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Andrew Weber

Post image for West Brom v Arsenal: Will we do it?

So the final weekend arrives and we’re no nearer to knowing whether we will be playing Champions League football next season. We all know the equation by now: a win means third and automatic qualification. Anything less and we are at the mercy of Spurs and Newcastle. Finish fourth and we rely on Bayern Munich [...]

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Post image for Arsenal 3-3 Norwich: Post-game thread

Our last home game of the season ended 3-3 and now our Champions League qualifications hopes have become precarious. I’ve set up this thread for everyone to discuss the game. Leave a comment below to let us know what you think.

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Post image for Arsenal 3-0 Wolves: A walk in the park, so let’s talk about Ramsey

Our victory over Wolves was arguably the most straightforward game this season. It’s rare that a game of football is over after 11 minutes, but that was exactly the case after two goals and red card to Sebastien Bassong ended the contest. Robin van Persie’s penalty kick was impudent and arrogant — something deep down [...]

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Post image for Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City: A sweet, title-blocking victory

There are many reasons why Sunday’s victory over Manchester City was such a sweet one. Here’s eight: It ended City’s title hopes As the title of this article says, it has virtually blocked Manchester City, the club that has only risen to title-challenging potential off the back of it’s ridiculously disproportionate spending, from winning the [...]

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Post image for 7 games to go. 7 reasons why I’m back.

Hey everyone. Andy here after an extremely long hiatus. Rather than blabber on about why the blog hasn’t been updated — work, work and more work for both Mark and I — I’ll get straight to the point. I’m back and I’m going to be blogging about the last seven games of this season. The [...]

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Post image for Loyal readers please read: an important change to the AFCB

Hello to all. Andy here. You’ve surely all realised in recent times that I have not been contributing much at all to the blog. It’s been a huge disappointment of mine that I haven’t been able to do so, but the simple truth is that work has got the better of me of late and [...]

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The simplest joy

by Andrew Weber on January 12, 2012

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That was amazing. The movement, the control, the finish. The exaggerated sulks, the slow-motion running, the memorable celebration. It was like he never left. If you’re going to use the 34-year-old’s goal as evidence that Chamakh/Arshavin/[insert attacker here] isn’t up to it, that it shows what this squad currently lack, I don’t begrudge you. But [...]

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