Five Years Ago: Dein Tells Usmanov To Back Off!

Just came across this Evening Standard cutting from 29 February 2008. Much has changed behind the scenes at Arsenal since.  Even by this time David Dein had been ostracised and sold his shares to Usmanov, making Usmanov at the time the largest shareholder. But some of the other comments are telling. The AST five years…

After Bayern: What Should Arsenal Fans Expect?

Now we’re in the cold light of day, what does losing to Bayern mean for Arsenal? Firstly it means it will be at least nine years without a trophy, which is the longest period in my lifetime. The longest since the great drought to end all droughts of 1953-70. We’ve been in a few finals…

Arsenal Can Beat Bayern

Of course Arsenal CAN beat Bayern, and of course they CAN win by enough goals to see them qualify for the quarter finals; it’s just not very likely. Not right now, anyway. Bayern are a high quality team in top form and Arsenal are a slightly lower quality team who have not managed to string…

At Least We Can Trust The Arsenal Board With Statues

So now we know that Dennis Bergkamp will be the next statue at Arsenal. Not really a surprise – he only really has Thierry Henry as competition for the title of ‘Arsenal’s Greatest Player In Living Memory’, and Titi already has a statue. When the AST asked members last summer who the next statue should…

60% of Premier League Footballers Are Stupid

They must be. It’s the only explanation for this: It also makes it even more illogical to pay them huge wages in the first place, that the rest of us have to subsidise. I see Brad Friedel is one step ahead – he hasn’t even waited until he’s retired. Maybe I should have titled this…