Latest articles by Jon Spurling
Arsenal Both Mesut Ozil and Granit Xhaka have found themselves out of favour this season. Arsenal have a history of freezing out first-team players, but a spell out in the cold doesn't always spell the end
Arsenal With Arsenal in the middle of their US pre season tour, Jon Spurling explains how ex-vice chairman David Dein's obsession with stateside soccer helped transform an ailing club
Arsenal Jon Spurling on the controversial figure who took Arsenal to Highbury over a hundred years ago
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...
Action Replay Hapless title holders, unlikely contenders at the top and a glut of mid-ranking sides upsetting the established order – the 1937/38 season was mental from start to finish
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 Jon Spurling, in his book Highbury: The Story of Arsenal in N5, re-lives Woolwich Arsenal's Highbury opener against Leicester Fosse...
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...
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...
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
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
Paolo Di Canio Jon Spurling rounds up some of the most memorable battles to have taken place on the side of the pitch, featuring headbutts, punches and strangulation...
Arsenal The Gunners have traditionally struggled in the eleventh month of the year, but Jon Spurling believes things could be different this time around
John Terry It's Mother's Day on Sunday, so Jon Spurling picked out 10 examples of family members making things a little uncomfortable for some stars of the game...
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...
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
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
Arsenal Jon Spurling earmarks strikers, steel and injury prevention as areas for improvement for Arsene Wenger...
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
FIFA World Cup Greedy players, managers under fire and the ultimate basket case squad – Jon Spurling on when World Cup teams tore themselves apart off the pitch
Football supporters overreacting? Hard as that notion is to believe, some supporters' actions have proved somewhat overzealous down the years
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
