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 […]
Morning Gooners. Over the years under Wenger’s reign as Arsenal boss we’ve had the privilege of witnessing some sublime football from our team. This has been made possible by the fluidity of our attacking unit and there has been two main dominant types of forwards at our club during that period. We’ve had the lightning […]
Morning Gooners, it’s all good news today. Firstly, 17 year old Academy scholar Jack Jebb, a young player who is expected to take the Jack Wilshere path rather than the David Bentley one, has signed professional terms with the Club. He’s a London born and bred player who is described as a technically-gifted central midfielder […]
Morning Gooners, In my heart and mind, Ex Arsenal Captain Tony Adams will never be anything other than a hero. He led us to: First Division/Premier League: 1988–89, 1990–91, 1997–98, 2001–02 FA Cup Winners: 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02 Football League Cup Winners: 1986–87, 1992–93 FA Community Shield: 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup: 1993–94 […]
Morning Gooners, Well that was a tough night! We lined up: Mannone, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Diaby, Arteta, Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud, Gervinho Substitutes: Shea, Koscielny, Santos, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Coquelin The first bit of action was within a minute of the start when Diaby got an early booking. This was shortly followed by the first goal of the […]
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 […]
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 […]