Weekly Education How many times have you said or heard other Gooners say something like this: “Don’t settle for second best!” Or this: “Spend some fucking money!” Countless times, right? I thought so. These sort of statements are examples of ‘war cries’ (if you will) of the frustrated Arsenal fan base aimed at the higher […]
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These Gunners can restore the glory days for Arsenal this year, never mind the transfers
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 […]
Wayne Rooney, Luis Suarez, Cesc Fabregas; All aboard The Wenger Bus
Far Side View With an apparent £100m to spend, Arsene Wenger has started the transfer window being linked with various new dance partners from all parts of the globe. In the striker department, three main candidates have been mooted. Steve WellmanEnglish by birth, Australian by choice. Traffic Engineer, Arsenal ST Holder, Sun DreamTeam Winner, Writer […]
Olivier Giroud saving Arsenal during Cesc Fabregas transfer madness
Pre-Season Diary As I begin to write this, it has just occurred to me that I have neglected to change the title properly for the last few weeks, and we were stuck on week four for three weeks.I’m looking on that as a symbolic reflection of the Silly Season, rather than a shambolic reflection of […]
Arsenal to model midfield on title-winning Juve; Arteta the new Pirlo?
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 […]
Arsenal’s top transfer target should be new fans this summer
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 […]
All Fall Down! – The Transfer Domino Effect
What’s the Score?! Welcome to another week of “What’s the score?!” – After a week off, albeit in the capable hands of @invinciblog who wrote a fabulous piece on the Suarez Dilemma, I wanted to continue on from my article a couple of weeks ago, when I wrote about the complex matter of transfers and […]
Thomas Vermaelen, Mikel Arteta; Do Arsenal really need a captain?
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 […]
Arsene no more excuses it is time to deliver
Considered Cohen With all the reports suggesting that there is a large amount of money available to be spent in the transfer kitty, of at least £70m, the time has come for Arsene Wenger to bring Arsenal back to the lofty heights of close to ten years ago. With the club having to pay off […]
Serge Gnabry Arsenal’s New German Wunderkid
Doppelpass The Asia tour has been a great success so far. So let’s take a look at one of our youngsters who are involved in Arsenal’s pre-season tour. No need to say that he is German, of course! I’m talking about Serge Gnabry. A player who a lot Arsenal fans have high hopes for. Let’s […]