By Tim Hargreaves Laurent Koscielny. A relative unknown before he signed for Arsenal, having spent just one season in Ligue 1 with F.C. Lorient as a starting centre-back. Prior to this, he started his career with En Avant Guingamp in 2004, mostly playing as a substitute and in the right-back position. He moved to Tours […]
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Daily Mail – Don’t let the overwhelmingly positive Arsenal facts get in the way of a negative story!
“Don’t believe the truth”, say Oasis on the front cover of their sixth studio album. Numbers are often thrown out to defend this or that point of view, proving this or that opinion undoubtedly right. If football were an exact science, then I would have stopped watching it since a long time – or never had any interest […]
Arsenal fan chosen to be club’s FA Cup Semi-Final mascot
One lucky Arsenal fan received a surprise from the club’s mascot, Gunnersaurus, during an Arsenal Soccer School session last week. After Arsenal reached The FA Cup Semi-Final, the club randomly selected JoJo from over 34,000 Junior Gunners and plans were made to surprise her. It came to light that JoJo would be taking part in […]
Arsenal’s 5 Point Plan to win the Premier League and more in 2015/16
Arsenal – Many minds are drifting towards the next challenges that lie ahead. Well I am. I am going to pontificate, speculate and try my best to articulate what I feel Arsenal as a club need to do to win the league NEXT season!! Here are Five Points from Clive. 1) We need a new Keeper: It […]
The Quarterback, the Fulcrum – From Necessity due to Injury to Necessity Due to Ability – PFA Team of the Year??
With Burnley put to the sword, The Arsenal are the form side in the EPL. They have secured 8 victories on the bounce & amassed 39 points from a possible 45 post Christmas. Not too bad really, considering The Arsenal were quoted as the outsiders for the top 4 by pretty much every pundit in […]
Lucky Breaks, Unlucky Breaks and Heartbreak: Arsenal’s Right Back Dilemma
Funny thing life is. Had someone told me a year ago we’ll have a right-back dilemma I would have laughed. At the time we had Sagna as our only recognised full-back. He had a pretty good season along with Koscielny, Mertesacker and Gibbs and, despite some sound thrashings, Arsenal’s defensive record was one of the […]
8 on the bounce for The Arsenal as Coquelin shines but Bellerin “hits his wall”
Well, that was tough, much tougher than I expected. We took the points for the eighth consecutive game without really being troubled after we scored, but found chances hard to come by to double the lead. You can see why Burnley drew with Chelsea and United and took all three points against City at Turf […]
Wenger’s new tactical unpredictability and balance of selection = BELIEF
Burnley. We knew what to expect from Burnley. It was always going to be tough, it was always going to be a bit scrappy. Here’s the thing though, this team can win tough, scrappy games. We have robust players like Coquelin, (how good was he yesterday), Alexis and Giroud. Even Özil has more bulk to […]
MATCH PREVIEW: Arsenal vs Burnley. With everyone fit, who will make the starting XI?
Hi everyone. We face Burnley away in what will be our last league in two weeks, because, as you may well remember, we miss the next BPL clash due to the involvement in the semi-finals of the FA Cup. A nice reason to miss a league match! Truth be told, I was a little […]
TBIF! Thumping Liverpool this week’s highlight – but this banana skin could ruin our season…
TBIF – The Weekly Gunners Town Crew Review Friday The 10th April, 2015 Welcome to Thank Bergkamp It’s Friday – where members of the Gunners Town writing team gather to take a look at the Arsenal week that’s just passed. It’s a simple format, really – each week, a smattering of our eclectic scribes will select a HERO, a VILLAIN, a HIGHLIGHT, and a LOWLIGHT from […]