The mustache finally speaks

The virtual owner of Arsenal is at long last wheeled out and gets caught up on the summer and the past three years. But if you were looking for nuggets (a ghastly pun on the NBA team of which he's an owner) of insight you would be sorely disappointed. For an owner of so many sports teams, Stan Kroenke is just a depressing, clueless figurehead.

Alisher Usmanov, the Uzbeki oligarch increased his shareholding to over 29%. Silent Stan Kroenke owns the majority with 66.1% of the total shares.

Arsenal's shares are now almost neatly divided between a man who does not speak and a man hated every time he speaks. Both engender very little trust from others as well as in each other.