Following Arsenal’s 3-1 victory over Liverpool, Sky Sports have drafted a memo to the EPL setting out the news rules they require to be implemented immediately. 1: All Arsenal players must exit the field of play straight after the game “Just get down the tunnel. You’ve won a game. It’s three points. Now, get down […]
Football has restarted. Allegedly. The Bundesliga, of which everyone on this freaking planet suddenly became an aficionado and an expert, has been the first on the top five European leagues to kick-start the end of their campaign, after the lockdown. Games were obviously played behind closed doors and health & safety measures were applied to […]
Unfavourable fixtures With the Premier League, well underway now and our next game against our North London rivals. I think it is time to address an issue. For the last two seasons Arsenal FC have been given back to back rival games and more importantly, have been again drawn at home again to play […]
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby is by far one of the best books I’ve ever read about football, and one of its many interesting aspects is the writer’s willingness to lay bare his obsession and discuss what it really means to be a fan. Hornby talks about how Arsenal helped him deal with the divorce of […]
THE SEASON DIARY OF DB, AGED 13 & ¾ For this week’s piece, I thought I would take you back in time to my childhood diary. It’s kind of a Back to the Future type vibe. Kind of…… “I had a terrible dream last night. I had somehow woken up in the year 2015. After […]
I’ll tell you something you’d probably never believe: in a way, Twitter ruined me. Yes, I got the sense of not being alone by joining it and I’m happy I did. But there’s a downside (isn’t there always?): I now find it really hard to formulate a definitive opinion on something. I like to call […]
I started writing this the day after the draw with United. Wrote a bit, then stopped, pondered for a day and a half whether this is relevant or not. Saw some tweets and posts on fan forums on Facebook which convinced me to go ahead and complete this! I still may be risking ridicule by […]
