It’s always a great feeling to finish the day on the right side of a hammering, so to mirror our drubbing of Blackburn here’s seven reasons to be a happy Gooner. 1. This is a little tongue in cheek but looking back at our dreadful start to this season it’s nice to know we’ve hit [...]
It was always going to take something fairly hefty to break up the promised silence between my last post and the launch of the new Arsenal FC Blog scheduled for the 13th of August. As it is, it’s not just one great piece of news, but two. The first is that Cesc Fabregas has rejoined [...]
Arsene Wenger may have said that ‘the score was a very unfair reflection of the game’, but in truth he could not have be more wrong. Chelsea were clinical in taking us apart at The Emirates and fully deserved to run out 3-0 winners. We may have had much more of the ball but the [...]
A few fun links for you in the build-up to the Arsenal vs Wolves game: Arsene Wenger calls Robin van Persie the best striker in the Premier League. ESPN Soccernet looks back at the impact made by Patrick Vieira in his time at Arsenal. Soccerlens predicts which teams will qualify for the knockout rounds of [...]
There’s a lot to get through today with the league game against Liverpool tonight and some final thoughts on the FA Cup semi-final loss to Chelsea from the weekend. It was my Dad’s funeral yesterday (which was wonderful, by the way) so I didn’t get the opportunity to post about the 2-1 defeat. Like everyone else, [...]
This is my first post since Thursday last week and since that time, quite a lot has happened. We’ve drawn Villarreal in the quarter-finals in the Champions League, lost Theo Walcott for at least three weeks due to a freak knee injury and now sit in fourth place outright in the Premier League thanks to [...]
Urgh – another disappointing result. Things were made a little bit better when Cesc Fabregas headed a late, late equaliser but for my money this outcome was just as disappointing as the game against Hull a week ago. I have to admit that although I stayed up until 2am to watch the game, the stream [...]