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Jack Wilshere – What Is It To Be An Englishman?

Today a guest post from The Beck. Last night, the Telegraph released an interview with Jack Wilshere.  He was speaking to the infamous/famous Henry Winter about his views on the possibility of Adnan Januzaj representing England. This is what he was directly quoted to have been saying: “If you live in England for five years […]

West Brom Break Arsenal’s Spirit. Not.

Such is our form that a point away is seen by some as a bad result. But is it really? Since the season kicked off some six weeks ago we have played 4 Champions League, 7 League and a COC game with an injury ravaged squad. That’s 12 games, 2 per week , with basically […]

West Brom. Again.

Can’t guarantee this blog will be worth reading. There are two reasons for my starting a little with the handbrake on. Firstly I could have sworn I already did West Brom just the other day and secondly I have a raging toothache and just necked a chemical cocktail of pain killers including some prescription pills […]

Atavistic Shibboleths

I’m out of step again. If supporting Arsenal was a dance I’d be treading on every toe in the room. It’s OK don’t feel sorry for me, I’m quite used to it. When we were playing in hugely entertaining games but coming out with honours shared in multi scoring draws or losing by the odd […]

Magnifique Arsenal!

Just one word. Where to start? I assume you have all seen the game, so no point me going through it blow-by- blow. It was quite simply a thing of beauty. Wengerball at its finest.  This was not merely sterile possession, oh no.  It was quite simply football at its very best.  Napoli were going […]

Can Arsenal Win The League?

“We are top of the league, say, we are top of the league!”  (What can possibly go wrong?) We stand top of the League, two points clear with six games gone. That’s six games people not thirty-six. It is fantastic that we are where we are but I urge caution.  I hope we win the […]