The Deadline Day Frustrations: Morning Gooners, I hope this transfer deadline day finds you well and not rocking in a corner, mainlining Sherbet Dip and swilling down Tizer like it is going out of fashion. It is fair to say that my piece last week about Chelsea and Manchester City pissed off a lot of, […]
Holiday Time Again. Need the rest. Break out the beachwear. Holiday time again, need a break from the stresses and strains of the transfer window, and a rest, to build up the energy for the seriously tough and crucial run of games to come. No complaints here about it, feck it, it’s what we’ve all […]
The Arsenal have announced a major signing that has been endorsed by club captain Thomas Vermaelen. Both exiles from the Ajax school of football. A defensive midfielder and Dutch international, only six games short of the 100 club, they will bring added steel to the centre of the park, complimenting the already expressive midfield unit […]
FA Cup week. A week that often invokes feelings of nostalgia for my own generation and beyond. Thoughts inevitably turn to a time when the FA Cup was as important to clubs as it still is for most of us. Now that the easy third round opposition is out of the way, and as we […]
Transfer window in full flow? Check!! People losing their shit?? Check!! Jose has us all wondering and talking about him?? Check!! The media having a little pop at Utd, (only little now, not much)?? Check!! Our own fans giving out about us more than the media are?? Check!! Right what I mean by, the window […]
Arsenal eased into the 5th Round of the FA Cup with a comfortable 4-0 victory against Coventry City at the Emirates Stadium last night. Two goals in the first half from Lukas Podolski and two more from substitutes Olivier Giroud and Santi Cazorla wrapped up the encounter, with Arsene Wenger making several changes to his […]
There are a lot of things to hate about Billionaire’s playthings Manchester City and Chelsea. A lot.That Chelsea were saved from bankruptcy (and almost certainly a subsequently enforced relegation into The Championship)when Roman Abramovich came in and pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the West London side is one of them.Their team would have […]
In the Premier League today, how many teams trust British players centrally to drive the team forward? Even more so how, many top four Champions League teams trust British players at the heart of their team? We are moving away from the Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes and Steven Gerrard obsession. At Arsenal we have three lads, all […]
Having caught up with my Doctor Who obsession with a Saturday night marathon (keeps me awake for 2am kick offs!), I think I might have overdosed, as my mind seems to have taken a trip in time and dimensions in space… World Cup Diary of Mikel aged 32 1/3 Thursday June 12th 2014 and Mikel […]
On the back of a mixed 2012-13 season, Wojciech Szczesny experienced a summer of speculation as many fans were calling for a new Arsenal number 1 ‘keeper. After a shaky performance in the first game of the season against Aston Villa, the calls for a new goalkeeper intensified, but instead of letting that get to […]
