By Myles Palmer The Sun’s excellent columnist John Sadler wheels out his old pal Brian Clough to slaughter Paddy Vieira today.Old bighead calls Vieira big-headed. And he’s right.Cloughie hates player power, as you know.He is really just saying what I’ve…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal and Manchester United had a conversation yesterday and decided not to fall out over one player.Arsenal knew they had to make a stand this time. The player is important, but the principle is fundamental.They could flog…
By Myles Palmer Did you wonder how Mark Irwin had new Patrick Vieira quotes every day? I certainly did. Then, last night, I got a call from my mole in News International. Vieira SOLD his exclusive slag-off quotes to The…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal is big enough for Vieira, but Highbury isn’t. The bottom line is that a club with a 38,000 capacity stadium finds it hard to employ one of the ten best fooballers in the world. Today’s Mirror…
By Myles Palmer After my Ipswich own-goal Ive decided to stop forecasting fixtures. In future I will stick to forecasting results. Love the fixture list : Arsenal don’t have a REALLY hard league game till the end of November. By…
By Myles Palmer The Premiership fixtures come out on Thursday, so how can I possibly know who Arsenal play in their first game?I don’t know for sure.But I hear it’s Ipswich at Highbury and the next two games are away.It…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal expect Cameroon right back Geremi to sign this week. He is a powerhouse athlete with tremendous skill. But the Spaniard Salgado is keeping him out of the Real Madrid team. He was born 20.12.78, which makes…
By Myles Palmer Two fantastic quotes from Wenger and Vieira last week.After Wenger signed Francis Jeffers he might have said,”I knew I had to buy some English players this summer because I signed Lauren,Pires,Wiltord and Stepanovs last summer.”But what he…
By Myles Palmer We told you why Jeffers was coming way back on May 13th in: Should Kanu and Wiltord be sold?We could have told you at 6pm Wednesday night but the tabloids would have nicked the story.They have webgrabbers…
By Myles Palmer Francis Jeffers is the new drill-bit in Arsene Wenger’s goal-machine. If this talented kid fits in as quickly as I expect, Arsenal will be be scoring the second goal more often, and more quickly, than ever before.…