Gareth Pollard
Everything published on arsenal.cards carries this byline. Gareth Pollard is a pen name — the editorial desk behind the site, not one person's government name.
Why this site exists
arsenal.cards covers Arsenal FC cards — the players worth collecting, the sets they appear in, and what is actually available to buy right now. Team collecting is its own discipline: you are tracking a roster that turns over, legends whose cards were printed in eras with completely different rules, and rookies whose first cards land across four or five products in the same year. This site keeps that straight in one place.
The perspective is a working collector's, not a press office's. What the byline stands behind is checkable: every price shown is a live marketplace number, and every set fact is sourced rather than guessed.
How a page gets published
Five rules, applied to everything here:
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No made-up prices — ever
You will not find a "book value", a price estimate, or a projected return typed into an article here. Card values move weekly, and a number written once is stale by the next weekend. Where the market matters, the page shows live marketplace listings with real current bids instead.
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Availability is checked daily, not written once
Every product listed is re-checked against its live retailer listing every morning. Sold out gets labelled sold out rather than quietly left up, and dead listings are swapped or dropped automatically.
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Card logistics over hype
Which set a card actually falls in, prospect auto vs. official rookie, parallel and refractor ladders, print windows — the details that are annoying to track down and stay true for years. That is the spine of the site; buying advice sits on top of it.
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Money is disclosed on every page
This site earns through affiliate links (Amazon Associates and the eBay Partner Network) and display ads. Nobody pays for a ranking, a review, or a spot on a list, and no brand sees a page before it publishes.
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Corrections get made, not buried
If something here is wrong — a set name, a rookie-year claim, a broken listing — send it in and it gets fixed, with the page date updated so you can tell.
Recently under this byline
7 published pages carry it.
- Where to Start Collecting Arsenal Cards
A starter roundup for new Arsenal collectors — the players to target first, the formats to focus on, real starter singles to look at, and where their cards actually trade.
- Arsenal Rookie & Young-Gun Cards
The Arsenal FC rookies and young stars with the most collector upside — Saka, Martinelli, Ødegaard and the academy's true current rookies, with live eBay listings.
- Best Arsenal Cards to Collect
The Arsenal FC cards every Gunners collector wants — marquee current stars and all-time legends, with real card numbers, in-stock singles, and live eBay listings for each name.
- Arsenal Legends: The All-Time Greats & Their Cards
The definitive collector's reference to Arsenal legends on cardboard — Henry, Bergkamp, Vieira, Adams, Wright, Brady and the Invincibles — which products actually carry each era, and live eBay listings for every name.
- Arsenal Team Set Guide: 2025-26 Topps Checklist & Where to Buy
How to build the Arsenal team set — the fastest pre-made base set, the key 2025-26 Topps singles by card number (Gyökeres #42, Saliba #113, Havertz #15), and how team-set numbering really works.
- Top 10 Arsenal Cards of the 1990s
The most collectible 1990s Arsenal cards — Bergkamp, Henry's first Gunners cardboard, Wright, Adams and the Double-era heroes — with live eBay listings for each name.
- Collecting Arsenal Cards: Where to Start, What Holds Value & Spotting Fakes
A beginner-friendly guide to collecting Arsenal FC cards — which players hold value, the sets Gunners stars appear in, where to buy, and how to spot fakes.
Get in touch
Corrections, something misclassified, or a listing that has gone dead: send it over. More on how the site is run and funded on the about page.