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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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Perhaps it’s just because it was used as the title for the official site’s post-match Wenger piece, but the line “the team has to believe more in its quality” was one that particularly caught my attention in the manager’s press conference. To give the quote in its full context, the boss said after the game: [...]

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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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Recent quotes from Arsene Wenger suggest that in the summer he faced a decision over whether to sign one of two strikers – Demba Ba, who has just sealed a move from Newcastle to Chelsea, or Olivier Giroud, whom Wenger did sign for Arsenal. It’s always possible that perhaps he has been taken slightly out [...]

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The sun is out, it’s a beautiful day. I’m going to ruin it now. Sorry about that, but I am. And I will do so by asking you all one simple question: are we all over Chelsea winning the Champions League on Saturday night? I assume most of you had moved on and had forgotten [...]

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This Saturday, the forces of darkness are gathering. Blimey, that’s bit dramatic, isn’t it? Like a cinema trailer. Anyway, yes, it’s dramatic, but it’s also true. In north west London, in Munich. Whilst the eyes of the football watching world will be on Chelsea’s second attempt to land the biggest prize in club football, Sam [...]

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Frequenters of this blog will know that I get nervous before big matches. Actually, frequenters of this blog will know that I get nervous before all matches; there are no gung-ho, intrepid chest beating, let me at ‘em kind of previews in the Nicks anteroom at LadyArse. But because of the wide range of faces [...]

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What a difference a week makes, eh? This time last week, it was all megalolz at Tottenham and then we had the FA Cup semi finals. Which were decidedly unmegalolz. Particularly if you were an Everton fan (which in that semi final, was everyone except Liverpool fans), a Tottenham fan or Martin Atkinson. This was [...]

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They day after an Arsenal defeat is always raw, especially in cyber space, and so it was yesterday.  The unfortunate thing was it seemed to be less about the actual defeat and more about some people’s insistence of finding a scapegoat.  A large number of Arsenal ‘fans’ seem to have settled on the idea that [...]

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There are, in this life, few things better than watching Arsenal win, watching Arsenal win big is one of them, as is watching Arsenal win over a despised rival or team with more money than sense or class.  When Arsenal aren’t playing joy comes from watching said rivals/mouthy teams failing to win – if they [...]

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A manager’s sacking results in reactions laughable in their predictability; tweets in all capitals about the news, hastily penned epitaphs and obituaries, both glowing and vitriolic, Sky Sports News launching their jism all over cyberspace in an eagerness to dissect every facet of the departure, et cetera and more tedious et cetera. Our resident reporter [...]

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@TheRealGunner gives her response to Arsenal spanking Chelsea at the Bridge [ad#Google Adsense-2]

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So here it is folks, back for the season, and as that’s a long ‘aul haul I shall be breaking it up in to two competitions. We will have a mid-season ‘winner’ – so whoever is top of the league on December 31st will win a Tshirt. The league will continue on from then, so [...]

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v chelsea goals 3 conceded 1 assists 3 shots 9 on target 6 saves 1 penalties 0 scored 0 penalties conceded 0 penalties saved/missed 0 crosses 14 fouls commited 14 fouls against 16 offsides 5 corners 4 corners conceded 6 yellow 2 red 0 yellow against 3 red against 0 touches 749 passes 455 interceptions [...]

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Quick summary of Wenger’s press conference to make do with today, as my elves have quit I have to wrap all my xmas pressies myself. Terrible state of affairs and should have known never to hire an elf to do a fairy’s job. Of course all (well, most) of the focus of today’s press conference [...]

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Very little about today and as a result I’ve decided to have a day off so this is an uber-quick blog. In International news, Henri Lansbury played for the U21′s in Germany and found himself in goal after the England keeper was sent off. He did very well and proved that even an outfield player [...]

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