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Post image for 7 Reasons to be a Happy Gooner

It’s always a great feeling to finish the day on the right side of a hammering, so to mirror our drubbing of Blackburn here’s seven reasons to be a happy Gooner. 1. This is a little tongue in cheek but looking back at our dreadful start to this season it’s nice to know we’ve hit [...]

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Post image for Is this Arsenal team being built from the back?

So much has gone on in the past few days it defies belief. Our boys started the season with a respectable 0-0 draw at St James’s Park, Gervinho got red-carded on his debut for slapping Joey Barton, Alex Song looks set to join him in the naughty room after his stamp on the same man [...]

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Post image for AFCB’s 2010/2011 Season Review: The Midfielders

This is the second part of AFCB’s 2010/2011 Season Review, focusing specifically on the players primarily used across the centre of the park this season. Each player has been giving a report card-style rating (ranging from A+ to E-) as well as the justification for their rating based on their progress and overall performance over [...]

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Post image for Arsenal v Wolves Preview: Opportunity knocks

Barcelona might be just around the corner (and if you’re willing to spend a few quid, you can still get tickets to that game via TixDaq) but before then we have a vital game against the conquerors of Manchester United, Wolves. Three points at home against a team sitting on the bottom of the table [...]

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Post image for Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea: A win worth getting carried away with

There are two reasons for the “day late” nature of my match report for Arsenal v Chelsea: the first being the need for a day to ponder of the importance of the result in the grand scheme of things. The second? A personal desire to be outside throwing Swedish-produced snowballs as often as possible. Going [...]

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Post image for 5 things Wenger can do to instantly improve Arsenal

In the aftermath of our 1-0 defeat to Manchester United Pete Triplow from The Beautiful Groan (a hugely underrated and relatively unknown Arsenal blog) made a very astute observation: “It is a popular myth that you have to be perfect to win the league. You constantly hear how ‘Arsenal can’t win the league without a [...]

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Post image for AFCB Christmas sale – all shirts now £12.50 for 3 days only

With Christmas fast approaching and Arsenal sitting atop the Premier League (woo!!) I have decided to slash prices in The AFCB Shop. Think of it as a huge thank-you to everybody who has read, commented and generally participated in the Arsenal FC Blog for 2010. Every single shirt is now on sale for the brilliant [...]

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