Arsenal rant

Tottenham fancy themselves as north London’s finest and buy into their media adulation, but finishing above Arsenal once is no power shift. The two face off in Saturday’s north London derby, with some observers debating if Spurs are now the bigger...read more »

Simon Boynton says Arsenal against Liverpool at 4pm on Christmas Eve is no joke, it’s a return to the 'good old days’! When you grew up in the 1970s in one of England’s far-flung footballing outposts (the Isle of Wight, since...read more »

Jack Wilshere’s classy display at BATE Borisov showed Arsenal what they have been missing and England what they could be picking. The Arsenal midfielder ran the show in Belarus on Thursday night, as Arsene Wenger’s men stormed to a 3-0 lead...read more »

Simon Boynton imagines the backlash that would be thrown at an English club if they had behaved like Koln fans did at Arsenal. As dust settles on the appalling behaviour of Koln fans in central London and at the Emirates on...read more »

Simon Boynton has had enough with club footballers who can’t play well for England... So, after a non-international break, I’m back and I’m angry. Appropriately, after a void of real football, I feel compelled to look at the international break and...read more »

Arsenal had a terrible transfer window and an awful start to the season, according to many. But does that bear scrutiny? The Gunners' transfer strategy certainly appeared to be a mess, with a late debacle for trying to sell Alexis Sanchez...read more »

I am an Arsenal fan, a Gooner, one of the red and white army; that is all there is to it. I want to win every game that we play, in fact at one minute to kick off, I expect...read more »

Arsene Wenger has had a greater influence on the English game than any other manager of the last 30 years or more. He may not have the trophies to match Sir Alex Ferguson or brass neck Jose Mourinho, but few could...read more »

Firstly, an apology for this is a general rant, rather than Arsenal specific. However, since we are a club that has suffered more than most by playing by the rules and operating within our means it is a subject very...read more »

By Simon Boynton ‘No-one likes us – we don’t care’, a well-known chant adopted by Millwall and Leeds United fans, has long been a unifying defence mechanism against opposition supporters, but outside of their small EFL communities, no-one else genuinely cares...read more »