There are two reasons for the “day late” nature of my match report for Arsenal v Chelsea: the first being the need for a day to ponder of the importance of the result in the grand scheme of things. The second? A personal desire to be outside throwing Swedish-produced snowballs as often as possible. Going […]
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It seems strange to say it but tomorrow night’s final group stage game against Partizan Belgrade is the biggest game of our season so far. Lose it and we are most likely on our way out at this stage for the first time in Arsene Wenger’s reign. Even a draw might not be enough if […]
The atrocious quality of the stream that I used to watched today’s game against Fulham has left me feeling completely unqualified to make any poignant observations about our performance as a team. But even through the stuttery, blurry mess of a stream I feel confident enough to sing the praises of two players that I […]
With Arsenal’s next game against Wigan a Carling Cup fixture, there will undoubtedly be changes made to the team. While Arsene Wenger is keen to remain tight-lipped about the make-up of his starting team, he has also revealed that Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner are all likely to feature. The three front-line […]
I’m currently working on a piece analysing each and every goal that Arsenal have conceded this season in a bid to identify any trends about our defensive problems. It’s quite an exhaustive task and as you can imagine, it’s taking some time. While I’m working on that I thought I’d throw a question out to […]
Arsene Wenger gave his usual weekly press conference yesterday and as is the norm, most of it focused on the injury situation at the club. There is good news, not so good news and bad news for the trip to Manchester City. The good news is that Bacary Sagna will be back in the squad […]
On paper, Blackpool at home is the easiest fixture that Arsenal will play this season. But after the Tangerines’ surprising 4-0 win away to Wigan on the opening day they will be feeling a sense of “euphoria”, as Arsene Wenger has put it, and may play with a dangerous lack of doubt at The Emirates. […]
Arsenal cruised to a 4-0 win in their first pre-season game against Barnet yesterday afternoon. Here’s a photo compilation – featuring new signing Laurent Koscielny, new hairdos for Tomas Rosicky and Samir Nasri and a cheeky kiss for Wojciech Szczesny – of what was a very fun start to the pre-season. Enjoy. Thoughts? Have your say […]
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 […]
Long-time readers will know how much of a fan I am of Johan Djourou, so it gives me great pleasure to share the news that his recovery from a long-term knee injury is going well. “I’m very happy to actually maybe see the end of the tunnel now because it has been a rough route, […]