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What a pleasure it is to be writing to you today. After a very tough run of games that has seemingly knocked the confidence out of players and saw the English media right us off as title contenders, the 1-0 win over Liverpool means we’re back in it. Except that we were never out of [...]
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It was another big game, another massive punch to the guts as Arsenal fell to a 2-0 loss against league leaders Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Didier Drogba predictably got both goals, punishing two pieces of slack defending by Gael Clichy. The first saw Clichy leave his position on the far post for no apparent reason, [...]
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Disclaimer: I don’t hate Wenger. In fact, I love him. This report is about the Manchester United game, not about Wenger losing the plot or needing to spend money or anything like that. It is a look at our match-up with United. I’ll run through the good before I get onto the bad on what [...]
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My thoughts on Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Aston Villa and the consequences it may have on our title charge… A draw was probably the right result. The general feeling was that Aston Villa posed more of a threat but the statistics show they only managed one shot on target. While Martin O’Neill will be kicking [...]
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A great second goal from Ricardo Fuller, not an inexperienced team, saw us knocked out of the FA Cup. After starting with a mix of youth and experience and battling back to level the game at 1-1, Arsene Wenger made the changes that I expected to help us push on and win the game. Andrey [...]
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The Arsenal FC Blog has been nominated for ‘Best Team Site’ in the 2009 Soccerlens Awards. Vote for it by clicking here! Arsenal are top of the league and after coming from two goals down to win by two we thoroughly deserve it. Going into the game it looked something of a formality that we [...]
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Since Arsenal last won the league in 2004 there have been questions asked about the physical and mental qualities of our players. The general consensus has been that the squads over the past five season have lacked both the mental and physical strength to produce results both against powerful teams and in the biggest games. [...]
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I’ll get straight to the point today by answering the question I posed in the headline – this was certainly a point gained. A dodgy performance in even dodgier weather conditions saw our boys in an unthinkable position as the game entered injury time. Steven Pienaar had put Everton 2-1 ahead a few minutes earlier [...]
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I didn’t see last night’s 2-1 FA Cup victory over West Ham – but even on paper it looked pretty damn good. Here are 6 reasons why: 1. Before the Liverpool game I believed that this was not a side that could come from behind. To my eyes our style of football relied on getting [...]
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Arsenal ended 2009 with a 4-1 win over Portsmouth and in a superb position to challenge for the Premier League title in 2010. Our boys are in third place on the table, just four points behind table-toppers Chelsea with a game in hand – a position almost every Arsenal supporter would have taken before the [...]
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I was sure something special was brewing on the night that Arsenal played Aston Villa. So sure, in fact, that I organised a host of Gooners and Gooners-to-be around to my house for dinner and drinks before heading off to the pub to watch the game. I was so convinced we would win the game, [...]
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If someone had offered you a 3-0 win for Arsenal over Hull you would have bitten his hand off. If someone had offered you a 3-0 win for Arsenal over Hull with Denilson scoring a peach of a free-kick, Eduardo getting a much-needed goal, Abou Diaby starring as Man of the Match and getting an [...]
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For all of the penalty appeals, woodwork hits and disallowed goals – the biggest moment of Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Burnley came when Cesc Fabregas signaled to the bench that he had tweaked his hamstring and could take no further part. He had by a country mile been our best player up until that point, [...]
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Last night’s 2-1 win over Liverpool appears to be a turning point for this Arsenal team in so many ways. It marks the first win at Anfield for six years and the first win over big four opposition this season. It was just the first time we have come from behind at half-time to win [...]
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Arsenal 0-1 Olympiakos Report It turned out to be something of a non-event in Athens as a very young Arsenal side lost 1-0 to Olympiakos in the final match of the Champions League group stage. Arsene Wenger fielded youngsters Kyle Bartley, Thomas Cruise and Kerrea Gilbert along with Mikael Silvestre and Lukasz Fabianski in an [...]
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Arsenal returned to winning ways at the weekend with a 2-0 win over Stoke although I did my best Arsene Wenger impression by not seeing the game. A late Friday night live-blogging the World Cup draw was followed by a fairly hectic house party at a friend’s on Saturday and meant that I was too [...]
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Arsene Wenger’s attitude problem OK, let’s get the Wenger stuff out the way first. There was no excuse for him not to shake hands with Mark Hughes after last night’s 3-0 loss. Just as there was no excuse for his ridiculous comments about Didier Drogba after the Chelsea game. It’s smacks of being a sore [...]
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