Desperate bid to convince RVP to stay + Young defender wants to be Gunners legend

For a long time this blog and no doubt many others, have argued that if we want to hang on to our best player, Robin Van Persie, at the end of this season then we need to go out into the transfer market and bring in the kind of players that will convin…

Arsenal’s Premier League Trip To Swansea City Previewed.

Arsenal lost their last league game away to Fulham after leading 1-0 at half time. It was a big defeat for the team because they would have moved into fourth place with a win. It would also have left them six points behind second placed Manche…

Learning Lessons

A year ago we played Leeds United in the Third Round of the FA Cup, just as we are today. Read the Rest…
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Half season player ratings – Part 3

At the half way stage this season, we look at how the Gunners have fared individually this season.

Arsenal Lose To Fulham In A Game Of Two Halves

Arsenal faced a tricky trip to Fulham yesterday evening knowing that a win would put real pressure on the three teams above them in the Premier League. With that in mind Arsene Wenger chose what looked like the strongest team available to him from t…

Fulham 2-1 Arsenal: Mugged

This is the 20th year that I have watched this grand old sport. There have been some mind-boggling refereeing performances in that time – the two gold standards for me have always been that odious ginger midget Paul Durkin sending off Emmanuel Petit af…

Arsenal team against Villa and do we need a bridging loan?

Arsene Wenger doesn’t have the option of an unchanged side against Aston Villa tonight.  The City game saw Alex SongRead the Rest…
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Olympiakos 3-1 Arsenal: Dog Day Afternoon

Vito and Sebastien sit in the front seat. Vito’s face is screwed up into a horrible squinting grimace as he cranes his neck and tries to make out the shapes of pedestrians crossing the slanting shadows of the setting sun. Sebastien is nervously …

Olympiacos 3 – 1 Arsenal – A timely transfer window tip-off. Not that I care or anything

Well, I’m glad I didn’t really care about the match last night because otherwise I’d be pretty furious this morning. I’d be bemoaning a terrible team performance in which our bright young hopefuls failed to shine. I’d be castigating the older…

Revenge of the Squid

Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday night. Did you spot it? No, I don’t mean the FFB (Fat French Benchwarmer) peeing his sky blue pants (size XL) at the very sight of Emmanuel Frimpong. Nor do I mean two rookie Arsenal midfielders with th…

Espanyol want an Arsenal flop

Espanyol are tracking Sebastien Squillaci,but they don’t want to meet the club of £4m Valuation. The Gunners Center back joined the north London club last summer, but he didn’t make a good impact at the club therefore the club want to get …

France vs Russia for Squillaci’s signature.

One of Arsenal’s central defenders, Sebastien Squillaci might be in for a transfer away from the club in January. The €4 million rated central defender now has quite a few teams trailing him, and given that he can’t find his place in Arsenal’s …

Squillaci aim’s for exit

West Ham are after the veteran French defender and they are willing to offer him a loan escape from the bench of his current team. Arsenal want to get rid of the player who is considered to be a flop,therefor they want a permanent move for him not a lo…

Three leaving Arsenal – no tears shed

As well as Arshavin and Coquelin, three other Gunners could be heading for the exit in January, we’re told. Less tears will be shed for these three.Sebastien Squillaci is for sale, priced at £2m apparently. But who will pay that?Marounane Chamakh coul…

Arsene slams door on centre-back move + ‘Fireworks at the Emirates or a Bonfire Nightmare?’ Oh shut up, Gary Lineker

Arsenal face West Brom tomorrow on Bonfire Night (well the day of Bonfire Night.  Bonfire Day? Bonfire Afternoon?) which means …Continue reading »

Arsenal Carling team update

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Wenger’s injury update on Vermaelen, Walcott, Gervinho, Benayoun and Koscielny ahead of Tottenham

Arsene Wenger gave mixed injury news ahead of the North London derby on Sunday. Speaking at his pre-match press conference, the manager revealed Laurent Koscielny will definitely miss the Sunday game after failing to absorb any of the tests on Friday. …

Chatty Stan Kroenke says nothing in particular

So Silent Stan is silent no more. It turns out he’s very talkative, Chatty Stan perhaps, albeit in that odd …Continue reading »

Injuries stack up + Arsene the Anglophobe

So the team news arrived via Arsene’s press conference yesterday and as it turns out…it’s pretty bad. Walcott, Gervinho and …Continue reading »

Everybody hurts – pre-match news

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Arsenal 0 – 2 Liverpool: Thoughts and Player Ratings

So, more of the same from Arsenal with a different result this weekend. With a makeshift midfield and defense, we started this game very positively but then went into a nut shell. If was Liverpool who created the better ‘half chances’ as we drifte…