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Gallas is a very lucky boy

A very quick update this morning to say that Arsenal captain William Gallas has escaped any punishment from his off-the-ball kick on Luis Nani during the weekend FA Cup clash against Manchester United.
To be perfectly honest I fully expected Gallas to get a three-match ban for the incident and every Arsenal supporter as well as [...]

Milan experience will mean nothing if Arsenal play at their best

Update: It looks more than likely that Bacary Sagna will not play any part in the game against Milan due to the unexpected death of his brother earlier this week. On behalf of everyone who reads the blog I want to send my best wishes to the Sagna family and Bacary in particular. As someone [...]

Arsenal thrashed as Eboue and Gallas lose their cool

Arsenal were dumped out of the FA Cup in astonishing fashion as Manchester United handed out a 4-0 drubbing at Old Trafford overnight. The home side were three up within 38 minutes as Wayne Rooney and Darren Fletcher scored with their head and Luis Nani clinically finished off Michael Carrick’s perfect pass.
Things only got worse [...]

Arsenal injuries could ruin a great game

In the post I left ahead of the Blackburn game I mentioned that the injury situation at Arsenal was the worst I had ever seen it since I started blogging almost a year ago. I also mentioned how much I hoped that I would never have to post another quotation paragraph that included so many [...]

Set-pieces, Adebayor + the return of the Africans

Preparations for the FA Cup game with Manchester United are underway but there is still a stream of comments coming from the camp about the club’s performance in the weekend win over Blackburn. Philippe Senderos, who scored the opener at the weekend, gets the ball rolling with the admission that Arsenal has been paying a lot [...]