October 25, 2012

Arsenal held their Annual General Meeting this week, with the fans given a chance to question the board and hopefully receive answers regarding the future spending plans of a team that has seen their best players leave on a fairly regular basis in recent years. Without sounding too critical it is fair to say Ivan Gazidis was rather guilty of using his training as a lawyer when answering, or rather failing to do so, questions from the crowd, and other board members were interrupted for the same reason. The overwhelming feeling at the end of the meeting appears to have [...]
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October 23, 2012

All the old money/new money argument that goes on in the world of football right now is very amusing to any fan with a modicum of knowledge about the roots of the bigger clubs who are now complaining about the PSG’s and those rich folk, but the fact of the matter is no team has suffered so much as Ajax from the professionalization of the game. The mid-nineties saw and Ajax team built through youth development and extension of Cruyff’s thinking conquer Europe, and even the modern Barcelona side can’t match them for the sheer number of stars produced at [...]
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