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Player hoarding – Why teams like Man City & Chelsea are killing careers

There are a lot of things to hate about Billionaire’s playthings Manchester City and Chelsea. A lot.That Chelsea were saved from bankruptcy (and almost certainly a subsequently enforced relegation into The Championship)when Roman Abramovich came in and pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into the West London side is one of them.Their team would have […]

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Arsene Wenger given huge Arsenal problem: Two will miss out and one will prosper from Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

In the Premier League today, how many teams trust British players centrally to drive the team forward? Even more so how, many top four Champions League teams trust British players at the heart of their team? We are moving away from the Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes and Steven Gerrard obsession. At Arsenal we have three lads, all […]

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Santi Cazorla responds to personal criticism, Julian Draxler and Paul-Georges Ntep news is out of this world, and Arsenal leave me needing new pants

Week Twenty Three – Just Keep Winning, I have Enough Pants Things I won’t be talking about this week: Whether Mesut Özil is any good Whether there are too many blogs and podcasts Whether a young French kid we haven’t even signed yet will be the next Nicolas Anelka or the next Yaya Sanogo… You’ve […]

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Another London Derby Win for Arsenal?

My last column for Gunnerstown was way back in November, for Dortmund away. The result of that match as I’m sure you will remember was an emphatic one for us, so I’m hoping that I can carry on winning ways with this preview too. These previews have and possibly will be sporadic as I’m currently […]

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The return of Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere

Having been overshadowed and perhaps somewhat intimidated by Aaron Ramsey’s rise to prominence at Arsenal, Jack Wilshere is re-finding form at the perfect time. Not only is Wilshere doing things he’s done well before, but he’s also adding goals to his game, which seems to me to be the most effective catalyst for improvement. Jack’s […]

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Don’t mention Julian Draxler to Arsenal!

Here we are then gang, halfway through the January Transfer window and at the time of writing, Twitter has almost melted twice, firstly droves of hyperactive (as in, three Dr Peppers washing down a filthy Chinese takeaway followed down by a Sunny D chaser and an aperitif of Skittles hyperactive) Gooners salivated over the (highly) […]

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