It’s always a great feeling to finish the day on the right side of a hammering, so to mirror our drubbing of Blackburn here’s seven reasons to be a happy Gooner. 1. This is a little tongue in cheek but looking back at our dreadful start to this season it’s nice to know we’ve hit […]
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A lot of people, myself included, believed that with five signings made and good results achieved against Swansea and Dortmund, our boys had turned the corner after the mauling at Old Trafford. Well if they did, it seems they stumbled down the deepest, darkest, dirtiest dead-end alley one could possibly imagine. The defending in yesterday’s […]
After a five-day trip to London and a nasty bout of tonsillitis picked up on the flight home, I am finally back to blogging ways today. I wouldn’t blame any of you for forgetting this after such a long absence, but the Blackburn game was my first ever taste of live Arsenal action. This meant […]
AFCB’s tactics guru Andrew Enloe examines how Theo Walcott helps the Arsenal defence… Saturday’s match against Blackburn was the first real test of the season; nobody is really expected to win at Anfield, and last week’s match against Blackpool was only going to finish one way. Blackburn have a formidable home record, and winning the […]
Adetuwo ‘Yemi Jr. rates the Arsenal players performance against Blackburn… Manuel Almunia: Going into this match, Manuel had the task of holding his own against a barrage of long balls from Blackburn. He will definitely be happy with his game as he had answers to that was asked of him. His command of the area […]
Arsenal were rewarded with all three points for a concentrated and energetic performance against Blackburn at Ewood Park. The home side caused trouble for us throughout the match with their game plan to attack aerially via long balls but our boys stood up well, scoring two goals either side of Mame Biram Diouf’s equaliser to […]
I won’t lie to you, I didn’t get to see much of Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to Blackburn. I saw highlights of the goals as well as a sustained period of about twenty minutes across half time, but not enough that would give me the right to comment on our overall performance. What I can comment […]
It’s Blackburn on Monday night in the second last game of the Premier League season. We need a point in our last two games to guarantee third place. We’ll hear the team news over the next day or so but in my opinion if Alex Song is present in the starting team then we will […]
Arsenal 6 (Vermaelen 17, van Persie 33, Arshavin 37, Fabregas 57, Walcott 75, Bendtner 89) Blackburn 2 (Nzonzi 3, Dunn 30)) Video Highlights (with bizarre background music by Sting) | Minute-by-Minute | Wenger Interview | Allardyce Interview (watch him make a fool of himself) Match Review The optimists will look at the six goals score […]
Arsenal 6, Blackburn 2. A wonderful illustration of Arsene Wenger’s philosophy. Well done lads!! Have your say on Arsenal’s win over Blackburn by leaving a comment.