Posted on 13 April 2013. Tags: Aaron Ramsey, Arsenal, champions league, fabianski, Jack Wilshere, Norwich, Olivier Giroud, Podolski, premier league, sagna
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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Posted in Arsenal, Premier League
Posted on 28 March 2013. Tags: Arsenal, Debate, premier league
With only ten games to go in the Premier League and Arsenal sitting in fifth place, four points behind Sp*rs but with a game in hand, it’s hard to know exactly who will end up where. Heading in to the final stretch of the season it would seem that Arsenal have the easier run-in than [...]
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Posted in Debate
Posted on 06 March 2013. Tags: Arsenal, champions league, Fixtures, premier league
I’d like to start this blog with a question – When was the last time you were truly excited about an Arsenal match? If you’re anything like me, you look forward to every game with a degree of excitement. I spend large portions of the working week awaiting Arsenal games, thinking about formations, tactics, team [...]
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Posted in Arsenal, Features, Fixtures
Posted on 04 March 2013. Tags: Arsenal, arsene wenger, Olivier Giroud, premier league, tottenham
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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Posted in Arsenal, Premier League
Posted on 24 February 2013. Tags: Arsenal, Diaby, Jack Wilshere, premier league, Santi Cazorla, szczesny
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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Posted in Arsenal, Premier League
Posted on 10 February 2013. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, Sunderland
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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Posted in Premier League
Posted on 23 January 2013. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, west ham
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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Posted in Premier League
Posted on 20 January 2013. Tags: Arsenal, Chelsea, premier league
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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Posted in Premier League
Posted on 02 January 2013. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, Southampton
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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Posted in Premier League
Posted on 30 December 2012. Tags: Arsenal, arsene wenger, premier league
January Arsenal started 2012 in fourth place with 36 points from 19 games, three points behind Tottenham who had played a game less, nine behind the league leaders and the month was not to bring much joy for Arsenal fans. A 2-1 defeat at the hands of Fulham, a 3-2 defeat by Swansea and a [...]
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Posted in Opinion
Posted on 18 December 2012. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, Reading
Here I come again, the glory hunting blogger fresh off the back of a resounding Arsenal victory. Whilst winning 5-2 away from home is all well and good, there’s a few negative things I want to discuss before I get into how well we played. 1. I’m not a moody b*stard who likes to do [...]
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Posted in Features
Posted on 17 December 2012. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, Reading
It has, without a shadow of a doubt, been a tough week to be an Arsenal fan. If losing to Bradford in the Capital One cup wasn’t enough pain to deal with, there has been a seemingly never-ending stream of pundits and ex-Arsenal players all ready to have their two minutes in the spotlight but [...]
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Posted in Premier League
Posted on 11 December 2012. Tags: Arsenal, Edin Dzeko, Giroud, Manchester City, Olivier Giroud, premier league, stats
This statistical comparison will look at the 2012/13 EPL form of both Olivier Giroud and Edin Dzeko. These players were chosen as they both play for top 4 clubs in the league and are both known for being ‘big, strong players who are good in the air’. Whilst, Giroud has played many more minutes this [...]
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Posted in Arsenal, Premier League, Stats, Tactical Analysis
Posted on 30 August 2012. Tags: Arsenal, premier league
We are approaching one of the most seminal periods of the whole season; Transfer Window Deadline. So much happens in so little time,it’s very easy to lose track of what can be happening at any time. And in doing so, it not only shines a light on how a lot of clubs plan for both [...]
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Posted in Arsenal, Features, Opinion
Posted on 26 August 2012. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, stats, stoke
As Arsenal claimed their second scoreless draw since the Premier League started, we take a look at the stats behind the game: Injuries/bans: Stoke: Whitehead (one match ban) Arsenal: Szczesny (rib) Rosicky (leg), Sagna (broken leg) Koscielny (calf), Frimpong (knee), Wilshere (ankle). Goals Stoke 0 Arsenal 0 Assists Stoke 0 Arsenal 0 Shots Stoke 8 [...]
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Posted in Stats
Posted on 26 August 2012. Tags: Arsenal, premier league, stoke
Going to Stoke in the Premier League is never an easy task for anyone but even less so when you are Arsenal FC. The first thing fans ask for, before points, it to return home unscathed. Having lost three of our five trips up there since 2008 (in all comps) a draw isn’t the end [...]
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Posted in Premier League