It’s the Ekka Show Day public holiday in Brisbane today (don’t ask me to explain) and that means I was able to enjoy a beautiful bottle of red last night and a little bit of a sleep-in this morning. Excellent. I’ve made the decision to switch the Arsenal FC Weekly podcast from Monday to Tuesday […]
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Good afternoon to you all from a very sunny Brisbane and a very chirpy blogger. It’s a public holiday for Brisbane tomorrow so as soon as this goes online I’ll be off to have a few drinks and put my feet up. It’s a tale of two defenders today as our younger centre-backs compete for […]
Hello again – I hope you had a lovely weekend. Quite a lot to get through today so bare with me. I’ll kick things off with Johan Djourou who spoke on Friday about the role he hopes to play at Arsenal this season. In his own words he said: “I am ready now, I am […]
Good morning to you all from a fairly chilly Brisbane. No alcoholic beverages to be found near me today, just a piping hot green tea and some Vegemite and butter on toast to keep me company. In Saturday’s post the idea was raised by regular commenter ‘Old Timer’ to open up a bit of a […]
Hello there. Apologies for the lateness of this post. If I had a good excuse I’d give it to you, but the truth is that I was having some drinks with Morgana Clarke. That’s right, the same Morgana Clarke that so badly cursed our team during their 0-0 period of last season. Please forgive me. […]
Today is the second in a series of posts reviewing Arsenal’s 2008/09 season. Yesterday I reviewed the performances of our goalkeepers over the course of the season and up for scrutiny today is the Arsenal defence. Unlike yesterday’s post which looked individually at the performances of Manuel Almunia and Lukasz Fabianski, this article is more […]
To get straight to the point, the reasons why Johan Djourou and Carlos Vela should start against Sunderland are: Kenwyn Jones will be playing. Emmanuel Eboue is our only other option on the wing. Well, the second is not strictly true, but if the manager’s pre-match comments are anything to go by then it seems […]
Ahoy there. It’s absolutely pissing down rain tonight in Brisbane and according to news reports there’s a chance we might even lose power. Scary/fun stuff. Hopefully it will hold out just long enough for me to get through this. The manager has delivered two interesting pieces of news today. The first of which is the predictable […]
Hello, hello. Just a quick preview of the Sheffield game and a couple of other bits and pieces to get through today before I kick off for a beer with my dad. Arsene Wenger has said that the team he will be sending out against Sheffield United in the Carling Cup game tonight will be […]
Arsenal got the point that Arsene Wenger thought they would from their trip to the Ukraine after only managing a 1-1 draw against Dynamo Kyiv. Despite dominating the first half the boys failed to score and were made to rely on another late William Gallas strike to salvage a point after Ismael Bangoura converted a […]