Pitch Invasion

The Uzbeki billionaire with the shady past continues to build his share at Arsenal, a precursor to an eventual takeover bid.

The money going round in the Premier League is now so dizzying, it’s almost impossible to comprehend. In the 1980s and 1990s, when a very rich man such as Rupert Murdoch, Alan Sugar or Robert Maxwell decided they wanted to be involved in football, there was an almighty fuss. Each of them had vastly different […]

The various takeovers at Premiership clubs have ellicited vastly differing responses from fans over the years, for factors too diverse to go into here.
Tomorrow, Arsenal take on Manchester United in the match of the season so far. United fans famously stood up to the takeover by Malcolm Glazer, and the big fixture is being […]

In the latest disturbing news in Arsenal’s ownership struggle, the British government this week stonewalled questions in the Houses of Parliament about Alisher Usmanov, everyone’s favourite obese oligarch.
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish reports received from British embassies relating to Alisher Usmanov. [158765]
Mr. Jim […]

Ah, Alisher, don’t you learn? As Chicken Yoghurt notes today, Usmanov’s recent claim that Craig Murray’s statements about his past were ‘beneath his dignity’ to respond to ring rather hollow when his lawyers continue to harass independent websites republishing Murray’s article, yet they also refrain from going after Murray himself, despite his pleas that […]