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…

This is a subject that every Arsenal fan has talked about at some point: did the club have to rein in spending in order to build a new stadium? Has Arsene Wenger worked miracles year after year on nothing more than the budget of a Conference team? Everyone has an opinion, but no one has…

Decades from now, Arsenal historians might look back on this period in Arsenal history as the Acronym Wars: The WOBs against the AKBs, with a few others thrown in – BSM, AST, AAAs, you name it, someone’s made up a TLA for it. But why is there a division between WOBs and AKBs? What don’t…

Are we calling it Shirtgate or Sleevegate? I’m not sure. Either way, in the absence of any proper Arsenal news, the story of Flamini cutting the sleeves off his shirt for the recent Man Utd match has rolled on for a few days in a rather larger way than it would have if there were…

Some people laughingly say this blog isn’t positive enough. Nonsense. An utterly ridiculous notion. But just in case it’s true I’ve got a guest to write this post previewing exactly why Arsenal will beat Man U.  Over to Bryan Thomson, aka @PlutoSA ******************** You, dear reader, are embarking on a journey this fine morn/afternoon/eve. A…

What happens to Arsenal’s small shareholders if Alisher Usmanov buys all Stan Kroenke’s shares, or if Kroenke buys all of Usmanov’s? You may be wondering: If one of our pet billionaires gets bored and decides to bugger off and leave Arsenal in the hands of the other, what will happen to the remaining small shareholders?…

If the subject of Arsenal’s shareholders is a bit dull to you, then maybe skip this one. Don’t leave some sarky comment afterwards, because I have warned you. If you’d rather just see Spurs fans making fools of themselves in blog comments, go and read this instead. As you probably know, Alisher Usmanov’s Red &…