For no particular reason, here’s a bit of history about the offside law. Back in 1972 former referee Ken Aston wrote a regular column in the Arsenal programme, which in those days contained 16 pages and was priced at a princely 5 pence. On 2 September, Ken’s column discussed a proposed change to the offside…

Footballers have big egos, we know this. But their egos are fragile. They do not like their egos to be crushed. Because of this the PFA Avoidance of Members’ Embarrassment Committee has approved the following for use in the Premier League and Football League. Managers will ignore them at their peril. Rules of substitutions: Do…

I have a theory that part of Liverpool’s success in the late 1970s and early 1980s was down to shirt numbering. I’m interested if other people remember this, as I can’t find anything about it on the net. From the time that shirt numbering was introduced in the 1920s right up to the 1970s, the…

Peter Hill-Wood is an old duffer, as we know, and I have had a go at him several times recently. I firmly believe it is time for him to stand down – or at least aside – and put a younger, more dynamic and modern-thinking man in place as Arsenal Chairman. This is not to…

Part One of this piece was posted a couple of days ago here. Then we had the Q&A with Ivan Gazidis (part one and a half) where we learnt not very much at all, other than Ivan continues to believe, or at least claim, that everything will be fine, or that if it isn’t it…

Some brief notes on Ivan’s Q&A last night. The evening went like this: 7:00pm – in we go to the Royal Oak suite in the North Bank Club Level. Handed a free drink voucher on entry. Much milling around and chatting. Various stands in place with display of new home kit and other commercial kind…

As Ivan Gazidis will face 300 representatives of supporter groups this evening, it seems an appropriate time to post some information about the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust. The AST gets some flak from certain other Arsenal fans. I realise that these days every viewpoint of every Arsenal fan will get flak from some other Arsenal supporter…

This subject has been discussed before, but may well be raised again tomorrow at the supporters’ Q&A with Ivan Gazidis, given the refusal of Stan Kroenke to put money into the club’s coffers, and the apparent desire of Alisher Usmanov to do so. I’m taking some of the general info and definitions from this web…

I hate the word ‘Emirates’ as the name for Arsenal’s stadium. Absolutely hate it with a passion. I still can’t believe the club (well, Keith Edelman at the time) were so stupid as to not add another word into the title so we don’t have to suffer people calling it ‘The Emirates’ for the last…

At first I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never turn Spurs into a top four side Then I spent oh so many nights thinking we could win the league I was wrong, but I’ll just have to carry on So now we’re back, into fourth place We were up there till…