Tim Stillman

I really enjoy public speaking and presenting. I always have done. Yet I am an absolutely useless networker. I cannot speak conversationally with people that I do not know or am not comfortable with very well at all. I am too hyperaware of the tics and social conventions that drive small talk and it makes […] The post This is my genre appeared first on Arseblog ... an Arsenal blog.

When Arsenal travelled to Everton in December, they took a cautious approach in possession. This was, I think, for a few reasons. Firstly, in the preceding fixtures the Gunners had played games that were far more transitional than I think Mikel Arteta would have liked. They had squeaked past Wolves at Emirates Stadium the weekend […] The post 300,000 passes appeared first on Arseblog ... an Arsenal blog.

In April 1971, when his team stood on the precipice of a historic league and FA Cup double, Bertie Mee, a manager driven by traditional values even by 1970s standards, supposedly told his players, ‘Just for the next few weeks, I want you to put your families second.’ He recognised the enormity of what his […] The post Enjoy appeared first on Arseblog ... an Arsenal blog.