Arsenal’s REAL Attendance Figures for 2015-16

As you’ll know, Arsenal like to announce a ‘tickets sold’ figure and pretend it’s the actual attendance, rather than just telling us how many people have come through the turnstiles. This leads to some amusement when they announce 59,000-and-something even when it’s clear from looking around that one seat in every five is empty. So…

How To Be A Phenomenal Success

This is a review of a recently published novel, Gary’s Guide To Life: How I Am Going To Achieve Phenomenal Success, And How You Can Do The Same, by Michael Nabavian and Phil Wall – yes, that’s me. The blurb: Most people would give anything to be as successful as Gary Speedwell is going to…

Why is Arsène Wenger not spending money?

Why are Arsenal not signing anyone lately? Another topic where Arsenal fans as a whole are never going to agree, but with £200m+ in the bank I think we can agree there are two basic possibilities: Stan Kroenke won’t let Arsène spend Arsène doesn’t want to spend Clearly the second option could be for a…

Does Theo Walcott Have A Football Brain?

It seems Theo Walcott has at last decided the position he wants to play. He’s agitated for years to play as centre forward, but now realises that’s not for him. He’ll very generously go out on the right. Or is it the left? Whatever. I’m not sure what’s prompted this, but I think we can…

What’s Going On At Arsenal This Summer?

I haven’t written a blog post for ages, which has given Ivan Gazidis the chance to do another spinterview* on what Arsenal may or may not spend this summer. Arsenal fans can get a bit worked up about transfer windows, and Ivan stoking the fires doesn’t help. So here’s a quick Q&A to assist anyone…

Lee Dixon: “Arsenal’s Team Spirit is Poor”

We’ve had the annual supporters’ Q&A at Arsenal, on the evening of Friday 3 June. Most Arsenal fans congratulate the club for holding this event, as it’s more than other clubs do – and that is certainly one point of view. But the reason it’s held is down to the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust, who instigated…

Were Leicester Lucky? Part 2.

The story so far: I saw a tweet from Ted Knutson (@mixedknuts) saying Leicester were lucky in 2015-16 – specifically he believed they were lucky to concede fewer goals than his ‘expected goals against’ stats suggested they should. I wrote a blog post saying I didn’t see any evidence of luck in that stat, and…