In terms of “here and now”, we cannot view this evening’s win at FK Partizan as anything but a good result: Six out of six points in this season’s Champions League competition, our first away win in said competition for a year, a good rebound win following Saturday’s shambles. These are all things we hoped […]
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Every morning I wake up I see my Champions league poster on the wall and I keep on asking myself the same question. Pose the same question point-blank to Fabregas, how do you think he will respond? The common responses will be: yes, no or maybe. Frankly speaking I don’t know. Pose the […]
If the headline baffles, go and google Rainbow, it’s a kids television programme from many years ago…. So Almunia is injured and Flappyanski is lined up to take his place for tomorrow nights game. Me, I don’t believe it, Almunia has been dropped after his woeful displace which is right. But, replacing him with a keeper who […]
Losing is a fact of life. Most of us have lost throughout our lives. Most of us will continue to lose throughout the remainder of whatever is left of our lives. For many of us that is why we support The Arsenal, because we hope against hope that somehow their winning will make the reality […]
Hands up if you approached this match with just a just a little trepidation – no, I didn’t either. In retrospect, we should have known better. There have been recent examples where our team has followed excellent performances with duds. I thought that our side had matured enough to get past that – sadly, that […]
Over the last few months we have heard managers moan about this, that and the other. Some is justified but a lot is just moaning for the sake of it. Yesterday morning though while watching Sky Sports as you do, waiting to hear all the news coming out from Arsenal, I stopped and had a […]
I touched on this the other day but it appears that it’s today Arsenal will announce record profits – and that they have paid off all the debts on their Highbury Square development six months early. This means that we will get a £30 million windfall after selling off around 90 apartments The Emirates Stadium costs are covered with ease from […]
Great news came out the Arsenal Camp yesterday that Kieran Gibbs has suffered severe bruising to his left foot and should only be missing for a couple of weeks – I am sure I was no different to any other fan in dreading that he had suffered a long-term injury – he was ‘massive’ against […]
What a night!! Fabianski, Eboue, Djourou, Koscielny, Gibbs, Wilshere, Denilson, Nasri, Rosicky, Lansbury, Vela were given the task of going head to head with Arsenal Football Clubs most bitter rival in this Carling Cup match. On the bench sat, Manuel Almunia, Bacary Sagna, Gael Clichy, Andrey Arshavin, Craig Eastmond, Marouane Chamakh and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas. Good […]
Kids v’s Yids do not go together!! And I mean that, why go and play a bunch of ‘kids’ against our most bitter of rivals and not give ourselves a chance of winning a trophy this season. Added to that, it’s not a game against Crewe or Oxford, it’s against the spuddies down the road, a side […]
Oh how I laughed yesterday when these words from Big Sam broke in the news. There is a problem with perception. Arsene is seen as a sophisticated Frenchman while I’m just a rugged English centre-half from the Midlands with an accent to match, but is Arsene more advanced than me in terms of coaching? Not […]
The undeserved point! I’m talking about Arsenal, not Sunderland. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a one-sided game and we were on the receiving end! We were the ones making the dodgy tackles, not Sunderland. Thankfully they weren’t nasty tackles but stupid ones nevertheless! The early stages of this game saw a […]