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I’m currently working on a piece analysing each and every goal that Arsenal have conceded this season in a bid to identify any trends about our defensive problems. It’s quite an exhaustive task and as you can imagine, it’s taking some time. While I’m working on that I thought I’d throw a question out to [...]

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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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Post image for Arsenal v Blackpool Preview: Excited about Djourou’s return, expecting more from Arshavin

On paper, Blackpool at home is the easiest fixture that Arsenal will play this season. But after the Tangerines’ surprising 4-0 win away to Wigan on the opening day they will be feeling a sense of “euphoria”, as Arsene Wenger has put it, and may play with a dangerous lack of doubt at The Emirates. [...]

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Arsenal cruised to a 4-0 win in their first pre-season game against Barnet yesterday afternoon. Here’s a photo compilation – featuring new signing Laurent Koscielny, new hairdos for Tomas Rosicky and Samir Nasri and a cheeky kiss for Wojciech Szczesny - of what was a very fun start to the pre-season. Enjoy. Thoughts? Have your say [...]

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It’s Blackburn on Monday night in the second last game of the Premier League season. We need a point in our last two games to guarantee third place. We’ll hear the team news over the next day or so but in my opinion if Alex Song is present in the starting team then we will [...]

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Long-time readers will know how much of a fan I am of Johan Djourou, so it gives me great pleasure to share the news that his recovery from a long-term knee injury is going well. “I’m very happy to actually maybe see the end of the tunnel now because it has been a rough route, [...]

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It’s the Ekka Show Day public holiday in Brisbane today (don’t ask me to explain) and that means I was able to enjoy a beautiful bottle of red last night and a little bit of a sleep-in this morning. Excellent. I’ve made the decision to switch the Arsenal FC Weekly podcast from Monday to Tuesday [...]

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