The other day someone left a comment on a blog post of mine asking why some of us call our stadium Ashburton Grove. What the hell is Ashburton Grove anyway? I thought rather than just post a one line response, I’d have a look a little further back. Most long-time Gooners will know that Ashburton…

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about research that some American dude did into the best time to make substitutions. This concluded that if you were losing and wanted to affect the result then you need to make your first substitution no later than 58 minutes in, the second by 73 minutes and the…

Barely have we got used to purple and black, when this has appeared on the Arsenal Brasil site, predicting next season’s away kit. I should add that Arsenal Brasil seem to have some kind of hotline to Nike, because their predictions are usually pretty accurate. I don’t know how they do it, but they do…

This is my column from issue 229 of The Gooner, which came out for the Fulham game a couple of weeks ago. Last Saturday’s match against Aston Villa makes it still very pertinent. I have the privilege, if that’s the right word, of writing this after the defeat to Man Utd. Lost to Norwich with…

I tried to remember what happened at the AGM last month, but my notes were incomplete. When I came to write them up they came out like this. The words may not all be exactly as it happened, but I know the gist is correct. You couldn’t make this stuff up.   The Arsenal Board…

Last week The Times celebrated the return of one of the few English footballers under 50 who have a chance of being described as World Class with any degree of honesty. As usual with these features, there is little that’s different to every other feature on a player: he loves playing, he missed it, his…

Remember when Suarez and Terry crashed into each other two weekends ago? Terry is still out injured as a result, but at least it gives him more time to advise the new Chelsea manager as well as catch up on the admin for Terry’s Training Ground Tours – wads of £50 notes don’t just take…

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Last week The Times published a long piece about Alisher Usmanov, including his PR firm’s failed attempt to change his Wikipedia page without anyone noticing, which I told you about here. Here is the rest of what The Times said. It’s quite long, but can be summarised as: He’s very rich He lives in Moscow…