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Friendly You Say? No, Anything But
A guest post from @foreverheady All Community Shields matter, but some matter more than others. You’d certainly wish you were playing, rather than just watching, given you only get the traditional curtain-raiser invite if you’ve won either cup or league the season before. Other countries glamorise such ties with titles like Supercup, but the UK […]
Yeah?? Yeah!! Get In There
There is no point me pretending I’m not over the moon with that win, I am. I couldn’t give a flying that it is a friendly because there was nothing friendly about it. They were trying to win just as much as Arsenal were. The tell tail signs were there early on when Santi had […]
Arsenal Versus Chelsea: Just Arsène meets Violet Elizabeth
A couple of short months ago I wrote to you of a harbinger. Like the early snowdrop suggests the first death knell of another long winter, the removal of the goal posts from our local park signified that the football season was nearly over and summer lurked around its traditional seasonal corner. In what seems […]
Will Arsenal’s British Core Meet The Challenge?
So the 2015 Emirates Cup is done and dusted and next up, looming like a filthy, giant troll trying to prevent our passage over the bridge, is Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in the upcoming Community Shield. Even though it is another glorified pre-season friendly, whose results will have absolutely no bearing on either team’s eventual league […]
“Commencing countdown, Engines on, Check Ignition and May God’s Love Be With You”
So the long close season is drawing to an end, the evenings are shortening, arable crops stand tall and golden in the fields, cheery yokels chew on a shared stalk of straw by my gate, and the slamming of the transfer window is no longer the distant dream it was a billion tweets ago. Hip-Hip-Hooray! […]
Arsenal Versus Lyon: Games Don’t Come Any Bigger Than This
As the transfer crazed hordes follow the script fed to them by a click hungry media and demand more money be spent, and while they crave another Arsenal player be thrown on the beach to make room for a newer, more shiny and above all more expensive model, the rest of us, with an appetite […]
Do you love ARSENAL or do you love the idea of ARSENAL?
A guest post from Seebs Singapore, half time, first friendly of the season, a young side are putting on a decent display in extreme heat. Stupidly I wandered on to twitter, hoping to see praise for Chuba Akpom and Alex Iwobi, only to find many showing frustration at the game. One person twitted “that’s 45 […]
Theo ! Theo ! Theo !
A guest post from @foreverheady The autumn of 2012 was an interesting time for The Arsenal. The three new signings, Olivier Giroud, Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla were settling in quite nicely, but their arrival early in the summer, initially greeted by the fans with some degree of enthusiasm, did little to compensate for the […]
It Appears Wengerball Is Back.
A guest post from @foreverheady Meaningless methadone it may have been and for the manager and team no doubt a low stakes game, where getting fit and building up gently for the rigours to come was the main priority. And yet Arsene would have known that it was also a game that the team was […]
Arsenal Versus Everton: Meaningless Methadone
When I finally stopped drinking the need to have a glass of liquid ever at hand remained with me. I used grapefruit or cranberry juice mixed with carbonated water. This provided a necessarily bitter beverage and a useful prop to ease me into my sobriety. Cigarette smokers have a variety of patches, gums and electronic […]
Positively Arsenal 