Sympathy For The Devil: Why Mark Clattenburg Was Right Today

Plenty of referring controversy this weekend. Arteta was offside for Arsenal’s goal; Hernandez was offside for one of Man Utd’s goals; Suarez had a goal ruled out for an offside that wasn’t; Torres was sent off with a second yellow for diving; Valencia was also booked for diving in the same game; Ivanovic was sent…

Why Stan Kroenke Doesn’t Get It

I was going to go into some detail about the goings on at today’s Arsenal AGM, but as I was pondering the performance of the various Arsenal Board members who took an active part, something struck me: the problem with Stan Kroenke is he doesn’t get what it means to be a football fan. Stan…

Giroud: Is He Good Enough?

Here’s a feature on Olivier Giroud from The Times last Friday. Last Friday, of course, things looked a bit rosier for Gooners than they do now. Since then we have had two defeats where we managed one shot on target, a speculative effort from a 17-year old sub in injury time of the second game.…

Where Did The Chant 1-0 to the Arsenal Come From?

Everyone knows that Arsenal fans have been singing “One-Nil to the Arsenal” since George Graham made the scoreline popular when he tried to bore us to death in the latter part of his tenure as Arsenal boss. And we’ve sung it ever since, mostly ironically for quite a few years, but more recently sometimes actually…

EXCLUSIVE FREE ARSENAL STUFF!

I’ve got some more free stuff to give away today (following the signed Cesc picture, the signed 2006 shirt and the signed Ian Wright poster and football), stuff that money almost literally cannot buy. You might think you can buy anything if you have enough money, but Alisher Usmanov hasn’t managed to buy Arsenal yet,…

It’s My Way or the Steve Heighway

The international break must be filled somehow, so why not fill it by marvelling at how I have rewritten My Way to tell the story of the 1971 FA Cup final? I’ve managed to get the name of every Arsenal player in there, which is no mean feat, let me tell you. First what some…