It's the end of the work week for most and as it winds down, Arsenal prepares for another match,
this time away against Bolton. Never an easy place for us to play in, it'll be a tricky fixture no
doubt. Before I get to a preview, there's a lot of chatter around these parts about Arsenal.
First up is the announcement that Stan Kroenke is joining the board at Arsenal.
Peter Hill-Wood reckons Arsenal should make do without a foreign "sugar daddy". The
Gunners' chairman has seen the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea taken over by billionaires,
while Uzbek-Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov - a major shareholder - is thought to been on buying the
Gunners outright. However, Hill-Wood does not value foreign benefactors as a long-term [.
When you talk about Arsenal's future, it is usually in measured, nuanced terms much like its
soccer. Unlike Man City's buyout which has vaulted it to the position of the richest club in the
world, the lockdown agreement makes an Arsenal takeover unlikely at least till October 2009. But
the Man City takeover has opened up cracks in the iron clad constitution of the Arsenal board.
