The international break must be filled somehow, so why not fill it by marvelling at how I have rewritten My Way to tell the story of the 1971 FA Cup final? I’ve managed to get the name of every Arsenal player in there, which is no mean feat, let me tell you. First what some…

Arsenal’s latest accounts to the end of May 2012 are now out and the full report is available on the club website. Swiss Ramble has done a comprehensive analysis and comparison with previous years and the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust has also published a summary on their website. You can of course read all of those,…

I’ve written before about the interaction between AKBs and WOBs, but having had another six or seven months to think about it I am now amused by the dynamics between the different factions of Arsenal fans. I wanted to draw a big and complex Venn diagram showing how we all interact, but when I started…

I could eulogise all day about a very good away victory at West Ham, but others will be doing that. I will say that we scored three very good goals, and our attacking play for all three showed a welcome return to some of the values of the early Wenger era. Theo’s finish was Henryesque,…

Continuing to bring everyone up to date with what The Times are doing about Arsenal, here’s their feature on Manuel Almunia from October 1. No, wait! He’s not an Arsenal player anymore is he? Hard to tell when we hadn’t seen him for two years anyway. During that time, if he hadn’t been paid at…

To prove what a great paper The Times is (see previous blog post), here’s a feature from last weekend on Arsenal ‘starlet’ (yuck) Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Fortunately the Ox comes across as a well brought up young man who is a credit to Arsenal – but you knew that already. You may not know he’s the…

I love The Times. Absolutely love it. It’s by far the best English newspaper, and overall English newspapers are a high standard. There are exceptions, and of course numerous scandals in recent years, but that doesn’t detract from the quality of journalism and feature writing in The Times. However, they do employ the odd person…

My competition to win a signed Ian Wright poster and football produced entries from as far away as Scandinavia, Asia and even New Zealand. The prize was courtesy of wehustle.co.uk, who recently produced the brilliant Ian Wright video in their Nothing to Something series – watch it here. If you haven’t seen it yet, it…

The biggest money-spinning game in the history of domestic league football didn’t really live up to its billing, though I’m sure Chelsea went home happy. I wouldn’t say they ground out the win, but they were prepared to work harder than Arsenal. They closed down higher up the pitch and most of the time presented…

All week I’ve been celebrating the achievements of one of the most charismatic players I’ve ever had the joy of watching. So the good people of wehustle.co.uk, makers of the Ian Wright ‘Nothing to Something’ video (and if you haven’t watched it you really should), have kindly given me a signed poster and football from…