This is my column from The Gooner issue 230. After a rave review by @ThatSimonRose on twitter earlier, I have had literally millions of requests to post this. All right, literally two. I didn’t need much persuading. *   *   *   *   *   *   * So, Emirates sponsorship: Arsenal originally signed a £90m contract with Emirates…

January 6 is the anniversary of the death in 1934 of Arsenal’s greatest manager, Herbert Chapman. If you doubt that he is Arsenal’s greatest, consider this: Herbert Chapman was far and away the best manager of his generation worldwide, without any shadow of doubt. He is in all probability the greatest ever, so far ahead…

No surprise that most people who voted think that Arsene needs to spend more than they think he will spend. (He does realise that spending the club’s money doesn’t affect his salary, doesn’t he?) A few votes for ‘The squad is fine how it is’ – come on, you’re not serious are you? You really…

I feel I’ve written too much about Theo already, but it’s a subject that bugs me to some extent. Firstly I’m bugged by the player’s own bland pronouncements about how he hopes things will be sorted out soon, when he could sort them out in five minutes himself one way or the other, then we’d…

Last summer Rafael van der Vaart left Tottenham. Today he announced he has left his wife. This is Tottenham: This is Sylvie van der Vaart: Which decision looks like a mistake? Twitter: @AngryOfN5

I know what you’re thinking after that New Year’s Eve: “I wish I was 20 years younger.” Leaving aside that you should be thinking ‘I wish I were 20 years younger’ as you should be using the subjunctive, you can pretend it’s 20 years ago by seeing what the Arse were up to at the…