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The papers are going crazy with this fixture and all the focus is on Arsenal and how the mighty have …Continue reading »
Arsenal vs. Manchester United Preview: An Epic Rivalry Renewed
There’s a certain football match that brings all of England to a standstill because of the magnitude of the game’s importance. Down the years, this fixture has produced many great encounters and it’s fair to say that the Gunners haven…
The Reality of Events at Arsenal Football Club
Tomorrow’s Premier League encounters promise to be mouthwatering but today’s fixtures have shown the unpredictability of the league. Andres Villa-Boa Constrictor and his goons couldn’t get past Norwich City, Fulham ran riot against Ne…
Brawls, Chairmen, Champions League, Comebacks, History, Injuries, Wages..
TweetArsenal vs Manchester United, Emirates Stadium, Premier League Kickoff – 16:00 (21:30 IST), 22nd January 2012 Sunday, finally. Arsenal vs Manchester United. Couldn’t ask for anything more. A week, that has been filled with turmoil for …
How we beat Manchester United.
Afternoon, boys and girls. Tomorrow’s game is undoubtedly a hugely important one. We all remember that shambolic day in August where words like ‘humiliation’ and ‘woeful’ barely offered an apt description. To this day, I&#…
Injured Arsenal vs Injured Manchester United – The Preview
TweetWhen and Where: 22nd January 2012 at Emirates Live Telecast: 9:25 pm IST on ESPN Arsenal’s shock 3-2 defeat at Swansea last weekend has badly dented our hopes of a top-four finish. Still, the game against Manchester United is one big match a…
Football Management: Rocket Science?
Written by MickyDidIt89 I do wonder how difficult all this football management malarkey really is. You see, I’m a Rocket Scientist and even that, which is so often used as the benchmark clever dick occupation, is not that hard either. However, for th…
Extension of Absence
Ahead of this Sunday’s game against Manchester United, the latest injury news update does not help to reassure any nerves. …Continue reading »
Lies, Damned Lies and Headline Writers
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t; when Arsène meets the press the answers in his pre-match conferences, the answers are invariably honest, detrimentally so in some cases. Rarely though are they as dismissive as ‘Appy ‘Arry whe…
A case of the ‘Chamakhs’
Afternoon, folks. Just as I’d gotten myself into a blogging groove, a temporary hiatus beckons. Without wanting to post anything self-indulgent, maudlin or wildly irrelevant to Arsenal, the reasons are simply my suffering of one or two personal p…
Arsenal: False Idols, Falsehoods and Victorian Abattoirs. One Of Speaks…
He floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee, here’s the ACLF equivalent of Muhammed Ali. Except there isn’t a bee in Big Al’s bonnet, it’s the whole bloody species… Chances are you won’t know much of what I’m going t…
Changes Behind The Scenes – Panacea Or Placebo?
A quiet enough morning, media-wise with unruly shenanigans at Stamford Bridge taking the attention away from Arsenal. You feel it is only temporary with the maelstrom to re-emerge at the weekend with Manchester United’s visit to The Emirates. Mar…
Arteta out for United… FFS x2 | Jack back in 3 weeksish | Fulham for Rosicky
Good morning Grove fans, first thing to tackle this morning is a bad case of too much too young for Pedro Bothelo. The man disgraced his and my name when he got pissed at the weekend, crashed into a police car, then drove off. He was caught, busted and…
Money, Jack and A Greek
When the team has just lost our last 2 consecutive league fixtures, the last thing we want to hear is …Continue reading »
Great News on Jack Wilshere’s Return and Wojciech Szczesny’s Belief in Arsenal
We have gotten past the middle of the winter transfer window and the Arsenal faithful are yet to see the emergency full back, creative attacking midfielder and attacking forward they’ve been craving for. Arsene Wenger brought back the old legend …
The bewlidering world of Theo Walcott.
Good evening, you sexually provocative bunch of rascals. It’s one of those days today. I could be watching ‘El Clasico’, but the sight of Cesc gleefully exchanging passes with Messi whilst skipping about the pitch like a Rabbit in a &…
Arsenal’s Chairman states the club’s ambition and a tale of Theo Walcott
The Swansea defeat was reminiscent of the terrible sandstorm that appeared in a scene in Mission Impossible 4 where Tom Cruise chased the villain but it ended after Cobalt had escaped on a truck. Out of the blue, the sandstorm appeared from nowhere and…
Signing(s) Is Not The Complete Solution
The fallout from the defeat to Swansea has been dire and depressing. The “Wenger OUT!!” brigade has come out in …Continue reading »
Cash Is King As Calf Becomes The New Hamstring
There’s a big match this match weekend and being Arsenal, there’s a minor injury crisis erupting across the back pages. The truth of the matter is yet to be revealed but Mikel Arteta and Thomas Vermaelen have been joined on the sidelines by…
We need a transfer. Why aren’t we getting one?
Howdy, ladies and gentleman. News broke tonight of Newcastle’s success in signing Papiss Cisse for a reported £10m. It’s a good price for a talented and fairly prolific striker, and, worst of all, he was once flirting with the fringes R…
Cannon Fodder : Cross Roads
Tweet What is it that defines winners? Is it an abundance of talent? Is it the much talked about ‘siege mentality’ combined with a team’s solidarity? Or is it killer instinct? Ask any successful manager and you’ll receive myriad responses…
Swansea aftermath, Transfer Rumblings, PLS, the best team in Europe and new Twitter terms!
TweetSo, here we are. Another miserable start to the week. A Monday, which could have been so cheerfully different, had the referee yellow-carded Nathan Dyer for simulation, instead of awarding Swansea a penalty; and more importantly, had Arsenal emerg…
Seven days on and still reliving the return of King Henry
We’re a bit in the doldrums here at Arsenal Arsenal. At the moment we’re still numb from the defeat on Sunday and finding it hard to be upbeat and forward thinking. Our twin posts today are in celebration of the return of Thierry Henry. Hop…
Thierry, was he right or was he wrong? Who will make the 1,000,000th comment today?
At the end of the Swansea debacle we were all feeling angry, me because I watched it in a bar full of Welsh birds with big mouths and I just got through giving it the big roar when we equalised, you know the rest. A number of you went on that arduous t…
The World of Arsenal in the Wake of the Swansea Aftermath
When the 2011/12 campaign kicked off with the stalemate against Newcastle, I had a quick view of the 20 teams in the Premier League and judging by the state of the Arsene Wenger’s squad in August, I ruled out any chance of Arsenal winning the Pre…
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