Far Side View Being laid up on a hospital bed for the last week and sky high on morphine, my blog this week will be short and sweet and is a revisit to an old topic I discussed on my own site a few months ago. Are UEFA breeding a generation of footballers who believe […]
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Around the World with Arsene Wenger
Far Side View As summer slowly descends on Northern Europe, Gooners all around the globe are planning their summer holidays & thinking of that once in a lifetime around the world trip. As we know, in the last 16 years, Arsene Wenger is a past master of such jaunts, but there are some places we […]
Podolski to stay and break the curse of the number 9 shirt
Far Side View A couple of curses seem to be plaguing The Arsenal, one may have been solved but the other, I fear, is still rumbling on. The first in question is ‘The Curse of the Number 9’. Steve WellmanEnglish by birth, Australian by choice. Traffic Engineer, Arsenal ST Holder, Sun DreamTeam Winner, Writer on […]
Ant &/or Dec Football; Who would play in an Arsenal Celebrity XI?
Far Side View I would like to dedicate this blog to Scott aka @OzGooner, who sadly passed away last week. Although I never met him, he was a top Gooner, a top bloke to talk with at all times of the day & the the first Aussie Gooner I spoke with on Twitter. Sadly missed […]
Ashburton or Gone For A Burton? Who will stay and who will go at Arsenal this summer
Far Side View “Hi my name is Vernon O’Leary and welcome to EPSN 8’s new game show – ‘ASHBURTON OR GONE FOR A BURTON’, brought to you in conjunction with ‘Duffmeister – the official beer of game shows about football’. Over the next 12 weeks we will be asking the question, based on their performances […]
WengerBall vs Chu-Young Parklife
Far Side View With 10 days between games, The Sunday Morning Gooner’s mind begins to wander off at a tangent…. (No change there really!) I began thinking of the polarized views many supporters have on Arsene Wenger and Arsenal and for some reason this popped into my head. Steve WellmanEnglish by birth, Australian by choice. […]
The Kronke v Usmanov Cold War Hots up – The Far Side View
After much negotiation, with the final fee agreed at ‘one bag of pickle onion monster munch and a scotch egg’ (I miss scotch eggs, they don’t have them down here) and with all the paperwork signed and registered, THE SUNDAY MORNING GOONER’s transfer to WTTGT is complete. So without further pontificating….. ‘Welcome to my world’, THE […]