Michael Jeffares Column When it comes to blogging I prefer to focus on our players on-field performance or tactical decisions, but for this week I’m going to focus on our South African Chief Executive Ivan Gazidis. After all if it wasn’t for him there’d be no Arsenal-related news over the past eight days. He’s shown his face […]
Odds slashed on Fabregas return to Arsenal
Gunners Town Tipster Welcome to your weekly chance to bash those bookies. Over the past few weeks I’ve given a few odds on player comings and goings, as last week I will once again look to see if those odds have shortened since we first looked at them. Cesc Fabregas to join Arsenal this window […]
“Defining Moments’ Competition Extended
Gunners Town Competition The Gunners Town “Defining Moments” Competition has been extended by a week. Entries now close on June 21st, 2013 at 6pm. Submit an image of an Arsenal-related “defining moment”, along with a short description, and stand to win a rare Artist’s Proof of the iconic “Return Of The King” screenprint by talented […]
AMBITIONS, VALUES, TRADITIONS AND THE BIRTH OF A SUPERCLUB – ARSENAL 2013/13
You Guest It “When I arrived here 13 years ago I could sense that this club had values, tradition, and strength in their belief and in their values. “When I travelled at that time to Derby or to Coventry when they were in the Premier League, they always told me it is ‘the Arsenal way’ […]
Summer break frustrates Arsenal boss amid title pursuit
Gunners Fair I’m back with another installment for Gunners Fair. The dreaded international or summer break kicked off at the start of this week and there won’t be any football until Arsenal Ladies play Liverpool away on August 3, 2013. With their final game of the WSL’s first half of the season (Doncaster Rovers away) postponed, […]
Report on Kos, Bac, Olly, Grenier and Wenger on duty for France
Le Groove Being a regular of the Gunners Town team for the first means that there is a lot of pressure on me. And after a long time of doubt mixed with fear and cheese (typical French style), I chose to speak about a subject as important to me as Arsenal: the French National Team. […]
Alaba and Gundogan transfers dead but Lewandowski deal still alive for Arsenal
Doppelpass Back from my beach break and straight into the office. But there is still some time to get you the latest Arsenal related transfer news from Germany. To begin with I’d like to get two of last week’s rumours out of the way which are David Alaba and Ilkay Gündogan. Alaba has been rumoured […]
Around the World with Arsene Wenger
Far Side View As summer slowly descends on Northern Europe, Gooners all around the globe are planning their summer holidays & thinking of that once in a lifetime around the world trip. As we know, in the last 16 years, Arsene Wenger is a past master of such jaunts, but there are some places we […]
Farewell Andrei, welcome home Cesc, and the statistical truth on press transfer rumours
Anti Social-Media Behaviour Aww! That was nice. I’ve had a fine relaxing break. A nice wee trip abroad. I should be back now, all rested and relaxed; NOT A BIT OF IT! Just my luck, I chose to go to Istanbul, of all weekends, I chose the one when the majority of the city decided to protest […]
Welcome to Silly Season; Stewart Robson is a t**t – DB’s Diary of a Pre-Season Week One
Pre-Season Diary If that title hasn’t put you off, and you are still reading, allow me to explain exactly what it is I want to do with this. Ok, so I guess you could say we are technically more in “close season” than actual pre-season proper, but let’s not split hairs, it pretty much amounts […]