Why Arsenal are becoming a speck in their rivals' wing-mirrors | Daniel Taylor

The perplexing thing is that Arsenal have around £70m swilling around in their transfer pot but they are reluctant to use it Graham Poll was guest speaker at the Football Writers' Association dinner in Manchester last weekend. In truth, it wasn't a great speech, starting off with the now-obligatory joke about the first rule of refereeing being to award Manchester United all the stoppage-time they want. A few minor laughs followed but, at times, it was difficult not to think his perception of ...