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A good friend of mine, Trey Wilson, recently wrote a piece on Cesc Fabregas over at the Existential Arsenalist which can at best be described as a diatribe and at worst as a vicious assault. I thought I’d respond in kind, and restore an element of balance to the Gooner universe. I should start by saying [...]

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It has been an emotional season, of that there is no doubt. I lost count of the number of matches I was pretty sure I would need cardiac assistance from my local Accident and Emergency to get through and despite being written off by just about everybody outside the club, and plenty of fans too, [...]

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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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Well, who saw that coming, then? Massive, massive news this morning. Although it has yet to be officially confirmed by Arsenal, the Mirror’s story that Arsenal have agreed a £170m, 5 year kit deal with Puma is being talked about so openly, it’s difficult to think of it as anything other than a done deal. It is [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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In terms of giving the fans some pride, as I’d stressed the importance of in my article a few days ago, it was mission accomplished for Arsenal in Munich last night. But it was so close to being what would arguably have been Wenger’s finest hour, certainly on the European stage. Yes he’s brought us [...]

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Okay, there’s been a hell of a lot of personnel change since last season, but to get the players pumped for Wednesday night I’d show them the 3-0 win over AC Milan from last season. 3-0 against AC Milan is a pretty impressive scoreline; sadly, on this occasion you could argue it was ultimately meaningless [...]

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Regular followers of mine on Twitter ( Go to @bradley08 if you’re looking for another way to call me a mug.) will know that I periodically refer to football as “just one long, never-ending argument”. And over the last three days, there were two events that were shining examples of this. Firstly, Sunday’s game at White [...]

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So yesterday, Arsenal were forced into an announcement that they probably wanted to delay for just a little while longer. Unfortunately, the speed with which news travels down the information super highway in the age of social media forced their hand a little bit. And so, yesterday afternoon/ evening, this announcement was made through Arsenal.com. [...]

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Arsenal shouldn’t build a statue of Dennis Bergkamp outside the Emirates Stadium. No, wait, please, don’t go. I can explain. Honest. Look, let there be no misunderstanding here. Dennis Bergkamp was easily one of the most talented footballers ever to play for Arsenal. He was one of those few players that fans of all clubs [...]

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The last time I produced something for this website, I felt- and possibly wrote- like a man at the end of his Arsene Wenger related tether. Since then, steady league form has seen us reduce the gap to the top four to two points, although it is Chelsea and not Tottenham immediately in our sights. [...]

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