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Born HIGHBURY 1886. Harrow; Oxford; The Guards, Woolwich; Highbury; The Emirates.
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Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
Ah, fifth. A year off from the tribulations of Big Cup. We’ll miss it, you say? Miss what, precisely? The form of Arsenalistic torture known...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
The torture is nearly over. In just twenty-four hours time, we shall be able to draw a line under this Anno Horribilis and focus on...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
A rare sensation began rattling around the old noggin this week. It began as something of a tremor in the bottom of the brain pan*...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
Football is war.
Football is a contest, as is war. In this contest, footballers are playing for a title or a prize or at least, for...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
One of the most pleasing aspects of watching Arsenal of late – perhaps the only pleasing aspect – is the reversion to the classic Arsenal...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
Casting one’s eyes to the League Table in one’s favourite periodical is very much like lifting a bandage for a queasily compulsive look at a...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
As I drew heavily on my Meerschaum this week, pondering the capitulation against Crystal Palace, my thoughts drifted to the Netherlandish painter Hieronymous Bosch. Are...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
I took advantage of this almost football-less fortnight by taking a restorative sojourn to remote parts. A land of bloodthirsty traditions, majestic, sweeping plains, strange,...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
A glorious week in North London as Arsenal thrash Spurs ten nil!
Proof needed if proof be needed be that the so-called crisis at Arsenal is...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
Ah, the romance of the Football Association Challenge Cup. Soccer’s most storied trophy, a prized Grail second only to very The Holy Grail from which...
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
This week, a gentleman’s guide to how to conduct oneself for the rest of the season.
First of all, now is not the time to panic....
Arsenal Gentleman’s Weekly Review
A week without football is like a Gimlet with no Gin. Or a Full English with no bacon. Or a Boarding School with no caning....
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