Myles Palmer
Loves jazz/football/books
A London novel with a difference by Salena Godden
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.…
The Arsenal memorabilia of the future: The whole story of 89 in book form
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,…
Ginger Baker and Twiggy came from Neasden
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.…
Biggest British clubs on social media? Man Utd,Chelsea & Arsenal
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…
Why Arsenal blogger is saying goodbye after 21 years
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…
How would Southgate’s England respond to a Brian Clough team talk?
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…
Is Gareth Southgate a bit too doctrinal and policy-driven?
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…
Why did Pochettino start Harry Kane against Liverpool in Madrid?
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…
Champions League Finals :Zidane/ Shevchenko/Gerrard/Xavi & Suarez
2001 Kahn, Lizarazu, Effenberg deserve Champions Cup victory 23rd May 2001 __________________________ Bayern Munich 1 Valencia 1 Bayern win 5-4 after sudden death penalties ___________________________________________ Real Madrid versus Arsenal would have been a far better game! This was the dullest…