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Arsenal’s Sleevegate hits new twists, Jack Wilshere back to his best and Mathieu Flamini just as good as Mesut Ozil

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 […]

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Arsene Wenger must drop Laurent Koscielny in favour of Thomas Vermaelen to avoid Arsenal paying the penalty against Southampton

What earns a player their spot back in the squad, is it their strong practice effort or does someone have to screw up? Arsene Wenger has publicly praised Thomas Vermaelen’s efforts in training but the captain’s opportunities remain limited. Laurent Koscielny has conceded his third penalty of the season, maybes it is time he cedes […]

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Barca and Madrid scrap over Nicklas Bendtner, Mathieu Flamini in sleeves war and Wojciech Szczesny extends his Arsenal stay

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 […]

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Arsenal’s weakness unveiled but Nicklas Bendtner and Carl Jenkinson not to blame

[heading size=”8″]Arsenal 0 Chelsea 2 – Frailties Exposed As Arsenal Endure League Cup Exit [/heading]Arsenal crashed out of the Capital One Cup after a 2-0 defeat against Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium. Whilst it wasn’t an “end of the world” type defeat, any kind of loss to those bellends is a particularly unpleasant one, but […]

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Emmanuel Frimpong to start for Arsenal in the Capital One Cup, as Chelsea unable to call on Alan Hansen and Michael Owen

Having been in Budapest this time last week, I’m back and ready to throw at you some Gooner gibberish, after a rather life-expectancy shortening weekend. We shan’t go into details. Despite my antics, I still found enough time to dedicate to watching the Arsenal three times in just over the space of a week. While […]

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