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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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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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  Today Arsenal’s season pretty much ended for the fans, with an unedifying performance at home against a team from the middle of the League below. The manager’s proud records of not having been knocked out of cups by lower league opposition, and not losing an FA cup tie at home in 38 games were [...]

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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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Bleh. After my vaguely optimistic preview the natural order of things returned. Good strikers always score against their old clubs, Arsenal can only beat Man U if all the best players are fit and firing, and Ferguson always manages to get his selection of players and officials spot on against us. I’m not particularly keen [...]

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I guess, three days after the event, it’s a little late to go into a detailed review of the Arsenal Sunderland match. Particularly as it was, well, a bit of a non event. To me, it was one of those games where Arsenal needed an early goal to open the game up. Having failed to get [...]

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Morning all and an early kick off for us today in which I shall be watching the Arsenal match, the Irish Cup Final then the FA Cup Final, so, footballing Gods, Arsenal win, Linfield win, meteor. Thanks. I really don’t know what to say in this blog.  We know what we have to do. Win. [...]

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There is, as has come to be the fashion, very little by way of Arsenal news since our draw at the weekend.  Sp*rs and Chelsea both picking up wins yesterday means that it is now imperative that we win both our remaining games, do that and we simply can’t be caught.  While we can hope [...]

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Yesterday saw RvP complete the personal honours set by being named Football Writer’s Player of the Year.  I know many people think that in a team game individual honours mean nothing but in a season where we won’t be winning anything it’s nice to see his tremendous year rewarded somehow.  Of course, the same people [...]

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Well, as it’s Good Friday and I wanted a lie in, I wrote this last night and, well, let’s just say my handbrake was on.  I don’t have high hopes for what is about to follow. News-wise and there is little of that.  Diaby has been talking to the official site about how he doesn’t [...]

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It’s almost that time, you know, Arsenal time, and I’m pretty sure this is only our second consecutive Saturday 3pm kick-off in around 20 years, It’s not really, but it feels like it. Team news is starting to filter out but no doubt we will learn more when Arsene holds his press conference later. As [...]

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In the last few seasons we have all had to sit idly by and watch as this Arsenal team did its utmost to throw away whatever it had come close to achieving in the previous months of the season.  This year we seem to have tried to reverse that approach and, as I write this [...]

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Tonight the Champions League group stages return and Arsenal get to take on the fourth seeded team in their group in what should be a walk in the park? What? What you mean we didn’t get FC Battenburger from some country no-one has heard of? Oh no, in all their wisdom, UEFA decided that making [...]

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No time for talking about Barcelona (though I bet I can’t get through the rest of this blog without mentioning them again) just yet, we have the small matter of the Premier League to deal with this weekend. So, news ahead of tomorrow’s match against Sunderland is that Kos is back in the squad (no [...]

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There’s only really one thing that anyone involved with Arsenal are talking about and that’s Barcelona. If you’re still talking about Rooney’s goal, perhaps you should reassess your loyalties. I’m not really sure what to say, we know that we are the underdogs, we know that they are the best team on the planet, we [...]

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Well that was all a little bit embarrassing wasn’t it? It all seemed so routine until Nasri pulled his hamstring (meaning two to three weeks out and missing the Barca first leg). Then we just fell apart. It was all going so well. Sure, we weren’t looking perfect, we never do when we play Arshbend [...]

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