Flamini out for Arsenal as ‘Katita’ hoax revealed

The injury list at Arsenal continues to grow as they prepare for their midweek clash away to Sam Allardyce’s Newcastle United.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger confirmed yesterday that Alexander Hleb will be missing the clash with Newcastle after he suffered a recurrence of his hamstring injury against Aston Villa on Saturday and the news got worse with the revelation that [...]

Two more great Arsenal videos

I’ve got another couple of really nice Arsenal compilation videos to share with you on the blog today.

The first video was e-mailed to me by a fellow named ‘ronitrc’ and is a good little package of all the major Arsenal highlights from the very first game of the season right up to the 2-2 draw [...]

That Hleb photo again as the ‘Katita’ mystery is solved

I’ll kick things off today by saying that I really feel for Alexander Hleb every time he gets injured.
Not because he misses out on games, not because he’s probably in severe pain, but because every single time he does, every website on the planet digs up that awful picture of him getting taken out against West Ham. [...]

A great result for Arsenal but Villa deserved a point

Arsenal held on for an important 2-1 away victory over Aston Villa despite a gallant second-half display from the home side.

Both sides started the contest brightly but it was Villa who scored the opener on 14 minutes after John Carew’s cross was twice deflected through to Craig Gardner who finished cooly from around nine yards out. [...]

Could a dog play for Arsenal?

A very quick update before the Premiership clash with Aston Villa.
Cesc Fabregas is definitely out of the match but Gael Clichy and Alexander Hleb will travel with the team, but face late fitness tests ahead of Saturday afternoon. The likely outcome is that both will miss out. As expected, both Robin van Persie and Abou [...]