By Ian Grant PLAYERSDennis Bergkamp is ninth in the UK football business pay league, with £3.25m according to National Statistics.The Mirror reports that Dennis Bergkamp has ended his ‘row’ with Arsenal after agreeing a new two-year deal with the club.…
By Myles Palmer Moscow Spartak 4 Arsenal 1 Silvinho had scored after 77 seconds. Marcao had equalised after 29 minutes. The score was 1-1 at half-time. Then Spartak got their second goal after 51 minutes. Titov saw his first cross…
By Myles Palmer Spartak Moscow 4 Arsenal 1 Uefa coaching director Andy Roxburgh will want Silvinho’s goal for his video compilation. As a demonstration of how to destroy a sweeper defence by lightning counter-attack this was ONE OF THE FINEST…
By Myles Palmer A fantastic night of live football – if you have ITV 2 and can get home by 5pm. The Spartak Moscow v Arsenal programme starts on ITV2 at 4.30 pm and kicks off at 5 pm, which…
By Myles Palmer The T-men worry me because Vieira and Grimandi are missing. If there was ever a night when Arsenal needed strong-tackling midfielders it is this one. I’m worried that the runs of Titov and Tikhonov are too deadly…
By Ian Grant According to one tabloid, Juventus are ready to offer Arsenal a choice of £20m or Edgar Davids and Alessandro del Piero in exchange for Patrick Vieira. Juve’s £15m summer bid was rejected out of hand. Likely story.Meanwhile…
By Myles Palmer England improved more in three days with Peter Taylor than they did in 18 months with Kevin Keegan. Taylor added 25% to England’s performance in one game. If he adds another 10% against Spain at Villa Park,…
By Myles Palmer I thought Darren Anderton would play! So I was really looking forward to Italy v England. I didn’t care about the result and I didn’t care about the performance. I only cared about ONE THING. Whether Peter…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal 0 Derby 0 Coaches need to be pragmatic,not schematic. They need to build their style of play round what their best players do best. Arsene Wenger proved brilliant at that when he changed the team in…
By Ian Grant The Arsenal juggernaut came up against the Derby buffers. And stopped dead in it tracks. Was this the day Arsenal lost the title? No, but it shows opposing teams that if you get nine behind the ball…