Arsenal News

By Walter Broeckx
Another eventful game I must say and once again some very strange things going on, on a football field.
Let me start with the actual field of play.  In the Fifa rules, which Mr. Blatters finds so important, there are some clear rules concerning the lines on a football field. When I started looking [...]

Untold Absences updated 14th March

Cesc Fabregas: hamstring injury, exacerbated by playing for Spain.  Waiting for news re West Ham

Tomas Rosicky: minor groin problem caused by playing for his country within a hectic Arsenal schedule.  Probably ok for WHU

Alex Song: has [...]

By Phil Gregory
After an awe-inspiring win against Porto, Hull away is next up on the agenda and with it the end of our recent week-long rest periods.
I can empathise with the players, I really can: fixture congestion is a blight on the game extending as far down the footballing pyramid as Intramural League Two for [...]

By Walter Broeckx
In January Sepp Blatter declared according to various media that he was in favour of goal line technology. This was rather a surprising thing as in the years before he was someone who was against the use of technology. But there was joy among people who have always been in favour of the [...]

Billy The Dog McGraw previews Arsenal at Hull, and our reunion with Spit Brown.
Spit Brown is a world-famous fantasist who holds the record for the number of times a manager has been warned about his future conduct in one year.  He manages a football club at Kingston upon Hull – a diminutive village on the [...]

Yesterday the football world received some incredibly good news.
By Walter Broeckx
And by this good news I don’t mean us sending Porto back home with a 5-0 defeat in their bag. That is some very good news for Arsenal and maybe also for the football world in general but you can’t expect fans of Chelsea or [...]

In what was (I think) Leicester’s final season in the EPL we drew 1-1 with them away.  Gilberto scored.  I got very angry.
I was angry because I found myself being filmed by the police for no reason other than the fact that I was in the Arsenal section of the crowd.    My view was that [...]

By Walter Broeckx
I have read somewhere over the internet that the pundits in England had a hard night. I can understand that. How can you explain Arsenal beating Porto with 5 -0 when you have been saying a whole season how bad we are.
And then to realise we played without Cesc, Gallas and Van Persie. [...]

And why not plan in this way?   The Glorious Double – Champs League and EPL.
The fact is that once again with half the team missing we managed to outwit and outsmart the doom and gloom brigade, the media and the opposition.
What Arsenal would be like with a full squad would be like, well Everton away  [...]

Tonight the ref is the number one ref in Belgium.   Or as Zafod Bebblebrox says in the Hitchhikers’ Guide “Belgium Man!”
Here’s the assessment of our resident Belgian Referee: Walter Broeckx……..
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I really hope he doesn’t screw up on us.
Last season he had the Liverpool – Real Madrid game and before the game there was [...]

Tottenham could decide the Championship
Paul Collins
The final weeks of the 2009/10 season are shaping up to be fascinating. When was the last time we had 3 teams in serious contention for the Championship at this late a stage in the season AND at the same time saw the battle for 4th, and the final Champions [...]

Walter Broeckx comments on Antwerp to the Emirates – and back – in one day
Another day at the Emirates for me and some of my family.
I must say that I really don’t know how to start this time. It was a day of great emotions once again. We left Brussels right on time with the [...]

This is a story of life and death.  And acting.  And celebration.
It is the story of a club from the Russian Premier League side FC Moscow which has gone bust just a short while after their oligarch owner, a man in the Roman Abramovich league, pulled out, having decided to switch sports.
And it is the [...]

Manchester United win things.  That is undeniable.  They have a big support (even if it is largely located in Cornwall) and they fill the ground.  That’s undeniable.  And they have an extraordinarily successful manager – something we have to admit even if we don’t like some of his behaviour.
And they are so broke it is [...]

Hello hello, that was fun.
Walter and co from Benelux Supporters Club found their way to the Auld Triangle and I took Walter in to show him what a north London pub looks like before it gets crowded (I mean there were only 200 people inside the public bar, and it only took half an hour [...]

Oh what a week, what a day.
The chauffeurs are chauffed, the postilions are in position, and the trusty Austin 7 is in the drive ready for the 88 miles from here to Arnos Grove underground station.
And there I was a few days back thinking that these Burnley people were jolly nice folk who would respect [...]

Ever since I first studied sociology (in about 2 million years BC) I have known that the media’s first need is to see to the continuation of itself by keeping up its audience.  It does this by telling the audience “this is how it is” and then, having got the audience fixed on this version [...]

“You’re Fucked and you know you are….”

By Simon Bailey.
I think we are all caught in one of those moments where we are living an alternate reality. You sort of recognise what’s going on, but it all feels a bit surreal.
A week ago everything was normal. Respective managers were briefing their respective teams about the [...]

It’s been months since we talked about players and matches, what with midweek dribble ball and the invasion of the hatchet men last saturday, so here’s a quick run down on this saturdays team, before a quick review of the opposition and their semi-illustrated history.
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Almunia
Sagna Vermaelen Silvestre Clichy (Eboue, Traore)
Ramsey, Denilson, Ramsey, Cesc, Ramsey, Nasri  [...]

To the Football Association, from Simon Bailey
Sir,
I am writing to you as a concerned supporter of both England and of a Premier League football team.
The history of football in England is rich and diverse, but at the root of it are the clubs that make up the leagues. Clubs that have existed more than a [...]

Trying to stay in touch with the financial morass that is the EPL, is tough.  In this article I am trying to pull together some of the latest facts, figures, and then conclusions.  I am hopeful that if there are factual errors these can be pointed out and I will produce an update a bit [...]

By Walter Broeckx
Much has been made of Shawcross being a nice man and therefore not to blame.   And behind this has comes the argument that all the fuss is about nothing because what Shawcross did was a legitimate tackle.
So let us clear this up for once and for all. At least until the next Arsenal [...]

A review of the issue of assault, and the previous convictions of Shawcross
By The Law
Back when I was a Law Student, we were taught an interesting rule in Criminal Law, called The Eggshell Skull Rule. This rule stated that if you struck someone on the head which resulted in a shattered skull and death because [...]

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Stupidity Week
By Walter [...]

Prelim note in case you don’t normally look at the end of the blogs.  I am doing some re-arranging of the ending of the blogs, as we move fully into a three post a day mode.  Please do take an occasional look at the foot of the article, and let me know any ideas for [...]