Michael Jeffares Column So, it’s just a week on from my blog on how great it was to be back to playing football again. As Olivier Giroud slotted home after six minutes and I turned and looked at my mate with the old celebratory fist pump, little did I realise I’d be heading home raging […]
Gunners Town Top 5 Welcome back to my new blog on Gunners Town. Into the second week of it, and I’m already a day late. I have good reasons for it though and will hopefully make it up to you with today’s piece. You should be thanking me by the end of reading this as […]
Club News One of the great features about the current Arsenal squad is without a doubt the presence of the ‘British Core’ as many are referring to them as. English fivesome Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Carl Jenkinson, along with Welsh dragon Aaron Ramsey are evidence that both Arsenal and the […]
Global Gooner Sundays We are officially in the silly Season, a period that I can confidently say is my least favorite with so much transfer bullsh*t everywhere, filled with multiple rumors linking multiple players with moves to multiple clubs. I have to admit its usually pretty tempting to talk, discuss or even write about them […]
Mr. T’s Nuts It’s off season, we’re in the Champions League again, we ended the season with the best run that the Premier League has seen by any club in four years, and have just scored 14 goals in two games on the Asia tour. The club is trying to sign quality players…and my Twitter […]
Weekly Education Over the past few seasons Arsenal have had many a short-term captain, but not a stable, long-term leader. This is partially down to the fact that our captains have been sold one after the other for the past six or seven years, however there was also one horrific choice of captain in William […]
Mr. T’s Nuts Last week I posted a blog about Arsene Wenger and his merits as a tactician. I explained why I felt that he’s hugely underrated in this department, and gave an analogous explanation to hopefully highlight the tactical differences between Wenger and his peers. This article was my opinion and mine only. I […]
Mr. T’s Nuts About three blogs ago I wrote a piece on Arsene Wenger and the alchemy of coaching players with varying skill levels until he has maximised their potential, before adding a few top class players where needed to complete the squad. It’s the path he has chosen for Arsenal during the austerity years; […]
Weekly Education Many Gooners preach about change, but actually find it hard to handle, or even picture in their minds. Whatever scale it may be, in general we don’t like not knowing the outcome of potential or actual alterations. Of course, there were, and still are, many fans (more than ever) calling for change last […]
Pre-Season Diary Arsene Wenger was last night facing the biggest crisis of his Arsenal reign, as goalkeeper Vito Mannone looked set to follow Andrey Arshavin out of the club in a sensational £3m switch to Sunderland. After a traumatic month for the Gunners, which also saw Brazilian international star Denilson and Sebastien Squillaci leave the […]
