On Sunday at 8pm I left the Oscar Wilde in Berlin, headed out into -10˚C night and shivered on my way home. I played the final goal over and over in my head, considering whether what I had seen was real or just some sort of horrible joke. Two days later I am in Barcelona […]
Tag: Carling Cup 2010/2011
“I’m a futurist. I’m not nostalgic. I don’t collect anything. I don’t know where my medals are. I’ve given some away, some must be in a cupboard somewhere. Frankly, I’m not a collector at all. This job turns you forward. When you go to bed at night, do you look back at the good moments […]
I don’t know about you but I’m jittery with excitement about tonight’s match. The incentive of a trip to Wembley and a serious chance of silverware is a huge one for this group of players and this, combined with the challenge of overturn a one-goal deficit from the first leg, could make for a cracking […]
It is really hard to know what to say about a performance and result like that. In short, it just wasn’t good enough. Collectively we didn’t work hard enough, individually several players let the team down and we were far too disorganised to fight out a contest that was as fierce and fiery. But you […]
This week is a peculiar one for us Arsenal fans. It’s not often we play two games in a row that do not include Premier or Champions League action. It’s even less often that we play two games in a row against lower-league opposition. But with Saturday’s 1-1 FA Cup draw with Leeds to be […]
Last night two goals from Nicklas Bendtner and Manchester United’s best player from last season, Own Goal, helped Arsenal into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. The club is now within touching distance of its first trophy in over five years, since Patrick Vieira signed off on his Arsenal career by slotting the winning kick […]
After benefiting from an hilariously fortunate opening goal just before the break, Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner ensured Arsenal romped away with a 4-0 victory at St James’ Park. The second-half finishing was particular impressive: Walcott producing two that had me rubbing my eyes and wondering if I was watching Thierry Henry and Bendtner adding […]
Tonight sees a very interesting match-up in the Carling Cup between Arsenal and Newcastle United. It will be a tough game at St James’ Park, so the announcement from the manager that Theo Walcott, Laurent Koscielny and Nicklas Bendtner, among others, will be back in the starting team is most welcome. Carling Cup teams are […]
It would be easy to get caught up in the emotion of last night’s stunning 4-1 extra-time victory at White Hart Lane. But that would do a great disservice to an Arsenal team that put in a masterclass in technical football to ensure that the ineptness of the officiating did not deny them a convincing […]
Adetuwo ‘Yemi Jr. rates the Arsenal players Carling Cup performance against Spurs… Fabianski: Had a relatively quiet evening and his handling was good. Granted, Keane was offside but our goalie could have done a little better with the weakly struck shot from Keane which led to the goal. 6 Eboue: He was lively throughout, bossed […]