Frank Stapleton was one of my favourite players. I loved the guy, great in the air, two good feet, never stopped working for the team, the complete centre-forward. Many Arsenal fans had doubts about him when he first came into the side as a raw-boned 18/19 year old but I’d seen him in the Stiffs […]
Reports are coming out that Arsenal have entered into the race for French teenager M’Baye Niang. He’s supposed to be one of the best young players right now in Europe. He’s playing in Caen’s first-team already and he’s only 16 years old. The 6ft striker his first-team debut in April this year and scored three […]
A few hours after a certain Samir Nasri was unveiled by his new employers at Eastlands, our moment of truth arrived as we kicked off the second leg of our Champions League qualifier in Northern Italy. Holding a 1-0 lead and sporting a clean sheet from the first leg is a good place to be, […]
Today is not about Samir Nasri, today is about Arsenal Football Club and those who want to be part of it, not those who want to seek pastures new for a bigger wage packet. Today is about OUR club getting a cracking result in Italy, we have done it before when no-one expected us to […]
If you believe The Daily Star this morning, Wenger is reported to have told Robin van Persie he is happy with his current squad! The report is from a source in Holland although it’s probably from 2004! 😉 Young Guns report that Arsenal have agreed to sign Olney Soccer Club midfielder Gedion Zelalem, following a […]
An extract from David Winner “Brilliant Orange”. The current generation of Dutch footballers are polite, intelligent, modest, ironic, ‘ideal sons-in-law’. They aspire to being great artists. Yet the genuinely greatest Dutch football artists – the stars of the Total Football era in the 1970s – had a very different agenda. They were only trying to […]
But for the moment, we have to deal with the reality of our current situation; many of us thought the squad that opened the season up at Newcastle did not have enough experience and depth to challenge for major honours this season. That squad from last week has been further decimated by injury and suspension. […]
Well it’s not is it?? Whatever Arsene Wenger does these days, it simply isn’t going to be good enough for his many critics and among those critics are a sizeable number of Arsenal fans. Those fans and that’s what they are despite the fact that I disagree with them, have made up their minds about […]
The saying that it never rains but it pours is an apt description of our opening start to the season! I’m just a normal guy and no expert in the way that football decisions are dealt out but over the last few seasons, I have noticed a lot more decisions going against us than for […]
The latest story doing the rounds relates to our young Spanish defender Ignasi Miquel; suggestion is that Owen Coyle wants him on loan for a season… Great news for the newly crowned Euro Cup winner and it could be great news for us… Every man and his dog know that a high percentage of Arsenal […]
Before I discuss last nights events, permit me to wish our erstwhile former midfielder-cum-right back, jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none all the best in his new gig at Galatasaray S.K. I know Eboue is not everybody’s cup of tea; indeed, some of his theatrics and histrionics irritated me to no end. With it all, however, I always saw a […]
Well that’s it then, Senor Cesc Fabregas has passed his medical, kissed the badge, posed for the photos in front of that tawdry Barcelona Badge, said the right PR comments and is now probably house-hunting in the posh suburbs of the Catalan capital. He was the captain of Arsenal for four years, the leader on […]