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maybe you and gavin strachan can get together and be the next big management team?

Another good blog! Read your last 4 or 5 blogs, and have to say, along with Gavin Strachans they are my favourites on the site!
Keep it up

love reading your blogs. its nice to get an insight into how football operates away from the bizarre transfer fees and wages. same goes for gavin strachans...


either way mate, keep it up (Y)

Peachy little blog! Certainly gives a new perspective and is an enjoyable read!

I hope you manage to get into the starting line-up again, so long as it doesn't hinder your time to write these blogs!

Whoa! Stop the press...It matters not that every single club chairman in the premier league is satisfied at the Arshavin deal, Chris Jardine is not happy!
For your information or trying to keep it down to words of smaller syllables just for you...this is what happened.
The paperwork was completed on time, it had nothing to do with Arshavin being held up personally by the snow because as you rightly said, he arived in London on the Sunday.
The delay was at the F A's end because of weather events on late Monday. This meant there was a delay in ratifying deals completed later Monday afternoon. They were up being ratified because the F A had to check the paperwork on Tuesday as there was no-one to do it on Monday due to the weather. Get it?
Now this is not unusual, last year a Portsmouth player's ratification did not come through til 4 days after the deadline. This did not cause a ripple. Why? Hmmm... Let me see... Oh yes...it was not Arsenal involved!!
Get over yourself! No-one has mentioned the other 3 or 4 transfers which also weren't ratified by the F A til Tuesday - purely to staff issues, due to the weather. All of which were also ratified by the F A. So when scrutinised and explained by the F A to the Premier League chairmen all is understood and agreed. Except of course to lazy journalists.

Richard Scudamore loves Arsenal and does everything he can to help them

Example - when he disgracefully forced Spurs players to play while sick so Arsenal could steal the last CL place. He should have been sacked for that!

Err...alright, RVP1968, calm down. Chris isn't a journalist, if you'd read the blog you would understand that.
Do you scour the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website looking for any mention of Arsenal, in order to complain about it? Chris didn't even say anything negative about the three Ars-es. Just relax, breathe and everything will soon be forgotten about.
Thanks for the blog Chris.

I love how Arsenal fans are getting so defensive over ArseShavin's transfer

With regards the Arshavin deal, I do think its one of the silliest things the media keep saying is that the deal was completed '24 hours after the window had shut'. They make it sound as if the documents were all handed in 24 hours late and that the deal is therefore obviously illegal. We all know this was not the case, so why keep banging on about the 24 hour stat.

Secondly re the weather - surely there is more to getting a deal done than just Arshavin being in London. If the weather prevented anyone involved in the administration of the deal from getting to work, I guess that could hold it up a little.

(And, defensive or not, RVP1968 is correct in every point he makes. Its particularly odd that no report of the 'controversy' ever seems to mention that the Arshavin transfer was not the only deal ratified a day later...)

Arsenal fans:

Get over yourselves. Your not the team you once were and it looks like the top 4 is getting out your reach now. Please, do yourselves some favours and see the bigger picture: your heading down instead of up.

And why do Arsenal fans have this mentality that every fan that doesn't support Arsenal hates Arsenal?

GET OVER YOURSELVES.

Okay RVP1968 chill out.

Now then, the reason the Arshavin deal is the one the media pick up on is because it is a high profile deal to a high profile club

It would be the same had it been Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea as they are the highest profile clubs.

Now I know Arsenal are slipping out of the top tier (no trophies for years and years now - tut tut) but it surprises me that even Gooners are admitting they are comparable to lesser teams.

2 other points:-

1. Surely it seems dodgy that this one was so late, if the FA staff had trouble getting to work due to the weather to ratify the deal, how come the other deals went through on-time?
2. Yes, I can also see Chelsea slipping out, we are rubbish of late. (Villa could eclipse us both this year)

touchy touchy these gooners, aren't they?deary me. Maybe if Wenger tried to negotiate a bit earlier, nobody would be talking about the 24 hours after the deadline, they would have been saying "done and dusted".
Don't go starting on everyone else, it's not our fault the arsenal aren't going to be in the champions league next season...i'd love it if Zenith were....we'll see Arshavin moving back there, wanting Champions league football !!

Seems I might have been a bit too touchy...for most anyway.
Personally I make no apology, nothing I stated is incorrect. In fact what I have written is probably one of the few statements of real truth on this particular topic here on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ website. Its this which made me so angry, people who are not journalists were thinking this was the case when it was nothing of the sort.
There is a huge groundswell of people thinking the move "was completed" 24 hours late. This is due to either poor, misleading or mischievous journalism. You can make your own mind up which.
The fact that Chris Jardine is not a real journalist is no excuse for poor writing. I am pretty sure I would come in for dogs abuse if I guested in his football team (heaven forbid) and predictably, had a mare.
You know what you do when you take a job on, however harsh that might seem toward Chris. Journalists have to report who, how, where and when. It's one of the first things they learn in journalism, like establishing the facts.

Never mind Chris there are always people wanting to moan. Have a good week training and hopfully we'll see you back on the bench at least at Berwick.

Hi Chris..

I have to say that I do feel I over reacted to the whole thing. Unfortunately, I think I mis-directed my frustration on the misleading story that was the Arshavin transfer saga. I fired the bullets at you, purely because I could. Apologies.

I think I read your blog after listening to Sky Sports, reading newspapers like the Daily Mail and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sports football website, all of which were inaccurately reporting the story.

The real turn of events was openly available to anyone who wanted to seek the truth on Arsenal.com, in written format and on video. It was also available through the Football Association.

Statements from the F.A. bore out the news from Arsenal on the transfer timeline so you have to question the motives of other media to report a different story. Not once on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, Daily Mail or other media, have I seen a story refuting the scurrilous accusations levelled at the club and F. A. when the information is clearly in the public domain. You have to question why this is? The premier league chairmen had it explained to them and were entirely happy.

If the various media responsible for the fuorore had used the same levels of coverage actually reporting the truth on the matter later on, as they did trying to find dirt, then that would have added some balance. This also might have allowed you to understand what had happened and not wonder whether there was any underhand dealings going on.

As for the guys supporting other teams who've had a pop at me for stating my case, that just goes with the territory and is water off a ducks back.