Here’s a quote from Arsene Wenger. “We have come out of some very difficult games in the festive period. We played Everton, Man City and Chelsea and then at West Ham and at Newcastle. While we dropped some points, I felt it was more down to the heavy schedule and short recovery time we had…

It’s Christmas time, and our recent present from major shareholder Mr E Stanley Kroenke is to send his only begotten son down to earth from Colorado. Yes, Josh Kroenke has joined the Arsenal Board. No doubt you’ll be wanting to know what young Josh looks like, so you can recognise him on his many, many…

So still Arsene can’t beat Jose Mourinho. I’m no ‘Wenger out’ shouter, but surely Arsene himself must find this embarrassing. Nil-nil at home with barely a convincing effort on goal does rather make it look as though tactically Arsene can’t handle the biggest matches. If this was a one-off then I wouldn’t be concerned, but…

Standing at football matches is back on the agenda. But we’ve had all-seater stadiums for a generation, and in that time we’ve had no major disasters at English football grounds. That proves all-seater must be the right thing to do then, doesn’t it? No it doesn’t. There is nothing inherently dangerous about people standing at…

I’m not one to generalise and stigmatise whole groups of people, but sometimes groups don’t help themselves. First we had Spurs fans having a go at cyclist Chris Hoy on twitter, after referee Chris Foy had upset them, and now the @avb tweets.  Ashley van Buren appears to be an American lady living in New…

I’ve got 1,000 things I want to blog about and no time to write them. Safe standing, Josh Kroenke joining the Arsenal Board, Ivan and Chips hosting 200 fans for food and drink last Monday, the price of the Arsenal programme through the years (yes!), Stan buying more shares that he doesn’t need – the…

David Dein seems to stir up a few emotions still in Arsenal fans. It seems I can’t criticise anyone without some section of Arsenal fans being upset about it. Maybe I should just stop criticising people altogether! A crazy notion, clearly. I should correct one thing I said in my previous post (as was pointed…

David Dein was in the London Evening Standard last week, and again today, as he has applied for and received planning permission to pull down a house he’s bought in Mayfair and build a new one on the site. He intends building a two-storey basement underneath the new house with ‘a swimming pool, gym and staff…