Peter Drury is a football commentator. These days he is on BT, but he used to be on ITV, a fact of which he was very proud, although the words ‘ITV’ and ‘sport’ go together like violin and custard in most people’s minds, so to be an ITV sports commentator is not necessarily something to…

Further to my not very recent last post, there are some people who believe Stan Kroenke is already putting his own money into Arsenal. Why do they think this? To be honest I’m not totally sure, but let’s look at the evidence. Kroenke took 100 per cent control of Arsenal in the summer of 2018,…

(*If he absolutely has to.) The age-old question of “Will Stan Kroenke put any of his own money into Arsenal?” has taken on new meaning lately, what with the current problem of no money coming into the club from any of the usual sources, while outgoings remain at around £27m a month, including about £16m…

This is an update on what I wrote this time last year, when after a couple of years of the cash balance dropping it was back up to a record of £231m. Today the Arsenal Holdings accounts for 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2019 were released – on the last possible day they were…

Managers like to be beside the pitch because they can then be seen to be ‘managing’. Which translates in most cases as stalking the touchline – or as close as the technical area will let them get – and haranguing the fourth official, with perhaps some pointing and a few anguished gestures when one of…

This thing about some men believing they could take a point off Serena in a tennis match: why would taking a single point be so hard? They’re not claiming they’d take a game are they, or even a set? We are just talking about one point, right? What are the odds on Serena winning an…

…and tell me more about amortisation… You may have read this blog recently on Arsenal’s financial position. Lots of people did, but there is no facility on the blog for responses, so what do you do if you disagree with anything? Write your own blog post, I guess. The Arsenal Vision blog explained in a…

The question of who owns Arsenal used to have a long answer, as Arsenal always had many shareholders, but the situation was made much simpler on 25th September 2018, when Stan Kroenke compulsorily purchased all the shares he didn’t already own, becoming the first 100 per cent owner in Arsenal’s history. Kroenke was also the…

Stan Kroenke isn’t going to be selling Arsenal anytime soon. So as we’re stuck with him, is a good or bad owner to have for Arsenal FC? Or more specifically for its supporters, who are the reason the club exists in the first place. I stress that this is to do with ownership of Arsenal…

For some people football is all about progress. You have to get better each season, closer to a league title, or else the manager is failing and must be sacked. So have Arsenal made progress this season? Let’s consult the handy Progressometer that I invented way back in 2015. The criteria are simple: Has league…