Roker Park, the old home of Sunderland AFC was never a very lucky venue for visiting Arsenal teams. Someone dug up an old fact recently that on this day in 1953 an Arsenal team, fresh from winning the League, visited Roker Park and were soundly beaten by the home team. So of course the […]

  Morning all. The festive fixtures have been kind to us with four matches in London. We face Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on the 27th December, Fulham at Craven Cottage on the 30th before playing both Ipswich Town and Brentford at the Emirates on January 2nd and 5th respectively. In fact all of December’s […]

Most of the pre-match debate centred around how much rotation from manager Mikel Arteta we would see, if any. Decisions on starting XI’s are as much a tactical issue as anything but as we are on the outside we as fans tend to focus on fitness and fatigue and our players getting plenty of rest […]

  Morning guys. Champions League football kicks off for The Arsenal tonight with an away fixture against Napoli. The Italian club has started the season a bit ropey having won just one of their opening three fixtures in the league. But, they are under new management after Conte left by “mutual consent” at the end […]