The biggest money-spinning game in the history of domestic league football didn’t really live up to its billing, though I’m sure Chelsea went home happy. I wouldn’t say they ground out the win, but they were prepared to work harder than Arsenal. They closed down higher up the pitch and most of the time presented…

All week I’ve been celebrating the achievements of one of the most charismatic players I’ve ever had the joy of watching. So the good people of wehustle.co.uk, makers of the Ian Wright ‘Nothing to Something’ video (and if you haven’t watched it you really should), have kindly given me a signed poster and football from…

We sit here on the eve of Arsenal v Chelsea, the world’s most expensive ever domestic league football match, where the minimum adult non-concession ticket price is going to be £62. I know there are a couple of thousand Junior Gunners and Seniors concessions, so I’ll average them out by saying if everyone (60,000) paid…

People claim that the media is all biased against Arsenal. Well, some paranoid Arsenal fans do, anyway; personally I don’t tar everyone with the same brush. There are good journalists and bad ones, biased ones and ones with common sense to spare. Either way, they do sometimes like to recognise Arsenal’s achievements, such as the…

A guest post today from @TheSquidBoyLike I have a confession to make. I was originally a Liverpool fan. Well, the label of “fan” might be too much – my dad loosely followed them, so when the 1992 FA Cup final came about I copied him in cheering the Scouse Reds onto victory. Thankfully I was…

Ian Wright week continues here on angryofislington, and today as well as dipping into the archives for a couple of features on Wrighty, I can tell you there will be a giveaway of a signed football and poster of the man himself later this week, courtesy of wehustle.co.uk, the people behind the ‘Nothing to Something’…

Guest Post match report today from @The_Gooner_Way It was a point apiece at the Etihad as Manchester City and Arsenal battled to a closely matched draw that will perhaps see both managers leave contented. After today Arsenal sit in fifth place on nine points, ahead of Manchester City by goal differential. Arsenal possessed the ball comfortably much of the time, but conceded a…

Ian Wright Week continues here on AngryOfIslington with my appreciation of his talents. If you don’t like Ian Wright, come back on Friday. If Ian Wright had a dictionary entry it would surely just say ‘goalscorer’. His greatest talent was putting the ball in the net. Wrighty could bang them in from anywhere. From empty…

My celebration of 21 years of Ian Wright as an Arsenal man continues with his goalscoring exploits in his first two matches.First up, his debut for the club in the Rumbelows Cup, as the League Cup was known in those days. After being warned by George Graham when he signed that he might be sitting…

Next week sees the 21st anniversary of Ian Wright signing for Arsenal. This is the rather low-key announcement from the following week’s programme: Wrighty had already played two away matches by this time, and having scored four goals in the two games, no doubt his confidence was high – somewhat higher than when pictured on…