Rio Ferdinand has waded into the John Terry race row by condoning calling Terry’s Chelsea teammate Ashley Cole a ‘choc ice’. Ferdinand denied that the term was in any way racial, saying in a series of entirely made up quotes, “I often call people by food names. I have a poor memory and it helps…

The papers love nothing more than an ‘Arsenal in Crisis’ story. Here’s one from January 1992, just days after the Gunners were knocked out of the FA Cup by Fourth Dvision Wrexham. The blame for the poor season is laid squarely at the feet of manager George Graham. A “Highbury insider” is quoted as saying,…

I’ve been criticised recently for being ‘anti-Wenger’, which I’m not. I’m just pro-Arsenal. I also believe that however goods things are, there is always room for improvement. A wise lady once said to me, “Unless you strive for perfection you’ll never achieve it.” That’s why I criticise; that’s why I’m never satisfied. Not because I…

It seems that talking about pay in football just causes arguments – see the comments on Wednesday’s post. So as a change from football, let’s consider the question: Is it fair that the men’s and women’s prizes at Wimbledon are the same? Obviously we don’t care about this, so I’m sure we can all have…

Chamakh is more of a donkey, but I couldn’t make a pun out of that, not even a crap one. But he’s pony as in ‘pony and trap’, good old Cockney rhyming slang that we Gooners indulge in, in our squalid city hovels. Or is that just me? Anyway, yesterday’s blog (was it only yesterday?…

Yesterday I did a quick blog in response to Le Grove concerning the amount of money being provided to Arsène Wenger for new signings this summer. I was accused – can you believe it? – of missing the point! I’d said I thought we all knew there wasn’t a huge pot of money available, so…

On Saturday Le Grove did a blog ‘revealing’ that Arsenal don’t actually have a lot of money to spend. I was surprised. Not by the revelation, but because I didn’t really think this was news. I thought everyone realised that there wasn’t a huge pot waiting to be spent on whoever the latest superstar is.…

I used to think it was just the International Olympic Committee who were bloated with the idea of their own self-importance, then when Sepp Blatter appeared I had to add Fifa to that list, but I still assumed Uefa weren’t really so bad. I mean, they’re only in charge of the football on one continent,…

This is a short guest post from Sam Ruback, who retweets shedloads of good Arsenal stuff that saves me the trouble of following all kinds of dweebs and clogging my timeline with their less interesting stuff. Follow Sam on twitter: @SamuelRuback A couple of thoughts on the accusation from certain journalists and fans that ‘Arsenal…

Pundits in general and Alan Shearer in particular couldn’t stop telling us that Spain would be/are the first country to win three major tournaments in a row, before during and after their success at Euro 2012. This isn’t quite true, but it does depend a bit on your definition of ‘major trophy’. I certainly wouldn’t…