This post is based on a comment that was left by ‘Ricky’ on another post. I thought that as it raises interesting questions, rather than provide a cursory answer in the comments I’d try and address it slightly more fully. My comments in blue. Not related to this particular post but would appreciate your thoughts.…

John Pickford (@theN5er on twitter) has put this short piece together for me on the status of Arsenal and Tottenham, as witnessed by one of Spurs’ greatest legends, Jimmy Greaves. *     *     *     * Tottenham are forever in Arsenal’s shadow, that’s the boast we hear most often from the Islington faithful but you don’t need…

It’s Arsenal against Spurs this weekend, and there will be some in the crowd on Saturday who are happy to chant what most polite people refer to these days as ‘the Y-word’. Perhaps slightly oddly, there may be as many of them in the Spurs section as the Arsenal parts of the ground. Before I…

Another great piece from The Times, who got stuck into Arsenal’s number two shareholder Alisher Usmanov this week. If you were unaware, Mr Usmanov’s Wikipedia page was altered to give a more kindly view of our rotund billionaire chum. Out with mention of criminal convictions and opponents mysteriously disappearing, and in with what a wonderful…

Arsenal fans know the drill on substitutions:the first one between 67 and 70 minutes and not a minute earlier. That’s the Wenger way. Usually just one at this early stage but sometimes two, with the others following on anything up to the 90th minute. It doesn’t seem to make much difference to Arsene whether the…

Have I mentioned I hate most football stats? I think I may have. Mostly they are meaningless tosh that have no bearing on anything. Whenever someone tweets a stat onto my twitter timeline like this one:I think ‘Meaningless stat’. Then I start singing in my head, ‘Meaningless stats in very high voices’, because the phrase…

Here’s the result of today’s 12-hour poll. Who would have guessed that Arsenal fans would think Tony Pulis was the most annoying manager? But it’s a measure of how far we’ve fallen that Arsene himself is seen as nearly twice as annoying as Sam Allardyce. Because to be honest Sam Allardyce annoys the crap out…

As a result of a twitter conversation in which Martin Jol was called rude names, here’s a quick poll to find out if he is in fact more annoying than the likes of Mark Hughes and Sam Allardyce. Not that I want to lead you to vote a particular way. Never tried this poll functionality…

Here’s a table of trophy winners since 2005-06. I’m fairly sure about the wage figures, but if I’ve made an error please point it out – with a link to the correct information. If you add in net transfer spend, Liverpool were also bigger spenders than Arsenal in 2012, but not in 2006 or 2009.…