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Our Rocky – Gone, but never ever forgotten.

Morning all. Arsenal fans favourite, David ‘Rocky’ Rocastle, lost his battle against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma fifteen years ago today, aged just 33! Despite the number of years gone by, Arsenal fans young and old still miss him today…. In 1982, Rocky signed up for Arsenal Football Club as an apprentice and it wasn’t long before he […]

Arsenal signing imminent, Aubameyang next? Four more years for Arsene Wenger if he signs the contract offer…?

Morning all. Whether Piers Morgan is telling the truth or trying to stir the pot I don’t know but he’s said that Arsene Wenger has a new three year contract on his desk and all the Frenchman needs to do is sign it if he wants to stay on beyond the summer of 2017. Morgan […]

‘He would never say it himself, but…….’

Morning all. ‘He would never say it himself, but he is Dutch football.’ Those are the words of Dennis Bergkamp extracted from his book ‘Stillness and Speed’ and he is of course talking about the great Dutch footballer, Johan Cruyff, who so very sadly passed away yesterday. The footballing genius had been fighting Cancer but yet […]

Bellerin sends message to Barcelona. Will Wenger change his ways in the summer?

Morning all. Well the voting yesterday was interesting even if it doesn’t reflect a true opinion. Surveys/Polls never do unless everyone votes and that will never happen on the internet. But, the general consensus is that the following players really need to leave this summer: Mikel Arteta, Mathieu Flamini,, Tomas Rosicky, Theo Walcott and  Yaya Sanogo. Arsene […]

Xhaka talks held, Iwobi hospitalised and pick your ‘outs’ for the summer. (Poll)

Morning all. Just a bit of Football Manager today, so you’ve got a poll on which you can pick and choose who you’d like to see sold off in the summer.. [yop_poll id=”7″] And whilst your mulling that over, spare a thought for Alex Iwobi who having been called by Nigeria, has got food poisoning […]

Arsenal striker wants to play, or he’ll leave. Wenger under orders to spend big..

Morning all. Dreadful goings on in Brussels this morning. At the time of writing, 23 people have fallen victim to an evil terrorist plot on the airport and Metro stations. My thoughts are with the people in the Belgium capital. Football goes on, football is another world altogether… 18 year old Kaylen Hinds who signed […]

Arsene Wenger was right, this squad was good enough to win the league….

Morning all. It’s always good to go into an international break after a victory but even a quality performance on Saturday still irritates. Not the performance but the fact is that had Arsene Wenger got this team playing in such a way all season, we’d all be thinking ‘the PL is in the bag’…. Seven games […]

Pressure off and Arsenal finally perform. First start, first goal, first award after super showing from Iwobi.

Morning all. It’s taken a while but yesterday it finally arrived. A top performance all round against Everton, it really was. From Ospina through the team to Welbeck who led the line, every single player performed. Arsenal were quick with their passing and didn’t give the Everton players time on the ball forcing mistakes from the […]