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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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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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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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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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So yesterday we finally got the confirmation from Arsenal that Pat Rice will be stepping down at the end of the season and Steve Bould will be replacing him.  It should matter not to Arsenal players that this is Roy Hodgson’s last game for West Brom because it is Pat Rice’s last game for Arsenal [...]

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So. Chelsea losing last night now means that we are guaranteed to finish above Chelsea for the first time since 2003/04.  I couldn’t believe it had been so long when I first saw that fact last night on Twitter.  What it also means is that we are guaranteed European football next season, what channel that [...]

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Well. It’s here.  Four weeks ago, when we hadn’t lost to QPR and Wigan, and Chelsea couldn’t buy a win, things seemed a lot more straightforward, but such is the nature of football that in the space of those four weeks we’ve dropped six points and they’ve managed to fluke a win over Barcelona.  And [...]

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The thing about being out of every cup competition is that you only have one game a week, but that’s ok with me.  With a squad more fragile than wafer-thin glass and Champions League for next season not yet guaranteed, I’m ok with only having one game a week.  Yep, I’m one of those infuriating [...]

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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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I’d asked in yesterday’s blog if we could quite possibly have a professional, comfortable win against Villa to give our blood pressure a rest. I’d went online and bet on a 3-0 win with Theo scoring. Perhaps I should have asked for a few other things while I was at it. It was a rare [...]

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Do you know what I like? I like, after Arsenal play, being able to read papers, watch highlights shows, talk to people, face the internet and generally go places without being abused.  What I like even better than that is being able to laugh at other teams while I go about all this regular people [...]

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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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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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Finals are a beautiful thing. I can say this now we’ve reached one for the first time since, what is it, one hundred years? What’s that you say? We last reached a final in 2007? Oh, ok then, Arsenal, being Arsenal, made sure that we were all nice and nervous by the time they finally [...]

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West Ham today and a chance to start making amends for the dire performances we’ve been forced to endure since the Man City match. The good news is that West Ham will be without Scott Parker who has single-handedly kept them from casting adrift at the bottom of the table. Well, that’s how it looks [...]

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