On February 21, 1995 George Graham was given his marching orders from the Arsenal Manager’s Office. At the time, Arsenal were struggling a little in the league, had lost a League Cup quarter final to Liverpool, been dumped out of the FA Cup after a third round replay by Millwall, and (as Cup Winners’ Cup…

A guest post today from Simon Hill, one of the AST‘s football finance experts. FFP is coming – the Premier League owners, largely for selfish reasons of course, are keen on it, and Ivan Gazidis has been banging the drum for it for years. But what will it do to the spending power of the…

Do you want the good news or the bad news? Bad first? Okay: even if we beat Bayern over two legs, we almost certainly won’t win the Champions League. In fact, according to the odds calculated by Daniel Finkelstein’s boffins for The Times, Arsenal have about a 30 per cent chance of reaching the last…

Where to start with the abject performance of Arsenal yesterday? Perhaps with the preview from The Times yesterday morning. This reminds us that we managed to spank at least six past Blackburn three times since 2006, and that was when they were in the Premier League, not some lower division they inhabit now. It also…

I believe Arsenal hold the unique distinction in World Football of having won at least one major trophy on every day of the week – certainly it is unique in England. If you know of a club anywhere else to have done the same, please let me know. The full list of Arsenal trophies in…

If you’re reading this before midnight where you are on February 13, then it’s still Liam Brady’s birthday. The Arsenal legend is 57 today. Who can forget his genius in the red and white, and sometimes yellow and blue? Setting up all the goals in the 1979 FA Cup Final, the amazing curling shot in…

A quick Arsenal share update. I was prompted to do this today by the fact that there are updated figures on Arsenal.com, and for the first time since 20 December the number of shares officially held by Alisher Usmanov has gone up – in this case by eight, from 18,637 to 18,645. To recap the…

Lee Dixon made his Arsenal debut 25 years ago today in a league fixture against Luton – a club who have since dropped right out of the Football League! Here’s Lee on the front cover of the programme for his debut, and the welcome article inside. George Graham’s page mentions Lee as a footnote, noting…

I don’t normally pay much attention to Tony Cascarino except to disagree with him, so I’m not sure if I should rather parochially point out when I concur with his views, but here goes anyway. These were his comments on Wilshere’s performance against Brazil: “The highlight [of England v Brazil] for me was seeing Wilshere…

Twenty years ago today Arsenal beat Crystal Palace in the first leg of the Coca Cola League Cup, to stay on course for a unique (at the time) cup double. The match featured two penalties, one for each side and both converted, plus two Alan Smith goals to give Arsenal a 3-1 advantage for the…