Voices — The Non-Negotiables

Not a scoreboard, not a listicle

The best Arsenal information isn't on this site — it's on theirs

Five accounts that reliably say something true, first, or better than the rest of Arsenal Twitter. Tap a card and it opens their own profile on X, so the follower, the like and the reply all go to them, not to us. Nothing here is copied, and there's no widget to fail on your phone.

This isn't a ranking of follower counts. Each one is here because their handle was checked by hand, not pulled off a "who to follow" listicle.

The one who knows first David Ornstein@David_Ornstein The Athletic's football correspondent, and the account half of Arsenal Twitter has muted and immediately unmuted again. If it's confirmed, it was usually confirmed here first. Open on X → Every presser, every away day Charles Watts@charles_watts An independent Arsenal reporter who runs his own news service and podcast, and wrote Revolution, the book on Arteta's Arsenal. Less scoop-chasing, more just relentlessly present. Open on X → The Athletic's Arsenal man James McNicholas@gunnerblog Covers Arsenal for The Athletic and co-hosts Arseblog's Arsecast Extra. The handle is a holdover from his old blog; the writing is still worth the follow. Open on X → The outlet, not just the blog Arseblog News@arseblognews The news arm of the site that already gets its own tribute on this one. See Required Reading for why; this is just where they post first. Open on X → Tactics, no filler nonewthing@nonewthing Pseudonymous, allergic to hot takes, and better at reading what Arteta is actually doing than most people paid to do it. Open on X →

This page is small on purpose and will grow slowly. If you know an account that consistently earns its place here, that's exactly what this page is for.