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Post image for Defending Eboué and Wenger

Defending Emmanuel Eboué I said in my wrap-up of the game that “Emmanuel Eboué dug deep into our bag of tricks and found yet another creative way to prevent us from winning”. I now wish to alter that statement. Yes, we found another creative way to prevent us from winning the match. But it was [...]

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Poor JD

by Andrew Weber on March 13, 2011

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Arsene Wenger speaking after yesterday’s game: “He has a dislocated shoulder. His season is over.” Spread the (little bit of) Arsenal love (that’s still around) by leaving a comment.

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Post image for Birmingham 0-3 Arsenal: I cannot praise Sagna enough

This is not a proper match report — I am still in Sweden for another two days and things will get back to normal for the Manchester City game on Wednesday — but a quick look at the things that stood out to me in our comfortable win over Birmingham. Firstly, the squad rotation. Arsene [...]

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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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Post image for Arsenal’s lack of aerial intelligence is starting to annoy me

I realise this is a delayed comment on the Newcastle game — heck, I haven’t updated the blog since Thursday! — but my brother has been in town and it has been very difficult to get anything done. Given that it is now Tuesday it is tempting to mark the loss to Newcastle off and [...]

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Vermaelen mystery rolls on

by Andrew Weber on October 22, 2010

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Arsene Wenger gave his usual weekly press conference yesterday and as is the norm, most of it focused on the injury situation at the club. There is good news, not so good news and bad news for the trip to Manchester City. The good news is that Bacary Sagna will be back in the squad [...]

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