This article was posted on Laurie’s personal blog. It simply deserves a wider audience and I hope Gunners Twon can give it one. You can follow Laurie @laurielaker 631,138,519.87 Seconds Or, Twenty Years with Arsene Wenger, OBE. By Laurie Laker I am twenty-seven years of age. I was born under the late-December skies of […]
It a sunny autumn day in North London and Arsene is sat in his office reading The Telegraph when the phone rings: “Bonjour, Arsene Wenger here, how may I help?” “Hi Arsene, its Greg Clarke (from The FA) here, how are you?” “Oh Hi, Greg, before you start, the answers no.” “Now wait on Arsene, […]
Phew, it’s been a hell of a week. If you are interested in what I’ve been up to, this has been my first (kind of proper) week studying journalism at Kingston. In this week I managed to: Do and show the first bit of assessed work in the form of a group presentation (on click-bait […]
Arsenal fans will be boosted by the team’s performance in last night’s home leg win against Basel as further evidence of their growing title credentials. More concrete progress is needed before there can be genuinely founded speculation of a successful challenge in the Champions League but the December home match against PSG will be a […]
The rise and rise of Hector Bellerin has been nothing short, to use a well-worn cliche, of meteoric since he broke into the Arsenal side 2 years ago. His form has earned him plaudits, international recognition, a new long term deal and of course the unwelcome interest of certain big clubs Well, the message from all […]
Hello fellow Gooners! I’m replacing Alex – supposedly busy , I believe he’s still recovering from the amazing 3-0 win in his first-ever match at the Emirates Stadium – to preview for you the Champions League game against Swiss champions FC Basel. I’ve been living in Switzerland for almost nine years now and I’m slowly […]
This week’s Highbury Hero features an integral member of the legendary 1971 Double side. As Bob Wilson put it so eloquently; “The 1971 Double side was like a jigsaw with all the pieces fitting together perfectly”. John Radford or Raddy, as he was affectionately known, was a big piece of that jigsaw. John Radford was […]
What do you need to do to make the fans of a club love you? 1) Be a mercurial talent such as Ozil or Alexis 2) Mock your rivals on social media the way Poldi did Well what if you are both and a product of the club’s academy? Well, obviously the fans will go […]
As you probably know, yesterday was the first game I attended live. And boy what a good game that was. I wasn’t able to write a preview because of the whole “changing countries” thing, but if did, I would have to mention our atrocious record against Chelsea. We last won a game against the Blues […]
Arsenal’s first-team squad took part in their official photocall on Wednesday. Arsene Wenger, his coaching team and the players gathered at the club’s training ground in London Colney for their annual squad photo. Two lucky Junior Gunner members won the chance to be part of this photo. The competition was open to the Welcome To […]
