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“ …Arsenal will end the campaign looking up at our neighbours. There, I’ve said it. I don’t like it, I know there’s still ten games left and we could rescue this situation, but I won’t be holding my breath. Not with this Arsenal team.” In the aftermath of a 2-1 defeat to Spurs in March that [...]

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Afternoon all. How’s it hanging? Since we last spoke, Chelsea drew the one game we probably didn’t want them to draw- against Spurs- and then followed that up with a late winner against Aston Villa. A day later Spurs didn’t leave it quite so late, but late enough to be irritating. All of which meant that [...]

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The premise behind selling a “season ticket” has always left me wondering as to how it ever caught on with fans. For clubs, it’s a no-brainer: they get a huge increase in cash-flow over a very short space of time, meaning that they can more accurately gauge how much they have to spend over the [...]

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Match Report: HERE This was never going to be a walk in the park. Everton are one of the hardest working and most improved teams in the top flight, who have only lost five times this year. Most pre-match predictions had an Arsenal win, but only by the odd goal. In the end a fixture [...]

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Highlights – HERE Another tight, tense and hard fought win, keeps Arsenal on track for Champion’s League qualification. Aiming for 16 seasons in a row in Europe’s premier competition, Arsenal moved up to third tonight with a little help from a referee’s assistant with selective eyesight. All the post match discussion will be about Arsenal’s [...]

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It’s 7.40am as I begin this blog. A Saturday morning, beginning this early is somewhat uncharted territory for me. Jo and I are holding an engagement celebration this evening and, despite the fact that I spent Wednesday and Thursday in bed (and still have a bit of a cough), it feels a bit like Christmas [...]

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It seems you can’t have a sensible conversation about Cesc Fabregas these days. The former Arsenal captain certainly divides our fanbase, for some he is a hero, a true Arsenal great, and to others he is the disloyal traitor who forced his way out of Arsenal to sit on the Barcelona bench. Last week, as [...]

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Following Tomas Rosicky’s first two league goals of the season, Arsenal withstood immense late pressure to hang on to a 2-1 victory at The Hawthorns and three invaluable points. The result moves The Gunners temporarily back into the top four, and keeps the pressure on Chelsea and Spurs. With our two main rivals for the [...]

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Ask any Arsenal fan what they want their team to do more than anything else, and the answer you’ll get will always be the same. Win. Simple as that. But if you ask the same fan how the best way to get the team winning more regularly would work, then prepare yourself for a myriad [...]

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A goal largely against the run of play in the last three minutes of extra time was the difference between Chelsea’s U19 side and their Arsenal equivalents  in the NextGen Series semi-final at Lake Como today. It was a disappointing end to Arsenal’s run in the competition, but it was an excellent match, with much [...]

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News of Abou Diaby being ruled out for up to nine months was gut-wrenching if not entirely shocking. There was a depressing inevitability that the next setback for Arsenal’s French midfielder was waiting round the corner, ready to pounce when we were most vulnerable. A cruciate ligament tear is merely the latest in a line [...]

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International breaks are largely considered in the blogosphere to result in the complete death of anything even remotely newsworthy, unless you’re interested in discussing Wayne Rooney’s temperament or how much Roy Hodgson looks like an owl. I’m not particularly interested in talking about either of those topics. However, this time the England games have at [...]

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I like to think that when I write something for this website, it’s generally couched in a realistic approach to where the Arsenal football club sit in the modern game. Yes, I know there have been some extreme examples of my knee sending cold cups of coffee flying, but I would say that these are [...]

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Good old Arsenal. Just when I get to the point of feeling like giving up for the season, and start being glad about my schedule forcing me to miss games, we get a couple of great results. Very few sides win at Bayern or Swansea at the moment, and equally few keep clean sheets at [...]

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I often regard clichés like ‘glorious defeat’ as nauseatingly patronising, but it would be difficult to find another way of describing Arsenal’s exit from the Champions League on Wednesday night. A 2-0 win in the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich, when taken out of context, could genuinely be considered one the greatest results in the [...]

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So, the bare fact of the matter is that Arsenal were last night eliminated from the Champions League by a very good Bayern Munich side. If we’re being honest with ourselves, having ceded the first leg 3-1 at home, we expected that. What we didn’t expect, what I didn’t expect, was that we would end [...]

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