Posted in Club History, Interlull, Waffle on Dec 3rd, 2022
Outside the train window I could see a vast expanse of olive groves interspersed with stretches of gently undulating pastures, deserted but not desolate. I had fallen asleep with my head leaning back towards the empty aisle seat next to mine, and as I opened my eyes the landscape outside was the first thing I […]
Posted in Club History, Waffle on Jul 12th, 2022
Embed from Getty Images Let’s begin with a bit of fantasising. You, reader, have been commissioned to write the biography of Jack Wilshere. How would you begin? Would you follow chronology — the young lad born in Hitchin, an obvious football prodigy, and chart his career through time from there? Would you begin at the […]
Posted in Club History, Interlull, Waffle on Mar 25th, 2022
Several years ago we had a lengthy discussion on the Goonerholic blog about Stan Kroenke. It would be fair to say that it was a concerned and slightly acrimonious discussion because we were speculating on whether it would be better if Kroenke or Alisher Usmanov was the owner of Arsenal Football Club. That was not […]
Posted in Club History on Jan 29th, 2022
The death of Ray Kennedy prompted an outpouring of praise and appreciation for a player who had achieved a huge amount in a career plagued at its end by the effects of Parkinson’s Disease, the condition which eventually claimed his life at the age of 70. Whilst Arsenal fans can be paranoid about media bias […]
Posted in Club History, Goonerholic, Guest Blogs, Match Preview on Dec 23rd, 2021
We are delighted to offer a double post for Christmas. It begins with Trev’s excellent preview of our forthcoming match with the Canaries followed by some observations from the one and only Bob Wilson. This is followed by Bob’s discussion of Christmas at the Arsenal during his time at the club. We conclude by offering […]
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