As the game entered stoppage time with the scoreline at Arsenal 1, Hull City 1, I had a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. A feeling that for all our good work this season, for all of our fighting and scrapping and regularly brilliant football, it would all come crashing down in the worst [...]
Hull City 1 (Bullard pen 28) Arsenal 2 (Arshavin 14, Bendtner 90+3) Manuel Almunia – Solid between the sticks today and has shown a marked increase in confidence in recent weeks. Was not put to the test very often but did everything he needed to, and in all honesty didn’t deserve to concede. Dealt with high balls [...]
I have some very good news to share with you today: the Arsenal FC Blog has a new writer! Aidan Bennison, a long-time reader of this blog and head writer of Gunner Central, has agreed to join AFCB as a regular contributor. Aidan is in his first year of Media studies at university in Australia and is [...]
Forget about winning the Champions League. Forget about winning the Premier League. All that matters right now is that we go to Hull City tomorrow night and pick up three points. There’s been a bit of bad blood in this fixture over the past couple of years and with us fighting for the league and Hull desperate [...]
Real Madrid were knocked out the Champions League last night, leaving the trio of Manchester United, Lyon and Bayern Munich to join Arsenal in the quarter-finals. No-one would argue against the fact that with Madrid topping the Spanish league and players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka in their team they looked a decent chance of winning [...]
Every once in a while I’m lucky enough to be sent matchday photos from photographer and good friend Ryu Voelkel. The latest installment is a terrific set from Emirates Stadium during Arsenal’s 5-0 win over FC Porto. Once you’re done falling in love with the photos, be sure to check out Voelkel’s website and Flickr page. (Oh, and [...]
There was not a passenger to be seen in the red and white as Arsene Wenger’s men produced a near-perfect attacking performance to comfortably overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit into a stunning 6-2 aggregate victory. The star men were Samir Nasri, Andrey Arshavin and Nicklas Bendtner, who shrugged off an erratic weekend performance against Burnley to [...]
From villain to hero in the space of four days. Well done Nicklas! Have your say on Arsenal’s 5-0 win over Porto by leaving a comment.
Three weeks ago a disastrous performance by Lukasz Fabianski allowed FC Porto to come away with a 2-1 first-leg lead against us. Tonight our team must overturn that deficit to book a place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and we will have to do it without Cesc Fabregas. The captain’s hamstring tweak means he misses [...]
Arsenal’s 3-1 win over Burnley was far more work for our boys than I thought it would be. Yet in some ways a struggle rather than a breezy victory was just the right preparation for the crucial European with Porto on Tuesday. It was also a poignant reminder that if the team with the worst away [...]
