The Beautiful Groan

Welcome, one and all.

New day, new month, new season (if you count Spring starting on March 1, like I do), seems like a good day to jump on the bandwagon and start something new, and here it is.

But what is it, exactly? Well, the clue is in the title, it’s a place for me to ramble, vent, ask rhetorical questions and generally spout out everything I have to say on the wonderful world we call football.

I am an Arsenal fan, so clearly that’s where most of the material lies, but the net casts a little wider than that, as I’ll be making commentary on various issues around the sport, as I see fit. As you’ll come to see, various things in the game wind me up, and they’re not always connected to the Emirates.

So that’s a quick overview of what this place is intended for (whether it’ll end up like that I have no idea), but what isn’t it?

Quite simply, it’s not a newsreel. There are plenty of sites around that provide every single bit of Arsenal news you’ll ever need (along with opinions) - some of the particularly excellent ones you’ll find in the links - I get a large chunk of my news from them, so I’m not going to start taking what I read and planting it here. That would be churlish.

This is more for my opinions. You may agree, you may disagree, you may think I’ve nailed a point, or that I’m just a biased blind fool. Any way is fine. Opinion is good, especially backed up.

Incidentally, this site is bound to change and expand quite rapidly, it’s merely a framework as present.

Onward.