TIME IS TICKING FOR ARSENE

So Millfield School beat Altincham GS 2-0 yesterday in the ESFA School's U18 Cup Final while Farnborough Sixth Form College beat York College 3-2 in the Colleges' Cup. The list of competitions offered by ESFA is impressive and includes youngsters, girls of course and pupils with disabilities. It give football to huge numbers of children.

The Independent Schools FA while not as massive, still accommodates huge numbers of school studying in the private sector. It is worth having a look at their website too. Even if it is just to see how Eton and Harrow get on....remember Millfield School is independent.

Talking about winning "trophies", Arsene Wenger, longest serving Arsenal manager and most successful, is dominating the news and needs just to yes or no to cheer us up.

Herbert Chapman, probably Arsenal's second most successful manager, rarely failed to "get his way" during his reign in the 1930s. His knowledge of coaching methods and tactics was novel and inspirational but on one important issue he was blocked by the Football League.

Chapman wanted to install a 45 minute clock at the Gunners' Highbury Stadium and the FL said "NO" because it would put too much pressure on the referee. Not to be outdone, Chapman installed a "normal" clock, yes the famous one at the South Stand and of course it is still ticking at the Emirates, at a time when there is NO PRESSURE on refs at all!!!

Here's Charlie and the old time piece.
There are many other blogs based on Herbert's successes.
http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-napolean-of-north-london.html

and the new site for it.