Morning all What is your view on experience versus Academies, youngsters training programs and schooling, a subject which has been raised many times with Arsenal. Arsene’s way has been to sign up youngsters and mould them into typical Arsenal players, take them on and train them to play the Arsenal way, a club apprenticeship if you […]

Arsenal’s campaign so far. Looking at the league table, it’s hard to fight the slight feeling of disappointment. I don’t mean that we sit currently at seventh, that’s not important yet as we are not even a quarter of the way into the season. I actually have very high aspirations for us this season, as […]

Part 1 In the summer of 1996 after the expected sacking of Bruce Rioch who had been in charge of Arsenal for just a year, I was looking forward to having my favourite football manager at the time – Johan Cruyff appointed as our new manager. Over the summer weeks, with newspapers claiming talks between […]

Morning Gooners. Russia played on Friday night and no sign of Andrey Arshavin, I think I am right in saying he didn’t even make the make the bench. What has happened to this Russian, the second most expensive player Arsene Wenger has bought, the player who scored four goals against Liverpool at Anfield? The player […]