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This is the first part of AFCB’s 2010/2011 Season Review, focusing specifically on the players primarily used across the front three last 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 the course [...]
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Last night two goals from Nicklas Bendtner and Manchester United’s best player from last season, Own Goal, helped Arsenal into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. The club is now within touching distance of its first trophy in over five years, since Patrick Vieira signed off on his Arsenal career by slotting the winning kick [...]
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AFCB’s writer Fatema Farhat is back for her fortnightly “Arsenal for the Ladies” column… B52 is bendting over backwards Our Nicky has been keeping himself busy whilst on the road to recovery. The B52 himself has landed a cover with his beautiful fiancee on the ever so popular ELLE magazine. This time Nick has managed [...]
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AFCB’s tactics guru Andrew Enloe looks at how we coped without Walcott and van Persie and presents his case for Carlos Vela to play on the right… We could be forgiven for being optimistic after seeing Robin Van Persie superbly play in Theo Walcott during Arsenal’s match against Blackburn two weeks ago. They are two [...]
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Did you ever see the movie “Apocalypse Now”? At the end, when Col. Kurtz is dying and he whispers: “The Horror. The Horror…” I think he was having a premonition about the refereeing at the 2010 World Cup. Goals disallowed or allowed that shouldn’t have been, missed offsides and hand balls, erratic use of cards. [...]
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The main story thus far in the World Cup isn’t all the wackiness going on with the French and England squads or the vuvuzela’s. Not by a long shot. The main story of this tournament is and will continue to be the refereeing. Every match seems to have at least one major gaffe, an entire [...]
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American President John F. Kennedy once famously said: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” If you’re the French national team, your response to that clarion call is: “We can do very little”. France took one on the chin on Match Day 7 as Mexico [...]
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