Speaking at his press conference for the Huddersfield game, Arsene Wenger made this statement about the goalkeeping situation: “At the moment Wojciech is number one. He has done nothing wrong for me to take him out.” It is as bold a statement as I have heard him make about our goalkeepers in a long, long […]
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Given the strong form of Lukasz Fabianski over the past month, Wojciech Szczesny’s impressive performance against Newcastle United and Arsene Wenger’s unconvincing comments on Thursday afternoon about the state of his elbow injury an important question now needs to be asked: is Manuel Almunia’s career at Arsenal over? In the manager’s usual weekly press conference […]
There’s plenty to talk about as the boys prepare for what should be an interesting Champions League away game against Partizan Belgrade. The biggest point of interest is the absence of Manuel Almunia from the traveling squad. The Spaniard injured his elbow whilst saving the penalty on Saturday and his inability to play against Partizan […]
AFCB special columnist J’ammanuel Egnoue explains Arsene Wenger’s texting and why Almunia should take penalties… This week was a week of ups and downs. On Monday evening, my beloved panther Lauren passed away. It seems that he died of some kind of food poisoning related mishap. I guess thats the last time I feed my […]
AFCB special columnist J’ammanuel Egnoue gets weirder and wilder than ever before… Well well well, exciting times in the life of Egnoue. As exciting as being a full time professional football player AND international film star can be. Since my regular life is about playing roles like Solomon Vandy in Blood Diamond and dashing in […]
Some very good news to kick things off today. The word on the street that Samir Nasri is recovering well from minor knee surgery and could be back in the squad for our next game, against Bolton at The Emirates on September 11. The bad news is that as I type that I realise there […]
As of 6pm UK time the English transfer window is now closed. I had intended to cover “Deadline Day” in a fair bit of detail but was instead forced to help out a friend with an extremely stressful travel insurance problem here in Berlin. In the end, it seems I didn’t miss much. Indeed the […]
AFCB editor Andrew Weber rounds up the day’s news… Almunia admits worries A day after captaining Arsenal at Anfield, Manuel Almunia has admitted he is struggling to cope with the speculation surrounding the goalkeeper’s position at Arsenal. “To be honest, it is so difficult [to concentrate]. Arsenal is a big club and speculation is always […]
On the eve Sunday’s season opener against Liverpool the biggest talking point in the Arsenal team, that of who will start in goals at Anfield, has become even more debatable. Arsene Wenger, speaking at the pre-game press conference, confirmed that whoever starts as goalkeeper on Sunday will be Arsenal’s No 1 for the season, but […]
Arsenal were made to pay for two awful defensive errors as they were beaten 2-1 by FC Porto in the Estádio do Dragão. The result leaves Arsene Wenger and our boys needing a win at home in three weeks time to qualify through to the quarter-finals. Injuries meant the team I predicted yesterday started as […]