About this letter

Unofficial. Not affiliated with Arsenal FC, the Premier League or Arsenal America.

American servicemen played baseball at Highbury in 1918. The Imperial War Museum holds a newsreel of Admiral Sims opening a match there that May, and the US Navy's team played its home games there, on a diamond laid out over the football pitch. In 1927 the first live radio commentary of an English league match came from the same ground, and the Radio Times printed a plan of the pitch cut into eight numbered squares, so a listener far away could follow. This letter is for the people still far away: fans of Arsenal in the US, on a clock five to eight hours behind London. It prints the week's facts in that time, each with its source.

Our drawing of a football pitch cut into eight numbered squares, with a baseball diamond centered on the halfway line and its foul lines running out toward the corners.
Our drawing. The eight squares are the 1927 plan. Where the 1918 diamond sat is not recorded, so ours is centered on the pitch.

Who makes this

North London Red is an independent fan newsletter. It is unofficial and not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by The Arsenal Football Club, the Premier League, UEFA, Arsenal America or any broadcaster. Names of clubs, competitions and TV services are used only to identify them.

It is drafted with AI tools and approved by a person before it goes out. The tools do the counting and the person reads every line. There is no byline, because the name that matters on a fact is the source's.

It is published by Alex Vita, in Bucharest, Romania. Anything about it goes to hello@northlondonred.com.

Where the facts come from

Every fact in an issue is traced to a source, on a dated page that ships with the issue. Quotes come from the club's own transcripts, at most 40 words, after a sentence of ours. A channel comes from the broadcaster's own listing, and until it does the Board says expected, with the basis, or TBD. The table is our calculation from official results. Headlines are never copied, and a story seen only at an outlet this letter links but does not read says so.

How a correction happens

A reader's reply is the corrections desk. A wrong time, channel or fact becomes a dated correction on that issue's page: what was printed, what is right, and why it went wrong. Nothing is edited quietly.

How the money works

The letter is free. An issue carries at most one affiliate link, and it is marked as one. No betting, no odds, no bookmaker links, no ticket resale.