Arsène Wenger became Arsenal’s manager when I was 17. Throughout my adult life - university, jobs, relationships, marriage and two kids - he’s been a constant. It’s a strange, sad feeling that he’s going. #MerciArsène for the beautiful football, the trophies and so many highs.
"When your house is on fire you don’t wait to see if it goes out by itself, you call 999" @arseblog on #AFC inaction http://arseblog.com/2016/08/arsenal-3-4-liverpool-chickens-indecision-prevarication-come-home-roost/
Love this evocative recount of the greatest league finish there will ever be: Arsenal in 1989 http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/best-ever-title-finish-arsenals-1989-triumph-over-liverpool-told-players
In September 2006 I posted one of the first ever tweets about Arsenal Football Club, lamenting my team’s fondness for always trying to walk it in after watching a frustrating draw with Middlesborough at The Emirates. barryf.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com…
Every now and again someone rediscovers it and I get a barrage of retweets and replies, some polite, others from goading fans of other teams seeing the activity and incorrectly assuming I’m talking about the current team.
So reluctantly I’ve...
