Like Butch Cassidy said, ‘Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals’. I write a blog post pointing out that passing statistics in football are nothing to get excited about, and a few people see fit to argue. Maybe that’s because they couldn’t be bothered to read the whole blog post…

The morning after the magnificent win over Napoli, a Guardian sports writer tweeted the passing statistics from the game. I can’t remember the exact figures, but Arsenal made over 600 passes compared to Napoli’s sub-400 total. A limit of 140 characters doesn’t leave much room for explanation, but the inference I made from the tweet…

Despite all the criticism of Arsène over recent seasons, which I often add to, I still in many ways have a grudging admiration for how he operates. He could do better, don’t get me wrong, and if he’d spent more time listening to advice on certain coaching aspects in recent seasons, while he stuck to…

A number of Spurs fans have left comments on this blog at various times (like here and here), and often they point out that, yes, Arsenal may have won 13 titles to Spurs’ 2, Arsenal may have won more FA Cups than Spurs, Arsenal may have been in the Champions League for the last 17…

So Stan Kroenke has given an interview to a couple of newspapers. It’s almost two years since he granted a wider cross-section of the press some of his time, but the messages are essentially the same: Arsenal are doing great I love Arsene and I want him to stay I don’t interfere in running the…

I’ve got no axe to grind on World Cup dates and why Qatar was selected as a suitable venue – aside from the possibility of corruption within Fifa. But this ‘problem’ of a winter World Cup doesn’t seem like such a big problem to me. The World Cup takes a month. Put two weeks on…

This month’s AST meeting had sports lawyer Ian Lynam (@ianlynam)as a guest speaker. Ian is an Arsenal fan and has previously worked for Arsenal on transfer deals, so has great insight into how the club functions on player contracts and transfers. He now has Cesc Fabregas as a client, among others. He confirmed that Cesc…

I hesitate to mention the S-word again, as their fans already think I’m obsessed, but unfortunately there’s been no actual proper football going on lately, so I was looking at quotes from Arsène Wenger before the NLD. He was asked about the Totts and Gareth Bale. As it was leading up to the match, it…

I would not have bothered with this topic but for two things: 1 – the number of indignant comments from Spurs fans on previous blog posts saying how public spirited their club is in building a new ground in an area that needs facilities, coupled with their bizarre insistence that Arsenal somehow fleeced the taxpaying…

Part of the fun of being an Arsenal fan is to take the mickey out of Tottenham fans. And vice versa, of course, but we have had far more laughs at their expense in recent years – in fact in most of our lifetimes – than they have had at ours. I like a bit…