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There are two stand-out contenders for the title of Arsenal’s greatest midfielder ever; Patrick Vieira and Alex James, and they are different in almost every respect. They were opposites not just physically, as Vieira was a towering 6ft 4″ and James a diminutive 5ft 4½”, but also, as Arsène Wenger famously used to say, ‘footballistically’. […] READ MORE
In the absence of any professional football anywhere until at least the end of April, we at LWOF have been turning to the past for inspiration – and content. Consequently, in a new series, our resident historian, Martin Keady, looks at The Greatest: The Players, Managers and Matches That Made Arsenal. He begins with the […] READ MORE
Noam Chomsky, the great American linguist and theorist, once said that if the average American’s understanding of the complex mathematics of baseball could only be applied to other areas of life, then America would be a nation of mathematicians. The same is true of football and the rest of the world; if the average football […] READ MORE
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