This post is based on a comment that was left by ‘Ricky’ on another post. I thought that as it raises interesting questions, rather than provide a cursory answer in the comments I’d try and address it slightly more fully. My comments in blue. Not related to this particular post but would appreciate your thoughts.…
John Pickford (@theN5er on twitter) has put this short piece together for me on the status of Arsenal and Tottenham, as witnessed by one of Spurs’ greatest legends, Jimmy Greaves. * * * * Tottenham are forever in Arsenal’s shadow, that’s the boast we hear most often from the Islington faithful but you don’t need…
It’s Arsenal against Spurs this weekend, and there will be some in the crowd on Saturday who are happy to chant what most polite people refer to these days as ‘the Y-word’. Perhaps slightly oddly, there may be as many of them in the Spurs section as the Arsenal parts of the ground. Before I…
Another great piece from The Times, who got stuck into Arsenal’s number two shareholder Alisher Usmanov this week. If you were unaware, Mr Usmanov’s Wikipedia page was altered to give a more kindly view of our rotund billionaire chum. Out with mention of criminal convictions and opponents mysteriously disappearing, and in with what a wonderful…
Arsenal fans know the drill on substitutions:the first one between 67 and 70 minutes and not a minute earlier. That’s the Wenger way. Usually just one at this early stage but sometimes two, with the others following on anything up to the 90th minute. It doesn’t seem to make much difference to Arsene whether the…
Have I mentioned I hate most football stats? I think I may have. Mostly they are meaningless tosh that have no bearing on anything. Whenever someone tweets a stat onto my twitter timeline like this one:I think ‘Meaningless stat’. Then I start singing in my head, ‘Meaningless stats in very high voices’, because the phrase…
