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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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Apologies for the delay in getting this posted. Andy & I had a bit of a publishing mix-up. Got it sorted & updates will be more timely going forward. ***** The history! The pageantry! The anticipation! The crazy, vuvuzela-playing fans! Sepp Blatter telling everyone we’re in South Africa! Yes, the World Cup is upon us. [...]
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Greetings, fellow Gooners. Welcome to the AFC Blog Arsenal Squad World Cup Preview. We’ll do some quick hitters on all the Arsenal players involved in the upcoming World Cup to kick things off, and list each player by group and team so you can follow along. As we move through the month-long tournament for the [...]
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Some linky goodness to tie you over until tomorrow: Carlos Vela scored a goal for Mexico against New Zealand midweek, but also went off injured. Burnley’s Leon Cort has said that his team won’t be holding back on us because of the Aaron Ramsey injury. Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted we are serious title contenders. [...]
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Arsenal 0-1 Olympiakos Report It turned out to be something of a non-event in Athens as a very young Arsenal side lost 1-0 to Olympiakos in the final match of the Champions League group stage. Arsene Wenger fielded youngsters Kyle Bartley, Thomas Cruise and Kerrea Gilbert along with Mikael Silvestre and Lukasz Fabianski in an [...]
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Hello again – I hope you had a lovely weekend. Quite a lot to get through today so bare with me. I’ll kick things off with Johan Djourou who spoke on Friday about the role he hopes to play at Arsenal this season. In his own words he said: “I am ready now, I am [...]
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Today is the fourth in a series of posts reviewing Arsenal’s 2008/09 season. Last week I reviewed the performances of our goalkeepers and defenders and on Tuesday it was the midfielders. Today it’s the attackers. Carlos Vela It’s been a season of good progress for Carlos Vela. Despite having limited opportunities he scored a memorable hat-trick in the Carling Cup [...]
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To get straight to the point, the reasons why Johan Djourou and Carlos Vela should start against Sunderland are: Kenwyn Jones will be playing. Emmanuel Eboue is our only other option on the wing. Well, the second is not strictly true, but if the manager’s pre-match comments are anything to go by then it seems [...]
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Hello all. I have to be incredibly speedy today because somehow I’ve found myself at an internet cafe at Byron Bay and I have very limited time. I’ll just do a quick news round-up and get onto the good bit, the return of The Gooner Gazette. Here goes. One of the heroes from the other [...]
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Poor Sheffield United – beaten 6-0 by an Arsenal team with an average age of only 19. You have to feel for them because, on paper, it’s almost embarassing. But in reality, they shouldn’t feel too bad because this Arsenal side probably would have beaten West Ham by six goals. I didn’t get to see the [...]
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Although only a pre-season riendly, last night’s impressive 3-1 win over Stuttgart suggests that things are ticking along quite nicely for Arsenal. The game marked the debut of new signing Samir Nasri and Arsene Wenger gave the Frenchman as well as a host of other senior players their first pre-season runouts. The starting team included Manuel Almunia behind [...]
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Arsenal’s relatively slow start to their preparations for the new season continued after drawing 1-1 with Hungarian side Szombathelyi Haladas (or Zombie-Bath-Eye, as they will now be referred to) overnight. As with the game against Barnet, it was a mix of first-choice and reserve-team players who started the match as Mexican striker Carlos Vela finally [...]
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Just a quick post today with little going on in the world of Arsenal. Everything seems to be focused on Manchester United’s Champions League win and at the end of the day I guess that’s fair enough. Quite a good game too by the way. Somewhat predictably, the transfer of Samir Nasri from Marseille to [...]
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As you would probably expect – given the conclusion of Arsenal’s season last weekend – there is an absolute flood of transfer speculation coming from the press at the moment. I’ve summarised the lot and listed them here for your benefit. The things I do. Samir Nasri – The 20-year-old Marseille attacker continues to be linked strongly [...]
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