Today is the anniversary of the first ever Arsenal goal in the first division

  Today’s anniversary comes from 120 years ago 24 September 1894: While today games through the season are mostly league or cup matches, in the 1890s many were friendlies.  The result on this day, Arsenal 6 Renton 1 was Arsenal’s 4th friendly of September.  Meanwhile they had also played four league games. 120 years ago 24 …

How Premier League refereeing descended into total chaos

      By Tony Attwood How football is following the lead of Mohamed Al-Fayed How one manipulative malevolent interview has re-energised the media hatred of Arsenal On 10 October last year the Mirror ran the bold headling “Howard Webb urged to issue ban on referees after Arsenal vs Man City incident”.  On October 11 …