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Arsenal 0 Everton 0: A hard fought draw against hard fighting opponents.

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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Arsenal 3 – Norwich City 1. Canaries knocked off their perch by linesman’s flag.

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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West Brom 1 Arsenal 2: Rosicky at the double while Mertesacker makes us sweat. Report and Goals.

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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Spurs 2 – 1 Arsenal: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,…

  Match Report                Highlights Yesterday  morning  a consortium in the Middle East talked publicly of bidding £1.5bn for the club, but added the veiled threat that this figure would be less if the team failed to qualify for the Champion’s League. The afternoon’s events probably knocked a hundred million [...]

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Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 1: Vulnerable Gunners overcome brave Villains

After the last seven days, Arsenal came into this one REALLY needing a win. For the oft mentioned eighth year in a row, Arsene Wenger’s side watched the hop of trophies disappear over the horizon, an in more embarrassing circumstances than ever before under his stewardship. For once, the home side didn’t find themselves crippled [...]

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Sunderland 0 Arsenal 1: Gutsy Gunners make a point or three in the North-East.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth about inconsistency, starting poorly and lack of intestinal fortitude, Arsenal answered some questions yesterday against at the Stadium of Light. This was not an Arsenal performance identifiable with any particular vintage, but was a hybrid of several. At different points we saw the passing and movement of the [...]

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Arsenal’s mental strength finally shows through

There are many ways you could look at Arsenal’s one nil win at the Stadium of Light yesterday. The negative amongst us will look at the numerous chances wasted and the fact that we didn’t have to make the game as hard for ourselves as we did, and they would have a point. The optimistic [...]

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Arsenal 1 Stoke City 0: Orc occupiers of former friends slain by Podolksi’s left foot of smiting (+2)

Highlights:  So the truth is out. I am a massive RPG geek to add to my obsessions with sport and history and acting. Normally I keep it under the hat, but when the tribe of Pulis comes to town, it’s hard not to go all a bit Lord of the Rings. However, it is important [...]

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A season in microcosm: Arsenal 2 – Liverpool 2

If you wanted to give a summary of Arsenal’s 2012/13 campaign to this point, you could simply play the video of last night’s game. It was like an inventory of all the things we love and hate about this team. Full Stadium with away fans protesting about ticket prices – CHECK Comedy defending combined with [...]

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Boxing Day finally arrives for Arsenal fans

It didn’t really feel like Christmas without Arsenal, once again, on Boxing Day did it? And let’s face it, there hasn’t been anything that could be described as ‘festive cheer’ since then but as Arsenal get ready to face West Ham in the rearranged fixture, memories of matches past can at least raise a wry [...]

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Looking through the window to see things it will not fix

I’m not quite sure what it is that Arsene Wenger or Steve Bould say at half time during matches these days but it seems as if they might be best saying it before kick-off and save us all the pain of what has become Arsenal in first halves this season. It was all too predictable. [...]

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Arsenal 0 Manchester City 2: Time to circle the wagons.

This match had a Man City win written all over it beforehand. – Their title rivals had won, meaning the visitors would be fighting from the kick off against this notoriously slow starting Arsenal side. – Arteta, last season’s matchwinner, and the team’s tactically most important player picked up a last minute calf strain, resulting [...]

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Brand new year, same old Arsenal

In any other profession you would have to ask if the employees had been out on the lash the night before, for what other reason could there be for such a dire performance as the one which we witnessed against Southampton on New Year’s Day? From a team which picked off Newcastle and slammed seven [...]

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Southampton resolve exposes Arsenal Weakness | Who are this team anyway?

After a good run of recent results only punctured by the Bradford debacle (perhaps appointing the Dalai Lama as club president has contributed to the Bantams extraordinary run in shoot-outs), the Arsenal switch flicks off as quickly as it did on. After today’s visit to the south coast, the extraordinary goal-scoring displays against Reading and Newcastle [...]

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Theo Walcott Analysis vs Newcastle

In one of the best displays which has been seen in this years English Premier League competition, Theo Walcott was able to score 3 goals and assist 2 further goals in Arsenal’s 7-3 win. In Arsenal’s display, Walcott’s dominant display was a large factor in Arsenal’s win. This piece will analyse Walcott’s performance with his [...]

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Reading 2 Arsenal 5: Santi comes to town

Yayyyyy! We won! It’s all brilliant again! Yeah, okay, so it was only Reading. Reading are, unfortunately for them, not only one of the worst teams, or- by definition- the worst team in the division, but also play in a way that makes it easy for a team like Arsenal to cut them to shreds. [...]

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