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It is hard to imagine that a tactical analysis of how the other team play could constitute "the
biggest insult" that one can give a team. Yet that is what the rather strange M O'Neill said about
our Lord's statements concerning the 0-0 draw in northern Birmingham. I have in the past had a bit
of a [.
By Walter Broeckx The starting line up was Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Traore, Denilson,
Diaby, Ramsey, Nasri, Arshavin and Eduardo. Bolton kick off and launch a rocket at the Arsenal
goal. The ball hits Almunia (who is still waving at the crowd behind his goal) on the back of his
head and it goes out for a [.
Clubs can have financial problems. Clubs can have people problems. Club can have squad
problems. And clubs can have supporters who have fallen out of love with the board. We see it all
the time. And I mean all the time, because at the moment on the Making the Arsenal blog
(www.blog.woolwicharsenal.
Well hi diddley dee do! I have just spent 2.5 years screaming about the insanity of football in
the EPL and how it will all end in tears, and what do you know? It is all ending in tears!
(Apart from those down the pub where it all ends in beers). There is so much happening [...]
By Phil Gregory I read a great book over Christmas, Michael Lewis's Moneyball. Despite my total
lack of knowledge on the sport it is concerned with, I was fascinated because it's actually a
baseball book which follows a particular American team that consistently outperforms its rivals
despite severe financial constraints (see where I'm going with this [.
Below is an article by Walter Broeckx, but before that, a quick editorial, as it were... I am still
not sure if the correspondence following the post on 31 December was the funniest thing or the
saddest thing I've ever seen on this site. Even after the top of the article was changed to make it
plain [.
Warning: contains dead bodies, mild peril, partial nudity, swearing, irony and occasional
violence. "West Ham are in dire straits," said Billy the Dog, as I approached the allotment and
offered him a pint of sweet sherry. "That Mark Knoffler has lost it, the new glacier tax is
hitting them hard, and their bid to host the [.
There were unprecedented scenes tonight at Untold Towers, the rural enclave which houses Untold
Arsenal. As editors and copywriters gathered on the 42nd floor and watched in amazement a crowd of
over 400 bookmakers, bookies runners and a couple of burger sellers attacked the building with
sticks, staves and a centurian tank.
By Walter Broeckx Great was my expectation when I saw the names of Fran Merida and Jack Wilshere on
the team sheet. I have seen them play a few games in the Carling Cup, the Emirates Cup, in the
reserves and even in the Champions League. When they play in the Emirates cup, which after all is
[...]
As a starting point, take Manchester IOU who are thinking about a £600m bond issue to try and sort
out their debts. First thing to note here is that you don't do this sort of thing if everything
is fit and dandy. So we might ask, why issue bonds? The scheme is designed to move the [...]
Warning: contains occasional insanity, multiple insults, ephemeral nursery rhymes and mild fantasy.
So, here I am on Wednesday morn, with three thoughts in my head which is an improvement of the one
that normally resides there. Thought one: will the game go ahead? If it does the 27.5 Notlob
supporters who normally travel out of the [.
So the match of the decade (see my last piece) has been postponed. Instead I wonder if we might
debate something that was raised on the site this week.... What will happen to the clubs that
die as a result of financial mismanagement? It is a topic that should be close to our hearts
because [...]
Let me make it clear that this is not a tirade against Fran Media. If he goes, or if he has
already gone, then I will be sorry, but I'll understand. It is what agents do to young players.
Get games every week, grass is always greener, all that stuff. But if he is going, I [...]
Well, hi-de-diddley-do there. Phil's doing exams, so I'm doing the predictions and stuff.
Right, of we go... High-flying Everton travel to the Emirates aiming to continue their fantastic
run in the league. (How am I doing so far?) The Gunners dropped out of the title race when they
slumped to a 3-0 home defeat to leaders Chelsea [.
I have enjoyed many an Arsenal game, but this one had one moment which was utterly wonderful.
Rosicky had scored in front of us, the final whistle had gone, and we stood to leave block 99. I
got to the stairway and as is my wont, allowed others to pass before Jane and I could step into
[...]
H Redknapp has publicly stated that he does not feel himself responsible for any of the events
subsequent to his departure at West Ham, Portsmouth or Southampton. My question in this piece is
dead simple. Is this view reasonable, or she he be held responsible in relation to his second
spell at Portsmouth?
By Walter Broeckx Alexandre Dimitri Song Billong is the full name of our defensive midfield player.
The first time he really caught my eye was two seasons ago when we played in the Carling cup
against Blackburn in the season 2007-2008. For those who can't remember it, it was the game in
which our youngsters played at [.
The news has just emerged that the Revenue is having a battle with Manchester United over the issue
of who pays tax on image rights. The offer document for the new bond mentions that there might be
a legal case over the matter. It also seem that Man U have difficulty in remembering their own
stories.
By Walter Broeckx Thomas Vermaelen has been voted best Belgian football player outside Belgium.
Every year in Belgium we have the election of the golden boot. It is the election by reporters and
trainers of the best player in the Belgian league. I must admit I hardly take notice of this
election as football in my country doesn't [.
I have only just found out about the Soccer Lens Awards (thanks to our good friend Gf60) so there
is only a day or so left for getting entries in. (Sorry I have been so taken up with all the
events of the last few days. Fancy Liverpool losing all their players at once. Well [...]
This is it: the big day. The very big day. The biggest day of biggest days of all biggest days.
For today is the day (the exact day, the very exact day, the precise day). And already it has
been celebrated by the most extraordinarily bizarre and eccentric radio broadcast about football
ever. Which is just right [.
Billy the Dog was not quite in the best of moods or the finest of fettle when I met him on the
allotment to discuss the game against the almighty Notlob in the Land of the Fabled Beast. I
started by asking the question everyone asks, "Is there life in Bolton?" "It doesn't really
matter," he replied [.
To recap and explain (or vice versa) Football 1.0 started when Preston North End were thrown out of
the FA Cup in 1884 after a complaint from Upton Park FC that Preston had been paying their players.
As a direct result of this Preston got together with other northern clubs and formed the Football
League wherein [.
E D U A R D O!!!! by Walter Broeckx With the current injury crisis at Arsenal, well one could say
with the back to normal business injury crisis, we have seen a change in players up front. If we
take a look at our season so far then at the beginning we played with Arshavin – [...]
Special advanced notice: although much of the commentary consists of mindless gibberish there is a
bit of serious stuff part way through, which is all true. You have to guess which bit it is. Part
the First: The Evil Empire Bolton Wanderers, known as Notlob, make the Evil Empire look like a
troupe of ballet dancers performing [.
To begin a few days ago. Billy the Dog predicted on this very site that Bolton would score first
and the goal would be scored with the left foot. I haven't seen the TV of the game, but from
where I sat, it looked pretty much like that. Now I admit that this was a prediction [...]
By Walter Broeckx So here we are where the doom and gloomers never expected us to be: top of the
league in January. They will point at the fact we played one game more now and (having done my
sums) I wouldn't disagree on this. But we are in it and by the look of it [...]
Today, 22 January 2010, is the 100th anniversary to the day of the meetings that marked the end of
the old Arsenal, and the birth of the club we know and love today. Newspapers played a major part
in giving us an understanding of that story, not least because Henry Norris himself wrote a lot of
[...]
By Walter Broeckx Some hate us for what happened to them in the past. The 1989 Liverpool victims.
Or the ones like Shearer who came across Arsenal and Arsène Wenger in his Newcastle days and
almost always lost in the league and in cup games. Then you have the Tottenham connection like
Linneker and if you take [.
Today's game is in the FA Cup, or Facup as it is known in the Latin tongue which still dominates
the region where Stoke play. As with all nouns in Latin the word "facup" can be conjugated and
it is vital to be able to do this properly if wishing to discourse with the locals [...]
There were a couple of comments yesterday that in the face of an exit from another competition to
the effect that I should not be so positive in my comments on this site. A defeat, an exit from
the Cup, is a time for sadness and reflection on what we should have done. So, in response, [...]
By Walter Broeckx I don't like the ritual from Delap when he is going to take a throw-in. On Sunday
I watched the game and I have timed how much time it takes to get the ball back in play when Stoke
City can take a throw and they let Delap do it. You have to take [...]
by Simon Bailey My mum hates football. She loves racing, athletics, tennis, snooker, rugby, just
not football. But within her dislike of football is her loathing of anything Manchester United.
Even as a dedicated non supporter of football, my mum, I am proud to say, is an ABU. Anyone but
united. Whilst they were capturing the Asian markets [.
I have been interested of late at the way the Anti-Arsenal brigade has been developing its tactics.
In the olden days (ie last year) they would mostly spend their time saying that our players were
all leaving just like Flamini and Hleb before them. Cesc was going to Barca and the world would
end. Now the reason [.
By Walter Broeckx Martin O'Neill was angry at Arsène Wenger because (and I quote what Wenger has
said) "They [Aston Villa] play a very efficient English game, with long balls and it is very
physical. They are a good side at counter attacking. When we took the gamble to go forward and they
won the ball, they [.
By Phil Gregory A crunch tie for Arsenal's title hopes looms in the form of Manchester United's
visit to the Emirates. The Mancunians (not to mention the hordes from Cornwall ed) will be no doubt
buoyed from Wayne Rooney's late winner in a heated Manchester derby, sending thgem into the final.
Alex Ferguson's side feign not [.
