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The Blame Game? – Oh dear oh dear oh dear (Sorry Frank, I stole your line).

Time for a bit of fight back I think. As no news of concrete signings have arrived, the mood has grown progressively worse. We knew that the atmosphere would be poisonous at the Emirates if we lost the Villa game, and our worst fears were confirmed with the chants of “spend the f*cking money”. Twitter […]

Sing When You’re Winning

  Big Marvin came up hard. Not inner city sump estate hard. A different kind of hard. Big Marvin grew up a part of the only mixed race family in a small hick mining town in the wilds of North Somerset.  He endured the name calling, the bullying, being singled out while those around him […]

These Boots Were Made For Walking

A few years ago I clambered aboard my trusty mountain bike and set off upon an epic journey. My plan was to cross the barren wastes of Dartmoor and then to negotiate the hills and valleys of Exmoor. I didn’t do this in order to raise money for charity nor to raise a laugh from […]

Come On Arsene Its Easy

Its easy come on Arsenal spend some of that seventy to one hundred million pounds you have sitting in the bank, or is it? Everybody and his dog are telling Arsenal they need a goalkeeper, a center back, a central defensive midfielder and a striker. Now lets look at our squad and in particular these […]

Spend Some Bloody Money – A Short History Of Arsene’s Signings Part Three: 2010 – 2013

Who’s next for Arsene Wenger? In the third and final part of The Beck’s trilogy of posts, Arsenal’s most recent signings are revisited and the timely question raised: has Arsene lost the ability to sign players good enough for Arsenal Football Club? In 2010, we signed Squillaci, Koscielny and Chamakh, as well as Miyachi, Wellington […]

Spend Some Bloody Money: A Short History Of Arsene’s Signings Part 2: 2005 – 2009

The Next Vieira? The second of The Beck’s three-parter summarizing the current manager’s signings before asking in his third and final post: has Arsene still ‘got it’ when it comes to signing players good enough for Arsenal? In 2005, as well as the January transfer window of 2006, we signed Diaby, Adebayor, Walcott, Vela, Song, […]

Spend Some Bloody Money – A Short History Of Arsene’s Signings Part One: 1996 – 2004

Patrick who? In the first of a 3-part post, The Beck starts on a whirlwind tour de force of all the club’s Wenger-era signings before, in part three, asking the ultimate question; has Arsene Wenger lost the ability to sign players good enough for Arsenal? In 1996 the first thing Arsene did as manager was […]

Why Not Suarez?

A post by Anthony Hawke from our friends over at OTBAG Time flies by, and so it seems to have again. But you only feel that if you’re really having a good time or are really excited about what’s going on. Such has been the transfer period for Gooners all over the world, ever since […]

Last Of The Summer Whine

If you believe as I do that it is the intention of Arsene and the club to improve the first choice eleven then I suggest that is no easy job. If any purchases have to be of a standard that displaces one of our current best eleven, then the pool of players that are available […]

Galatasaray Coming To Town

Today’s post by Bradyesque7 I wasn’t in Copenhagen that night. Neither did I feel the anxiety of having a loved one over there when word got back that there was trouble afoot. It would be wrong of me to suggest how people should feel about prospect of coming face-to-face with the Galatasaray fans again. I […]