There’s been much discussion lately over the use of scouts, data analysis and dare I mention them, agents as the best way to assess players and transfer targets. When it comes to goalkeepers, most people will point immediately to the number of clean sheets achieved over a season and as a keeper advances in years, […]
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The Unforgiven
Posted in Club History, Waffle on May 9th, 2020
Hello again everyone, I hope the day finds you well and looking forward at least a tad more positively to the coming months. In May and June, society will dust itself down and emerge in whatever form is deemed safest in each country and that will include football. Welcome back to us all and fingers […]
My favourite Arsenal terrace chants
Posted in Club History, Waffle on May 1st, 2020
I think most readers of this blog will know that I prefer my football live. Yes the view is far worse than on a 50” TV, no matter where you sit, you usually don’t get the benefit of replays and you have to drag up and down motorways, sometimes in foul weather. But the special […]
The Great Lull, or Football in the Time of Covid, part II
Posted in Club History, Interlull, Waffle on Apr 26th, 2020
Since writing the first part of this piece, two weeks ago, the numbers of Covid-19 cases worldwide have nearly doubled, and the deaths. Football has slowly receded into the background for those forced into isolation, and its importance has paled compared to the health and protection of loved ones, finding enough to do during the […]
Falling in love with Arsenal
Posted in Club History, Waffle on Apr 17th, 2020
I’ve found myself becoming increasingly nostalgic over the past few weeks. I imagine many of us have as we face this unprecedented and surreal situation. It has given us plenty of time to reflect. In such a previously busy world it seems strange that life has come seemingly to a full stop. One of the […]








