By Myles Palmer __________________________ Arsenal 2 Bradford City 0 __________________________ Ashley Cole had a smashing game but his first good cross showed us what a pantomime this game was going to be. Thierry Henry took a swing at the cross…
By Myles Palmer A wonderful home draw in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup! I said Arsenal’s luck was changing. Chelsea ! An exciting game in prospect.Unlike QPR this match should make the heart beat faster. The 1-1 draw…
By Myles Palmer _______________ QPR 0 Arsenal 6 _______________ Arriving at Loftus Road for a 19,000 sell-out FA Cup Fourth Round tie was pretty strange. There was no buzz, no Cup fever, no anticipation.The relegation zone does that to fans,…
By Ian Grant The publisher came in and said to the pool of writers, who wants to write about football? Two of us agreed. He’d just won the contract to do Queen’s Park Rangers paper, The Ranger. Guiness had just…
By Ian Grant PLAYERSArsenal face a Home Office inquiry into their £1m signing of the Lithuania striker Tomas Danilevicius. He holds a Greek passport and is classed as an EU player. But it is claimed this document is false. But…
By Myles Palmer Am I optimistic? Yes. Why? Because Arsenal have won only three of their last 11 Premiership games. They are better than that. Arsenal have to be better than that. I expect them to beat Leicester now that…
By Ian Grant EduThe 22-year-old, (Edu) Eduarde Daude Gaspar finally signed for Arsenal. Edu has been associated with Corinthians since he was five, winning two Brazilian championships and last year’s World Club Championship.Wenger said: “He has the long passing game,…
QPR 2 Luton 1 A few jolly moments last night at QPR with my good friends Doug D’Arcy, Chris Wright, Nick Blackburn, Steve Burtenshaw, Joe Kinnear, Arsene Wenger, David Dein and Boro Primorac. Hundreds of police when I reach Shepherds…
By Myles Palmer It seems I was wrong about Bergkamp on Saturday.I’m reliably informed that he was at Highbury early and did some running that was seen by TV technicians.He had not recovered from his stomach upset. He did not…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal 1 Chelsea 1 There is something rotten in the state of Denmark. Something seriously wrong that we don’t know about. How else to explain so many leads lost? So many games where Bergkamp didn’t play. We…