…the Spanish Pele
THREE or four times a season, there’s a football match so absorbing it’s almost like an epic film, as if the play is being manipulated by a director more [...]
Arsenal
The ‘You’re not English anymore’ song
MY annual trip across to west London ended in predictable disappointment as Chelsea flattened Arsenal yesterday. Not only were Arsenal beaten but the away fans at Stamford [...]
Thierry… at least he’s not presenting Live From Studio Five
BY law, I have to comment on Thierry Henry, the new public enemy number one, the new Jan Moir, the new Maradona. After all, I’ve been banging on about what a saintly [...]
Christmas has been cancelled for… Fans of Boxing Day football
CHRISTMAS has been cancelled for… It’s a stock newspaper line for those terrible moments in the weeks before December 25 when things go wrong and ruin the normal [...]
Battle for The Bear
HERE is a scrap you wonder why Islington Council has got itself into. Arsenal fans are beating a path to its environment department over the council’s insistence [...]