Just a short post today, but an important subject: Arsenal’s Transfer Proceeds Account. What the hell is that then? Glad you asked. When the new stadium financing was signed in July 2006 the club signed up to the following agreement to protect lenders against asset stripping or a ‘fire sale’ of players: Arsenal must ensure that,…

There’s some gold dust in old Arsenal programmes sometimes. This is an eyewitness account of the events surrounding one of the most infamous matches in Arsenal history: the FA Cup tie away against Walsall on 14 January 1933. Arsenal were beaten 2-0 by the struggling Third Division side in a match regarded then and for…

If you can’t remember the 1970s in Britain, count yourself lucky. They were dingy. Magnolia paint was the height of sophistication. While continentals lived in brightly painted villas under blue skies, Britons lived in damp terraced houses or damp concrete tower blocks under drizzle, and everything looked grey. In Holland they had sparkling Total Football;…

The latest Spurs DVD, on sale now, celebrating their record-breaking 2012-13 Champions’ League campaign – the shortest in history! Follow me on Twitter: @AngryOfN5 D’oh! Foolishly put a version of this up first of all without my userid included on the graphic. No doubt quite a few copies taken already.

Here’s the final league table after the match at Anfield 23 years ago today, May 26, 1989. Only 11 of those teams from 1989 will be in the Premier League next season. Good season for Spurs, though – only five places and 19 points behind us. Unusually, after that famous match at Anfield our next…

Bring back David Dein! Dein is a traitor! Sack Ivan Gazidis! Bring in Usmanov! Keep Usmanov out! Kroenke out! Sack Peter Hill-Wood! . . . Okay, I’ll go with that one. This article looks a bit like a riposte to this one published yesterday on GoonerTalk, though in fact I wrote 90 per cent of…

Plus Markets, the stock exchange where Arsenal shares are traded, announced on May 14 it was closing It’s since been taken over with a promise to keep it open For different reasons, both Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov may have preferred if it had closed, removing the marketplace for Arsenal shares That’s the executive summary.…

It’s not a great day to be an Arsenal fan, so why not go back to a simpler happier time when Arsenal were champions and the fantastic new Premier League was shortly to begin. Here’s young David Dein to tell you just how great it would all be, interviewed in the Arsenal programme from the…

John Terry is banned from the Champions League final tonight for stupidly putting his knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez, but it’s understood that if Chelsea win he will be allowed to lift the trophy at the presentation as club captain. After the sending off in the Champions League semi-final, Terry was told he…

Anyone who complains about Arsenal’s new stadium, which the club likes to refer to as ‘The Emirates Stadium’ and I like to refer to as ‘Arsenal’s new stadium’, should remember that back in the 1970s the club were actively considering a groundshare with Spurs at Alexandra Palace. So not only would we have left the…