If you’re reading this before midnight where you are on February 13, then it’s still Liam Brady’s birthday. The Arsenal legend is 57 today. Who can forget his genius in the red and white, and sometimes yellow and blue? Setting up all the goals in the 1979 FA Cup Final, the amazing curling shot in…

A quick Arsenal share update. I was prompted to do this today by the fact that there are updated figures on Arsenal.com, and for the first time since 20 December the number of shares officially held by Alisher Usmanov has gone up – in this case by eight, from 18,637 to 18,645. To recap the…

Lee Dixon made his Arsenal debut 25 years ago today in a league fixture against Luton – a club who have since dropped right out of the Football League! Here’s Lee on the front cover of the programme for his debut, and the welcome article inside. George Graham’s page mentions Lee as a footnote, noting…

I don’t normally pay much attention to Tony Cascarino except to disagree with him, so I’m not sure if I should rather parochially point out when I concur with his views, but here goes anyway. These were his comments on Wilshere’s performance against Brazil: “The highlight [of England v Brazil] for me was seeing Wilshere…

Twenty years ago today Arsenal beat Crystal Palace in the first leg of the Coca Cola League Cup, to stay on course for a unique (at the time) cup double. The match featured two penalties, one for each side and both converted, plus two Alan Smith goals to give Arsenal a 3-1 advantage for the…

A wise lady once said to me: Unless you strive for perfection, you’ll never achieve it. And I think it was economist Adam Smith who said about 200 years ago something like: If everyone was happy with the poorest clothing, worst housing and meanest food, that’s all there would be. In other words, why put…

Raw data nicked from The Times (don’t tell them), totalled up and sorted into biggest to smallest spenders. No trophy for Arsenal again, and we had only the sixth biggest transfer of the 2013 window with the Nacho Man. Follow me on Twitter: @AngryOfN5

These are some extracts from a publication called League Football, ‘The official journal of The Football League’, that was given away stapled into various club programmes in the early 1970s. This particular edition was in the programme for Crystal Palace v Arsenal on October 21, 1972. It’s an odd publication, with a mix of general…

Arsenal’s wages are a source of endless fascination to many, especially with Arsène coming out recently and defending his ‘socialist’ model. All kinds of figures get bandied around as to who exactly gets what, so I thought I’d have a quick go at some elementary maths myself. (As that is the only kind I can…

Arsenal 5  West Ham 1 The Arse win! Not just win, but win convincingly despite going a goal down to West Ham, who looked dangerous early on. There were several good points about this match, and I’m not sure which was the best, so let’s have a top 10 good things in no particular order:…