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Arsenal Match Reports

Post image for Arsenal 1-0 Udinese: Oddly enjoyable

I had a lot of fun watching last night’s win over Udinese. We scored early, absorbed a lot of pressure, defended like lions hyenas and somehow managed to come away with a 1-0 victory. It was a similar story to the Newcastle game: we looked relatively harmless going forward and most of the good work [...]

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Post image for From beating the champions and the champions-to-be to this

I like to keep things fairly positive around here but I’m pretty frustrated today. Frustrated because the same team which performed so admirably to knock over the Champions-to-be last weekend were so terrible, so out-of-sorts against Stoke on Sunday that it was embarrassing. I would sound like a broken record if I said that our [...]

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Post image for Spurs, Bolton and the title race

Spurs 3-3 Arsenal What a game this was. It may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back with regards to our title challenge — although one could argue our camel has been lying, crushed in the desert for some time now — but if you can’t appreciate a game of football like [...]

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Post image for Masters in the art of throwing away a lead

People say that when we play at the top of our game the football we produce is like art. Yet this season the real art has been the creative way in which we have thrown away all manner of seemingly insurmountable leads. You name it, we’ve done it. We are the masters in the art [...]

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Post image for Blackpool 1-3 Arsenal: Jens returns. Duck broken. Coincidence? Probably.

I’m writing the report for this game super early this time, partly to make up for the lateness of last week’s post and partly because I’m just so bloody excited we managed to win! Our boys scored three of the sort of goals that only a team like Blackpool will concede to secure a 3-1 [...]

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Post image for West Brom 2-2 Arsenal: Relief cannot mask frustration

It is exceptionally difficult what to make of this Arsenal team at the moment. Prior to kick-off at West Brom I spoke of my rising doubts as to whether we would be able to banish our apparent psychological demons, take the final step and win the league this season. Ninety minutes, an awful defensive performance [...]

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Post image for With United there for the taking, Nasri should go central

I get more excited about games against Manchester United than any other team. I hate, hate, hate them with a passion: a feeling stemming from the intense rivalry that existed between the two sides when I started following Arsenal in the 1990s, as well as their consistent tendency to surround the referee like a pack [...]

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