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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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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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This was supposed to be a preview of sorts of our trip to the land that football forgot but first, I must go off on a tangent and <rant> Today I made the mistake of wondering had Santi Cazorla cost Arsenal £32.5m like the amount that Chelsea paid for Hazard, would we see a collective [...]

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You go away for a few days and the world goes mad… What do you mean “the world goes mad”?, I hear you ask. Well, over the weekend we were subjected to a real biblical, end times, onslaught of rain. Rain that hit so hard that four hours after we we left a Sheffield downpour, [...]

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If you’d asked me before kick-off what the bare minimum I would have taken from yesterday’s match against Stoke was I’d have told you no serious injuries. After that a draw and no serious injuries followed by a win and no serious injuries. I’m never confident when we go there, with good reason given how [...]

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Stats (via whoscored.com and EPL iPad app) Goals – Stoke 1 Arsenal 1 Shots – Stoke 5 Arsenal 17 Shots on target – Stoke 2 Arsenal 5 Crosses – Stoke 24 Arsenal 20 Corners – Stoke 2 Arsenal 5 Possession – Stoke 37% Arsenal 63% Touches – Stoke 460 Arsenal 628 Passes – Stoke 151 [...]

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Stoke. Do you remember a time when we didn’t even care that they existed? It seems like so long ago.  That we know we will go there today and a young player will be actively booed for having his leg snapped in two makes me want to smash things. The whole city of Stoke preferably. [...]

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Sigh. That isn’t really how that was supposed to go was it? We were supposed to turn up, tear them apart, and walk away having spent 90 minutes listening to their despicable support (portions of it at least) booing a player for having his leg broken by one of their payers. That was our first [...]

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arsenal stoke goals 1 0 conceded 0 1 assists 1 0 shots 10 6 on target 4 1 saves 1 3 penalties 0 0 scored 0 0 penalties conceded 0 0 penalties saved/missed 0 0 crosses 21 15 fouls commited 8 9 fouls against 9 8 offsides 3 7 corners 5 3 corners conceded 3 [...]

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Well there really only is one story today – Barcelona in the Champions League and while you could quite easily say ‘it could only be them’ it was simply the ‘luck’ of the draw – no conspiracy theories here. So some people are terrified, some people are gagging for it, and some people are just [...]

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Stoke. Too much talk about Shawcross. It’s making me feel a little bit nauseous if I’m honest, not through fear of another ‘not that kind of player’ tackle, but simply because Shawcross and his pig face makes me feel like throwing up. Not an unreasonable response really. So, poor little Ryan will need extra-security when [...]

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