This is the funniest thing I have seen in ages. This newspaper report, found by Arsenal historian Mark Andrews (@RoyalArsenalMRA), is from 1974, shortly after George Armstrong got a testimonial from Arsenal for his 12 years of service to that point, and having just passed the landmark of 500 first team matches. George made a…

Just a brief post as Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri’s jointly owned investment vehicle R&W Holdings have announced that they’ve taken their Arsenal shareholding over the symbolic 30 per cent mark today with the purchase of 6 shares. There’s no update on Arsenal.com as yet, though these normally appear on a Friday, so if the…

The Arsenal Holdings AGM for this year takes place on Thursday October 17, 2013. It’s traditionally held on the third Thursday in October, and since the stadium move has been held in one of the Club Level eating and drinking areas. As with all Public Limited Companies, Arsenal are obliged to hold an AGM and…

Well now, some more statistics for us to get our teeth into. Some Arsenal fans have long lamented the apparently never-ending injury list we seem to suffer. There is of course some bias in our opinion about how much we are affected by injuries compared to other clubs, as we notice what happens to our…

To continue this week’s theme of statistics, here’s another that’s getting on my nerves: Arsenal have played seven league matches so far this season and amassed 16 points. In the corresponding fixtures last season we had a 100 per cent record and amassed 21 points! Ergo we are doing worse than last year, despite being…

Like Butch Cassidy said, ‘Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals’. I write a blog post pointing out that passing statistics in football are nothing to get excited about, and a few people see fit to argue. Maybe that’s because they couldn’t be bothered to read the whole blog post…

The morning after the magnificent win over Napoli, a Guardian sports writer tweeted the passing statistics from the game. I can’t remember the exact figures, but Arsenal made over 600 passes compared to Napoli’s sub-400 total. A limit of 140 characters doesn’t leave much room for explanation, but the inference I made from the tweet…

Despite all the criticism of Arsène over recent seasons, which I often add to, I still in many ways have a grudging admiration for how he operates. He could do better, don’t get me wrong, and if he’d spent more time listening to advice on certain coaching aspects in recent seasons, while he stuck to…

A number of Spurs fans have left comments on this blog at various times (like here and here), and often they point out that, yes, Arsenal may have won 13 titles to Spurs’ 2, Arsenal may have won more FA Cups than Spurs, Arsenal may have been in the Champions League for the last 17…

So Stan Kroenke has given an interview to a couple of newspapers. It’s almost two years since he granted a wider cross-section of the press some of his time, but the messages are essentially the same: Arsenal are doing great I love Arsene and I want him to stay I don’t interfere in running the…