Amusingly, when Stan Kroenke bought two Arsenal shares in May 2015, his only share purchase in the last eight months, taking his total number of shares from 41,696 to 41,698, the Mirror had an article that twice repeated the statement “it strengthens his grip on the Gunners” – as though going from 67.017 per cent…
We’ve heard a lot about Mike Dean this week – though probably not as much as Mike Dean would like. But where does he rank in the table of Arsenal’s ‘lucky refs’? These are the ones who’ve been in charge of at least 10 Arsenal Premier League matches since 2008-09, sorted in to order of…
It’s deja vu all over again. The Arsenal accounts to the end of May 2015 are out today, and given the seeming reluctance to spend on new signings, most eyes turn to the page that reports the cash balance. Once again it’s a new record, and as usual it’s by far the biggest cash balance…
Simply put, Arsenal might be a world class striker away from Premier League glory. Arsène Wenger’s side are incredibly strong yet lack that lethal finisher who could guarantee their first title since 2004. The Gunners have been linked with a summer move for Karim Benzema but latest reports suggest that Wenger is concerned about overspending…
Here’s a collated list of top 4 predictions from various media types and pundits, and this year I’ve added a few of my fellow Arsenal fans in on the basis we were all dead confident – right up to the point West Ham scored their second goal last weekend. Too late to change predictions now,…
It was Paul Gascoigne who once said “I don’t make predictions and I never will.” But I’m bolder than Gazza – or not, depending on whether you see through his unintentional bluff. Either way, I am prepared to predict this season’s top four in the Premier League. This is nothing new, but what is new…
Apropos of nothing, here’s a piece from The Times recently on former Leeds player Albert Johanneson, the first black player to appear in an FA Cup final. Johanneson played in the Final for Leeds against Liverpool. His career is a rather sad tale of a quiet and introverted man unable to fulfill his potential through…
Arsenal have signed a new goalkeeper. I don’t know if you’d noticed. The Times celebrated this by giving us last season’s stats for the new chap and the two current custodians of the onion bag. Here they are: If reaching conclusions based on a single season of evidence when players were at different clubs is…
This is a much debated topic on twitter. I don’t have time to go through the whole thing, but here is a handy Progressometer chart so we can tell at a glance whether progress in the League has been made or not. There was one dubious year where the position stayed the same but the…
Obviously with hindsight predictions are easy. And to be fair, 25% getting all the top 4 in the correct order is actually pretty good. I collected all these predictions from journalists and assorted media types and pundits at the start of the season, and if it shows anything it’s that these days the top of…
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