A veritable twitterstorm was set off in the Goonersphere yesterday morning following a blog on the aisforarsenal site highlighting the real attendances at Arsenal matches. The blogger, John B, has gone to the trouble of using the Freedom of Information Act to get figures of actual attendances from the Metropolitan Police, and Arsenal have agreed…

There’s a scene in The Young Ones (1980s comedy starring the late Rik Mayall, for those too young to remember) where, as usual, there is an argument going on and the character of Rick says: “Guys! Guys! Look at us! Squabbling, bickering. Like children. What’s happening to us? We never used to be like this!”…

How do Arsenal supporters know it’s July? Easy: 1. £100m+ war chest available – check 2. List of overpaid deadwood leaving the club published – check 3. Core players tell everyone how we need a big summer in the market – check 4. Stars long-rumoured to want to leave, leave – check 5. Stars you…

On my recent blog about the Ivan Gazidis supporters’ Q&A, a commenter asked the following: Phil, What format would you prefer at these meetings? Genuine question btw. I find that questions along the lines of “Are we gunna sign anyone Ivan?” as quite moronic and easily deflected. I suppose it’s a bit difficult to garner…

Last night was the annual Supporters’ Q&A with Arsenal’s Chief Executive, currently Ivan Gazidis. This was started as an AST event back in the days of Keith Edelman. When he left Ken Friar kindly stepped in for a year, and more recently Ivan has become noticeably more reluctant to maintain the event in anything like…

Just for info, this is how the Premier League’s TV deal money has increased since 1992 – from £2m per club to an average of well over £70m per club each season. Twitter: @AngryOfN5

You may or may not be aware that Arsenal have a Fans’ Forum, where they invite representatives from different groups of supporters to discuss matters of concern a few times a season. Fair play to Arsenal for doing this, as many clubs don’t do anything similar. Whether they’re really listening is another matter, though. Ahead…

Will Arsenal beat Hull? They damn well should. Look at the size of the clubs, look at the trophy count, look at the league positions. But unfortunately in football things often don’t go as planned, and with Arsenal in finals that is especially true. We can all remember a few we have messed up. But…

I did a flowchart last year on how Arsene buys players, but the wily old fox has changed his methods. I had to send Edna the tea lady in to root around in Ivan’s bin again to find out what was going on. She came up with this: Follow me on twitter: @AngryOfN5

I have learned some amazing things on twitter recently. For a start there is the subject of my previous post: there are people who still believe that Arsenal had to sell all those star players year after year because they desperately needed the money. Absolute tosh. Even more amazing, there are people who genuinely believe…