Following on from last week’s review of the ‘more established’ young guns, this week I thought I’d look at the chances of the ‘next generation’ on the outskirts of the match day squad and assess their chances of making the grade. Krystian Bielik: The young Pole was signed in January 2015 from Legia Warsaw for the obligatory […]
Petr Cech – first official interview as an Arsenal player – Video and Transcript
[youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4TgTTPGHgw” width=”560″ height=”320″ rel=”no”] Petr, welcome to Arsenal. How does it feel to have signed for the club? It is exciting. I first came to the Premier League a long time ago and I still love playing in the Premier League and the challenges it poses with the great players and great teams […]
No to Madrid on Koscielny without player exchange and Arsenal reaping benefits of investing in a ‘Home Grown’ policy.
This week has been a very interesting one as far as non-playing weeks go. We’ve signed another promising youngster who may or may not turn out to be special. I really feel that we’re going to see an awful lot more of this sort of thing from other clubs now that the ‘home grown’ quota […]
Arsene Wenger Leaving Arsenal Football Club Part 2 – Dealing with the change!
Welcome back to my 2-part series of posts on dealing with change as a fan. I suggest you read the first part here for some background. George Graham’s Era to the Fans & the Wenger Parallel George Graham won 6 trophies with Arsenal – 2 league titles, 2 League Cups, 1 FA Cup, 1 European […]
Arsene Wenger Leaving Arsenal Football Club Part 1
This post is a little premature; but, the combination of my disinclination towards transfer rumors, trying to get into the mind of Arsene Wenger to offer opinion on squad requirements, and the close season, I thought I’d address an event that is inevitable: Arsene Wenger leaving Arsenal Football Club. This is post that is broken […]
Who will be next season’s surprise Superstar? 2013/14 Ramsey, 2014/15 Coquelin, 2015/16 ???
One thing I look forward to every season is which player, who was previously doubted will step up to the plate and make himself undroppable. We tend to have this scenario every year and what I love is that it’s always in a position we need someone to step up in most. The obvious most recent […]
Ozil does not need to be the Arsenal Number 10 to use the space that a 10 Exploits
My axe first came to be ground shortly after England’s exit in Brazil during the World Cup when a national news station claimed England’s failings were due to a lack of a number 10! I then got further angst when the Arsenal twitterverse jumped on the #playOzil@10 bandwagon. I was finally forced to the power […]
“Can we genuinely challenge for the title with Arteta being our captain?”
As I impatiently sat on my phone all day refreshing my twitter feed waiting for the “official” media pictures of Čech in an Arsenal kit, I came across a GIF of Mikel Arteta and Per Mertesacker lifting the FA Cup. While normally seeing your club’s captain lifting any trophy (except for the Emirates Cup of […]
Arsenal’s targets are slipping away from us…or are they?
I’ll tell you something you’d probably never believe: in a way, Twitter ruined me. Yes, I got the sense of not being alone by joining it and I’m happy I did. But there’s a downside (isn’t there always?): I now find it really hard to formulate a definitive opinion on something. I like to call […]
Young Guns (Go for it!) – Part 1 of a look at Arsenal Young troubleshooters
Well last weeks piece seemed to poke the hornets nest in Middlesex. It’s amazing how p!ssed off they get when you mention that that aren’t actually from London and then they resort to ranting about Woolwich and descend into homophobic slander about our players. I for one, have no issue with and am proud of […]