Happy 2014 Gooners, and what a wonderful way to bring in the year; three points gained from Cardiff City again, to add to a very successful Christmas period that saw relegation-doomed West Ham put to the sword by a late Arsenal comeback, and then a spirited Newcastle side suffocated at home and Olivier Giroud getting […]
2013, What was the difference? December 31st 2013 and Arsene Wenger, Ivan Gazidis and Stan Kroenke are holding their yearly review over a bottle of Pinot. Arsene: Come on guys, we may not have won a trophy (again), but we have beaten both the Champions League Finalists and we finished 4th (it’s a trophy, non?) […]
Two goals from Theo Walcott and another from Lukas Podolski cancelled out Carlton Cole’s opener as Arsenal came from behind to beat West Ham at Upton Park. It was an entertaining Boxing Day London derby with chances galore for both sides, but Arsenal’s superior quality eventually told and it was enough to send us back […]
They say that no matter how bad you feel, there is always someone else worse-off. After the week that Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have had, you cannot argue with that logic. From 1996, Arsene Wenger has seen Tottenham hire and fire nine managers and have at least three caretaker managers, mind the gap indeed. A […]
Hello dear reader, welcome back to my Friday column, I hope you’ve had a good week (after all, Arsenal played twice and won twice and twice scored twice and twice kept a clean sheet…) and are sitting comfortably in your favourite chair; hopefully with a steaming mug of hot chocolate in front of you, perhaps […]
Aww, all this winning has made Twitter a bit boring; No, moody, actually. Everything is going so well that the slightest little thing sets people off, like a starting gun bang, or the hare flying past, and the traps pop open and out flies the crap. It’s even beyond moody at times. It’s almost bi-polar […]
After spending some weeks hanging by the pool, I’m back from suspension and ready to go. So let’s get this Doppelpass feature started. We’ve got some topics to discuss. The first thing is about Lukas Podolski and his near return from injury. Poldi is back in full training this week and will be back to […]
Arsenal returned to winning ways as they edged past a decent Southampton side 2-0 at the Emirates Stadium, to go four points clear at the top of the Premier League. Olivier Giroud scored two gift-wrapped goals, one from the penalty spot, in a game that saw a return to the squad for Theo Walcott […]
Hello there, are you all okay? I am recovering from a terrible thought. What if the international fixtures never ended? Week after week of Roy Hodgson’s earnest, honest, non-threatening dull pub football standard play, with Scotty Parker, Stevie Gerrard, Frankly Lampard and Rickie Lambert all gracing our screens and ploughing up a perfectly good pitch. […]
Interlull, interdull, interlol. Whatever you want to call it, we seem to have had a huge amount of international breaks recently since the start of the season, and even just before the Premier League campaign got underway if you will remember. I’m sure we never usually have this many, but it seems as if every […]
