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The Team Sheet My predicted lineup went out the window moments after publishing my last post, when the manager, in his usual Friday press conference, announced Thomas Vermaelen would be unavailable with an achilles problem. It’s not a serious problem by the sound of it, and he could be back in the team as early [...]
Pass Me The Bin / Bolton Preview
First some stats. Before our first game of the season, as I was sitting in the pub waiting nervously for it all to kick-off I picked up a discarded News of the World from my table and flicked through the sports supplement. It was a moment of weakness, something to distract me from my pre-season [...]
What Was The Cost Of This International Break?
Thank the footballing Gods that that’s over (for a month at least), the players will make their way back from international duty over the next day or so in their various states of disrepair, and we can start looking forward to Bolton this weekend. Sagna, Clichy, Diaby, Rosicky and Arshavin all played 90 minutes last [...]
Goalkeeper Thoughts / Pointless Squad Rules
So we didn’t buy a keeper. The Schwarzer deal fell through because of Fulham’s inability to find a replacement on deadline day, and with their reserve goalie facing a lengthy spell out too it was a total no go. For some reason we didn’t have any other targets lined up should the deal for the Aussie not [...]
Weekend Round Up: Wenger is Mr Popular
Our win at Blackburn kicked off a largely enjoyable weekend for all things Arsenal. Hearing Fat Sam after the match trying to explain that Blackburn ‘deserved’ a point for the number of times they managed to hoof it up into our area was amusing. The man clearly has a personal problem with Wenger, despite his [...]
Blackburn 1 – 2 Arsenal
The Team Sheet Almunia Sagna – Koscielny – Vermaelen – Clichy Diaby – Song – Cesc Walcott – van Persie – Arshavin The anticipated first starts for Cesc and Robin, meant that Wilshere and (surprisingly) Chamakh were relegated to the bench, while Walcott kept his place. Song’s return to midfield pushed out Rosicky, who played [...]
Champion Draw / Squillaci Even More Official / Blackburn Preview
So yesterday’s Champions League group stage draw saw us paired with Shakhtar Donestk, Braga and Partizan Belgrade in Group H. It’s a pretty forgiving draw when you look at who we could have got, but there’s a bit too much of an Eastern European flavour to it for my liking. We know from experience that [...]
Squillaci Confirmed At Last
To the frustration of many and the surprise of no-one, Arsenal remained tight-lipped over the Sebastien Squillaci deal until today. It took until Wenger’s press conference this afternoon, four days after Sevilla announced the transfer on their offcial website, and after the player had said it was “almost impossible” to turn down Arsene Wenger, before [...]
Squillaci Is Joining the Party, But Who’s His Plus One?
All I know about Sebastien Squillaci you could learn from a quick pootle around Wikipedia (guess how I learnt it?), but on the face of things he looks like a pretty decent signing. He’s probably not going to be a world beater, but I’ve always maintained that our next centre back signing didn’t need to [...]
Wenger – It is a risk, but i need to rest some players
The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger accepts that he will be criticized if his young team get beaten by Olympiakos tonight, but he has the right to rest some players who may have injuries or knocks.
Standard Liege are two points behind Olympiakos, and are counting on an Arsenal win to give them a chance to progress, [...]
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