The story of the come-and-get-me plea
In this protracted vacuum of idle nothingness, it's amused me to once again notice the proliferation of bonkers transfer-only phrases. You know, those ones that you never hear for the…
Arsenal’s strangely enjoyable close season
“For the first time in a while, I will be very active†With these dozen words, spoken at the tail end of May, Wenger has kicked off a fascinating close…
My mouth is parched in this transfer desert
What a goldfish I am. Despite an end of season that spent most of its time reeling from one calamity to another, I appear to be hankering for the new…
Season overboard
Fulham 2-2 Arsenal So that’s finished then, and as books go, I didn’t much like the ending. I had high hopes there’d be a satisfying twist three quarters of the…
Arsenal: Downsizing to fourth
Arsenal 1-2 Aston Villa So that’s the Grove done and dusted for another season, on a day when there were plenty there in person but not in spirit, and plenty…
Summer transfers: What effect will the World Cup have?
Strewth, it’s quiet. In fact, there’s been a whiff of close season to things. Partly I suppose because we’ve got the weekend off, and partly because losing to Barcelona seems…