenal Women at the World Cup and the coming season at the Emirates By Tony Attwood It is in many ways the norm to think that football in all parts of the world is similar. After all everyone plays by …
Arsenal Women at the World Cup and the coming season at the Emirates Barcelona’s problems and Tottenham’s problems. How will they find a way out? By Tony Attwood Imagine that you had a company and it had lots of money. I mean lots and lots and lots of money. What would you …
Barcelona’s problems and Tottenham’s problems. How will they find a way out? Arsenal’s growing injury concerns, increasing fees, and a problem on the horizon by Andrew Crawshaw On July 20th we started off with 15 of our players involved in the world cup. The group stages finished yesterday morning (August 3) UK time …
Arsenal’s growing injury concerns, increasing fees, and a problem on the horizon Russo Gets Her World Cup Up & Running As Other Arsenal Ladies Progress By Tony Attwood Several sources, including for example ESPN, are reporting that Barcelona are running into trouble in terms of completing transfers that they would normally expect to …
Premier League finances Russo Gets Her World Cup Up & Running As Other Arsenal Ladies Progress Arsenal v Monaco: It’s time to get out the negative stories By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s injury list has grown again, as you may have heard with Gabriel Jesus out having had a second operation on his knee …
The Lionesses, England’s Women’s team, went into the group stage of the 2023 World Cup in good spirits and they were one of the favourite nations to lift this year’s trophy and build on their earlier European Championship success. Arsenal fans clearly have a stake in the competition as a number of our ladies are …
Abuse of young footballers has not been stopped: the system doesn’t allow it Supercomputer predicts 2023/4 league table, and gets it wrong! By Tony Attwood One can just imagine the sports editors shouting it out. “Enough of all this pro-Arsenal stuff. Don’t you realise the season is about to start? Where are the normal …
Supercomputer predicts 2023/4 league table, and gets it wrong! Arsenal’s three seasons of improvement is very unusual, but must be maintained By Tony Attwood The story of young players being abused is one that you might think was a thing of the past. Culprits were found, action taken. But for the past year …
Arsenal’s three seasons of improvement is very unusual, but must be maintained Arsenal’s task now is stability in a rapidly changing league By Tony Attwood As we have been noting for some time, the media was utterly and totally hopeless when it came to predicting the 2022/23 season, and doubly so where the …
Arsenal’s task now is stability in a rapidly changing league Why do you want to mess with football’s rules? Because it improves the game By Tony Attwood In the last article I had a look at how clubs’ fortunes have changed in the last two seasons. Now I want to go back a …
Why do you want to mess with football’s rules? Because it improves the game Nothing will stop “Young Boys” supporters – ever By Tony Attwood As I have said so many times, journalists and broadcasters don’t admit to the errors they have made with their predictions in the past, and so tend to …