Malcolm Sterling is a life-long Gooner with an appreciation for defensive midfielders and "seeing games out". Favourite players include Emmanuel Petit, Gilberto and Michael Thomas. Hates social media more than he hates "that poxy radio clown" but loves horses more than Michael Owen and enjoys a football flutter. Malcolm misses Highbury more than he can express despite only managing to visit fewer times than he's been to the Emirates.
I'm not much of a social media person. I think the concept is nice but overall feel it does more harm than good. I'm a bit of a slow learner when it comes to technology anyway so when I first tried twitter I was pleased at how easy it was to get my head around. The problem with that was it allowed me to see how nasty fans get with one another over The Arsenal and I deactivated a long time ago - social media isn't for me.
Friends and family of Arsenal supporters, that loyal bunch affectionately known as the ‘gooners’, now have Christmas all sewn up. A fantastic new book, Invincible, written by sports journalist and football fan Amy Lawrence, takes an in-depth look at the record breaking 2003-04 season where Arsenal were unbeatable.
OK, so the physiotherapists at your team are not something you might think about very much (unless you have a thing for Chelsea's Eva Carneiro), but as far as some, admittedly fairly nerdy people, were concerned, Wenger's best signing of the summer was a physiotherapist who was on the staff for Germany's World Cup winning side. While you may or may not be familiar with any of the guys who work on the injuries and rehab for our players (though you should check out Terry Sminter if you are not – he is hilarious), the bringing on board of Shad Forsythe, a highly experienced American specialist who was one of Joachim Loew's four key health professionals working with the Germany squad throughout their successful 2014 World Cup campaign, was a good signing.
