Latest articles by Jon Spurling
Arsene Wenger has dismissed suggestions of first-team assistant Boro Primorac leaving as "fake news" – already a buzzword of 2017 thanks to a certain White House incumbent. But as Jon Spurling discovers, mistruths in the game were being reported long before Donald Trump got up in grills. Sad!
Arsenal Our selection of the greatest Gunners to have ever donned the shirt...
Arsenal What do the club, and their manager, want to be? Jon Spurling says they must make up their minds quickly to avoid being left by the wayside for good in years to come...
Arsenal Twenty years on from Graham's Highbury heave-ho, Jon Spurling argues it’s not just Arsenal fans who should remain eternally grateful to him for shaping the Gunners in his own vision...
Arsenal The hard-nosed Scot gets a bad rep for his ill-fated season at Highbury, but Jon Spurling says plenty of good was done too...
Mesut Özil Mesut Ozil's generosity has resulted in 11 Brazilian children having life-saving surgery thanks to his foundation, but the Arsenal playmaker isn't the only star to demonstrate that not all footballers are self-obsessed prima donnas...
Arsenal Twenty years ago Arsenal took a step towards a new era by signing the England international from Sampdoria. It didn't all go to plan, however, as Jon Spurling explains...
Arsenal Jon Spurling, in his book Highbury: The Story of Arsenal in N5, re-lives Woolwich Arsenal's Highbury opener against Leicester Fosse...
Arsenal Jon Spurling, author of Highbury: The Story of Arsenal in N5, on the impact of Arsenal's innovative, influential moderniser...
Arsenal From misfiring strikers to hapless centre-backs: Jon Spurling on the transfers that Arsenal fans would really rather forget
Lists Jon Spurling picks six Wenger traits we'll all get misty-eyed over when the Frenchman leaves north London after almost 22 years this summer
FIFA World Cup A Haitian hero, an unlikely Italian and a teenage Irishman going one better than Pele - all this and more on Jon Spurling’s list of players whose World Cup displays made them stars
FFT 100 Greatest Held in wonder by Charlton, Beckenbauer and Puskas, the Blond Arrow rampaged his way around South America and Spain to make history with Real Madrid
Football supporters overreacting? Hard as that notion is to believe, some supporters' actions have proved somewhat overzealous down the years
David Rocastle On this day in 2001, the former England midfielder passed away after losing his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 19 years on, Jon Spurling explains why 'Rocky' remains such an iconic figure for Gunners everywhere
Lists From Argentina's most decorated player having an Indian summer at the King Power to Swansea's Spanish revelation, Jon Spurling discusses 10 of the most fleeting talents from footballing folklore
Lists Jon Spurling takes a look at those who really didn't enjoy conceding – or in some cases, scoring...
Arsenal From a determined new approach to getting deals over the line and the end of underachievers, Jon Spurling on the lessons to take from a busy winter
FFTWATN Can you remember who was part of Arsene Wenger’s first great Gunners side? Dig in to find out more about them
Theo Walcott It's now over 10 years since the England forward moved to the Emirates Stadium, writes Jon Spurling, but there's been too little progress since then to justify the club retaining his services...
Harry Redknapp Well, so says Jon Spurling anyway, who continues our series of FFT writers picking their No.1 man for England’s top job
Arsenal The Gunners have traditionally struggled in the eleventh month of the year, but Jon Spurling believes things could be different this time around
Arsene Wenger As the fastidious Frenchman brings down the curtain on his game-changing Gunners tenure, FFT presents his most intriguing episodes in north London
