A long article appeared on The Athletic yesterday concerning Arsenal’s recent history, written by well-known journalists/fans James “Gunnerblog” McNicholas and Amy “Amy “ Lawrence. It’s well over 3000 words, the length of a short story. I guess a turkey takes a few hours to cook and Christmas TV ain’t what it used to be, so…
The capacity of Arsenal’s stadium at the start of the 2022-23 season was 60,704 according to the official Premier League figures. That’s a lot, but demand has never been higher and tickets are like gold dust. Sales to Silver and Red members are done in minutes, which leaves some desperate supporters spending hundreds of pounds…
You may have seen a story in the last couple of days saying Police were about to visit 1,000 addresses in a “crackdown on illegal streaming”. This began as a Daily Mirror ‘exclusive’ but was soon copied pretty much word for word by other tabloid rags such as The Sun. John Cross’s original tweet has…
Arsenal posted a statement on arsenal.com this morning concerning the financial results of the club in the previous financial year. It said: “Arsenal Holdings Limited has now signed off the consolidated accounts for the Arsenal Group for the year ended 31 May 2022. A copy will be filed at Companies House in due course.” This…
Summer is just around the corner, which means one thing for football fans: transfers. A lot of big names will be on the move. But while you’re checking the official Irish Lottery results for an increase in your own budget, the news has been buzzing about who Arsenal might sign, and if that will be…
What’s the Chelsea situation now, you may be wondering? It’s less than two weeks till 31 May, which is the deadline for clubs to be registered for next season’s European competitions. As things stand, Chelsea’s licence from the UK Government to continue ‘football-related activities’ expires on the same day, so something needs to change by…
Yesterday I looked at what Chelsea and Roman Abramovich have been saying about the £1.5bn+ that the club owes to the owner. Do Chelsea need to repay all the loans? Will the new owner be an extra £1.5bn in the hole despite Abramovich originally saying “I will not be asking for any loans to be…
What’s happening at Chelsea? How much are they being sold for? Does Roman Abramovich want his loans back or not? It’s all got a bit murky. If you look at the responses to this tweet: you’ll see that most Chelsea fans don’t appear to have a clue about the whole situation, which in itself is…
Yesterday I wrote about ‘the Arsenal way’ and how that phrase has been devalued over the last 30 or 40 years so that it’s essentially meaningless. Of course it’s not just Arsenal that’s changed; since money started pouring into football nearly all clubs have been dragged into the never-ending race to get more and more…
There’s a page on the Arsenal website called ‘The Arsenal Way’. But what is that exactly? Most fans would say it’s to do with the standards of behaviour Arsenal upheld from the time that Herbert Chapman turned Arsenal into the biggest club in the world in the 1930s. Arsenal gained a reputation for doing things…
Well it’s been a while but I felt compelled to write a blog post. This was brought on by this tweet from Pedro of Le Grove: For the record, in Nick Harris’s research Kroenke got a 30% approval rate from Arsenal fans (16th in the PL) while Gold and Sullivan at West Ham got just…
I thought I’d try and lower our water consumption by converting the downstairs toilet to flush using rainwater. This description might help anyone else who wants to try the same thing. (NB: there is nothing about football in this post. Not a single mention after this: #KroenkeOut.) In principle it’s fairly simple:• Set up a…
The list of players available as free agents in the summer of 2022 is full of world-class talent. In fact, it might be correct to state that there have never been so many top players available on a free transfer before. This means that top European clubs will have to start negotiations with their superstars…
Alan Shearer has decided he needs to fix football. It’s all gone downhill, but he’s got a plan to give the poor tired players a rest and improve the standards again. Here’s what he says to begin with:“Some of the [Premier League] football we are seeing at the moment is drab. Poor games played by…
A few years ago, around the 20th anniversary of Arsène Wenger becoming Arsenal manager, the BBC proclaimed that Arsène had won 15 trophies in his 20 years. By any logical counting method, that’s nonsense. They’ve clearly included the three Premier Leagues and six FA Cups, then added six Charity/Community Shields on. But what about the…
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