Hello and welcome to this week’s round-up. First up is the tragic tale of illness, sabotage, friendship and woe that was Arsene’s sore throat. His illness forced him out of the pre-match interviews and thrust Steve Bould into the limelight. Was Arsene faking it because he just couldn’t be doing with it? Did Wenger see […]

 Today a piece written for the excellent You Are My Gooners  blog by @Swales1968 .I would like to thank him for allowing us to revisit it and them for their fantastic work I suppose it depends on how you define positive, I could sit here and type a list of things that I think are good […]

Today is a Brucie Bonus day,Adrian Clarke has been good enough to allow us to post an article he recently wrote for BT’s Life’s a Pitch. And we thank him very much Also there is a tactical analysis of the reading game from our friends on the  facebook page “OOOh! To Be A Gooner!!“ (more commonly known […]

Hello and welcome to this week’s round-up. First up is the tragedy that is Abou Diaby’s injury situation. He has torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will soon have surgery. This terrible news only serves to compound the theory that if you continue to smash players’ legs in half, only some […]

Once upon a time, the guys in red ruled the world; times change … I want to look at some of the statements that supposedly ‘realist’ malcontents make and try to see why they think they are valid. “We should be competing for the title” So I simply ask: Why? Why should we have an […]

A measly four goals and we conceded one against that shower of second raters. Well that’s what you might think reading twitter, blogs and listening to Sky pundits. But lets not forget than United struggled to a rather fortunate one nil win at the Old Toilet recently. Now I am not going to say we […]

This week I shall attempt to stretch news until it is unrecognisable. It will be thinner, it will be weaker and, most of all, it will be brief. First up is a brand new feature called ‘Embarrassing Dads’. Wojciech Szczesny’s father spoke to a member of the press to complain about the treatment of his […]