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Post image for My trip to London for Arsenal v Blackburn

After a five-day trip to London and a nasty bout of tonsillitis picked up on the flight home, I am finally back to blogging ways today. I wouldn’t blame any of you for forgetting this after such a long absence, but the Blackburn game was my first ever taste of live Arsenal action. This meant [...]

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Post image for A dream about to be realised

As you might imagine, writing about this club for four years on an almost daily basis has created a fairly unique connection between myself and the club. I’ve passionately argued with fellow supporters about whether Nicklas Bendtner will ever be good enough, written a very personal piece about my all-time footballer Freddie Ljungberg and received [...]

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Post image for Arsenal 2-1 Birmingham: A guest report from Emirates Stadium

AFCB’s newest writer Andrew Luck – the third Andrew on our team! – gives us a fascinating account of Arsenal v Birmingham from a place we would all love to be: in the stands at Emirates Stadium. My route from the south of the capital, otherwise known as the London Outback on account of the [...]

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Post image for Show Me The Money: Investigating Arsenal’s unfavourable shirt sponsorship deal

AFCB’s resident football economist Aaron Gordon looks at Arsenal’s unfavourable shirt sponsorship deal… There hasn’t been much of anything to speak of in terms of sponsorships and Arsenal over the past 5 years. Before the 2005/2006 season, Arsenal and Emirates agreed to a shirt sponsorship deal for a record 90 million pounds (using today’s conversion [...]

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Post image for A sweet summer’s afternoon at Emirates Stadium: a photo gallery

Something extra (and a little bit different) for you today. Before my move to Germany at the start of September, I spent a week or so with some friends in London. As part of that stay, I managed to persuade a couple of them – the lovely Amanda and the infamous Morgana Clarke – to [...]

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My younger brother Panda Bear (or just Patrick, as he would now like to be known) arrived in London last week to kick off a three-month European adventure as part of the Football Nomad project. On Thursday he visited Emirates Stadium to check it all out and pick up his tickets to the Monday night [...]

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What do you get when you cross a visit to the Emirates Stadium to watch Arsenal beat Liverpool, Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune and a Handycam? Only the best film that has been made about a trip to Arsenal, ever. Full credit to Rohan Blair-Mangat for a truly wonderful film. Thoughts? Have your say on [...]

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