Someone asked me a while back whether Arsenal would have been better off staying at Highbury another ten or 12 years, and be moving now, as Spurs are. I considered this for a few seconds and decided that it was a flawed theory. But, said the questioner, look what’s happened: as soon as we moved…
History shows us that after 12 matches of a Premier League season there is just over a 1 in 3 chance that someone will still be unbeaten. So this will happen on average about once in every three seasons. Any team still unbeaten after 12 matches is almost certain to be one of the title…
This is an updated table from one I last posted about four years ago. As well as updating Arsene Wenger’s stats to the present, there are some changes to the early records, thanks to research by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews, who do a fantastic job over at thearsenalhistory.com. Feel free to compare how Arsene…
I hesitate to write another Arsenal share price post, because every time I do something seems to change within a day or two and make it out of date. I talked about a new record price and the market-makers then raising the bid and ask prices a couple of times, and immediately another share was…
As a post script to my last post, I see the price of an Arsenal share has gone up again today – without any even being traded. I mentioned last time that market makers, who decide the ‘bid’, ‘ask’ and ‘mid’ prices, had decided for reasons unknown to increase these markers following a couple of…
It seems like every other blog post I’ve written in the last 12 months has been about a new record price for Arsenal shares. Stan Kroenke must have blisters from rubbing his hands together in glee so often. The latest development was a share being traded for £31,000 on March 2nd. The lucky buyer, and…
The journal Legal Week has reported that former Arsenal director and shareholder Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith has filed new court papers against her lawyers, Linklaters, in connection with the sale of her 15.9% stake in Arsenal to Stan Kroenke at the time of his takeover. Lady B-S is suing both Linklaters and the accountancy firm Deloitte…
