United’s Reserves Fail To Shine Against Palace

On a night when 24000 empty seats spoke volumes about the League Cup’s place in the fan’s mind, Manchester United reserves took the field against a Crystal Palace team that is way below our level and far from a threat in front of goal.

Carling Cup Draw

Semi Final of the Carling CupMan City – LiverpoolCardiff – PalaceVery annoying but if we get through the semi we should have another cup this year!

REPORT: Manchester United 1 Crystal Palace 2 (AET)

For second straight year in the quarterfinal of the Carling Cup, Manchester United were left completely stunned, this time losing to Crystal Palace 2-1 in added extra time at Old Trafford.

United were left chasing Palace all night
After 64 minutes…

View From The North Bank: Arsenal 0 Man City 1

I wouldn’t normally be all that bothered about losing a Carling Cup tie but I cant help but be a little frustrated after last nights defeat to Manchester City. An even first half was followed by a second period which a much changed Arsenal domina…

Arsene Wenger reflects on last night’s quarter final display

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger spoke on last night’s match in the Carling Cup Quarter Final, at the Emirates which resulted in a 1 – 0 defeat for his side, and on being knocked out of the Carling Cup tournament, yet despite defeat he was quite refl…

Arsene Wenger believes last night was a learning curve

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, has spoken about last night’s courageous performance by his Arsenal squad in last nights Carling Cup Quarter Final defeat to Manchester City, and has spoken on how last nights game was a learning experience for the, an…

Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City: Analysis

A poignant minute’s silence for Gary Speed (R.I.P) turned into spontaneous applause and chants of ‘one Gary Speed’ before kick-off in a sold out Emirates which saw Fabianski, Djourou, Squillaci, Koscielny, Miquel, Frimpong, Coquelin,…

Arsenal Fall To City Sucker Punch

Arsenal 0 – 1 Manchester City 0 – 1 Aguero (83) Beforehand Arsène’s assertion that despite not being able to compete with Manchester City financially, his squad could on the pitch was met with some ridicule. For the best part of nine…

Arsenal 0-1 City

So City advance to their 3rd semi final in 3 years. We have a 1 in 3 chance of facing Utd if/when they beat Palace and then we can repeat last year and knock them out in a semi!Seriously though we were awful tonight. Over the whole game the only shot o…

Arsenal vs Manchester City: Team line-up/Score prediction

The team for tonight’s game against Manchester City is extremely hard to predict. On the one hand, Wenger will want to rest some of our key players who he feels are “in the red” (RvP, Ramsey, Walcott). On the other hand, the Carling C…

Arsene Wenger warns Manchester City ahead of tonight’s crucial match

Arsene Wenger has come out all guns firing ahead of tonight’s much anticipated Carling Cup Quarter Final at the Emirates, as Arsenal look to make home advantage tonight to their game against the current Premier League leaders Manchester City, wit…

Arsenal vs Manchester City: Team/injury news

Arsenal Team news Arsène Wenger has revealed that there are several players who are feeling the effects of a hectic schedule, so expect some big changes from the team that drew 1-1 with Fulham at the weekend. “Am I worried we have too many playe…

Nasri is the exception, Podolski in talks & Vertonghen replacement lined up for January..

I don’t condone violence in the game we all love, however if we get into the last second of extra time tonight with the score at 1-0 and one of our fringe players can hoof him into row z, I’d be quite happy! As long as he takes the ball first of co…

Mancini To Devalue Competition By Playing Kids…

Manchester City arrive at The Emirates for the Carling Cup quarter-finals. It is, if you believe the hype, already decided. The petrodollars have created the squad that will end all squads in the English game. Rarely does football live up to the hype. …

Arsenal Away – Carling Cup

The team I would play for this tough away fixture……………..HartZabaleta – Savic – Kolo – Clichy…………..De Jong A. Johnson – Suarez – Nasri – Kolarov……………DzekoArsenal I presume will also play a weaker team for this. If we both pl…

More Internationals? One striker leaves, an old one returns and defender signs on……..

Morning all, Some of you may remember a recent post of mine “Thank goodness Wenger is not English” In that post I said that the FA made £2 – £3 million from England home games at Wembley and of course, some of our players are involv…

Head to Head: Norwich vs Arsenal

Here is the Statistics for Norwich city vs Arsenal (all Time) Courtesy : soccerpunter.com A bird’s eye view of Norwich and Arsenal results in English Premier League 2011-2012 so far. Did they play better at home or away? Norwich Matches Win Draw …

Don’t buy it, earn it as we go through another transition……

Morning all, One week into the Internationals and no doubt all Arsenal supporters have turned attentions to your parent countries, some of you may not have too much interest in these fixtures, perhaps your county is not involved. If so, this second wee…

Akhil: 10 reasons why Arsenal can beat Man City

I’ve been reading articles on how good the Man City team is performing and how good their squad is. A certain website [Talkshite] even went to the extent of comparing their squad with our invincibles. Ridiculous I must say ! Although the truth is…

Kuszczak’s Rant’s That Of A Frustrated Man

Few Manchester United fans would have imagined after the weekend’s victory over Sunderland which came on the eve of Sir Alex Ferguson’s 25th anniversary of taking over the club, that they would be speaking about our Polish goalkeeper this w…

Can Arsenal be the Pride of London again?? Get well soon Harry…

What would it take for Arsenal football club to become the pride of London again? Yes you read that sentence right and I mean to win the league. Most supporters see the Premier League as the highest pinnacle of the season, we are currently seventh in t…

Gunners continue ticket reduction policy for Man City clash

Gunners continue ticket reduction policy for Man City clash Arsenal offer tickets from only £5

Gunners continue ticket reduction policy for Man City clash

Gunners continue ticket reduction policy for Man City clash Arsenal offer tickets from only £5

Arsenal News: Gunners draw City in Carling Cup quarters

The quarter finals of the Carling Cup looks to be a mouthwatering prospect with the headline matches being Arsenal to host Manchester City and Chelsea to meet Liverpool at Stamford Bridge. Although in contrast Manchester United look to get an easy run …

CC Çeyrek Finalinde Rakip Liverpool

Fulham ve Everton’ı geçtik… Sıradaki rakibimiz için kuralar çekildi: Carling Cup çeyrek finalinde karşılaşacağımız ekip Liverpool olacak. Maç, Stamford Bridge’de 29 ya da 30 Kasım’da oynanacak.Tüm eşleşmeler şu şekilde…Arsenal v …