Pitch Invasion

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

“Yid Army! Yid Army! Yid Army!” It’s become a war cry for Tottenham fans over time, rather oddly: Spurs have had a traditionally significant support in North London’s Jewish community, but it has become an identity embraced by fans regardless of their actual Jewish heritage. And like at Ajax, the chants have only mushroomed […]

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 […]

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 […]