Last season I was often scathing about “Artetaball”But Arteta has made Arsenal really solid now. They are very hard to beat because they retain the ball so well and have three big defenders who keep clean sheets. Odegard and Saka…
Performing poet Salena begins her first novel with a series of Disclaimers. The Disclaimers include the following: This book cannot see the future…This work contains violent deaths: this book cannot change the ending or your ending or its own ending.…
Is 20 years a long time in football? I think so. 1989 was before Sky, before the Premier League, before the ghastly VAR. 1989 by Amy Lawrence is a book written for gooners about a match played in unique circumstances,…
In 2017 Miran and I had a rocking night out at a preview of Beware Mr Baker at the Hospital Club. We both know Neasden because we live quite near there and I once met Twiggy and that was big fun.…
By Dan Ferguson ——————————————- In the middle of this rumour-fed silly season Arsenal has had a serious kicking from all aspects of the media relating to our budget, planning and lack of on both fronts. I started thinking about why…
Because blogging Arsenal should be done by Arsenal fans. Covering Premier League football and European club football has become too much. And I also did tournaments. World Cups are big and too long and I started to fatigue during Euro…
From Rhys Jaggar Clough (holding a football): ‘What’s this?’ Forest player: ‘It’s a ball, boss.’ Clough: ‘Right: go and play with it….’ And that was all he said before a Nottingham Forest victory. It is the ultimate empowerment team talk…
Southgate is an organisational revolutionary. He’s mild-mannered and thorough and a good listener. A bold leader, he has reached into the future and yanked the 2020 England team into the present summer and tried it out. Last week he lost…
Liverpool 2 Spurs 0 Salah (pen) 2 Origi 87 ——————————————– Poch started Harry Kane, who hadn’t played since April 9th. Kane hadn’t played for 53 days! In my preview, said I didn’t think he would start Kane. We watched the…