I’m not big on match reports, but a first win of the season with the transfer window only just slammed shut prompts a few thoughts. And 2-0 away at Liverpool always brings back a lot of happy memories. Firstly, two of the three new boys are now off the mark, and the whole performance at…

Stuff you don’t know about Premier League kit this season. These facts are from the new Premier League Handbook 2012-13. What was originally called ‘change strip’, then ‘away kit’ is now officially called ‘alternative kit’. Arsenal’s ‘Alternative kit 2’ (ie third kit) is listed as yellow with a yellow goalkeeper’s jersey. That will never happen.…

The new Premier League rule book is out, and can be viewed here. My main interest in it is to see what they’ve done to rules about ownership that will affect the Kroenke/Usmanov dynamic, but at first sight I can’t see what’s different in those sections. So while I check that in more detail, here’s…

Another day, another change to the information on Plus Markets. It turns out that there were two trades of 20 Arsenal shares each on August 28 – see my blogs from earlier this week here and here. To recap, two trades appeared like this on the 28th: Then on the 29th one was removed again.…

Official statement just released, so no need to worry.

Mr Wenger has heard there may be a small amount of anxiety among Arsenal fans at present. He would just like to reassure you with this comforting message: Follow me on Twitter: @AngryOfN5

Here’s some journalism – and I use the term entirely wrongly – from the Daily Mail today, courtesy of @gingers4limpar who tweeted it last night from the early edition. It’s apparently written by Charlie Sale, who I see is on Twitter, but doesn’t use it much, so possibly no point in tweeting him to point…

So yesterday the Plus Markets website said that 40 Arsenal shares had been sold in the morning, in two batches of 20, and I wrote a blog about it. Today they apparently realised that that hadn’t happened, and in fact it was only one block of 20 shares that were sold. They removed one of…

*** Stop Press ***  Plus Markets have changed their website and their story 24 hours after notifying the world of these trades! See note at the bottom of the blog post. On 28 August 40 Arsenal shares were traded on Plus Markets, 20 at £17,050 each and another 20 at £17,150 each (the record high…

Always read the small print!