Here’s a list of Arsenal directors who have served since 1946. The just retired PH-W is the longest-serving by some distance at 51 years, with Robert Bellinger in second place with 36. Peter’s father, Denis Hill-Wood, managed 33 years, though Ken Friar will overtake him if he stays till 2017. At the other end, in…
Peter Hill-Wood has left Arsenal, severing a connection that goes back to his grandfather joining the Board in 1922, before even the days of Herbert Chapman and the first great Arsenal side. The writing has been on the wall for several months, as he has not been in full health since last year. Even before…
Around £80m by now. Now before all the Arsène lovers get up in arms about this and jump straight to the comments to insult me, let me first say that I’m presenting this only as a quirky fact (I won’t go as far as ‘interesting’). In terms of value, there’s a good case to say…
This is a kind of Part 3 of my Ivan Q&A review. I’m going to focus on two particular questions to highlight the problems of communication and understanding between supporters of the same club – who in this case were in the same room listening to the same information from the same person! As it…
Here’s part two of my review of Monday night’s Supporters’ Q&A with Ivan Gazidis. We rejoin the action at question 10, with Ivan still at the crease, manfully batting away googlies and the occasional full toss (Q8). Apologies to Americans who now think I’m talking another language. Q10 – The AST recently put forward two…
This evening was the annual Q&A with Ivan Gazidis and members of various fan groups and small shareholders. There will be many blog posts about this – quite a few were on laptops during the event – not to mention the tweeting. Personally I was writing notes on paper, tweeting and listening to @DarrenArsenal1 tutting…
Rooney – still definitely not coming Cesc – not going anywhere this year Fellaini – possible Higuain – possible Jovetic – most unlikely That’s about it. To be honest you may as well chill, because we know Arsène’s methods by now: consider every player very carefully, particularly how he will fit into the system Arsène…
