Morning Gooners, Coventry City roll into town today, for a 3rd Round tie in the much maligned creation of the late Alan Hardaker O.B.E. Hardaker was the Secretary of The Football League back in the days of Division’s One to Four, and during the 1960’s, was the main architect of The Football League Cup. His remit […]

Morning Gooners, A few words from ‘Mad Jens’ throughout today’s post: We once played Inter Milan and nearly got knocked out of the Champions League. We knew we had to get a result and all of a sudden this team really stood up. We beat them 5-1 in Milan, and so it showed us at […]

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 […]

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 […]