football

North London Jersey Shortage

How many football tops do you think a premiership football club will have got through by this point in the season? Go on, have a guess. Fifty? One hundred? More? Well, if you’re Arsenal, you’ve probably managed to get through over 200. How? Because, in …

Plucky Underdog Loses, Livelihoods Destroyed

Professional whiner and sometime Arsenal football manager, Arsene Wenger, had cause to actually smile today (and not one of those wry smiles he does when he implies that another team cheated with what he probably thinks is some kind of Gallic charm, but an actual …

Your Blog Needs You

Just a reminder that Londonist is still looking for writers. We are looking to improve and expand the site throughout 2005 and for that we’re probably going to need a bit of help. Apart from the general newsy stuff we also need people to write …

Knees Go Trembly At First Sight Of Wembley

40 lucky people got to see a building site today. Not just any old building site though. It was that magical (for football fans) place called Wembley Stadium. The £757m stadium is almost two-thirds complete with just another year of work left (making the possibly …

Should Have Gone To….etc

As it’s Friday we feel we’re justified in reporting this little bit of non-news which turned up in the press today. Just two days after Pedro Mendes’ now infamous ‘goal’ against Man’ United (which, as everyone now knows, crossed the line by a good few …

No addict: a riot

On 15th December we wrote up a post with the title: The Last Pete Doherty Story Of The Year? With another 16 days to go to the end of the year, we all knew there was easily time for at least one other story, especially …

Football Will Destroy!!

Not content with wreaking havoc through The Premiership, Arsenal football club are also running riot over small business folk standing between them and huge profits. As part of Arsenal Football Clubs grand plan to position themselves in the UEFA uber-club sphere (the breakaway league is …

M&S Man Creche

A branch of Marks and Spencers in London is one of six in the country to install a ‘man creche’: a special area for men to “chill out and relax” while their partners try clothes on. Some would say that this is a cynical (possibly …

Branding London

Question: which major worldwide brand opened a flagship store in central London this month? Answer: Adidas. Maybe not the best scheduling decision the world has ever seen. After all, we don’t recall seeing people queueing days in advance just to catch a glimpse of David …

We love you Jose, We Do

Arsenal vs Tottenham is always good value, respective league standings don’t really count, the animosity level is always high and they tend to not pass without incident. This weekends game was no exception with Spurs narrowly being beaten by the Gunners 4 – 5. Arsenal …

FIFA Gaming Geek Fest

We at the Londonist like video games. There, we’ve said it. A post-pub session of Mario Karts or Super Monkey Ball is nothing to be ashamed of, and even though we may have lost a fair percentage of our life to Championship Manager and the …