Arsene Wenger considers him one of the best players he has had the pleasure of managing. His former teammates constantly spoke of his relentless professionalism and commitment. Use the above to describe a player and most will guess it to be Patrick Vieira, or somebody else who featured prominently for Arsenal during their double wins […]
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This is the second part of AFCB’s 2010/2011 Season Review, focusing specifically on the players primarily used across the centre of the park this season. Each player has been giving a report card-style rating (ranging from A+ to E-) as well as the justification for their rating based on their progress and overall performance over […]
There’s not too much Arsenal news floating around today (it often happens on a Thursday when we have a Sunday game, with the manager’s press conference not until the afternoon) with the best of it coming from the mouths of Cesc Fabregas, Tomas Rosicky and Lukasz Fabianski. Cesc has stated that he believes this week’s […]
A number of Arsenal players were in action last night as the international break officially came to a close. Abou Diaby and Gael Clichy started for France in their 2-0 win over Luxembourg, with the former in particular impressing in his country’s win. Diaby had a number of efforts saved by the Luxembourg goalkeeper and […]
AFCB’s writer Fatema Farhat is back for her fortnightly “Arsenal for the Ladies” column… B52 is bendting over backwards Our Nicky has been keeping himself busy whilst on the road to recovery. The B52 himself has landed a cover with his beautiful fiancee on the ever so popular ELLE magazine. This time Nick has managed […]
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 […]
First things first, some theme music for today’s blog: The music included above accompanies the most excellent news that Kieran Gibbs, foot-breaker extraordinaire, has avoided a fracture of the second metatarsal. With every Arsenal fan expecting the worst after Gibbs limped off against Spurs, the news from the doctor is that the left-back only suffered […]
AFCB’s tactics guru Andrew Enloe gives us his analysis of Arsenal’s draw at Sunderland… Saturday’s match against Sunderland was a hugely frustrating affair. It seemed that the entire world knew that the final whistle would go when the ball was cleared one last time. A huge sigh of relief was followed by the realization that, […]
AFCB’s new tactics guru Andrew Enloe gets the chalkboards out for the very first edition of ‘The Short Corner’… In the world of Arsenal blogging, it seems the tactical side gets put on the back burner with most articles focused on team spirit and Arsene Wenger’s much-vaunted “mental strength.” This has its place of course, […]
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 […]