Some Arsenal and football resources that every fan or fan-to-be should peruse.

Official Arsenal Website

arsenal.com: The Official Website of Arsenal Football Club.  Club news, video, fixtures and results, lots more. When I can’t access a match on TV, I listen to it on Arsenal Player. If you become a digital member (free) of the web site, you can access video highlights and replays as well.

Arsenal Blogs & Podcasts

Arseblog:  No day is complete without a review of the best Arsenal blog on the planet. (Says me.) It’s the first thing I read every morning and Arseblog News is one of the last things I look at in the evening. Daily Arsenal news, Arsecast Extra (podcast), live game blogging, Tim Stillman’s way awesome column on tactics. I listen to all the podcasts, including the podcast on Arsenal Women.

Cannon Stats. Substack devoted to Arsenal stats. Excellent analysis, super wonky. Summaries by email. Free content is great; comprehensive content is available with a subscription.

The Tuesday Club: Wonderfully bawdy “Pub podcast” with insightful (often), crazy funny (always) Arsenal commentary, musings, etc. Wherever you get your podcasts.

Positively Arsenal: This blog used to take a particular point of view that I loved. About Arsenal from a supportive point of view, i.e., it was positive. If Piers Morgan read it, he would weep at the positivity of it all.  The most positive among us can admit this is worthy by itself. Over the past ten years it’s become markedly less positive, but still a good read. I have always especially enjoyed this Tottenham love story. Scroll down to the middle.

youaremyarsenal.com: Great site overall. News and analysis. Unique and well worth a read.

Video

All or Nothing: Arsenal, on Prime. Documentary filmed during the 2021-22 season. This was Mikel Arteta’s second full season as manager of Arsenal. During this season, Arsenal challenged for a Champions League place after several seasons out of the competition and fell short at the very end. This was also the season in which Arteta convinced Arsenal to terminate star striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s contract about a year after Mesut Ozil’s contract was terminated. Highly unusual and kind of a big deal. At the time this came out, you would view Arteta’s schtick and see either a mad man or genius. After winning the Premier League in 2026, you’d have to go for mad genius. You will not be able to come away from this documentary without falling in love with Emile Smith-Rowe and Bukayo Saka unless you had a heart made of meat loaf.

Bukayo Saka: The Time is Now, ESPN app and FOX ONE. Filmed in advance of Arsenal winning the Premier League in 2026 and released just after, it covers Saka navigating the highs and lows of his high-pressure career. Much of it is presented through conversation with beloved former Arsenal forward Thierry Henry.

Arsenal channel on You Tube. The club does a great job producing pre- and post-game content. For a review of our championship 2025-26 season, this is a wonderful summary of the first few matches, with more to come.

Gunnerblog on You Tube. Home of “On the Whistle,” one of my favorite post-match resources where James McNichols react to the match shortly after it concludes. Often recorded right in the grounds. Considering how little time he’s able to take to absorb what he’s just seen, the analysis is almost always spot on. Not only does it capture the match but how we feel about it. You can get this content on other social media outlets as well. X, LinkedIn, etc.

Arsenal Books

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. Classic Arsenal fan’s memoir. A wonderful book that reminds every rabid Arsenal fan that, comparatively speaking, they are nothing but a piker.

Stillness and Speed by Dennis Bergkamp. The autobiography of the greatest Gooner of the modern era. More than that, it is a fascinating look into the thinking and preparation of a great talent that I think is relevant regardless of whether or not you appreciate Arsenal, or football, or sport for that matter.

Invincible: Inside Arsenal’s Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season by Amy Lawrence. A beautifully written team memoir, more or less, of the amazing season that Arsenal won the Premier League and never lost a match, forever known as The Invincibles. Amy Lawrence allows us see how the stage had been meticulously set and how the season unfolded using a tapestry of interviews of the characters who produced one of sports’ greatest accomplishments.

Lonely at the Top: Lonely at the Top is an unauthorized biography of Thierry Henry written by Phillipe Auclair. Phillipe Auclair is a wonderful writer and a fan of both Arsenal and the French National team with whom Thierry Henry shared a long association. Although the biography was unauthorized, Auclair acknowledges that he received fair cooperation — or at least no interference–from Henry, former teammates, and even friends in writing a biography of a footballing hero for which the author has acknowledged great ambivalence as a human.

This ambivalence manifests in probably the fairest biography I’ve ever seen of a classic example of a flawed human whose lifetime art is beyond reproach. Auclair does not fall into the lazy and boring trap of describing every moment, match, and goal, but takes the important moments and holds them up to the light, examining them with great care and intellectual rigor. We are provided clarity regarding the environment of Henry’s childhood and how it formed his adult self, key moments of glory and failure on the field and in managing his affairs, even through the difficult moments that occurred as Auclair was reaching completion of the book. Moments in which Thierry Henry is somewhat stripped bare–and perhaps deservedly so–for the infamous Hand of Gaul incident that pushed Ireland out of contention for the 2010 World Cup and the World Cup itself, at which Henry failed to provide leadership for a spoiled French National team that produced humiliation for its country, not only for its poor performance but for its behavior in refusing to train for a match in protest.

Throughout this wonderful book, we are able to recognize the imperfection of our hero while we simultaneously applaud and appreciate that in him which is heroic.

Wenger: My Life and Lessons in Red and White by Arsene Wenger. Within Arsene Wenger there is probably an incredible book. Sorry to say this probably isn’t that incredible book but it is a good book for a fan. Does a good job of cataloging his professional life but for a very thoughtful guy he doesn’t share much of his thinking. It was fun for me to relive many of the matches I’ve experienced as a fan from his viewpoint.

Football Overall

The Athletic. Now owned by the NY Times, this has emerged in the past five or so years as the best news coverage in soccer in my opinion. It does require a subscription. Combined with other features I really enjoy, it is well worth the cost. The columnists truly understand the teams they cover and the analysis they produce shows it.

Men in Blazers: Podcasts, newsletter, and probably other formats I don’t know about; a usually lighthearted look at current football action. The approach has changed substantially over time and now I would say it’s focused on the joy and humanity of soccer.

BBC Sports Football. Much of BBC news requires a subscription but this section does not. The coverage is good, but the page I spend the most time on is Scores & Fixtures page. This page allows you to see upcoming matches by date, recent scores, match reports, and the table of results. During the matches it has live scores and reports, and the results table as it stands during competition. It has audio coverage of matches as well; unfortunately, this feature is not available in USA.

ESPN Soccer. Kind of a poor man’s The Athletic. A little less comprehensive but similar approach, with focused contributors who understand the teams they cover. It’s free.

Football365: Honestly, I almost removed them from this list because the quality of this publication has truly dropped off in recent years. One of their best features has always been critique of the clickbait approach of many English media sources. Sadly, Football 365 is pretty clickbait-y itself these days. Used to be one of the more creative outlets for football. Not so much these days. But still worth the occasional scan.