Sack the Board! (Or not.)

Bring back David Dein! Dein is a traitor! Sack Ivan Gazidis! Bring in Usmanov! Keep Usmanov out! Kroenke out! Sack Peter Hill-Wood! . . . Okay, I’ll go with that one. This article looks a bit like a riposte to this one published yesterday on GoonerTalk, though in fact I wrote 90 per cent of…

Changes to Plus Markets: will Arsenal de-list their shares?

Plus Markets, the stock exchange where Arsenal shares are traded, announced on May 14 it was closing It’s since been taken over with a promise to keep it open For different reasons, both Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov may have preferred if it had closed, removing the marketplace for Arsenal shares That’s the executive summary.…

David Dein discusses the Premier League

It’s not a great day to be an Arsenal fan, so why not go back to a simpler happier time when Arsenal were champions and the fantastic new Premier League was shortly to begin. Here’s young David Dein to tell you just how great it would all be, interviewed in the Arsenal programme from the…

Arsenal and Spurs Groundshare?!

Anyone who complains about Arsenal’s new stadium, which the club likes to refer to as ‘The Emirates Stadium’ and I like to refer to as ‘Arsenal’s new stadium’, should remember that back in the 1970s the club were actively considering a groundshare with Spurs at Alexandra Palace. So not only would we have left the…

Reasons to be annoyed, part 1

Here’s some stuff that annoys me on Twitter. That’s the kind of mood I’m in. Transfer rumours, where people apparently ‘in the know’ say “Don’t worry about us signing X – that’s 100% a done deal”, and this is about four months before the transfer window opens! Actually no one knows until the contract is…