I moved home in the same year Arsenal moved away from their spiritual home in Highbury, not that they or I had particularly planned it that way; while Arsenal’s move involved a mere hop and a skip over the Drayton Park railway lines mine took a massive leap over longitudinal lines to move to a […]
Category Archive for 'Interlull'
Several months ago I wrote a post, Loans, Moans & Groans, reviewing our then situation with regard to 10 players we had out on loan. Time now thanks to the Interlull to look briefly at how those loans went, or didn’t go as it turns out, and although there is still a week or so […]
Arsenal’s Goalkeepers
Posted in Club History, Interlull, Waffle on Sep 2nd, 2020
When I set about writing this piece I imagined it was going to deal only with our current group of goalies and how blessed we are to have – transfer window and budgetary issues permitting – two top class goalkeepers, following an era when that has not always been the case. But for me, it […]
Not quite his zenith, but inimitable anyway…
Posted in Club History, Interlull on Jun 6th, 2020
If you are a member of the mighty Goonerverse – and if you are not but still reading this, I must congratulate you on your impeccable taste – you are invited to choose your own single memory of Andrey Arshavin that best summarizes his time at the Arsenal. Maybe the drop-off-the-shoulder sauntering and impossible angle […]
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 […]








