An interesting piece by Victor Thompson yesterday on Aaron Ramsey “Interesting” because, in my view, he makes “good” points and some “no so good” points. Let me explain About Ramsey, Victor is spot on. An Arsenal player of immense stature, character and ability. He stands up there with the Greats for what he […]
Author Archive | Graham Perry
Approaching the Business End in the Season in Good Shape – So far and in the main so good for you?
Dear Fellow Gunners So How Is It For You? Is your Glass Half Full or Half Empty Are we making progress or are we Same Old Same Old? Are we going forward or just treading water? Into the final quarter of the season and we are in contention for a Top Four Place […]
An open letter to #AFC fans: why you should keep the hope and look at the bigger picture
Dear Fellow Gunners, In the last few weeks we have fallen further behind in the League, lost limply to Nottm Forest in the FA Cup, struggled through to the next round of the Europa League and been beaten soundly by Man City in the League Cup Final – a bad run interspersed with some wins […]
Social Media Extremism Keeps Gooners Off-Balance
Dear Fellow Gunners Three good wins followed by the United defeat and now two draws in matches we would expect to win and then the hard fought win over Newcastle. A friend approached me after the win – quite agressively commenting on my support for Wenger. I did not want to raise the temperature and […]
Arsenal Optimism abounds, no time for the Pessimists and Haters but do we miss David Dein?
Dear Fellow Gunners Quite a few points to cover;- The Cup Final was on 27 May and the first match of the new season is on 11 August. Six weeks since we saw our team triumph in style against Chelsea at Wembley and another five weeks before AFC open the new season against […]
Arsenal Wembley Victory – A False Dawn or a New Hope?
Is the recent run of good results – THFC apart – a flash in the pan or a portend of good things to come. Reading social media and you can see that both views are present. Let us look at them.,,,, The False Dawn approach is born of two attitudes. First, there are fans […]
Man United Players show No Class off the Pitch – Time for Arsenal Class on the Pitch
. Football can be a force for good and a force for bad and we saw both sides last night in Stockholm. In the pre-match line up there was respect for the City of Manchester – a football coming together with the two teams, United and Ajax, arms linked and heads bowed in a mark […]
Shankly Was Wrong – Football Can Wait
“Football is a matter of life and death – No, it’s more important…” – Bill Shankly We love football. We love our teams. We love our goalscorers who bring us glory. We go to bed checking the web for new developments at AFC and wake to see if there have been any overnight updates.. We […]
The Stay Away Fans attempts to Derail Arsenal Failed – They think they act in the Club’s Best Interests but they do not!
Arsenal Circular 173 . We are on a roll, we are securing clean sheets and we are playing with confidence. Don’t lets re-write history as were convincingly beaten by THFC and we need to remember why. We were early into the new three at the back formation when we went to WHL – it […]
Wenger In or Wenger Out – We can still respect each other and back The Arsenal
As we head into the weekend that could well represent the watershed for Wenger and Arsenal in 2016/17 and beyond, we are delighted to present a lovely and quite unusual piece from ‘The Arsenal Circular’, Graham Perry. Tomorrow our beloved Gunners will walk out at Wembley in an FA Cup Semi Final with so much […]