The Champions League returns for another season and this time the final will be played at Wembley. It’s a classic case of so near yet so far at the same time. We have been in the Champions League for over a decade with consecutive appearances but are yet to win it. During the draw when […]
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Those fears are not for us I hasten to add…. Having managed just one win since the start of the season and after a recent 3-1 defeat to newly promoted Stade de Reims, Montpellier’s Younès Belhanda is concerned for his club tomorrow night: If we play like that against Arsenal, we’ll concede eight goals. That was […]
Arsenal started the game with the following line up: Szczesny, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Arteta, Coquelin, Cazorla, Chamberlain, Podolski, Gervinho. Subs were Mannone (very unfair I must say), Koscielny, Santos, Walcott, Ramsey, Arshavin and Giroud. The Saints rode into town in a happy mood. They had narrowly lost to both the Manchester sides with the […]
Morning Gooners, Finally, the proper football is back! Arsenal news: Wojciech Szczesny is available again following a rib injury and Theo Walcott will be assessed before a final decision is made, but he was training with the squad yesterday, so he should be fine and as we all know, Abou Diaby is a doubt because of a hip […]
Morning Gooners, Recovering from a serious injury or a raft of niggling, confidence sapping injuries, is not an exact science. Some players return as good as new. Others suffer deep psychological damage, from which they never fully recover. Eduardo is the classic example, he was lucky to still have two legs and be able to […]
As time ticks by each season we all discuss players contracts. Who does and does not, in our own view, deserve to stay and not surprisingly those views differ very often. Players like Walcott, Djourou, Ramsey, Jenkinson, Fabianski, Mannone, Chamakh etc are all names that pop up very often and cause divide amongst us, in opinion […]
Morning all, We all know that no matter what any player actually says during an interview, the anti Arsenal journalists will so often give their words a little tweak or print only the negative answers, usually ignoring anything positive. Arsene Wenger goes through a rough time too when facing the press and it does really […]
Well it didn’t take long did it, three games into the Premier League, one for France and Abou Diaby is injured and will miss tonights World Cup qualifier for his country. Didier Deschamps has revealed a muscular problem is then reason our midfield man will miss the fixture against Belarus. Diaby took a bad shot […]
Morning Gooners, I want to talk about some of the things I have read in Houser’s comments, well one in particular. ‘ No one player/person is bigger than the club’ I have used this expression before myself and but I’m starting to think about its merits. Many times I have read that statement and many […]
I don’t want to go on about the January transfer window, crikey, the summer one has only just closed but during the last few months, three players at least have suggested that Arsenal were interested in signing them. First up is Cheikhou Kouyate, the Senegalese defender who plays for Anderlecht. He maintains that had his clubs […]
Morning Gooners, I have in the past praised Wenger for what he has done for Arsenal Football Club, but many supporters have different views and don’t want him to lead our club. That’s fine though isn’t it, we wouldn’t all want to be the same would we and the lack of trophies in our cabinet […]
During the summer, a common theme among many fans seemed to be that they wanted a new left-back as ours needed strengthening. Neither Kieran Gibbs or Andre Santos were deemed good enough. A similar stance was also taken when the names Carl Jenkinson and Per Mertesacker were brought up, both were considered to be no more than just […]