My latest football book is published by Hamlyn tomorrow. Gunners Lists is an official Arsenal FC book with a simple format: 250 ‘Top 10′ lists of facts about the best Club in the world. The lists include: top 10 appearance-makers; 10 memorable penalties; 10 highest victories over Spurs; 10 lookalikes; 10 most common initials for players’ surnames; 10 memorable commentary lines; 10 curly-haired Gunners; 10 Arsenal animals; 10 unusual injuries; 10 disastrous debuts; 10 cup replay sagas and so on…

The format might be straightforward but the research was a big job. I’d like to thank the many, many people who helped me along the way, including some regular readers of this blog. Thanks in particular to Jonathan Sacerdoti for always listening and for laughing at my out-of-office messages! I am grateful to the book’s guest contributors. I roped in a collection of Arsenal legends and fans to pen their own lists. Dennis Bergkamp writes about his 10 favourite matches, Steve Bould names his 10 favourite defenders and Bob Wilson recalls 10 memories on the way to the 1971 double.

There are also ‘guest lists’ written by Kenny Sansom, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Robert Peston, Chris Hollins, Paul ‘Dennis Pennis’ Kaye Shovell from M People, Tom Watt and the sublime Henry Winter. I was particularly pleased to have Henry involved, as he’s been an inspiration to me since 1994, when he went out of his way to compliment a fanzine article I had written about George Graham selling Anders Limpar. That meant a lot and he’s been of great help and encouragement ever since.

As I say, the book is published tomorrow. My Simon Cowell biography promotional duties resume then, too. I’ll also be talking about Gunners Lists on a few radio stations next week. It’s all such fun.