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Arsenal News

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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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Smells like team spirit

by Mark Thompson on February 26, 2012

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A five goal turnaround sealed an emphatic win for Arsenal today, sending Gooners the world over into a boss-eyed frenzy of jubilation while fans of Tottenham returned weeping to their caves. By no means was it tantamount to a cup final but on the one year anniversary of the Carling Cup debacle there are some [...]

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Load Up the Cannon

by Mark Thompson on February 24, 2012

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Please excuse the lack of activity since the last post, you see I’ve only just finished a self-imposed media embargo so I could concentrate without distractions on banging my head against the wall. Once again in a very short time frame we’ve self-combusted, thrown in the towel in a pathetic fashion and exited two competitions, one I [...]

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Business doesn’t stop just because the transfer window is closed, and as such there’s been some tasty news morsels emanating from the Emirates this week. First off, master of the cheeky chip Carlos Vela has spoken out about his desire to stay in Spain. Currently playing for Real Sociadad and fresh off from scoring against [...]

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The Deadline Day Down Low

by Mark Thompson on February 1, 2012

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BAM! You know what that sound was? The emphatic closing of the transfer window. And pfffffffffffft–that was the sound of Arsenal fans everywhere sighing. There was much hope surrounding this window that Wenger would attempt to strengthen the squad, and after a January that saw us pick up zero Premier League points you’d think our [...]

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The first month and a half of the season perhaps couldn’t have gone any worse for Arsenal, as they won only two of their first seven Premier League matches and suffered defeats at the hands of Liverpool, Manchester United, and Tottenham.

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I know, I know. It has been a long time since I last posted. But I assure you, I have a good excuse. I really do. It’s not that the team has been playing so badly that I have given up on them. It’s not that I’m feeling disconnected with the realisation that this season [...]

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